It's bad enough when the they take away our beloved Christmas displays and ban non-denominational prayers at graduations.

And it's bad enough they fight for the right of libraries to allow children access to internet pornography.

But now the extremist stands of the ACLU are putting the American people at great risk in our fight against terrorism.

I am going to tell you a true story that will make your hair stand on end.

In 1996, the Clinton administration appointed a commission to recommend ways to protect American airlines. The commission was headed by Vice President Al Gore.

The commission was considering a new system of identifying potential security risks among airline passengers.

But the system included passengers' ethnicity and national origin as factors to take into account.

As soon as this fact became public, the ACLU created an uproar. Its battle tactics included a widely read op-ed column in the Washington Post that attacked the counterterrorism policy of racial and ethnic profiling. The Post column stated, "profiles select people who fit the stereotype of a terrorist. They frequently discriminate on the basis of race, religion, or national origin."

And Al Gore's commission, ever alert to politically correct opinion, caved in. The commission recommended and secured the adoption of a system called Computer Assisted Passenger Profiling Sustem (CAPPS), which is used in airports nationwide. CAPPS does not use national origin, ethnicity, religion, or gender to alert security personnel to possible terrorist threats.

So, the 19 radical Muslim terrorists who hijacked airplanes on September 11, 2001, and used them to attack America were not flagged, not pulled aside, not taken notice of at the airport.

We could easily conclude that, if it were not for the protests of the ACLU and its allies, the terrorists who attacked America on September 11 might have been prevented from boarding their planes and carrying out their evil plan.

And do you think the ACLU has had second thoughts? No way! In an official letter to Congress, dated October 31, 2001, top ACLU officials wrote: "Security measures should be implemented in a non-discriminatory manner. Travelers should not be subjected to intrusive searches or questioning based on race, ethnic origin, or religion."

And that is just what is happening. Even today, airport security personnel do not give special attention to Middle Eastern men. If you've been through an airport lately, you know that a Norwegian mother with a toddler is just as likely to be pulled aside as a 30-year-old man from Saudi Arabia.

Fellow Americans, this is political correctness run amok!

It's not racist to point out that we are under attack by radical Muslims. They tell us so themselves. In his videotapes, Osama bin Laden made it perfectly clear.

And it's not racist to examine closely those people who match the profile of terrorists who have already attacked us. This procedure is the way Israel's El Al airline has avoided any hijackings for more than 20 years.

But the ACLU cares more about its Liberal agenda than it does about the lives of real people.

And this isn't the only issue on which the ACLU is endangering us! They seem to be working overtime to distort and sensationalize common-sense measures such as detaining suspicious aliens and asking Middle Eastern residents for information--measures that probably are responsible for preventing another attack.

Not content with vilifying the Bush administration;s actions to defend the country, the ACLU has also been busy harassing schools that put up "God Bless America" signs after the September 11 terrorist attacks. It called such signs hurtful, divisive, and unconstitutional.

All in all, the American Civil Liberties Union is one of the most destructive forces in America today. It is an enormous job to fight the ACLU effectively.

As a member of the Claremont Institute, I am asking you and all other loyal Americans for support and assistance in the Institute's campaign to take on the ACLU. The Institute is determined take on the ACLU directly, fighting that extremist Liberal group through a campaign of public pressure on Congress and the Bush administration, through the courts, and through public information to expose and fight the real agenda of the ACLU. But in fighting the ACLU, the Institute is swimming against the tide and needs the help of all loyal Americans.

The ACLU has a $60 million annual budget. Its message is supported and spread by many of the most influential people in America--Hollywood stars, top media personalities, prestigious university professors, and Liberal political figures. The ACLU's influence reaches throughout American society, from fighting for same-sex marriages to defending the right of street people to harass passers-by, to undermining the war on terrorism.

The Claremont is a much smaller organization than the ACLU, but we have taken them on successfully and are willing to take them on again.

We are dedicated to restoring the moral and political principles of America's Founding Fathers.

Our Founders were men of virtue and faith who believed God created us and gave us both our rights and our morality. They believed these rights and morality were expressed in "the laws of nature and of nature's God," which they referred to in the Declaration of Independence, one of America's two main founding documents (the other main founding document being the Constitution of the United States of America).

This system of political freedom founded on a faith in God served America well for almost two centuries, and made our country the greatest in the world.

We've been tracking the American Civil Liberties Union for many years through our ACLU Project. We've researched the ACLU and its leaders thoroughly--their past, their methods, and their weaknesses.

We published two booklets that exposed the ACLU's agenda to a wide audience of political figures, scholars, media people, and citizens. Our experts have written widely in newspapers and appeared on TV and talk radio nationwide. We reach 17,000 opinion-makers and citizens every week through our e-mail commentary, Precepts.

Over the years, we've gone to court time after time to fight the ACLU and its leaders. We opposed them when they tried to nullify California's Civil Rights Initiative--the initiative and referendum in which the citizens of California voted to end racial quotas. And we won.

We also fought the ACLU and its leaders when they tried to force the Boy Scouts to accept a homosexual activist as Scout leader. We filed several influential friend-of-the-court briefs as the ACLU continued to appeal to higher courts. Our last brief in this case was filed with the United States Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the Boy Scouts.

As dangerous as the ACLU has been over the years, it is surpassing itself today in endangering every American by fighting to keep us vulnerable to the very people who are determined to destroy us.

This is why we have launched our Petition and Survey campaign. It is a matter of our survival to beat back the political correctness of the ACLU and its Liberal friends, and to give security experts the tools they need to protect us.

If you sign your copy of the Presidential Petition and forward it to the Claremont Institute, it will be presented to the White House, along with the thousands of other petitions we are collecting. It will be a clear signal to the Bush administration that the American people will support him in establishing a rational security system that focuses on the people who are most dangerous, not on randomly selected Americans.

And your Congressional Advisory Survey will be tabulated and the results presented to Congress. It will show the members of Congress that the American people are sick and tired of allowing the ACLU's politically correct agenda to rule and place us in danger of further terrorist acts.

The Survey is a critical backup to the Presidential Petition. The Liberals in Congress are fighting President Bush on every issue they can get away with. So, it is urgent to let them know that they need to support Bush on the security issue!

This is why I urge you to complete your Survey and Petition and send them to the Claremont Institute immediately. We truly have no time to waste.

An essential element of our campaign is to expose the ACLU's radical goals and its perversion of the law to fit its extremist goals. Our writings on the subject have already been widely read, but it is important that we continue to expose opinion leaders as well as ordinary citizens to the facts and the arguments in order to turn around the ACLU's influence on American culture.

Further, we are going to fight more cases against the ACLU in court. We are looking at cases involving property rights, the radical homosexual agenda, freedom of association, and religious freedom. With your help, we'll stop the ACLU from imposing its twisted agenda on America.

I know that, with your help and the help of all like-minded Americans who share a desire to stop the ACLU in its tracks and restore the principles our Founders established, we can succeed.

WHEREAS    the United States of America is under threat of terrorist attack;

WHEREAS    the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has in place a passenger
           profiling system that does not allow using national origin, ethnic-
           ity, religion, or gender to identify possible terrorists;

WHEREAS    all known and suspected terrorists have been and are Muslim men,
           most from Middle-Eastern countries;

THEREFORE  I petition you to put the safety of the American people above
           political considerations by issuing an Executive Order that will
           change the criteria of the passenger profiling system to one that
           is based on the known characteristics of terrorists who are tar-
           geting the United States of America.


SIGNED  ______________________________________  DATE  ___________________

1.  The current airport security policy of the federal government is to
    continue to use CAPPS--the Computer-Assisted Passenger Profiling Sys-
    tem that was put in place by the Clinton administration.  CAPPS does
    not use national origin, ethnicity, religion, or gender to alert se-
    curity personnel to possible terrorist threats.

    Do you believe the system should be changed to reflect that the ter-
    rorist threat to the United States of America comes entirely from
    Muslim males, almost all from Middle-Eastern countries?

          _____ YES  _____ NO  _____ UNSURE

2.  Do you believe it is unreasonably discriminatory racial profiling
    to screen airline passengers on the basis of their similarity to
    known terrorists?

          _____ YES  _____ NO  _____ UNSURE

3.  Do you agree with the Bush administration's actions taken after
    September 11, 2001, detaining Middle-Eastern men who had committed
    crimes, in order to prevent possible further terrorist attacks?

          _____ YES  _____ No  _____ UNSURE

4.  Do you think that detaining these men probably did prevent previ-
    ously planned terrorist acts against America?

          _____ YES  _____ NO  _____ UNSURE

5.  Do you agree with the Bush administration's plan for military tri-
    bunals for non-citizens who commit acts of war against the United
    States of America?

          _____ YES  _____ NO  _____ UNSURE

6.  What do yiu think of the letter sent by the United States Depart-
    ment of Justice to several thousand Middle-Eastern men, asking
    them to come for voluntary interviews to see if they could pro-
    vide any information that would help our war against terrorism?

          _____ I support it as a routine method of gathering in-
                formation, much as local police question neighbors
                after a crime.

          _____ I oppose it as a civil liberties violation, and sup-
                port the ACLU's campaign to urge the recipients of
                the letter to refuse the interviews.

          _____ Unsure.

7.  Do you think the policies the ACLU is promoting to Congress and
    the American people are dangerous to our security?

          _____ YES  _____ NO  _____ UNSURE

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