I remember discovering that the ACLU had been captured. I was already in the midst of my rude awakening, but that was when it started to feel like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Exactly - the ACLU's betrayal was one of my major wake-up calls too. When the organization built to defend civil liberties starts justifying their elimination, it became obvious that no one is coming to save us... we have to do it ourselves.
I gave up on ACLU a long time ago. It's not surprising at all that they ran with the crowd in the "virus" thing. Now they're opposing Trump for things he SAYS, or things they IMAGINE he might do, but they eagerly and solidly supported him when he ACTUALLY CREATED the worst tyranny in modern times.
Thank you for responding to them? I tried to talk to some ACLU employees at a booth once and it was clear from their attitude that they had no interest in issues that did not meet certain litmus tests. They literally sniggered at the thought that I believed that they should be proactive against all issues of free speech, etc.
Great letter Josh! Also - I’m fully gobsmacked by that document on restoring civil rights to pandemic preparedness which I haven’t encountered before. Wow. They had it sitting in their library throughout Covid - all they had to do was pull it out and take a courageous stand based on their own analysis!!!!!! I’m curious to know how the writers of that report specifically addressed the Covid tyranny.
Great question about those authors - I'd love to hear their perspective, whether they worked on the updated position or were pushed aside. The most damning part is that whoever wrote their position in 2021 didn't stumble into it through confusion or uncertainty. The ACLU didn't just fail to defend civil liberties - they had a blueprint for this exact moment and chose to ignore it.
Josh, It is all a grift of major proportions. The CDC/HHS also had a well-written, pretty correct playbook for what to do in a pandemic should there ever be one. It had been worked on for at least 20 years, and was the first book into the book burning pile when the whole process began. I like your thinking of a "long con". I seems like Democrats, NGOs like ACLU whatever have generally had a patina of things that seemed correct covering up underlying tenets that are foundationally evil. (I feel like the guy in the meme sitting at a table with a sign: Prove Me Wrong.) The first time they all thought they could get away with it all, they marched forward and did so. Really very discouraging in so many ways. Thank goodness they did not succeed (yet).
Your CDC/HHS parallel really makes you wonder - was this capture or a long con? When institutions all abandon their own playbooks in perfect synchronization, it raises disturbing questions about whether they were ever what they claimed to be. I love that meme, btw :-)
I remember discovering that the ACLU had been captured. I was already in the midst of my rude awakening, but that was when it started to feel like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Exactly - the ACLU's betrayal was one of my major wake-up calls too. When the organization built to defend civil liberties starts justifying their elimination, it became obvious that no one is coming to save us... we have to do it ourselves.
I gave up on ACLU a long time ago. It's not surprising at all that they ran with the crowd in the "virus" thing. Now they're opposing Trump for things he SAYS, or things they IMAGINE he might do, but they eagerly and solidly supported him when he ACTUALLY CREATED the worst tyranny in modern times.
Thank you for responding to them? I tried to talk to some ACLU employees at a booth once and it was clear from their attitude that they had no interest in issues that did not meet certain litmus tests. They literally sniggered at the thought that I believed that they should be proactive against all issues of free speech, etc.
Great letter Josh! Also - I’m fully gobsmacked by that document on restoring civil rights to pandemic preparedness which I haven’t encountered before. Wow. They had it sitting in their library throughout Covid - all they had to do was pull it out and take a courageous stand based on their own analysis!!!!!! I’m curious to know how the writers of that report specifically addressed the Covid tyranny.
Great question about those authors - I'd love to hear their perspective, whether they worked on the updated position or were pushed aside. The most damning part is that whoever wrote their position in 2021 didn't stumble into it through confusion or uncertainty. The ACLU didn't just fail to defend civil liberties - they had a blueprint for this exact moment and chose to ignore it.
Josh, It is all a grift of major proportions. The CDC/HHS also had a well-written, pretty correct playbook for what to do in a pandemic should there ever be one. It had been worked on for at least 20 years, and was the first book into the book burning pile when the whole process began. I like your thinking of a "long con". I seems like Democrats, NGOs like ACLU whatever have generally had a patina of things that seemed correct covering up underlying tenets that are foundationally evil. (I feel like the guy in the meme sitting at a table with a sign: Prove Me Wrong.) The first time they all thought they could get away with it all, they marched forward and did so. Really very discouraging in so many ways. Thank goodness they did not succeed (yet).
Your CDC/HHS parallel really makes you wonder - was this capture or a long con? When institutions all abandon their own playbooks in perfect synchronization, it raises disturbing questions about whether they were ever what they claimed to be. I love that meme, btw :-)