Bizarre story today in the Wall Street Journal. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has decided to defend an American suspected of fighting for ISIS in Syria. That, in itself, is bizarre and puts the ACLU in a bad light already. But, this case is far worse than just having the US legal do-gooders trying to protect the rights of a guy who turned himself in at a Syrian Democratic Forces checkpoint probably hoping to avoid being killed by the slow strangulation of ISIS in Syria.
Already the ACLU has challenged the US to keep the individual from being transferred to Saudi Arabia. Now, they want to challenge his release in Syria. Hey, they are letting him go, and the ACLU wants to stop it. They call it a “death warrant” for this guy if he is freed in Syria. So, what is it the ACLU wants the government to do? I hesitate to ask a question I don’t want to hear the answer to.
The ACLU is off the rails quite a bit on some things, but this one seems to beat all the others. What we don’t need is attorneys following terrorists around trying to figure out who is a US Citizen and who not, setting up defense funds, and getting these people lawyers. Anybody thinking of giving money to the ACLU might pause to think about this case first.
Maybe we need a bill that says when you join a terrorist organization you lose your citizenship. Others have already done that, and it looks like we need to. The ACLU would probably pay to have that challenged too. In the meantime, the ACLU created a situation where it is too expensive to keep this potential terrorist who is having US courts decide what to do with him. The US wants to let him go, and the ACLU doesn’t want that either. Having created the situation that allows him to be released, the ACLU now realizes what a mistake it made.
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