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This seems irrelevant and possibly untrue. What liberal leaning groups are you referring to?

scaryspooky 10y ago
The ACLU has, maybe for fund raising reasons, taken out a full page ad in the NYTimes promising to challenge Trump. They never took out a full page ad when Obama escalated the drone war or killed a US citizen without trial via drone strike. A lot of pro-marijuana groups (let's face it they are liberal groups) weren't aggressively going after the DEA under Obama because his administration had a hands-off approach. Suddenly this is a huge issue with the nomination of Sessions, even though the law is still the same under both administrations. None of the groups have gone after the flagrant violation of 1st amendment rights that the 'hate speech' laws bring about. You might not like a neonazi defaming Jewish people but hate speech laws are counter to the US Constitution. The ACLU hasn't defended aggressions against the 2nd amendment. The PATRIOT act was renewed under Obama. The NDAA was also renewed with increased powers under Obama. NSA spying has increased, the FBI has taken more liberties in 'national security letters' and the CIA has still had free reign to do as they please. Yet all of the liberal watchdog groups gave Obama a free pass, even though he was basically the same as Bush whom they hated. You can go read his record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveillance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveilla... and yet the ACLU never took out a full page ad about his spying. Maybe you will also read this editorial: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/29/opinion/la-oe-turley-civil-liberties-20110929 http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/29/opinion/la-oe-turley... Where were the 'civil liberty' or 'civil rights' groups these past 8 years?
- Balgair 10y ago
  Okay... but this has nothing to do with my comment.
  - scaryspooky 10y ago
    How many accounts do you have? Because I was asked what liberal leaning groups didn't fight Obama and I replied.

The ACLU has, maybe for fund raising reasons, taken out a full page ad in the NYTimes promising to challenge Trump. They never took out a full page ad when Obama escalated the drone war or killed a US citizen without trial via drone strike. A lot of pro-marijuana groups (let's face it they are liberal groups) weren't aggressively going after the DEA under Obama because his administration had a hands-off approach. Suddenly this is a huge issue with the nomination of Sessions, even though the law is still the same under both administrations. None of the groups have gone after the flagrant violation of 1st amendment rights that the 'hate speech' laws bring about. You might not like a neonazi defaming Jewish people but hate speech laws are counter to the US Constitution. The ACLU hasn't defended aggressions against the 2nd amendment. The PATRIOT act was renewed under Obama. The NDAA was also renewed with increased powers under Obama. NSA spying has increased, the FBI has taken more liberties in 'national security letters' and the CIA has still had free reign to do as they please. Yet all of the liberal watchdog groups gave Obama a free pass, even though he was basically the same as Bush whom they hated. You can go read his record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveillance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveilla... and yet the ACLU never took out a full page ad about his spying. Maybe you will also read this editorial: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/29/opinion/la-oe-turley-civil-liberties-20110929 http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/29/opinion/la-oe-turley... Where were the 'civil liberty' or 'civil rights' groups these past 8 years?

Balgair 10y ago
Okay... but this has nothing to do with my comment.
- scaryspooky 10y ago
  How many accounts do you have? Because I was asked what liberal leaning groups didn't fight Obama and I replied.