American Civil Liberties Union Pros And Cons

The American Civil Liberties Union or better known as the ACLU has been around for almost a hundred years know. The ACLU derived from the National Civil Liberties Bureau which was co-founded in 1917 during the World War 1 by an attorney activist Crystal Eastman, and Roger Nash Baldwin. The focus of the CLB was on primarily anti-was speech, freedom of speech, and on supporting people who did not want to serve in World War 1. Now, during the time of November 1919 and January 1920 there were raids called the “Palmer Raids.” An attorney general by the name of Mitchell Palmer began rounding up and deporting people. Thousands of people all over the United States were arrested without warrants and without regard to constitutional protections against

Thus, creating the American Civil Liberties Union on January 19, 1920. Their job is conserve America’s original civic values, the constitution and the bill of rights. They want to defend the rights for every man, woman, and child in this country. In their first years, the ACLU have fought for the rights of the people that were harassed and deported by the U.S. attorney general Mitchell Palmer. The ACLU also that year secured the release of hundreds of anti-war activists. Since then the ACLU has grown to having more than 1.6 million members, thousands of volunteer attorneys, nearly 300 staff attorneys, and offices through the nation. The attorneys handle about 6,000 cases annually. Today the ACLU still does its best to defend individual freedoms including citizens’ rights to privacy, speech and religion, and so much

For example, the Nation of Islam, the American Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and much more are defended by the ACLU. The ACLU does not agree with the point of view of the individuals or groups rather they defend their right to have freedom of speech. They ACLU is not anti-anything. The only thing they fight are the attempts to take away or limit one’s civil liberties. The ACLU believes that once the government has the power to violate one person’s rights, the government can use that power to violate every person’s rights. That is why they try to stop the violation of rights before it is too late. They are here for everyone brown or white or black, foreign-born or American- born, gay or straight, atheist or pious, poor or rich. Every person in America should know their basic rights and that is why the ACLU have been working hard to make sure no one takes them