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You can find more information about the history and agenda of the ACLU here, here and here.

While in 1940, the ACLU Board made the surprising declaration that it was "inappropriate for any person to serve on the governing committees of the Union or its Staff, who is a member of any political organization which supports totalitarian dictatorship in any country, or who by his public declarations indicates his support of such a principle," in 1967, they rethought their own change of heart and passed a vote which effectively rescinded the 1940 anti-totalitarianism resolution, once more openly backing their communist aims, with President Jimmy Carter taking their cue and awarding the Medal of Freedom to aforementioned and avowed property-rights abolisher and Stalin apologist Roger Baldwin.

Baldwin, after a 1923 trip to Soviet Russia, admitted that the Soviet government had instigated "complete censorship of all means of communications and the complete suppression of any organized opposition to the dictatorship or its program," but then offered his tacit approval of this complete censorship by going on to say that, "Repression in Western democracies are violations of professed constitutional liberties and I condemn them as such. Repressions in Soviet Russia are weapons of struggle in a transition period to Socialism."

Just the kind of guy Carter likes to share his box seat with.

This "It's Only Bad When It Doesn't Suit My Own Personal Philosophies" mindset of the radical Left is further exemplified by the disturbing documentary, The Weather Underground, a fascinating, though unfortunately incomplete, examination of The Weathermen, a group of privileged, white, upper-middle class radicals who believed that continued peaceful protests against "the pigs" and "the white man" were an ineffective means of achieving their goals. After conspiring to set off a bomb at a social dance at a local army base, resulting in a premature explosion in their townhouse headquarters which killed three of their own members, the rest of the Weathermen organization went underground (becoming The Weather Underground) and set about blowing up various governmental, military and police offices and buildings throughout the 1970's in order to bring attention to their self-described revolution, having thoroughly convinced themselves that their violent and deliciously envisioned overthrow of the U.S. government was just around the corner.

The directors of the film do a fairly good job of detailing the domestic, and international, unrest which fueled the rise of a violent domestic terrorist group, the existence of which even some of the former members of The Weather Underground, when interviewed in 2002 for the making of the film, looked back upon with near disbelief that they could have ever reached such a mindset. While there are still former members who take pride in their involvement with a criminal organization which bombed the white house, FBI offices, National Guard offices and more (Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, who are now both, of course, university professors), there's a curious, self-righteous delusion which accompanies their professions of morality and zeal -- for example, if the bomb they had planned to set-off at the army dance hadn't exploded prematurely, killing several of their own members, they would never have adopted their "we only set off bombs when there weren't people at the scene" mantra, so their claims of a higher morality ring a bit hollow, especially once you realize that the film's directors seem to have deliberately excised accounts of how former Weather Underground members murdered three police officers during a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored car, or how founding member Bernadine Dohrn, at a 1969 "War Council" meeting in Flint Michigan, saluted mass murderer Charles Manson with these words: "Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"

No, Bernadine -- we don't dig it. That kind of lunatic leftist rhetoric isn't moral, intellectual or even revolutionary, it's juvenile, reprehensible, and it sounds a lot like something you'd read today at Daily Kos or The Democratic Underground.

The more I learn about the political atmosphere here in the States in the 60's and early 70's, the more I realize that the United States as a whole survived the Woodstock generation only by the skin of its teeth, and that we're still paying the price. No wonder the younger generations are skewing conservative.