The ACLU has made the name of the organization Orwellian.
The acronym “ACLU” stands for “American Civil Liberties Union.” Once a proud defender of free speech and other liberties, it stood by the principle of defending the right to speak even for those whose speech is offensive.
But that’s so Twentieth Century. A brand new day his dawned, in which the ACLU is in favor of civil liberties only for those who support the left, making the “civil liberties” in the title something like Orwell’s Ministry of Truth and Ministry of Love, the opposite of what it professes to be.
Founded in 1920, almost exactly 100 years ago, the organization’s original credo was (emphasis mine), “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
As luck would have it a lot of us think of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress as an instruction manual also. Or, since we’re facing a totalitarian leftist theocracy, maybe Revolt in 2100.
h/t Sarah Hoyt