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The welkin, whatever that is, rings w ith outraged cries because the American Civil Liberties Union has been under investigation by the FBI for many years. But before you get your squirrel rifle to defend yourself from the onrush of fascism, hear me out. That great panjandrum of the Liberal establishment, Walter Lippmann, had this to say of the ACLU: The directors of the Union have missed one opportunity after another to prove that they really stand for the thing they profess to stand for, that they care for civil liberty as such. . .and not merely because it is a convenience for Communists." For Lippmann, speaking about his own, those are revealing words indeed, but even more revealing is what Roger Baldwin, for decades Mr. ACLU himself, wrote in the now defunct Communist propaganda organ, Soviet Russia Today: Those of us who champion civil liberties in this United States and who at the same time support the proletarian dictatorship of the Soviet Union are charged with inconsistency and insincerity. . .If I aid the reactionaries to get free speech now and then, if I go outside the class struggle to fight censorship, it is only because those liberties help create a more hospitable atmosphere for working class liberties. Then, italicizing his words, Baldwin added: The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental. When that poiver of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatsoever." Earl Browder, who ruled the Communist Party U.S.A. for many years, described the ACLU as a transmission belt" which in CP jargon meant only one thing, a Communist front. The American Civil Liberties Union began its existence during World War I as the National Civil Liberties Bureau. Its avowed mission was to encourage conscientious objec 2 tion to the war and to aid the Wobblies, the most revolutionary and violent party in American annals until the Weathermen came aboard. During that period, Baldwin told the NCLB: We want to look like patriots in everything we do. We want to get a lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution." In 1936, the ACLU happily reported that its defense work wras greatly strengthened by the newr policy of the Communist Party which has encouraged the formation of united-frocommittees." There is insufficient space in this column to list the vituperative attacks by the ACLU on those with whom it disagrees, its enthusiastic tempered by a support of anyone on the left d actions for conservatives, a few case of the rabbit stew that was half horse and its applause for Smith Act half rabbit prosecutions of Trotskyists and its high dudgeon when the same law was turned against the Stalinists. g The ACLU found blacklisting by organizations right and proper, but excoriated the right when it published lists of those who aided and abetted Joseph Stalin's tender ministrations. When the ACLU was in its salad days red cabbage, no doubt it ivas mandatory that FBI scan its activities carefully. When it grew fat and rich on the contributions of silly old ladies who spelled paradise" with a capital USSR, the FBI was strictly within the mandate set down by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to infiltrate and investigate. Times have changed but not the ACLU. For many months nowr, it has been harassing William F. Buckley on the ground of gulp freedom of the press." But in press freedom cases in which conservatives are the victims, the ACLU has been elsewhere detained. Some years ago, the labor editor of a national magazine said of a book sponsored by the ACLU that it was full of distortion and lies. But, kiddies, you ain't seen nothin yet. Martyrdom becomes the ACLU, and it will milk it to the last oozy drop. nt half-hearte- left-win- half-truth- s, 21 IS Dallin St., Suite 100 84109 Utah S.L.C., THE NATIONAL WE KKsJMIE) We got tired of being that d shop in the avenues so we moved. hard-to-fin- L E. Same high quality, same low prices but now we are easier to find. Take 23rd E. exit off to 33rd South and there we are! 80 S VISA 3 2343 E. 3300 So. 5 484-210- 5 cm Cf H, Nm lnci |