"Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU"

A former board member of the ACLU, Wendy Kaminer, has written a book alleging what has been obvious to many of us for a long time: the ACLU has become "just another liberal human-rights, social justice advocate that reliably defends the rights of liberal speakers." the reviewer of the book in the WSJ, John Leo, points out that the ACLU joins a long list of other organizations who have devolved along the same lines: the Sierra Club, the ford and MacArthur Foundations, the Modern Language Association, and Amnesty International.

The name of Kaminer's book is "Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU." In 2006 the ACLU descended into self-satire by imposing a gag order on its own board members - no public criticism of ACLU policies or personnel! Only six of the 53 ACLU affiliates protested the no-dissent policy.