8/31/2005
Delink Instapundit; ACLU Blogburst
We’re calling for bloggers who read Cao’s blog to delink Instapundit, one of the more high-profile blogs, in light of this post. Owner Glenn Reynolds called outspoken disagreement and “demonization”of the ACLU “a bit silly”. He goes on:
I do feel that they’ve become overly partisan in recent years, but they still do good work (I’ve worked with them in the past, on the New Orleans rave case for example, and will probably do so again.)
That is just plain “politically correct”. The only people Glenn is making points with on that one is lawyers and leftists. Glenn is ignoring the plethora of information out there which indicates that the ACLU’s goals and achievements have been all about the destruction of American values, under the deceitful auspices of supporting the Constitution. They are consistently anti-American, anti-truth, anti-good and anti-God, even Anti-Boy Scouts. They are, quite literally, an evil organization. They support child molesters, terrorists, approve of the “homosexualization” of the United States, and fight for everything sane people with morals are against. They support CAIR, which was founded by known terrorists and is backed by Hamas (If that’s not enough to tell you there’s a problem here, then you need to get out and read more.) In almost any court case that makes conservatives want to bang their heads against a wall, chances are good that the ACLU was involved.
At DiscovertheNetworks:
It appears that after years of incessantly accusing the U.S. military of abusing the captured terrorists and enemy combatants imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, the ACLU’s public-relations battering ram has finally pounded a weary, much-maligned Pentagon into submission. In so doing, the ACLU has succeeded in helping terrorists keep hidden the details of whatever plots they and their cohorts may be hatching to murder more Americans in the future - and compounding the sin by sticking none other than American taxpayers with the bill for this effort.
Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin reports that according to “astonished” U.S. military sources, the Pentagon recently permitted ACLU lawyers to sit in on interrogations of the al Qaeda and Taliban enemy combatants being held in Guantanamo; in the majority of cases, these attorneys advised the prisoners that they were under no obligation to answer military interrogators’ questions. Says one exasperated military source, “It’s as if they [the detainees] were [merely] shoplifters in the U.S. The lawyers may have left by now, but the damage is done. We’re sending guys [attorneys] down to interrogate on [the] taxpayer’s dime for absolutely no reason now.”
In this piece at Frontpage Magazine, Michael Reagan talks about the ACLU. An exerpt:
If you are wondering where the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is standing in the War on Terror, one need only consult its record. This pillar of the Legal Left wants to humiliate U.S. troops, inflame anti-American Muslims, and oppose Homeland Security.
The ACLU even wants U.S. courts to allow the Quran to be used instead of the Bible when administering the oath to Muslims in court. According to the Associated Press, denying the use of other religious texts would violate the Constitution by favoring Christianity over other religions, the ACLU of North Carolina said in a lawsuit. State law currently allows witnesses preparing to testify in court to take their oath either by laying a hand over a “Holy Scripture,” by saying “so help me God” without the use of a religious book, or by using no religious symbols.
“We hope that the court will issue a ruling that the phrase ‘Holy Scripture’ includes the Quran, Old Testament, and Bhagavad-Gita in addition to the Christian Bible,” said Jennifer Rudinger, executive director of the ACLU of North Carolina.
That, however, is small stuff when it comes to the ACLU’s activities in connection with the war on terrorism. Take for example their demand that the Pentagon release more photos of the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
In this case the ACLU thinks that all the pictures of Abu Ghraib should be made public. The only possible purpose for that would be nothing less than to inflame Middle Easterners even more. It can have nothing at all to do with punishing the prisoner abusers — that’s already been done. They are being prosecuted, are being found guilty, and are being put in jail. The ACLU seems hell-bent to inflame the radical Islamists and present them with more video, more film, more pictures that they can use to go out and recruit more terrorists and suicide bombers to kill more and more Americans.
Perhaps even more disturbing is this post. A reader emailed Reynolds to say basically
“You just lost another reader because of your remarks.”
Reynolds’ reply?
That’s okay — there are plenty of blogs out there, and this guy would clearly be happier somewhere else.
Kit at Euphoric Reality points out:
Someone’s a bit big for their britches, perhaps. And maybe delinking him won’t do a thing, but it’s the principle. I refuse to link to a blog that supports the ACLU - I don’t care how popular or “big” they are, or how small I am in relation.
Jay from Stop the ACLU had this to say:
Any conservative blogger who has kept track of the ACLU’s trends, and paid attention to the organizations and causes that they support can see that they are against everything conservatives stand for. I hope all conservative bloggers decide to stand up and be counted on this.
Here’s a partial list of blogs that are now delinking Instapundit in protest:
Tip o’ me tam to: Outside the Beltway’s Traffic Jam, Jay’s Trackback Party, Citizen Smash
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J Rob's House of Opinions linked with Instapundit Persona non Gratis
Real Teen linked with Cross-Post: Glenn Reynolds and The ACLU
Stop The ACLU linked with Instapundit and the ACLU
euphoricreality.net linked with Call To Action: Instapundit Mass Delinking
August 31st, 2005 at 8:24 am
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August 31st, 2005 at 9:44 am
why were you linking to Glenn in the first place?
August 31st, 2005 at 10:05 am
Well, that’s a fine how-do-you-do. I don’t have Instapundit blogrolled, but I was about to because I *just* linked to him in a post about his planned Hurricane Katrina blogburst and charities list.
Hmmm… this is a damn sticky wicket. While his comments re the ACLU make me furious :evil:, there’s the hurricane victims to think about…
I think I’ll agree to NOT blogroll him (delinking him before I even linked him), but keep his Hurricane Relief link in my latest post, for now. (If someone can convince me otherwise, please do…)
August 31st, 2005 at 10:07 am
You realize you just linked him twice in this post? See Basil on how to resolve.
August 31st, 2005 at 11:11 am
Instapundit and the ACLU
Hat tip for info: Junkyard Blog
Several conservative blogs are calling for all right-oriented blogs to delink Instapundit, one of the most high-profile blogs on the internet, in light of this post. Owner Glenn Reynolds called outspoken disag…
August 31st, 2005 at 11:37 am
TY, Jay! Quite helpful.
August 31st, 2005 at 12:10 pm
Hah, it worked Jay, via basil’s blog (heck, I get so many links from him, he deserves a few more links and hits anyway!)
I am officially DELINKED from Instapundit in protest to this ACLU idiocy of his.
August 31st, 2005 at 12:26 pm
The ACLU does still do some good. However, when the bad things range all the way from ridiculous to just plain wrong there’s nothing silly about exposing it. When the bad overwhelms and outnumbers the good, there’s nothing silly about speaking out against it. What the hell has gotten into Glenn? Why would he post something so incomplete and petty?
I won’t delink him because I didn’t take it personally. I’m sure he got enough hate mail over it anyway and doesn’t seem to care. In spite of his comment, he’s still on the right side the rest of the time. We’re all guilty of saying the wrong thing from time to time.
August 31st, 2005 at 1:31 pm
August 31st, 2005 at 1:58 pm
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August 31st, 2005 at 4:25 pm
You spelled plethora wrong. it’s P-L-E-T-H-O-R-A.
Really, you shouldn’t try to use words like that unless you know how to spell them.
August 31st, 2005 at 4:44 pm
Personally I think you shouldn’t use a word if you don’t know what it means.
Correction has been made and if that’s all you got–:razz: bwahahaha! Ever hear of a typo? Doesn’t mean I can’t spell, are you some kind of an imbecile? Well obviously, you are! bwahahaha! Thanks for the laughs, I never laugh so hard as when I read these stupid troll turds.
August 31st, 2005 at 7:49 pm
Consider Instapundit deblogrolled from Moonbattery.
August 31st, 2005 at 10:03 pm
The ACLU also defended NAMBLA. What kind of group would defend NAMBLA? Good for you Cao.
August 31st, 2005 at 10:14 pm
Hey Cao. Nice spelling, *******. I think I’ll stick to reading Instapundit instead of this diarrhea.
By the way, what difference does it make if you delink Instapundit? You still have 65,467 links on your dumb site.
Hack.
August 31st, 2005 at 11:33 pm
Don’t pay attention to Oyster. She’s from Journalspace.
Oyster, keep beating the hell out of your kids and go back into your hole…..:smile:
September 1st, 2005 at 5:11 am
Matt, you’re so respectful as a guest in someone else’s house! Thank you for your comment. Do you also **** on the carpet? bwahahahaha
Typical troll; telling me what to do on my own website. Here’s a bulletin for ya: I can do whatever the hell I want here! Who are you, my mommy?
Guess you’re going to have to ask the 30+ blogs who in 1 day jumped on the de-link Instapundit bandwagon what good it will do….you act as if I’m the only one. Glenn doesn’t care, he thinks he has an endless line of stupid lawyer readers who hang on his every link. So why should you care?
What would happen if he got taken down a peg or two because people object to his affiliation with the ACLU? WOW. Well isn’t that just too bad? You don’t like it. And you think your opinion matters here? bwahahaha
Imagine how many will de-link over the next month if we keep the pressure on. Just imagine, you useless twirp, what good it will do if 1000’s of bloggers are delinking to Instapundit. Instapundit is just a bad link farm by a lawyer who props the ACLU, if you’d rather read that useless tripe, go ahead, it’s a free country.
Go take your complaints to the complaint department and bugger off, swampy.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:26 am
Ticklebug. That was totally unnecessary. You know nothing about me. Why would you be so petty? Even though I think Glenn’s comment was silly and wrong in itself, because I don’t jump on every bandwagon you want to be an *** about it.
Even though Cao might disagree with me, on delinking I think she at least understands that our individuality is just important and the fact that I support her in many ways.
Now excuse me while I go beat my kids.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:30 am
Ticklebug. That was totally unnecessary. You know nothing about me. Why would you be so petty? Even though I think Glenn’s comment was silly and wrong in itself, because I don’t jump on every bandwagon you want to be an *** about it.
Even though Cao might disagree with me, on delinking I think she at least understands that our individuality is just as important and the fact that I support her in many ways.
Now excuse me while I go beat my kids.
(Cao, I apologize if this posts twice)
September 1st, 2005 at 8:00 am
Actually, Oyster and I go all the way back to last year when I first started blogging. She’s been a faithful commenter on and off, when her schedule permits. I invited her to participated in TWA, but her time is very limited. She always has very measured, sensible things to say when my Irish is up and I’m ranting with the blood vessels sticking out on my forehead. She is a sensible person. I think we can agree to disagree and leave it at that…we can use our influencing skills to “influence” others, but ultimately, I’m not offended if Oyster doesn’t agree with de-linking Instapundit. There are 30+ blogs who’ve jumped on to this cause IN LESS THAN ONE DAY–who think the ACLU issue is significant enough to de-link him.
I never linked him to begin with because he’s what appears to be a leftist lawyer who’s in cohoots with other lawyers who also support the ACLU. They turn a blind eye to the communist roots of the organization and its consistent destruction of American values, just like a lot of other people who are clueless and don’t realize or care about the damage that organization is doing and has done over time.
The other thing I don’t like about his site is he’s virtually just a link farm. I can find a link farm that’s just as good or better somewhere else.
It’s a matter of values, personal taste, convictions for what you believe is right, etc.. I wouldn’t go so far as to insult Oyster…she’s an incredible friend and writer….this is the first time, to my knowledge, that we’ve disagreed on anything. So it’s also a testament to our friendship that she feels safe to come here and express her opinion. I’m not going to berate her for it, she’s entititled to it.
September 1st, 2005 at 8:09 am
I would gladly delink from instapundit if I had had a link for it. The only reference to Glen Reynolds is my Alliance pseudo-quote. However, I will post and trackback to this later…unfortunately I have to go do something that no ACLU lawyer can understand…go to my real job.
September 1st, 2005 at 9:50 am
“They turn a blind eye to the communist roots of the organization and its consistent destruction of American values, just like a lot of other people who are clueless and don’t realize or care about the damage that organization is doing and has done over time.”
Typical Leftie-Communists!
September 1st, 2005 at 2:47 pm
I was annoyed enough to take Instapundit off my blogroll, but I’m forgetting about this issue when it comes to Reynolds’ project with TTLB to generate donations for flood victims. If the project can motivate people to help, I’m not going to begrudge him a link.
September 1st, 2005 at 3:37 pm
Thanx, Cao. I appreciate that. Now as far as Reynolds goes. I’ve never paid that much attention to him to begin with. I have occaisonally gone there and read something he said and found I agreed with him. What your post will do though is give me cause to maybe pay closer attention to him and make my own mind up.
That’s all we’re here for anyway, right? To share ideas. I’m just a little more cautious and sometimes slower to come around. Other times, I’m happy to lead the charge.
Frankly, I don’t think we need the ACLU. We have a glut of lawyers in this country and if a cause is good enough, many will gladly do pro bono work. The ACLU has allowed themselves to become a tool of the left and in many ways ignored the poor who can’t afford counsel and have real needs. Not just some idiot who is offended by school prayer or someone with a long criminal history who just wants a retrial.
September 1st, 2005 at 8:09 pm
No problem, Oyster. As far as his jumping on the “social issues” and promoting things like teaching “the world to sing in perfect harmony”, Van Helsing, I’m sure that he welcomes your support.
I’ll find some other way to help the victims who were touched by this natural devastation–rather than sign onto blue organizations and pour more good money into them.
September 1st, 2005 at 10:34 pm
Instapundit Persona non Gratis
I know I had never gotten around to linking to Instapundit, and the only mention of Glen Reynolds is my Alliance pseudo-quote where is does not really say I must be destroyed.
September 3rd, 2005 at 9:04 am
I have never lnked to Instapundit for many reasons, his affinity for the ACLU being just one of them. In fact, there are many large mainstream blogs that I I will not link to.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:20 am
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