No Free Speech for the ACLU
Funny, but not surprising in the least. What? The ACLU? Hypocrites? Say it isn’t so!
“Where an individual director disagrees with a board position on matters of civil liberties policy, the director should refrain from publicly highlighting the fact of such disagreement,” the committee that compiled the standards wrote in its proposals.
“Directors should remember that there is always a material prospect that public airing of the disagreement will affect the A.C.L.U. adversely in terms of public support and fund-raising,” the proposals state.
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But some former board members and A.C.L.U. supporters said the proposals were an effort to stifle dissent.“It sets up a framework for punitive action,” said Muriel Morisey, a law professor at Temple University who served on the board for four years until 2004.
Susan Herman, a Brooklyn Law School professor who serves on the board, said board members and others were jumping to conclusions.
“No one is arguing that board members have no right to disagree or express their own point of view,” Ms. Herman said. “Many of us simply think that in exercising that right, board members should also consider their fiduciary duty to the A.C.L.U. and its process ideals.”
* snort *
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A.C.L.U. May Block Criticism by Its Board
This is the kind of hypocrisy that Conservatives and most reasonable liberals can agree that the ACLU needs to some house cleaning on. Via NY Times….
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ACLU, That Bastion Of Free Speech
Oh, the ACLU. I don’t like throwing the term hypocrisy around loosely, but in some cases it’s warranted (h/t: Stop the ACLU):The American Civil Liberties Union is weighing new standards that would discourage its board members from publicly criticizin…
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A.C.L.U. May Block Criticism by Its Board
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