Word: aclu
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...ACLU has filed suit against Swisher County, as well as the sheriff and the district attorney, on behalf of Yul Bryant, a black man who was arrested after apparently being misidentified and whose charges have been dropped. Some of the cases are being appealed, the Department of Justice has been alerted to the problem, the media is on the case and Tulia finds itself in the spotlight - a spotlight that has led to all kinds of grandstanding, manipulation, alliance-forming and hammy acting. In other words, Tulia has become Hollywood. Helping get national publicity focused on the situation is Randy...
...comic-relief supporting player, since he uses the "N" word and calls the protest "a white show, but it's aggressive whites who have to run it because these people can't fight for themselves." The media finds Gardner irresistibly quotable. Also irresistible are the alarming accusations from the ACLU and the NAACP that Tulia is guilty of ethnic cleansing...
...give glory in gratitude to God from whom all blessings truly do flow." And for good measure, he championed Al Gore as an unwavering father, husband and "servant of God Almighty." Needless to say, the same words spoken by a Republican candidate might have alarmed not only ACLU types, but also Governor Bush's handlers, who've taken great pains to distance the party's image from the influence of the Christian right. (Bush, for the record, limited himself to five references during his convention speech...
...have lay persons on some of our panels that were rendering judgments about which applications should get grants. It was a meeting at a hotel in Washington attended by many scholarly people, and there was a man at this meeting named Stanley Katz, who was president of the ACLU, and he called my suggestion that "the most pernicious idea he had ever heard," and to me it was just common sense. That was a warning about what my tenure at the endowment was likely to turn out to be as long as I was not seen...
...issue of students' rights, the law is somewhat fuzzy as to whether public institutions can insist on compliance, a subject in which the American Civil Liberties Union is taking a close interest. According to Associated Press reports, the ACLU's Pennsylvania chapter will keep a beady eye on Philadelphia's policy, and could file suit against the school district if it feels the dress code goes too far or does not make provisions for opt-outs (on religious grounds, for example). In the meantime, while there doesn't seem to be much consolation for boys facing the specter...