ACLU FOR Civil Liberties? Look again.

2The ACLU enjoys the reputation of being a defender of civil liberties. In keeping with that image, it has spoken against
the Patriot Act and other legislation that denies civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism.

So far, so good, but there
is a difference between speaking out on a topic and actually doing something about it. When it comes to applying its
legal and financial resources, the ACLU moves in other directions. At the time of this writing, the Executive Director of
the ACLU is Anthony Romero, a member of the CFR. Previously, he had been in charge of the Ford Foundation’s grant
program where he channeled approximately $90 million to organizations promoting “crisis” messages that frighten the
public into accepting bigger government, which means into accepting laws like the Patriot Act.

For example, The Ford
Foundation has funded studies and groups promoting the concepts of environmental crisis and population-growth crisis
and then calling for vast new government powers as the only way to head off global catastrophe. The Foundation has
been a major source of funding for MALDEF, LaRaza, and other Hispanic separatist groups, which means it finances
those who call for breaking away parts of California and Texas and giving them to Mexico. It also has funded the
American Indian Movement, which has a similar separatist agenda for parts of the U.S. where American Indian
populations are prominent. It is not likely that either movement would ever succeed; but if enough revolutionaries can
be funded and mobilized into the streets with violent demonstrations and riots, peaceful citizens are expected to
gratefully accept martial law and internationalization of these areas as acceptable alternatives to violence.

In all of these
cases, the role played by the Ford Foundation is to fan the flames of fear, to frighten us into accepting a police state at
home, comfortably merged with other police states at the UN, in a world government based on the model of
collectivism.

The ACLU supports these causes strongly and speaks against their consequences softly.

This is a classic
case of controlling one’s own opposition to insure that it does not succeed. It is an extension of the strategy described to
Norman Dodd in 1954 by Ford Foundation President, Rowan Gaither when he explained that war – and the dread of war
– was the most effective way to bring people to accept a rapid shift in society toward collectivism. Dread of war is still
the most powerful motivator, but collectivists have discovered that dread of terrorism, dread of environmental
catastrophe, and dread of overpopulation are also useful for this purpose. For that part of the story, see chapter twentyfour,
“Doomsday Mechanisms,” in The Creature from Jekyll Island; A Second Look at the Federal Reserve.