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ACLU Reacts to Privacy Concerns
nettle writes "Back in September I began a series of commentaries about one person's experience signing up as a new member of the ACLU. I'd used their website to sign up, and was shocked to find my mailbox full of junk parcels, flyers, and personalized merchandise from dozens of nonprofit organizations like People for the American Way, Sierra Club, Americans for This, Americans for That, yadda yadda. I complained to the ACLU, having suspected that they had given out my contact info. So I wrote about the situation on my Nettle.com blog here and here and began a public correspondence with Anthony Romero, Exec Dir of ACLU, and Nadine Stossen, President of ACLU. Nadine promised they'd take action. I told her if they fixed the signup page on ACLU's website so that people could opt-out of ACLU's personal-info-sharing, I'd renew my membership. Well, Nadine kept her end of the bargain. Here's a screen capture of their new signup page. And my check to the ACLU goes out in today's mail! Blogs DO make a difference."
When they right papers talking about the Second Amendment as a collective and not an individual right and those papers are used in courts and when they refuse to represent those rights and defend individuals who have had those rights violated, that is fighting against that right. When your efforts are working against something, that is the equivalent of fighting against it. Nice try.
"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power." - Ashleigh Brilliant
Why stop at religion? How about state-run "education" from my hard-earned dollars?
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Now see if you can get the ACLU to stand up for the rights of anybody who isn't black, female, gay, transgendered, or otherwise politically correct.