The ACLU vs. Americans

Michelle Malkin discusses the ACLU's opposition to the Minuteman project at Townhall. The Minuteman Project is a volunteer effort by American citizens to help bring attention to our porous southern border. On April 1, hundreds of Americans from all over the U.S. will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border for a month to monitor illegal aliens and notify immigration enforcement officials if they witness law-breaking (referred to by Malkin as the "mother of all neighborhood watch programs").

On April Fools' Day, the American Civil Liberties Union will show us what a joke its commitment to American civil liberties really is.

...the Minutemen will be exercising their constitutionally protected freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Those would be fundamental civil liberties found in something called the, uh, First Amendment, of which the ACLU is supposed to be the foremost expert and champion.

ACLU of Arizona spokesman Ray Ybarra argues that the mere presence of the Minutemen at the border constitutes "unlawful imprisonment" of illegal (excuse me, "undocumented") aliens (excuse me, "migrants"). Ybarra told the Washington Times that the ACLU will have lawyers on standby ready to file civil cases against the volunteers. He warned that the Minutemen could "come to our state as 'vigilantes' and end up leaving as 'defendants.'"

With truth-in-advertising laws, I think the ACLU needs a new name since it no longer cares about the civil liberties of Americans.