New Book: The ACLU vs. America

The ACLU vs. America

by Pete Winn, associate editor

SUMMARY: A new book exposes the underpinnings of the American Civil Liberties Union.

It has waged a war on America for eight decades -- and most people don't even realize it. It opposes the right of parents to raise children with faith and values. It opposes true freedom of religion. It's seeking to redefine marriage. And it's out to remake the country into what can only be called a nightmare. That's the picture painted in the new book, "The ACLU vs. America."

Co-author Craig Osten talked with CitizenLink about the book and the ACLU's design for the nation.

Q. Craig, most people think the ACLU may have started out good in wanting to defend civil liberties, but took a wrong turn somewhere. But your book seems to indicate that's just not the case.

A. Right from the start, the ACLU was about promoting a different agenda for America. We actually went back and found original quotes from Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU, and quotes from interviews he did in the mid-1970s, where he readily acknowledged that the ACLU had Communist and socialist roots.

For example, in 1935, in his 30th anniversary Harvard class book, Baldwin wrote: "I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for the abolishment of the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of all property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."

Some of Baldwin's mentors were Emma Goldman, who was an anarchist who was actually deported to the then-Soviet Union, and Margaret Sanger, who was head (and founder) of Planned Parenthood. In fact, if you go to the Emma Goldman Archive on the Internet, you'll find that her radical thoughts and beliefs were instrumental in the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Q. So the organization is not at all the "pro-American" defender of free speech, as it would have us believe?

A. No it's not. In fact, from the very beginning, Roget Baldwin developed a strategy to portray themselves as pro-America, when they're really not. He said in 1917: "Do steer away from making the ACLU look like a socialist enterprise. We want to look like patriots in everything we do. We want to wave a lot of flags, talk a great deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make of this country -- and to show that we really are the folks that stand for the spirits of the institutions."

So from the very beginning, the ACLU has deliberately tried to show themselves as being pro-American, but the really aren't.

Q. I'm getting the impression that the ACLU is the foundation of -- the cornerstone of -- the ultraliberal movement. Is it the ancestor of everything we in the pro-family movement are fighting against?

TO READ THE REST OF THIS INTERVIEW: Click on this link:

http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0038064.cfm#jump

FOR MORE INFORMATION: To learn more about the book, visit:

http://www.acluvsamerica.com

For more information about the Alliance Defense Fund, please see the ADF Web site:

http://www.telladf.org

Source: CITIZENLINK Sept. 28, 2005

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