Sunday, February 25, 2007
The ACLU Tries to Get Terrorists in the US
According to the ACLU, it should be illegal for the US government to bar those who have ties to terrorism.
This is why the ACLU is the most dangerous organization in America today.
ACLU: US Can't Bar Terrorism Supporters
So, according to the ACLU, is you are a "foreign scholar" who happens to advocate terrorism, the government should not be allowed to keep you out of the United States.
Leftist thinking, as usual.
According to the ACLU, it should be illegal for the US government to bar those who have ties to terrorism.
This is why the ACLU is the most dangerous organization in America today.
ACLU: US Can't Bar Terrorism Supporters
NEW YORK (AP) - A civil rights group asked a judge Friday to find it unconstitutional for the federal government to exclude a prominent Muslim scholar or anyone else from the United States on the grounds that they may have endorsed or espoused terrorism. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the papers attacking the policy in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The group included in its submissions a written declaration in which the scholar, Tariq Ramadan, said he has always "opposed terrorism not only through my words but also through my actions."
The ACLU said schools and organizations who want to invite Ramadan and others into the United States are concerned about what is known as the ideological exclusion provision.
It said an entry in the State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual says that the provision is directed at those who have voiced "irresponsible expressions of opinion."
The group said the provision violates the First Amendment and has resulted since 2001 in the exclusion from the United States of numerous foreign scholars, human rights activists and writers, barred "not for legitimate security reasons but rather because the government disfavors their politics."
The ACLU said some foreign scholars and writers are now reluctant to accept invitations to the United States because they will be subjected to ideological scrutiny and possibly denied entry.
So, according to the ACLU, is you are a "foreign scholar" who happens to advocate terrorism, the government should not be allowed to keep you out of the United States.
Leftist thinking, as usual.
