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"Jerry Falwell I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the aclu, People for the American Way—all of them who have tried to secularize America—I point the finger in their face and say, "You helped this happen." —Jerry Falwell, speaking on who's at fault for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. While it's true we don't have all the answers, we do know that any religion that espouses hatred or intolerance of others is not doing God's work." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"The aclu denies charges by the Advocacy Institute that it is beholden to tobacco interests, but it cannot deny its own financial records, which show that the aclu solicited and accepted about $500,000 in contributions from tobacco interests between 1987 and 1992, without disclosing the largesse to its aclu membership.17 In Monsanto's campaign for approval of bovine growth hormone, it was able to buy the support of Carol Tucker Foreman, formerly executive director of the Consumer Federation of America." - John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Get the book.) "The Best Friends Money Can Buy The American Civil Liberties Union is one of the organizations that has been successfully recruited by the tobacco industry to promote the myth that smoking is a "civil right" comparable to freedom of speech and association. The aclu denies charges by the Advocacy Institute that it is beholden to tobacco interests, but it cannot deny its own financial records, which show that the aclu solicited and accepted about $500,000 in contributions from tobacco interests between 1987 and 1992, without disclosing the largesse to its aclu membership." - John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Get the book.)

"When I see you exposing the pharmaceutical corporations for the crimes they commit; when I see you demand accountability for lives lost and corruption spread; when I hear you chastising legislators and regulatory directors for allowing themselves to be bought; then I will know that you are speaking out for the little guy, the common man, American democracy Summing It Up Bill Clinton's presidential escapades, the war in Iraq, the ACLU's attack on Christian symbols, the scandal in the priesthood..." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"In fact, the California branch of the aclu had never accepted the national board's policy of excluding communists.) I said Norman Thomas held the same position. "He's nothing but a bourgeois reactionary!" she insisted. My wife and I soon left; the tension was rising and the impasse was clear. Pauling himself remained perfectly civil. Despite her disagreement with its national board, Ava Helen remained an active member of the aclu for half a century and, in fact, helped found the southern California branch." - Anthony Serafini, Linus Pauling: A Man and His Science (Get the book.) "In recognition of her work with the aclu she was honored, on November 1, 1981 at the Santa Cat-alina School in Monterey. The aclu spokesperson described her as one whose concern for justice and freedom has spanned the era from the Sacco/Vanzetti case in the 1920s to the present time . . . who spoke out against the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1942 . . . challenged the inquisitorial committees of Congress in the 1950s and . . . who has remained steadfast despite the harassment of bigots and witch hunters through the hot and cold wars of her time." - Anthony Serafini, Linus Pauling: A Man and His Science (Get the book.)

"In the fifties, the aclu was hesitant to defend Corliss Lamont, its own board member, and Owen Lattimore, when both were under attack. It was reluctant to defend publicly the Communist leaders during the first Smith Act trial, and kept completely out of the Rosenberg case, saying no civil liberties issues were involved. Young and old were taught that anti-Communism was heroic. Three million copies were sold of the book by Mickey Spillane published in 1951, One Lonely Night, in which the hero, Mike Hammer says: "I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

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