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Title: Judge approves ACLU lawsuit against ATF
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http://www.srpressgazette.com/news/aclu_5047___article.html/
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Published: Oct 6, 2008
Author: Jeni Senter
Post Date: 2008-10-06 15:23:03 by freepatriot32
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ACLU Director of Communications Brandon Hensler says the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida received an early victory today when Senior Federal Judge Lacey A. Collier denied the ATF’s motions for summary judgment in Kilpatrick v. U.S. The ACLU filed the case on April 18, 2006, on behalf of Karen J. Kilpatrick, who claimed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) violated her Free Speech rights. Kilpatrick was driving her blue van in Pensacola on April 19, 2004, with the slogans “Remember the Children of Waco” and “Boo ATF” written on some of the windows when she was pulled over by police for questioning by the ATF. The ACLU argues in the lawsuit that her First Amendment Rights to Free Speech and her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure were violated when officers detained her for an hour, searched her car without consent, and ordered her to remove the writing on the side of her van. “The ATF’s actions were unconstitutional and there was no legal justification to stop and question Ms. Kilpatrick. We believe that the ATF was trying to silence Ms. Kilpatrick and the 911 call substantiates this position,” said Bert Oram, ACLU cooperating counsel. “We are confident that we can win this case once the facts are demonstrated and we are pleased that we will be able to make our case in court,” he says. Counsel for Kilpatrick v. The United States of America are Bert Oram, ACLU cooperating attorney; and Benjamin Stevenson, ACLU of Florida staff attorney in Pensacola. The MP3 file of the 911 call and a PDF copy of the Order on Summary Judgment can be viewed at:
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#1. To: , *libertarians*, *Ron Paul for President 2008*, *Humor-Weird News* (#0)
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http://s5.gladiatus.us/game/c.php?uid=77290 The audio file: www.aclufl.org/pdfs/atfscallstopensacolapolice.wma
I shall not vote for evil, lesser or otherwise.
The ATF should be disbanded.
The stupider people are, the more surprised they are when you kill them.
The agents should probably be tried for their unAmerican activities too.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Don't you love how so many stupid "conservatives", who kept calling for the ATF to be abolished under Clinton, now defend its jackbooted thugs under a GOP President? Ten to one that if this story was posted on Free Republic, Liberty Post, or Hannity, they'd side with the ATF and against the ACLU.
But... the ACLU will never sue on behalf of the thousands of law abiding gun owners who have been denied their Second Amendment rights by that same rogue agency. Incredible!
And the GOA won't sue to protect free speech. ACLU wasn't set up to defend gun rights, and everyone knows they don't. So support the ACLU when they defend free speech and the GOA when they support gun rights.
I dispise what the ACLU stands for, but :the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In short, I hate the ATF even worse.
....hard to argue wit dem sentiments !
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick
The ones I know have always called for it to be closed.
The U.S. Constitution is no impediment to our form of government.--PJ O'Rourke
Well, it's hard to argue with that logic. I'm still troubled by the anti-gun nature of the ACLU. Isn't my constitutional right to defend myself a civil liberty?
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#2. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
#3. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
#4. To: Turtle (#3)
The ATF should be disbanded.
Lord Acton
#5. To: Turtle (#3)
The ATF should be disbanded.
#6. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
The ACLU filed the case on April 18, 2006, on behalf of Karen J. Kilpatrick, who claimed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) violated her Free Speech rights.
#7. To: winston_smith (#6)
#8. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
#9. To: SWIFT (#8)
I dispise what the ACLU stands for, but :the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In short, I hate the ATF even worse
#10. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#5)
Don't you love how so many stupid "conservatives", who kept calling for the ATF to be abolished under Clinton, now defend its jackbooted thugs under a GOP President?
#11. To: Rhino369 (#7)
So support the ACLU when they defend free speech and the GOA when they support gun rights.
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