Joining the ACLU?

X86Daddy writes "I'm currently a member of the EFF. I agree with everything they do. I'd like to further help protect liberty and freedom, and the ACLU advertises that they exist for that purpose. The ACLU is an organization well known for controversy. I've heard many opinions for and against it, and even a few citations of evidence. I've read their positions on their website, and although I strongly disagree with some of what they believe, I support the majority of their positions. I've also read some of their court filings, in search of more evidence of what they really do. I'm still undecided. I've even sent them an unanswered e-mail about the percentages of money spent on their main positions. So, I ask the Slashdot audience, what information do you have about the ACLU? I'm interested in facts about how they spend their efforts with regards to all of their efforts, electronic-related or not."

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Re:They're rather

[GigsVT]

You didn't touch on their real less popular position, that the ACLU's version of the constitution seems to be missing the 2nd amendment. They are also in favor of programs that render one group "more equal" than other's, like affermative action.

I never understood how formalizing and institutionalizing descrimination somehow is supposed to end it.

Just when I start to think Slashdot has grasped...

[Nice2Cats]

...that it is an international forum read by tens of thousands of people from all over the world, somebody comes along and posts something so utterly restricted to America that it probably has the rest of the world sitting there shaking their heads and going: So just what the fuck is an ACLU, and does it need USB 2.0?

Come on, this site is about "News for Nerds", not "Current Popular Views on American Politics". And no, this isn't YRO, either. If you want to discuss stuff like this, you might be more happy over at Kuro5hin with all of the other mature people. Heck, I might even answer a question like that there. Just leave us here on Slashdot to our kernel updates, SCO news, and gushings about how sexy Willow Rosenberg is as a vampire, the things that nerds all over the world value and understand.

Re:The US Constitution is about *individual* right

[zhar]

Clearly you haven't read the constitution. How about ammendment 10 - Specifically titled Powers Reserved to the States. It says that anything that the constitution doesn't say the federal government can do, the states can.