ACLU Says "Si" to MS-13, "Nyet" to J6ers

Proudly Following the Party Line for the Past 100 Years

The American Civil Liberties Union cannot get beyond the first sentence of its mission statement without a gross misrepresentation: “The ACLU is non-partisan and non-profit.” No, the ACLU is partisan and has always been partisan. They have been proudly “America Last” since their founding in 1920 when they took up the cause of murderous alien anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti and tried to pass them off as victims of American injustice.

There is no clearer indicator of how perversely partisan is the ACLU than its disparate treatment of those citizens arrested on January 6, 2021, and those illegal gangbangers deported since January 20, 2025.

A headline on the ACLU website shouts out the ACLU’s position on MS-13: “Free Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Those Detained in El Salvador.” An interesting choice of words here—not just “due process,” but ”Free.” Says ALCU attorney Lee Gelernt of the Trump administration, “They're unilaterally claiming that people are members of a gang, but not giving them the opportunity to go into court and show they're not.”

If Kilmar Abrego Garcia is going to show he’s not MS-13 he will first have to get the gang cryptography lasered off his knuckles, (covered below with heart emojis.) Sales from the “Bring Kilmar Home” merch should more than pay the bill.

There is nothing “unilateral” about Garcia’s designation as MS-13. According to DHS, when arrested, he was found with rolls of cash and drugs. At the time of his arrest, he was in the company of two other MS-13 members and was wearing a sweatshirt with roles of money covering the ears, mouth, and eyes of presidents on various currency denominations. This well established MS-13 gang symbol means “see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil,” a slogan the ACLU, the Democrats, and the media seem to have adopted

Not exactly a model citizen, not even a model illegal alien, Garcia punched his wife Jennifer Vasquez, scratched her, bruised her, and ripped off her shirt. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that). We know about this abuse from the order of protection Vasquez swore out against her hubby. As to the “unlateral” accusation, two judges found Garcia to be a member of MS-13.

Had the ACLU rallied to the defense of those J6ers unjustly detained and absurdly overcharged, one could forgive its excesses on behalf of MS-13. But the ACLU did quite the opposite, proving, if proof were needed, that its fellow travelers will say and do anything to advance their openly partisan agenda.

As a case in point, consider the spectacularly mendacious letter the DC chapter floated on the first anniversary of January 6, a letter that reads like the kind the ACLU chapter of ancient Rome might have written about the Vandals or the Visigoths.

“On January 6 of last year, the residents of D.C. were traumatized as an insurrectionist mob roamed our streets, harassed our neighbors, and violently broke into the Capitol Building, killing at least five people –– all in an attempt to overthrow the counting of American citizens' votes.”

The only thing the ACLU got right in this letter was the date. The protestors killed no one, roamed no streets, harassed no neighbors, and if theirs was an insurrection, it was the first since the invention of gunpowder to be attempted without guns. The ACLU lied so casually because the Biden DoJ lied and the media enabled their lies. Scarier still, all 51 ACLU chapters signed on this bit of hysteria.

For all the talk of “due process” in the Garcia case, no one on the Left said word one about the crude facsimile of the same afforded the 1600 people indicted by Biden’s DoJ, arguably the greatest mass injustice suffered by American citizens since Japanese internment.

For starters, some 95 percent of the citizens in the DC jury pool voted against Trump. The Sixth Amendment promises the “right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.” The J6 juries were no more impartial than the ACLU is nonpartisan, and they proved it. Not a single J6er was acquitted by a DC jury, and no juror was allowed a change of venue. As to “speedy,” at least a few J6ers spent more than 3 years in prison without even coming to trial. The ACLU said nothing.

Most of the J6ers indicted accepted a plea deal. The case of Dr. Simone Gold and her bodyguard/beau John Strand is instructive as to why. The founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, Dr. Gold had a permit to speak on the East Side of the Capitol on January 6 on the subject of medical freedom.

When the Capitol doors on the relatively peaceful East side opened from the inside, Gold and Strand were swept in with the crowd. The video captures Strand physically supporting Gold as they stumbled in all but involuntarily. The two ascended the nearby staircase and were shoved along with the crowd wherever the crowd went.

They had no idea how to get out. By chance, Gold and Strand soon found themselves in the spacious National Statutory Hall. Here, Gold tried to give her speech, but a police officer prodded her and Strand toward the rotunda. In the rotunda, Gold stood on the base of a statue to speak. Someone passed her a bullhorn, and several people came over to listen. Following her five-minute speech, she took questions.

A police officer then informed the small crowd that it was now possible to leave through the east doors. Gold and Strand thanked him for the info and headed towards the doors. Exiting was not easy, but they managed to squeeze their way through the incoming crowds. “In the moment,” said Gold, “this was a big fat nothing.”

The DoJ thought otherwise. On the morning of January 18, 2021, Gold and Stand were at home in Los Angeles on a conference call when Gold heard a pounding on the door and the “most blood curdling scream of my life, FBI, FBI, FBI.” Disoriented by the violence, they froze for about thirty seconds until the FBI broke the door down with a battering ram.

Dr. Gold estimated about twenty agents with a dozen “huge guns” pointed right at her. “They arrested me,” she told Tucker Carlson. “They [yell], ‘put your hands up, put your hands up, face the wall, face the wall,’ they’re screaming, ‘face the wall’—handcuffed, shackled, take me downtown, orange suit, strip search, holding cell, fluorescent lights,—it was terrible—no phone call, no Miranda rights.” The ACLU said nothing.

It gets worse. As much as it pained her to accept a plea deal, Dr. Gold did not feel she had much of a choice. Prosecutors were threatening a twenty-year sentence, and she had a medical organization to lead. An Obama appointee, Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced Dr. Gold to sixty days at the Miami Federal Detention Center, a maximum-security prison.

Strand opted for a jury trial. With the ACLU sitting it out and the media silent, prosecutors felt free to tell one lie about Strand more shocking than the next. Not surprisingly, the jury convicted Strand on all counts, and Judge Cooper sentenced Strand to thirty-two months in prison for the same behavior that netted Gold two months.

To clear Strand’s name and hers, Gold and Strand prepared a fourteen-minute video of sufficient power to make even the ACLU rethink its mission. Of course, the comrades at the 51 ACLU chapters won’t watch it. They’ve got a party line to follow, and the most essential command of that party remains, as always, “reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

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