But I’m just not seeing what they speak of.Â
In yet another well-timed report from a leftist group that favors Democrats (but don’t call them biased, dammit!), the ACLU has just released their Congressional Scorecard.
Just as the Reporters Without Borders – Worldwide Press Freedom Index has ineptly skewed reasoning, this report offers little better.
They picked 22 “important civil liberties measures” and recorded hos the members of the House voted on them. Some are looking for a vote for and some are looking for a vote against. A green check mark on the scorecard means your rep voted the way the ACLU approved of and a red X signifies a vote the ACLU didn’t like.
While I can agree with some of the ACLU’s stances (flag desecration amendment, the McCain Feingold, etc,) there are some that I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what they have to do with real and actual civil liberties.
They must simply be working from a different list of civil liberties than I am. I mean, where does it state that being able to smoke medical marijuana is a civil right? And they opposed putting the US military on the southern border? I don’t know where non-US citizens have a section in the Constitution or the BoR stating that they are free to cross unhindered or run their drugs over it without fear of reprisal.
I know for a fact that hating someone’s skin color so much that you commit an act of crime against them is already punishable by law, but I didn’t know that the state had a civil right to be able to prosecute you under a highly prejuditial and special law.
It is not a civil right to be able to transport a minor, who is legally under the protection of their parents or guardians, anywhere without their permisson or knowledge, especially when you are taking them across state lines.
And at last check, it is still legal in this country, as determined by the SCOTUS, to sentence someone to death, meaning it is not a violation of someone’s civil right to do so. Yet the ACLU sentences any member of Congress who votes in favor of expanding the federal list of crimes punishable by death to a “bad mark” on their report card.
I can give them the right to an opinion, they should just let on to people reading their scorecard that the organization is playing with a wholly different deck of cards than the majority of Americans when expressing said an opinion.
No one has a civil right to not be lied to (it would put government out of business), but an organization that claims to stand for “Americans” should at least stand by the most widely accepted “American” opinion.