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Jim,

Now that you restate it like that, I not only understand it, but I realize that I'm understanding it again. Several years ago I served on a jury in a criminal case, an experience that I had till now pushed out of my mind. We went over this sort of stuff, along with the concept of reasonable doubt, several times before finally delivering a guilty verdict. Sort of makes me wonder if you're an attorney?


Ed,

Don't know what you mean by the ACLU having traditionally supported the "left." I'm old enough to remember when the ACLU defended the right of the American NAZI party to march through a Jewish neighborhood in suburban Chicago in the 1960s. And the kicker is that the ACLU attorney that represented them was a Jew. Then I also remember that in the 1990s the ACLU defended the KKK in Cincinnati at Christmas time when they want to display a cross next to the the City's Christmas tree and Jewish Hanukkah menorah display on their Fountain Square there down town. Nazis and Klansmen are generally not considered part of the "left."