Declassified Soviet documents reveal the ACLU's cooperation, and probably more, with Communist revolutionaries including here in America, reports John Rossomando in his article, The ACLU’s untold Stalinist heritage, at the Daily Caller. [Try to look surprised]"This just in." By Ol' Remus, Yer Ol’ Woodpile Report, No. 198, 1/11/11 (bracketed text in original).
See also "Roger Baldwin." Discover the Networks.
This is not proof that today the ACLU is a communist-led or –inspired organization. However, it is quite acceptable to wonder about where the ACLU lined up in the great battle of the 20th-century between liberty and tyranny.
For example, Comrades, consider the 1981 case of Walter Polovchak. The child of two Soviet citizens living in Illinois and a minor, he declared that he did not wish to return to the USSR with his parents. The ACLU took the side of the parents who wished to force the boy to return with them.
I think it was the William Donahue, author The Politics of the American Civil Liberties , who made the brilliant observation that the ACLU, which rushed to elevate the principle of parental rights when it involved parents who wanted to take their child back to the Soviet Union, would have knocked down old ladies and crippled transvestites in its haste to ensure that a pregnant 15-year-old American girl could get an abortion over her parents' objections.
Ok. He didn't say it quite like that. I mean, the old ladies and cripples part.
I leave it to you, Readers, to determine for yourselves what vital interests the ACLU actually sought to vindicate in the Polovchak case.
This is one and the same ACLU, may I add, that to this day has yet to discover the amendment in our Constitution that appears between Amendment # 1 and Amendment # 3. Search parties are in the field as of this writing. As one wag put it, if the ACLU treated the Second Amendment as it does the First, gun ownership would be mandatory.
It must be 5 o'clock somewhere in the world.
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