Has the ACLU a multi-personality?

 

By Jake McMillian MacAulay

 

Just after Thanksgiving the ACLU released a shocking article. The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday the 28th. The bill was drafted in secret by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and passed in a closed-door committee meeting, without even a single hearing.

 

The ACLU also reported:

 

In support of this harmful bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained that the bill will “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield” and people can be imprisoned without charge or trial “American citizen or not.” Another supporter, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) also declared that the bill is needed because “America is part of the battlefield.”

 

The purpose of this bill is obvious, as spoken by its supporters, to aggrandize central power.  This is the age-old question, posed by our founders as they deliberated over the Virginia Plan that eventually became the Constitution of the United States. How do you give government enough power to govern effectively, but limit that power so government does not become tyrannical and corrupt, given the fallen nature of man?

 

This policy if passed would indeed make any power-thirsty dictator foam at the mouth. No doubt our current president and Dictator in Chief would love another opportunity to increase in his monarchal powers that are not found in the Constitution.

 

Well, now that you got your news I would like to pose a question, what has caused the ACLU to understand that this is an abuse of our liberties?  Was it the Declaration of Independence that declares all men are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”?  Would they have us put our trust in the only just and faithful Governor of the Universe, or simply take their word for it because they are not morally corrupt and their judgment is not diluted?

 

On the ACLU’s website it states: 

 

The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

 

Why does this same group who can come up with a constitutional conclusion, as found in this article, be known as one of the most anti-Christian organizations in our country? Out of the other side of their mouth they favor and prefer secular humanist law and tyranny. 

 

The words of Thomas Jefferson may unravel the confusion and lay before us a straight stick of judgment. 

 

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time… Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed the only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are…the gift of God?  That they are not to violated but with His wrath?

 

Tyrants do not fear secular organizations more than they fear the God and Creator of their subjects.  Thank you for your input ACLU, now abandon your Godless folly and embrace a “firm reliance on divine providence…” –Declaration of Independence