Once upon a time the ACLU could have been expected to step up and file lawsuits to fight the jab mandates. In fact, all the way back in the Before Times year 2008 they produced a report discussing the dangers of public health mandates and allowing government to suppress civil rights in the guise of fighting disease. The whole document …
Once upon a time the ACLU could have been expected to step up and file lawsuits to fight the jab mandates. In fact, all the way back in the Before Times year 2008 they produced a report discussing the dangers of public health mandates and allowing government to suppress civil rights in the guise of fighting disease. The whole document reads like a prophetic warning against exactly what has happened in the last 2½ years:
"Too often, policymakers are resorting to law enforcement and national security oriented measures that not only suppress individual rights unnecessarily, but have proven to be ineffective in stopping the spread of disease and saving lives. "
But that was then, and this is now. In the current covid mass-hysteria the ACLU now argues bizarrely that vax-mandates promote civil liberties. What happened? Is the entire country really so paralyzed or disoriented by fear and hysteria that we have summarily abandoned whatever principles we once held?
It's like a mini version of Noah's Ark, where some are advising the coming harm and majority won't listen. Now we ride our ride of unvaxxed thru a sea of death and disabilities rising 🥺
When the ACLU came out in favor of mandates, I thought, "the capture of the left is complete." The left left me. I could say I'm disappointed, but that would be too mild. Betrayed is how I feel, by all of the so-called "progressives", who have forgotten what it actually means to be a "liberal" -- i.e., suspicious of government and corporate power, especially when coordinated. Same goes for all my civil-rights-enforcing plaintiff lawyer buddies. All captured. I've lost respect for all of them. Their convenience (and fear) trumps their principles.
Once upon a time the ACLU could have been expected to step up and file lawsuits to fight the jab mandates. In fact, all the way back in the Before Times year 2008 they produced a report discussing the dangers of public health mandates and allowing government to suppress civil rights in the guise of fighting disease. The whole document reads like a prophetic warning against exactly what has happened in the last 2½ years:
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/privacy/pemic_report.pdf
"Too often, policymakers are resorting to law enforcement and national security oriented measures that not only suppress individual rights unnecessarily, but have proven to be ineffective in stopping the spread of disease and saving lives. "
But that was then, and this is now. In the current covid mass-hysteria the ACLU now argues bizarrely that vax-mandates promote civil liberties. What happened? Is the entire country really so paralyzed or disoriented by fear and hysteria that we have summarily abandoned whatever principles we once held?
Bad education.
Yes, they are.
It's like a mini version of Noah's Ark, where some are advising the coming harm and majority won't listen. Now we ride our ride of unvaxxed thru a sea of death and disabilities rising 🥺
When the ACLU came out in favor of mandates, I thought, "the capture of the left is complete." The left left me. I could say I'm disappointed, but that would be too mild. Betrayed is how I feel, by all of the so-called "progressives", who have forgotten what it actually means to be a "liberal" -- i.e., suspicious of government and corporate power, especially when coordinated. Same goes for all my civil-rights-enforcing plaintiff lawyer buddies. All captured. I've lost respect for all of them. Their convenience (and fear) trumps their principles.
I was informed not too long ago that people who think of themselves as "classical liberals" are really libertarians trying to soften the label.
I was not amused.