Thread by @roaringrapids22

"[The] ACLU today [is] not the same organization that it once was. From running not-so-subtle political ads endorsing Democrats & desecrating the presumption of innocence to blatant corruption & backpedaling on freedom of speech, the ACLU has fallen."
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"[The ACLU] used to be known as a politically neutral organization. However, that organizational model has explicitly and intentionally changed. Anthony Romero is the current executive director of the ACLU. [Since replacing Ira Glasser in 2000] Anthony Romero says the ACLU...

now looks to the NRA, of all places, as their organizational model, or at least their inspiration. That’s because the NRA has successfully created a 'gun culture' and was able to mobilize voters around a central issue. While [Anthony] Romero insists that they're still...

different because they don’t endorse political candidates or give money to candidates, this is becoming increasingly untrue. While the ACLU claims they don’t explicitly endorse political candidates, they do just about that without overtly saying so. The ACLU is a tax-exempt...

organization because it doesn’t endorse political candidates, but they’re certainly walking a fine line."

"After Christine Ford came out with sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, the ACLU immediately took her side, denouncing the Supreme Court justice nominee...

and running ads against him. The ads called for Senator Cory Gardner to oppose Judge Kavanaugh because of the allegations against him & compared him to other powerful men like Bill Cosby, Matt Lauer, and Harvey Weinstein, saying, 'We’ve seen this before; denials from powerful...

men.' Isn’t the presumption of innocence a civil liberty the ACLU used to work tirelessly to defend?"

"During the Obama administration, Title IX was wreaking havoc on the due process of students on college campuses who were being accused of sexual assault and denied their...

rights, yet the ACLU remained completely silent when these policies were in place. It wasn’t until Betsy Devos announced changes to Title IX under the Trump administration that the ACLU condemned the expansions of due process and the presumption of innocence for the accused...

and filed a lawsuit against Devos for violating the original spirit of Title IX. The ACLU, of all places, is throwing their hat behind kangaroo courts and guilt by association? "

"The final nail in the coffin for any shred of legitimacy the ACLU still had left as an...

organization was when it was revealed that the ACLU helped to ghostwrite an opinion editorial for Amber Heard for The Washington Post, where she heavily implied that her ex-husband Johnny Depp abused her. Ultimately, Depp won a defamation lawsuit against Heard, proving all...

elements of defamation and was awarded $15 million in compensatory and punitive damages, [$10.35 because Virginia caps punitive damages]. The article at the center of the defamation suit was penned by none other than the ACLU, who helped write the first draft. As we...

previously reported, the ACLU was subpoenaed to testify in court about whether or not Heard had truly donated the $3.5 million she claimed she donated to the ACLU, and they stated they had not received the money."

"The subpoena came in response to the ACLU’s refusal to...

produce documents proving that [Amber] Heard donated her divorce settlement money to their organization. The ACLU likely didn’t want to produce them unless they had to because it was a bad look for their organization to be exposed as helping someone falsely accuse an innocent...

man, and then hide the fact that she never donated the divorce settlement money she claimed to have donated. Even worse than penning a piece about being a spokesperson for domestic violence, they admitted to intentionally timing the publication to coincide with the release of...

Aquaman, in which [Amber] Heard played a major role. Heard is also still an ACLU ambassador after being found guilty of defaming a man in her op-ed that was ghostwritten by the ACLU."

"Attorney Ken White thinks it's problematic for the ACLU to be penning op-eds seemingly in...

exchange for donations. While [Amber] Heard herself did not donate any money, the ACLU did receive donations on her behalf from Elon Musk, who is one of their top donors. Law & Crime interviewed [Ken] White, who said, 'They say that there wasn’t a quid pro quo: It wasn’t...

like, you know, 'I donate and you write something for me.' [Ken] White goes on to say, 'But I think, doing an op-ed on behalf of someone who’s a major donor, that’s a disclosure that should be made. And it’s a problematical appearance.'"

"The ACLU used to do good, important...

work, but now it’s nothing more than another progressive political lobbying organization that doesn’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to civil liberties. Not only do they not stand up for the same civil liberties that propelled their organization into the forefront of...

the national civil liberty conversation, but they overtly spit in the face of civil liberties like due process, the presumption of innocence, the right to bear arms, and freedom of assembly. Their disgusting attempt to use a celebrity to push for their sexual-based violence...

narrative is only the latest example of how their push to become more political has obscured their ability to do the work that needs to be done. As [Ira] Glasser has said, there’s only one ACLU, but perhaps it’s not the same one it once was."

#TheACLUIsComplicitInAmberHeardDefamingJohnnyDepp
#TheACLUHelpedAmberHeardInHerMaliciousFalseAllegationHoax
#BoycottTheACLU
#JusticeForJohnnyDepp

I encourage you to read the whole article it is enlightening to how corrupt the ACLU has become.