Card-carrying
I'm certain it isn't a surprise that I'm a member of the ACLU. If you aren't, but would like to send a message to your phone provider that you prefer to keep your privacy, here's a link to a quick form that sends an e-mail on your behalf to the carrier of your choice. When you are done with that, you can also send a message to the FCC reminding them that they are supposed to be investigating these matters, and not just licking the feet of the media moguls.
So, are you a member of the ACLU?
4 Comments:
February 2006 was my 20th anniversary as a card-carrying member of the ACLU, and I'm as puzzled today as I was when I joined why it's known as a "liberal" organization.
I agree. In fact, I know almost as many liberals who get their knickers in a twist over the ACLU as I do frothing conservatives. That's my clue that the ACLU is doing something right.
I suppose I should be but, alas, no.
I am never comfortable w the liberal vs conservative thing any more than I am with certain organizations recognized as guardians of liberty.
Some people who are policy makers/executors of attacks on personal and political liberty are the most understanding and compassionate individuals. Conversely psuedo-liberals can be some of the last people who would stand up for a person's rights.
It was several people that assisted my father when he was being persecuted including a president of Williams college (who was a Third World imperialism- policy architect; Williams College long a recruiting base/training ground for gvernment intelligentisia). The ACLU was totally unhelpful. Eventually when (false) charges were brought it was these same folk that secured my fathers freedom.
Though assisting the government with policy logistics and evenon campus recruiting for US intelligence at the height of its ugliest campaigns, two prominent Williams officials went so far as to assist my father in finishing his education at Williams and Harvard and helping him (to a certain extent) when he was blacklisted from employment in academia and subject to harrassment. Leadership at the ACLU, who my father even worked for breifly, were worse than cowards, they were snitches and colluders.
It may sound/be naive but I believe that the government folk that created some of the more onerous policies domestically and internationally had a personal conscience and sincerely held (if warped) notions concerning politics, history and society. I also believe that current policy makers are increasingly callous, cynical, with no real guiding moral princples about anything.
But more than anything, I deeply mistrust some of the leadership of organizations that allegedly assist those whose "guaranteed freedoms" are under attack.
I'm sure this is waaay too personal even as it omitts so much but I can always throw it in the garbage tomorrow, right?
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