The war on terror — with its fallacious premise that security must come at freedom's expense — has driven membership in the ACLU. Tuesday night, at the EFF open house party, John Perry Barlow delivered a short speech in which he thanked Fritz Hollings, Michael Eisner, Jamie Kellner, Donald Rumsfeld, "Dreaded Real Admiral" John Poindexter and Dubya for providing such vivid object-lessons that make the case for joining EFF.
"Larger numbers of American people have realized that the ACLU is fundamentally a patriotic organization. executive director Anthony Romero said. There are now 330,000 dues-paying members, 50,000 of whom joined after the attacks.
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