aclu policies aclu official policies policy for example opposes rating systems for motion pictures industry sponsored ratings systems create the potential for constraining the creative process and thus contracting the marketplace of ideas despite the stated goal of providing guidance to parents experience has shown that ratings inevitably have serious chilling effects on freedom of expression in regards to the pledge of allegiance the aclu states in its policy the insertion of the words under god into the pledge of allegiance is a violation of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state policy states that military conscription under any circumstances is a violation of civil liberties and constitutional guarantees the aclu objects to the draft even during wartime because of the anti democratic power it gives government to wage war without support of the people policy states the aclu calls for a broad based inquiry into war crimes within the widest possible definition of war crimes against humanity and crimes against the peace focusing upon the actions of the united states military and other combatants against the people of south vietnam laos cambodia and north vietnam policy states the aclu recognizes that us government reliance upon nuclear weaponry as a dominant element of foreign and domestic policy while propounded as a defense of democracy is in fact a great threat to civil liberties four decades of adherence to this policy has fundamentally altered the nature of our constitutional democratic process and poses a paramount threat to our civil liberties policy objects to roadblocks where drivers are stopped for sobriety tests because they violate fourth amendment principles policy states the following on criminal sentencing the most appropriate correctional approach is reintegrating the offender into the community and the goals of reintegration are furthered much more readily by working with the offender within the community than by incarceration probation should be authorized by the legislature in every case exceptions to the principle are not favored and any exceptions if made should be limited to the most serious of offenses such as murder or treason bill vojak vojak icebucket stortek com nra ila colorado firearms coalition the cbs nightly propaganda with dan rather rather not the cbs nightly propaganda with dan rather rather biased
