The ACLU hates democracy

An Arizona federal appeals court, and that point must be emphasized, has ruled against an Arizona law which required that voters prove their citizenship and to show identification when attempting to vote. The state law is inconsistent with national law, specifically the National Voter Registration Act. The ACLU claimed that the Arizona law, passed by popular vote in 2004, kept the poor 'who could not afford a driver's license or birth certificate' to go ahead and vote.

Never mind that such ideas are wide open to voter fraud, something that the ACLU and their liberal Democratic allies surely don't mind. The voters they claim to be protecting are most likely of their ilk. Did it ever occur to them that just maybe the rights of those same poor at at stake, too? Their own votes may one day be watered down should more folks without proof of who they are be conservative.

The easy answer to that one complaint would be to encourage the states to give free IDs or birth certificates to anyone who could show duress, but that won't do for the leftists. Doing things by the rule book the rest of us are expected to follow, i.e., the legislative process, takes so long. Let's just go to the courts when we don't like what the people have wrought.

We are becoming a nation of men, not laws, when the ACLU and their brethren can smack down the will of the people in court rather than through the action of actual legislators actually elected to create good law, or through public initiative ballots. We shall, if we continue to let courts make law as the ACLU wants, find ourselves eventually with an oligarchy, not a republic. It will be an oligarchy of judges who will not have to answer to the people.

But the ACLU doesn't mind that. When rights are at stake, specifically the rights they like, nothing else matters. If there is ever an American Hitler, he will arise from the ranks of the American Civil Liberties Union.

No court will then stop him.