ACLU Insanity

I hate the American Civil Liberties Union.

It’s just that simple.

It seems to me that the ever vigilant idiots over at the ACLU spend all of their time sitting around watching the TV news and trying to think of the most ignorant, moronic, ridiculous position to take on a given public (non)issue, find some innocent bystanders that want their name in the newspaper (or are just plain stupid enough to think like them), and file an expensive lawsuit on their behalf.

Take this lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court by the ACLU against the NYPD (I got this text from the ACLU website):

“The NYCLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of five New Yorkers who are deeply concerned about the civil liberties and safety implications of the bag search policy:

· Brendan MacWade survived the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11. He was recently searched by the NYPD at the Chambers Street station.

· Partha Banerjee is concerned that if he is searched some of the political materials he carries in his bag might prompt retaliation, and he also worries that his skin color might cause police to single him out for searches.

· Joseph Gehring, an attorney, a lifelong Republican, and son of a police officer, is concerned that a search of the papers he keeps in his bag might violate the confidential privilege he shares with his clients.

· Norman Murphy goes out of his way to avoid being searched by police because he considers it a violation of his civil liberties

· Andrew Schonebaum's bag was searched recently, prompting him to join the lawsuit to express his concerns. “

Other than pointing out that all five of these people must be really, really STUPID, I admit that I do believe that they have the right to not be searched by the NY City police department, and they don’t have to file a lawsuit to do it.

These pitiful beleaguered, put upon New “Yawkers” can hire a taxi or drive their own car to their destination, thereby avoiding contact with the alleged oppressive, hideous, “Nazi-like” practices employed by the men in blue at the entrances of the NY City subway stations.

How absurd can they possibly be?

I can bitch and complain all day, but if I want to avoid walking through the airport security checkpoints in my stocking feet and subjecting my underwear and toothbrush to handling by some surgical gloved stranger, I have the option of driving my truck to Alabama when I go there in two weeks or driving all the way to Pittsburgh next month instead of flying on a commercial airliner. I choose, however, to fly and put up with the necessary TSA fondling rather than sitting seven or fourteen hours in a car.

I don’t hear the ACLU rushing to my defense from the atrocities of TSA employees, do you?

And there is more insanity in the ACLU’s press release:

“In addition to violating the constitutional rights of millions of subway riders, the NYPD policy appears to be ineffective as a security measure, the NYCLU said. At any given time, the NYPD is not conducting searches at the majority of subway entrances. They are giving advance notice about searches at subway entrances where searches are being conducted, and allowing people selected for a search to refuse to comply and walk away. In addition, the NYPD is not basing the searches on any suspicious activity of individuals.

As common sense would suggest, the NYPD's program is virtually certain to fail at catching any person trying to carry explosives into the subway system or deterring such an effort, the NYCLU said. Indeed, given the way the department has implemented its search program, the only people being searched are users of the subway system who have exhibited no suspicious activity.”

I beg to differ with the ACLU’s assertion that “the NYPD policy appears to be ineffective as a security measure…” If they are giving those accosted and threatened with search the right to refuse and walk away, they are probably making the subway ride more pleasant for everyone else because all of the wierdo’s, perverts, and liberal activists (am I being redundant?) will be diverted to other forms of transportation.

It's because of stupid political correctness thinking and groups like the ACLU that the NYPD is forced to announce their checkpoints in advance and not force people to submit to the searches.

Likewise, the ACLU and the "thought police" oppose "profiling" at airport security checkpoints so my sweet little 92 year old white haired grandma and my spirited 84 year old neighbor "Bucky" have their walking sticks taken away from them while they hobble through the security check-point metal detector, while at the same time "Abdul" and "Yosef" stroll through with their turbin clad head unchecked other than an occasional cursory glance.

I have a solution for the ACLU's problem in New York.

Let the ACLU fund a special bus line for idiots like this that refuse to be searched. Let’s see how all of these “civil liberties loving activists” act when some swarthy, wild eyed, islamofascist jumps on board smelling like TNT and napalm.

It’d serve them right…