What do you mean? Besides there belief in what the 2A is supposed to mean they still fight to protect the others. And I have read that they are slowly coming to accept it for what it truly means, read about it in one of my copies of the Reason magazine.
The ACLU fights to destroy America. The people they "protect" are merely stalking horses to advance their destructive radical agenda.
Elaborate, please.
The ACLU is a leftist organization that projects a liberty-minded false-front (See "popular front" as used in Stalinist doctrine).
Roger Baldwin, the a founder and first executive director of the ACLU said:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Nash_Baldwin I have continued directing the unpopular fight for the rights of agitation, as director of the American Civil Liberties Union.... I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is, of course, the goal.
And if that wasn't enough, his article in
Soviet Russia Today has some gems (emphasis in original):
http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/blog/baldwin.pdf * I believe in non-violent methods of struggle as most effective in the long run for building up successful working class power. Where they cannot be followed or where they are not even permitted by the ruling class, obviously only violent tactics remain. I champion civil liberty as the best of the non-violent means of building the power on which workers rule must be based. If I aid the reactionaries to get free speech now and then, if I go outside the class struggle to fight against censorship, it is only because those liberties help to create a more hospitable atmosphere for working class liberties.
The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental. *
When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatever. Dictatorship is the obvious means in a world of enemies at home and abroad. I dislike it in principle as dangerous to its own objects.
But the Soviet Union has already created liberties far greater than exist elsewhere in the world. They are liberties that most closely affect the lives of the people power in the trade unions, in peasant organizations, in the cultural life of nationalities, freedom of women in public and private life, and a tremendous development of education for adults and children.
* I saw in the Soviet Union many opponents of the regime. I visited a dozen prisons the political sections among them. I saw considerable of the work of the OGPU. I heard a good many stories of severity, even of brutality, and many of them from the victims. While I sympathized with personal distress I just could not bring myself to get excited over the suppression of opposition when I stacked it up against what I saw of fresh, vigorous expressions of free living by workers and peasants all over the land. And further, no champion of a socialist society could fail to see that some suppression was necessary to achieve it. It could not all be done by persuasion.
* If American champions of civil liberty could all think in terms of economic freedom as the goal of their labors, they too would accept "workers' democracy" as far superior to what the capitalist world offers to any but a small minority.
Yes, and they would accept regretfully, of course the necessity of dictatorship while the job of reorganizing society on a socialist basis is being done.
I could go on, but it is more text-based fellatio on the shades of Marx and on the very real, contemporary, USSR of Lenin and Stalin.
Eugene Volokh discusses RNB a bit in the folowing post:
http://www.volokh.com/posts/1126720462.shtml
To sum up, RNB founded the ACLU to be a liberal false-front for communists and communist aims.
He admired, supported, and defended the USSR & Stalin all through the bloody revolution, the general oppression, the show trials, the Ukraine terror-famine, and whatnot. He only stopped blowing kisses to Stalin after the Molotov-Ribentropp pact.
The ACLU is not an organization to admire or to associate with.
