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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ACLU BARADA NIKTO

[Tumbleweed]

(ACLU pronounced 'ack-LOO')

That's the only funny thing I could come up with on this. What a crappy story. :)

And the Sierra Club?

[Otter]

As long as we're dropping napalm:

I've been a member of the Sierra Club for about 10 years, one of their few but not negligible Republican members. My membership is running out soon and I'm unlikely to renew.

As soon as George Bush was elected they started a relentless, hysterical campaign against him. (Or, realistically, to raise money by tossing around his name.) In fact, there are plenty of his environmental policies with which I disagree (ANWR drilling, for example) but the Sierra Club gleefully tossed around nonsense like the "Bush wants to add arsenic to drinking water!" story and has ignored or denigrated all the positive things he's done.

The same thing happenend with Newt Gingrich. He was an environmentalist, and a Sierra Club winner. But working with him was less lucrative than scaring the NPR crowd with his name.

The global warming stuff also is starting to grate on me. All the environmental groups have embraced the notion that any deviation from the party line must be denounced and ignored. I'm getting increasingly suspicious about the religious nature of their claims, which generate suspicion about the nature of all the rest of their scientific claims (e.g. how best to deal with forest fires).

The last straw for me was their opposing the war in Iraq. I give them money to reduce fuel consumption and to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. I do not give them money to promote a doctrinaire leftist national security policy.