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Originally Posted by ptownrob
The ACLU, ACORN and GreenPeace is NOT the Democratic Party nor the Adminstration, unless you also want to admit that Focus on the Family, the NRA the KKK and Jack Abramoff ARE the Republic Party. The ACLU exercised its Constitutional and Legal right through the FOIA for the release of this information. I'm hearing that somehow that process is un-American.
I would love that the ACLU is part of any Administration, just as the NRA should be safe-guarding the Second Amendment. Both organizations raise, or lower themsleves, at times to ridiculous ideological contortions, but their presence keeps all those "bozos" in government on their toes and the Constitution front and center.
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Overall, I tend to agree with you. The more groups that can keep any administration or legislature on the constitutional straight-and-narrow, the better.
FOIA exists for a good reason, and in many ways it's a shame that it took an Act of Congress to open records. However, FOIA is not a perfect solution, as it does cost a lot of money to respond to each and every FOIA requests, and many of them are absolutely inane. Some agencies get tens of thousands of FOIA requests per year for all sorts of information and documents, and they take a lot of time to research and collate. On rare circumstances, FOIA requests require a fee if the size of the document(s) is very large, but many times it is not billed because it can cost more to process fee than the fee is worth.
ACLU is an interesting organization. "Civil Liberties" is narrow or broad in interpretation, depending on the "liberty" involved. Where ACLU has shown excessive bias is its tendency to only be involved in "very left of center" interpretations of what "liberties" are.
As far as linking Republicans and KKK together, that's bogus. KKK is as anarchistic as it gets, and distrusts all parties.
And as far as lobbyists go, the daily parade from K Street to each Congressional Committee Chairperson's office (all Democrat now) makes the March of the Penguins look lightly populated.