Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others

Stoptheaclu brigns to our attention an article in the Los Angeles Times written by former ACLU board member Wendy Kaminer. Wendy was discilpined for...well, you read the excerpt.

Recently, the ACLU again considered censoring its board members, weighing new rules that would prohibit them from criticizing the organization publicly. This startling proposal was the culmination of a bitter internal battle over the organization’s integrity and fidelity to principle that has spilled out into the media.
Why would such a rule even be considered by a free-speech organization? According to ACLU leaders, some board members had been abusing their right to speak.

My son is currently reading George Orwell's Animal Farm as a summer assignment from his High School. Maybe he and his classmates could have shortcut the whole effort by reading Wendy's article.

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