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The civil liberties watchdog that didn't bark

Wendy Kaminer at The Free For All takes my former employers at the ACLU to task for their failure to get involved in the YFZ Ranch case and their "tepid, tentative statement of 'concern.'? writing:This general acknowledgment that the summary removal of 416 children absent actual evidence of their abuse threatens fundamental rights is preferable to the silence that preceded it, barely. The ACLU?s statement is more like an exercise in public relations than a defense of civil liberty; taking no stand for or against the state?s unprecedented actions in this case, which threaten to consign over 400 children to foster care, the statement seems designed to offend no one, while providing cover for the ACLU, should it be accused of ducking a hard civil liberties case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).