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ACLU Not Liberal Enough for Seattle

Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU, spoke last night at Town Hall to publicize his new book In Defense of Our America. Notwithstanding the scheduling genius that placed Romero opposite mega-bestselling author Khaled Husseini (The Kite Runner) the lower auditorium was full of citizens waiting to voice their displeasure with ACLU policies. Romero didn't get any criticism for defending the Ku Klu Klan, Neo-Nazis, Ollie North, Fred Phelps, and NAMBLA. No, Seattle's citizens wanted to know why the ACLU wasn't actively supporting impeachment. During the Q&A period the air nearly fogged up with liberaler-than-thou sentiment. Romero apparently has some experience quashing critics because he handled interruptions and interjections with aplomb.

Romero described the book as aimed not at ACLU members, but at those family members and friends who don't necessarily agree with the organization's mission. It's a collection of stories about people the ACLU has helped, and their cases, ranging from John Walker Lindh to an unfortunate man caught in jail in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

We bought a copy. Now we just have to decide which of our many reactionary relatives deserves it most.

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  • Insurgent Gardener

    YAWN....aclu is just another wing of ZOG and NWO, they drop smoke to screen the retreat when things get too hot for the establishment.

  • Mikael Rudolph

    Since when is calling for impeachment a 'liberaler-than-thou' sentiment?



    Impeachment is the proper remedy for an administration which has waged a comprehensive assault on the Constitution of the United States of America through warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, false imprisonment, extreme rendition and torture - even of American citizens, false evidence brought to Congress to mislead us into the invasion and occupation of Iraq - a country which posed no immediate threat to us (by definition a war crime), uting an active non-official cover CIA operative in an act of polical revenge, politicizing the judicial branch, etc.



    An honest, non-partisan examination of this administration's crimes and misdemeanors leaves one with no other choice but to call for impeachment and removal from office of Bush, Cheney, Rice and Gonzales - just for a start.

  • Jeremy M. Barker

    I would go to more of these lectures/readings if it wasn't for the insufferably stupid people who ask inane questions of the speaker that are either off-topic, demagogic, or just insane. It happens whenever I go to a reading--the Q&A is always the worst part. It's like, only at a town hall lecture do the nutjobs who write crazy letters-to-the-editor get a platform to speak in public. Unbearable.

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