[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Didn't the ACLU use to be the communist party back in the early 1900's?

Originally Posted by Oberon

Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...berties_Bureau

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

No. The ACLU was born from the National Civil Liberties Bureau, which had the primary function of providing legal representation for conscientious objectors. After being reformed under the banner ACLU it broadened its representation to include African Americans, Jewish Americans, Jehovah's Witnesses, and, yes, even communist and socialist groups among its clients. But it was never a political party, let alone a communist political party.

I have to ask if Prager University teaches any courses on 20th Century American history at all.

I see ... thank you for your response:
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2011/01...mmunist-party/

Newly discovered declassified letters found in the Soviet Comintern archives seem to link early leaders of the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with the Communist Party

Dear Bill [Foster], May 23, 1931

Dr. Harry ward, chairman of this organization, is going to Russia in august to make a six or seven months’ study of a type which nobody has done. Dr. Ward is, as you perhaps know, the author of several books on the profit motive. He has demolished it theoretically. Now he wants to demolish it practically by evidence from Soviet Russia.