Part-Time Pundit: Stop the ACLU: Stop the Pilfering of Tax Dollars

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September 22, 2005

Stop the ACLU: Stop the Pilfering of Tax Dollars

Many cases the ACLU takes are settled for hundreds of thousands of dollars before actually entering a court room. When an agency is sued by the ACLU, they are rightfully intimidated. The ACLU is a national organization with huge resources to call upon. Elementary schools, for instance, don't have teams of lawyers standing by. They don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for lawyers who will fight for the school. Instead, they roll-over and take the easy road, just give the ACLU what they want.

In some circles this would be called extortion. In law, it is apparently called civil rights justice.

I have yet to get a satisfactory answer as to why someone who sues a city government for the use of a religious symbol gets $1 and the ACLU gets over a million. Here's this week's blogburst.

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On 1, Oct. 19, 1976 Congress passed an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which gave the Courts the power to award attorney's fees in civil rights cases to the prevailing party. 'The Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976' was passed with high hopes, and the good intentions that it would help provide relief for individuals that might not otherwise be able to afford the expenses of defending their civil liberties if they were violated. The ACLU, and other judicial activitist have completely turned the intentions of this amendment on its head.

Whenever the ACLU fights voluntary prayer in school, a war memorial because it's in the shape of a cross, ten commandment displays, or keeping the boyscouts from military sponsorship, and they win, you pay for their attorney's fees.

What was intended to protect people from having their civil rights violated has been twisted by the ACLU to use as leverage when they threaten small schools and communities that can't afford to defend themselves from the well funded, and well staffed ACLU bully. Yes, legislation intended to protect civil liberties is often used to supress religious expression by the likes of the ACLU.

There is currently legislation in the House introduced by Representive Hostettler that hopes to remedy its abuse. It is an amendment that limits the attorney fees in Establishment Clause cases to injuctive relief only. In other words, if the ACLU wants to pick a fight over someone praying in public, or a ten commandments display that offends one sensitive athiest, they'll have to dig into their own deep pockets, and it will not come from yours.

We want your voice to be heard in D.C. supporting this legislation. It's really simple, all we need is your autograph.

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Posted by John Bambenek at September 22, 2005 7:58 AM