Background:

The American Civil Responsibilities Union (ACRU) is a 501-C3 non-profit educational organization chartered and incorporated in California but, growing nationally. It was established to help achieve a better balance between "civil liberties" and "civil responsibilities", in order to achieve reasonable national and community standards in this "free nation" plagued by increasing crime and declining morality.

DR. HOWARD GARBER Founder, ACRU

We believe we are one of few such educational organizations having this singular, exceptional, perhaps unprecedented objective of promoting the concept of balancing “rights" with responsibilities in this nation that has long emphasized "civil liberties" at the expense of citizen responsibilities. Another important concern: "Big government" and its failure often to acknowledge its limited constitutional authority.

Today, ACRU is frankly preoccupied with our divided and troubled nation's tragic plight in dealing with tyrannical, suicidal Islamic Jihad factions. Their global mass-murderous, suicidal bombings around the world have terrorized millions. Our once secure USA (since WWII) was shocked and awakened to another "Pearl Harbor" disaster on September 11, 2001. It was total destruction of our New York World Trade Center and partial destruction of the Pentagon with the loss of almost 3,000 lives.

ACRU was, and is still, critical of our failure then and even today by many in and out of President Obama's administration to accept and regard catastrophic global, terrorist mass murder via suicidal bombings as war being waged by global, fanatical, Islamic Jihad factions and anti-West radical Muslim supporters. We'll deal with this and the president's attempt (and failure) to negotiate with a soon-to-be nuclear Islam and its 1,500-mile missiles. Has our president forgotten about Neville Chamberlain and his pre-war "Peace in our time" agreement with Hitler?

Despite our ongoing military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the menace of a nuclear Iran that has threatened to demolish Israel, President Obama and many of his appointees have been reluctant to call this a war against global, tyrannical Islamic Jihadists dedicated to imposing Sharia Law on the world. (Ref ACRU article: "Democracy vs. Islamic Tyranny". We are especially concerned over Obama's planned closure of Guantanamo, and Attorney General Eric Holder's announced trial of captured mass-murderous 9-11 terrorists as criminals in a New York civil court -- not as enemy combatants by an appropriate military tribunal at Guantanamo.

In addition to our war against global, tyrannical Islamic terrorism, ACRU will offer its critical analysis and assessments of our many critical domestic problems today, including tremendous US debt, unemployment, our housing crisis, and proposed socialistic legislative measures as in the Democratic-controlled Congress’ passage of "universal health care" despite great public opposition, etc.

ACRU favors the return of traditional morality and reasonable community standards. In criminal justice, where the "pro-defendant" ACLU promotes criminal rights, we support victims’ rights, overhauling of our antiquated criminal justice system, and ensuring safe streets and safe neighborhoods for our citizens. We've been active in our support for capital punishment, and have challenged the ACLU's "misplaced compassion" here. (Its limited implementation has been tokenism.) We oppose the exclusionary rule and favor changing certain archaic English Common Law principles and outmoded concepts. No one constitutional right is absolute, as each must be weighed against other rights. We are critical of such permissive agencies as the FCC for not properly restricting the public airwaves from obscenity and pornography, and Homeland Security for not controlling/protecting our borders. We favor a strict policy against questionable and illegal gun sales, and the sale of guns to ex-felons and incompetents. We are "pro-choice", opposing irresponsible reproduction by welfare recipients and minors. (All pregnant 13 year olds are victims of statutory rape, and we call for the prosecution of their rapists.) Lastly, we are pro-morality and conservative in terms of reasonable community standards and traditional values. Our detailed positions on a variety of contemporary issues will be available on this ACRU website, and it is our hope that you and your friends will support our important cause. Remember, unrestricted freedom is really license to disrupt and destroy our once orderly and progressive society. The tragic picture of America's ongoing permissive amoral descent as described here, is the result of our tolerating the intolerable. We welcome your support and your views.

Coalition Formation
The ACRU favors coalition formation, and supports a number of organizations organized and dedicated to fighting America's permissive sociological decline. We do not accept the statement that morality cannot or should not be legislated. Were that the case, it would be impossible to maintain moral and ethical behavioral standards, essential in a truly progressive, civilized society. How else can we deal with America's serious sociological problems of increasing crime, violence, drugs, gang warfare, teen promiscuity, obscenity, pornography, lewd conduct, unacceptable perversions, illegal immigration, "domestic terrorism", etc.? How else but through the force of effective and implemented legislation can we make problem citizens act responsibly in such areas? Further, ACRU has been especially concerned regarding escalating criminal violence and public safety. We view "white collar crime" and criminal violence as very different concerns, for it is the latter that has intimidated and endangered the citizens of this once safe nation. We pay special attention to our inefficient and often "legislating" courts. The ACRU cites the reversal of 61of 61 death penalty cases by a former California chief justice as, "judicial obstruction of justice", and the more recent judicial blocking of California's popular Prop 187 and 209 initiatives as "judicial legislation". We oppose what some term, "judicial activism", and have called for an overhaul of our justice system. We cite the political extremes of Totalitarianism and Anarchy as being equally and inherently dangerous, and that we must be militant and eternally vigilant to prevent our slide in either direction. We must resist intimidation by minority extremists (i.e., the "burn-baby-burn" crowd), and work together to restore Judeo-Christian values and virtues. If not, we shall all assume the ultimate consequences.

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