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Here's what ACLU legislative counsel, Solange Bitol, is quoted as
saying in the press release:
"No matter how well-meaning, government regulation may not restrict
free speech in order to control the behavior of the public," Bitol
said. "And, as the Supreme Court has recently reminded us, adults
cannot be reduced to reading only what is fit for children."
The unspoken corrolary to that is that no matter how evil-intended,
corporations-as-persons (forget about their state-granted charters,
suckers) have an inalienable right (presumably under the 14th
amendment) to use their massive financial resources (not excluding
govt. agricultural subsidies to tobacco farmers) to control the behavior
of the public and to inundate the public with reading matter that isn't
fit for adults or children (or beasts for that matter).
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CB: Yes, this would be THE central right and power in law in class society, that of
private property. It is in the 5th Amendment made applicable to the states through
the 14th.
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Back in the 1970s, I was with a group in Canada that received some funding
from the ACLU to do immigration counseling for Viet Nam war resisters. A
former member with a grudge (arising, naturally, out of personal sexual
escapades) figured he could trash the group by red-baiting us to the
ACLU. He wrote a letter falsely accusing me, my wife and three other
members of forming a trotskyist cabal that had seized the group for our
own sinister political machinations. We stopped receiving funding.
Of course, no one will ever know whether the red baiting had anything to
do with the termination of funding -- the ACLU letter cited other
priorities and limited funds. But the point is that this scum-bag wrecker
sure had it figured that red-baiting would be an effective ploy with the
ACLU moneybags.
Now, maybe if we had changed our name from the Vancouver American
Exiles Association to "Joe Camel and the neo-Nazis" . . .
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CB: In general , ACLU is anti-communist in a typcial liberal manner, meaning they sort
of vacillate, have two faces, but in the crucial they are with the bourgeoisie.
