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Frank Collin, 33, is a swaggering bullyboy who likes to dress up in a Nazi uniform, spout totalitarian dogma and howl racial slurs. Aryeh Neier, 41, the son of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, runs the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that protects individual freedoms. For the past 14 months, Neier and the A.C.L.U. have defended the right of Collin and a small band of brownshirts to taunt the citizens of Skokie, Ill., thousands of whom are survivors of Nazi death camps...
...well mean that the person will be put to death," says Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "The sense of responsibility will be greater." And although the American Civil Liberties Union lost its battle to keep Gilmore from the firing squad, Executive Director Aryeh Neier says he is "determined to make it as difficult as possible to execute anyone else...
...Burger court held by a 5-to-3 vote that if a person has a "predisposition" to commit a crime, it will be almost impossible for him to claim entrapment successfully, no matter how much inducement to the crime the Government has provided. Under the ruling, says Aryeh Neier, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, "if anyone does anything, you can say there must have been predisposition...
More often than not, crusaders for causes try to rally support by glooming over the darkness of their situation. So why is this man smiling? Sitting in his pine-paneled office at the mid-Manhattan headquarters of the American Civil Liberties Union, Executive Director Aryeh Neier, 37, is saying happily these days, "This is the best single moment for civil liberties in the past dozen years." The statement may be impolitic, but Neier has a point...
...Lawyer. The shy overseer of all this success came to the A.C.L.U. from Hitler's Germany. Born in Berlin in 1937, Aryeh (Hebrew for lion and pronounced Ar-eeay) Neier (rhymes with higher) was taken to London at the age of two to escape the Nazis; after the war, he moved with his family to New York City. Young Aryeh went through the city's public school system and on to Cornell, where he organized a speakers' group that made a show of inviting a Daily Worker editor to lecture when the City College of New York...