Scapegoat - Big Daddy Will Protect You

The day after I wrote about two homosexuals from New York beginning a new period of harassment I received a letter with a return address on Broad Street New York City. That street crosses Wall Street. The Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell is in the building. I laughed thinking it was from some investment company thinking because I live in Cambridge MA I have money to invest. Or perhaps it was from some company which obtained my address from Columbia University. Most graduates of Columbia have or had good careers and earned extra income so that they too could invest in ventures. Many Columbia graduates inherit lots of money too. Opening the letter I leanred it was from (drumroll please) the ACLU, the Executive Director Anthony Romero. Included was a small copy of the US Constitution. The Heritage Foundation also sends out free copies of the Constitution. Why then are so few people familiar with it, like the President and the Attorney General? Huh? I laughed again. Here was the alleged defender of civil liberties for all American individuals with their office on Wall Street, 18th Floor 125 Broad Street. Did they have a river view? I read Wendy Kaminer's book about the ACLU, Worst Instincts. It gave me hope that at least one other intelligent person knew how depraved the ACLU had become. She revealed much more than I imagined. I learned that Anthony Romero is a "Hispanic" homosexual. Nothing wrong with that, depending upon what you mean by Hispanic. I mean if Hispanic means Spanish speaking person, then I too am Hispanic. But he lives with a psychiatrist. Nothing much wrong with that except, well psychiatrists are control freaks. That means that the ACLU sets policy based on standards in the minds of psychiatrists. I read psychiatry and how it has undermined institutions humans created over thousands of years. Like the quaint notion of accountability. According to psychiatrists if they say you have a mental illness that explains why you did something. The illness made you do it. It is like Flip Wilson's defense when as Geraldine he was asked why she bought that ugly dress. Geraldine answers: "The devil made me do it." Flip Wilson was funny. But some state courts now allow the defense in criminal actions to use psychiatry to mitigate criminal acts. The ACLU allows liberal dogma into its own institution. The gathering of foundation money became the highest goal of the ACLU. Even if it meant that the ACLU had to include goals of the foundation which gave them the money. Wendy Kaminer objected when she was on the board of directors. She was ousted and then wrote her book. I was always an admirer of the ACLU. At least I admired their image. I did not learn until I was older that there was a distinction between the public image in the media and the real operation of a government, person or corporation. Kaminer exposed the deceit of the liberals, who took control of the ACLU. What makes the letter I received so hilarious is that it arrived as I was in the midst of an intense harassment period by a group of criminal police, Communists and crime families, lasting 42 years. In 1973 government psychiatrists at Harvard drugged me with hallucinogens because they thought I was a spy. I went to the ACLU. They did not help. In 1983 when I was in a five year landlord tenant litigation in the Third Circuit, I went to the ACLU. They did not help even though they knew what was going on. The Executive Director of the NJ ACLU said to me then, "You don't need a lawyer, you need a law firm." In 1991 during a Cambridge Police super deluxe frame-up I went to the ACLU. They did nothing, beyond saying, "We can't help you." I did not keep track of all the times I sought help from the ACLU. They never helped. They would usually say "We're a small firm." Oh? What about all the lawyers who volunteer? On one occasion I asked for their help getting police files from the Harvard campus cops. Harvard says they are private police and do not have to answer to the state public records act. But under state laws a public record is a record made by a public official. Campus cops are sworn special state police officers and sworn deputies sheriff. They are public officials. But the state supreme court under former Harvard General Counsel decided they were private. Nonetheless I did ask the ACLU for help. It was a public matter not just my issue. They refused to help. But when the Harvard Crimson (student newspaper) encountered the same barrier two years later the ACLU found an attorney who appeared on local TV and with whom I discussed the matter. I even went to a few meetings of a group focused on one civil rights issue and met some of the ACLU members in Cambridge MA. When a psychiatrist began attending the meetings I stopped. I've been scrutinized by too many control freaks. They were all generalists. None were focused on helping individuals which is what the Constitution is all about. What makes the US distinct from other countries is strong individual rights guaranteed by the US Constitution. But the ACLU no longer does any of that. They raise money, speak and lobby for collective liberal issues. When one of the MA ACLU executive directors was retiring, he appeared on TV and boasted that the Boston police commissioner attended his dinner and stayed for two hours. They were friends he said. That is when I realized that the ACLU in MA was working with the police and the FBI. Why they did not express outrage or even join in exposing 19 homicides by an FBI informant who is only now on trial after 25 years. The US Attorney dropped all other charges like corruption extortion of local and state police and politicians. The Department of Justice prosecuted one FBI agent as if he was the only one. And one other died in prison awaiting trial for murder. The ACLU remained silent about the FBI frame-up of four white men for murder. Two of them died in prison and two were released after 30 years. Why was the ACLU silent on those abominations? So No Mr. Romero I will not be contributing to your rich non profit. The letter begins "Dear Friend, Who would stand up for you if your civil rights were violated?" Ummm, myself?

Scientology and ACLU Obsessed With Fund Raising

The criticism of the leader of Scientology is exactly the same criticism directed at Anthony Romero the current Executive Director of the ACLU. Wendy Kaminer wrote a detailed account of his abuses and misadventures in her book, Worst Instincts. Some people have no perspective when assuming leadership. Lack of common sense can be deadly.

[From article]
"She further claims that, since succeeding Hubbard after his death in 1986, Mr Miscavige has become obsessed with fundraising. His regime is now "hoarding" a cash reserve"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/conflict-at-the-heart-of-scientology-is-exposed-in-bitter-email-outburst-6284546.html

Conflict at the heart of Scientology is exposed in bitter email outburst
January 4, 2012
Clergy member's letter to 12,000 followers attacks church leader's 'obsession' with money
Guy Adams Author Biography
Independent (UK)
Los Angeles

ACLU Executive Director DWI Bust

[from article]
"The Princeton- and Stanford-educated lawyer handled the officer's demands like a pro -- refusing to take a Breathalyzer exam or other sobriety tests, and stalling for time when asked to show his identification, according to a police report.
The Bronx native was charged with misdemeanor DWI, refusal to take a Breathalyzer test, driving on the shoulder, failure to use a designated lane and driving too slowly.
[. . .]
who makes $329,206 a year."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/aclu_was_dwi_bxRkmyOJ6KTEvcvKVYoeUJ

ACLU was 'DWI'
Rights-group leader busted on LI
By DOUG AUER and SELIM ALGAR
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:59 AM, August 10, 2011
Posted: 3:06 AM, August 10, 2011

Obama Supports Snitchin'


Obama, the first African American President joins Anthony Romero the first Hispanic gay American Executive Director of the ACLU and Harvard University censoring protected speech as policy.


http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/08/gop-senator-white-house-encroaching-on-first-amendment.html

GOP Senator: White House Encroaching on First Amendment
August 05, 2009 1:33 PM
ABC News
Rick Klein reports:
The Note
Washington's Original and Most Influential Tipsheet

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/01/dear_old_hahvahd_is_much_more_than_a_name/

Dear old ‘Hahvahd’ is much more than a namejavascript:void(0)
It’s one of many trademarks Harvard zealously protects
By Tracy Jan
Boston Globe Staff
August 1, 2009

ACLU Discrediting Itself

ACLU Discrediting Itself

Promoting Wendy Kaminer's new book Barney Frank says, "Standing up to your political enemies is easy, fun, and often profitable, [t]aking public issue with your friends and allies on a matter of great principle is [. . .] a far more important service to others." (HARVEY SILVERGLATE, "Sunshine on the ACLU: a mea culpa," Freedom Watch, Boston Phoenix, May 6, 2009) Few people speak publicly. Fewer speak "truth to power regardless of whose ox is gored."

Insiders revealed that Anthony Romero lives with his life partner who is a psychiatrist. These pseudo physicians are notoriously control freaks a characteristic that is contrary to the ACLU's mission.

Silverglate says, "I refused to fully join the public campaign, harboring, as I did, the illusion that quiet inside diplomacy could prevail." Isn't this the same problem faced by citizens who try to correct government abuses? If they run for office and win they become part of the problem. Only if they remain outside of the government can they have any effect. Journalists are more interested in being invited to dinner than exposing malfeasance. See how they treat Ralph Nader?

It is true that "The ACLU's current leadership has done the organization more damage than its critics ever could." They showed me they were operating off of the rails for many years.


http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/82548-Sunshine-on-the-ACLU-a-mea-culpa/

Sunshine on the ACLU: a mea culpa
Freedom Watch
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE
May 6, 2009

Who's Watching the ACLU Watchdogs?

The ACLU has an ongoing dispute within its ranks for a few years. I learned about it in February, 2007. Others told me that they were unaware of it as well, including one member of the ACLU.
Here is a link to a story from The Nation February 5, 2007, followed by a link to a story in New York Magazine dated February 19, 2007.


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070205/sherman
ACLU v. ACLU
The Nation
by SCOTT SHERMAN
February 5, 2007

Last September a group of civil libertarians launched a website, savetheaclu.org, on which they declared: "We come together now, reluctantly but resolutely, not to injure the ACLU but to restore its integrity." Only a "change in leadership," they insisted, "will preserve the ACLU." That website, and those words, marked a new phase in a lengthy campaign to unseat Anthony Romero, the ACLU's executive director. The website contained a surprise: a pithy and combative declaration from Romero's retired predecessor, Ira Glasser, who recruited Romero for the top job six years earlier.

Tension at the upper echelons of the ACLU has been evident for some time. On April 22 of last year, the ACLU national board converged on the Princeton Club in Manhattan for its quarterly meeting. A few weeks earlier, in an interview with the conservative New York Sun, board member Wendy Kaminer had criticized a statement by the ACLU's Washington legislative director. What Kaminer did was hardly unusual: For more than two years she has been an indefatigable critic of the ACLU leadership.

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Anthony Romero

http://www.nymag.com/news/features/27839/index.html

Freedom to Backstab
Anthony Romero, head of the ACLU, America’s most important free-speech organization, has been accused of lying, among other transgressions—by his own mentor. Who said liberties had to be civil?
New York Magazine
February 19, 2007
By David France

Anthony Romero is weary of scrutiny. In dozens of lawsuits, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union inveighs against the Bush administration for peering into Americans’ letters, e-mails, and phone calls without court orders. Last month, he denounced the Pentagon for monitoring 186 antiwar protests and keeping files on pacifist groups, from Veterans for Peace to the Catholic Worker Movement. If Romero has learned one thing after five years at the ACLU’s helm, it is the cleansing power of shining a light into an institution’s darkest corners.