August 21, 2009
Good News: ACLU Identifying Covert CIA Agents to Terrorists
I'd comment, but Stop the ACLU and Michelle Malkin have the bases covered.
No, I will comment. How is it, you might ask, that a self-identified libertarian would so adamantly and consistently oppose the ACLU?
That's easy: I believe in liberty. The ACLU believes in heightened procedural due process.
One might argue, as the ACLU does, that the two are intertwined. I don't agree.
One may have a judicial system with any number of procedural safeguards, and yet the people living under that system are no more or less free.
For instance, let us assume that Saudi Arabia's sharia courts were full of procedural safeguards and that the vast majority of those convicted in these courts were therefore guilty of the crimes they were accused of. In such a scenario, Saudis still are not free because the sharia is inherently antithetical to liberty. One cannot be both 'free' and forbidden from leaving Islam.
The ACLU is not so much interested in liberty as they are in procedural due process. While I applaud the ACLU when they get things right, usually they serve only as a mouthpiece for liberal causes and not libertarian ones.
Thanks to John from STACLU for the tip.
By Rusty at August 21, 2009 10:07 AM | | l digg this
