ACLU AT IT AGAIN

[ferdville]

ANCHORAGE -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska today filed an appeal on behalf of Micheal Purcell, a University of Alaska-Anchorage student and former prisoner who was denied entry into the social work program due solely to his past criminal convictions. ACLU of Alaska attorneys say the school?s denial of entry to a model student constitutes a violation of Purcell?s right to rehabilitation under the Alaska Constitution.

He was a model student who just happened to be a felon as well. Of course, he had turned his life around. How long will it be before one's criminal background cannot be accessed after release?

 

[ferdville]

Now here is an example of the ACLU battling something that I am sure most of us would appreciate.

Support Free Expression on Cable Television and the Internet

In the coming weeks, several Members of Congress are expected to try to expand indecency fines on broadcast television and spread their use to include cable television and the Internet. This would mean many cable television shows, such as The Sopranos or Sex and the City, would need to change their content or face significant fines.

Cable television and the Internet should not be censored by the government since they are voluntary media: each of us chooses to watch -- or not watch -- cable television just as we decide which Internet sites to visit. The government should not place ill-defined restrictions on ?indecency? on these mediums. :clap:

 

[Wilson]

Now here is an example of the ACLU battling something that I am sure most of us would appreciate.

Support Free Expression on Cable Television and the Internet

In the coming weeks, several Members of Congress are expected to try to expand indecency fines on broadcast television and spread their use to include cable television and the Internet. This would mean many cable television shows, such as The Sopranos or Sex and the City, would need to change their content or face significant fines.

Cable television and the Internet should not be censored by the government since they are voluntary media: each of us chooses to watch -- or not watch -- cable television just as we decide which Internet sites to visit. The government should not place ill-defined restrictions on ?indecency? on these mediums. :clap:

I used to feel that way until my 7 year old called me a cawksucka. Gotta turn down the sound on HBO on Sunday nights.

 

[Franky Wright]

I used to feel that way until my 7 year old called me a cawksucka. Gotta turn down the sound on HBO on Sunday nights.

Wilson,
Not trying to start something, but where are your parental controls? :mj07:
Actually, you do have to be very quick with the remote when watching "Deadwood" :scared

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

-- The ACLU, consistent to form, has decided to defend NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association, as reported by both the Boston Globe and Associated Press last week. They will represent the group in a lawsuit that's been filed by the family of a slain 10-year-old boy.

The plaintiffs, the family of Jeffrey Curley, said that the NAMBLA website, which advocates sex between boys and adult men and the abolition of age-consent laws, incited the attempted molestation--and murder--of their boy in 1997. One of the two men convicted, Charles Jaynes, 25, reportedly viewed the website shortly before the murder, and had also read many of NAMBLA's publications. The second man convicted was Salvatore Sicari, who is 24.

The ACLU claims this is a case of freedom of speech and association. "For us, it is a fundamental First Amendment case," said John Roberts, executive director of the Massachusetts branch of the ACLU. "It has to do with communications on a website, and material that does not promote any kind of criminal behavior whatsoever."

Apparently, Mr Roberts doesn't know it is illegal to have sex with children. Once again, the ACLU is on the wrong side of justice.