Wow, They DO Work For Us After All II

Wow, They DO Work For Us After All II Thanks to Bill O'Reilly for pointing this out on his radio program. He's not supposed to be a "conservative", but like any "conservative" he started going off about "you're not going to hear about this anywhere else." That statement was almost completely correct. I did find this article in the Salt Lake Tribune about the Senate telling the American Civil Liberties Union to KSDASTFU (that's Kindly Sit Down And Shut Up for the uninitiated) by a vote of 98-0. That is ninety-eight to zip.

In a 98-0 vote, the Senate approved the provision continuing the hosting of Boy Scout events as part of massive bill setting Defense Department policy for next year. : Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a former Boy Scout who sponsored the Senate provision, said it is necessary to push back on a spate of lawsuits to limit Boy Scout activities on government property. : Frist said it ''removes any doubt that federal agencies may welcome Scouts to hold meetings, go camping on federal property or hold scouting events and public forums'' on government property.

That Frist has done better things with his life than I have with mine, is probably because Frist was a better Boy Scout than I was. Many Boy Scouts were better than me, but at the same time, if I were not a Boy Scout I probably wouldn't be as good a man as I am today. Scouting is good for boys, and because it is, it is good for all of us. Things that help the Boy Scouts help us all, and things that hurt the Boy Scouts hurt us all. I do not have any positive or negative personal experiences with the ACLU, nor do I expect to have any. But they get under my skin for a variety of reasons. The fact that they are liberal, is way, way down on the list.

• They're liars. They present themselves as being anti-authority and therefore working hard to protect our rights in the event the "authority" starts to infringe upon those rights, either maliciously or negligently. To achieve that mission, however, the ACLU would have to be values-neutral. They aren't. They would have to define their mission very deliberately and very concisely, and continually monitor their performance in adhering to that mission. They don't.
• They generate work for themselves by lowering our national pain threshold. I detest people and organizations that lower the national pain threshold, especially those who do it to drum up business. Being hung from a tree because you had sex with a woman with a different skin color, is different from driving to work, seeing a cross on a hill, and being offended. Anybody who says different just needs to get a grip.
• They address intellectually legitimate criticism directed toward their organization, by simply marginalizing it. They're fond of saying "everyone hates the ACLU, until they need us and then they don't" or some such thing. So because I've never needed the ACLU, I'm not allowed to have an opinion. Last I checked, when firemen get implicated in sex scandals, they aren't allowed to use that excuse -- although they certainly could.
• They & their defenders have shown a pattern of defending the Union by presenting it as supported with private donations from individuals concerned about liberty, imposing no burden whatsoever on the taxpayers. This is a sham. The Union has been using 42 USC �1988 "Proceedings in vindication of civil rights" as a siphon into the treasury for decades now. Once again, we find ourselves subsidizing the leftist agenda to an extent well beyond what we would want to do voluntarily. It's a wolf of coercion in sheeps-clothing of "freedom."
• Last but not least, as the ACLU selectively applies its non-neutral schedule of values it likes & values it doesn't, we continually observe a pattern of upholding chaos and deteriorating order. Why does NAMBLA get such good treatment? Why do the Boy Scouts get all the abuse? Is there anyone out there who thinks the Scouts are "something akin to a hate group" as the New York Times was quoted? Anyone paying attention, would have to conclude the ACLU simply doesn't like what the Boy Scouts do. The ACLU will not thrive in a nation of John-Boy Waltons, as well as it will in a nation of Bart Simpsons. Scouting is the enemy of dysfunction -- they do good things for a boy's future, nobody anywhere with any reputation to protect is disputing this! -- therefore, as far as the ACLU is concerned scouting must die.

So here's a big atta-boy to Bill O'Reilly, and the Salt Lake Tribune, for writing this up -- O'Reilly is right, you won't hear about this from too many places. And a huge thank you to the Senate for protecting the Boy Scouts, which have done this country so much good, in their time of need. And, for throwing a big ol' stinky wet ice bag on the hot horny scrotum that is the ACLU.