Bob, I invite you to move up to Canada
Our privacy laws go so far as to limit companies from storing information in the US just because you guys can get at it when you feel like it

Perhaps the ACLU is 95% funded by Canadians and other non-american people!

Seems like Sweden is pretty liberal when what I've read about it.

Why do you only aim your country... That is egocentric.

The real question: What have you done for the world lately ?

I don't spend that much fossil fuels because I use my bike for travelling any distance < 50km

if you want to make a difference just change your own habits and lifestyle. Unless you donate insane amounts of money it will cause a much bigger impact.

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As for greenpeace, they have some questionnable ideas. E.g GMO and nuclear power.

" Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do"

Where do you see us talking about nuclear power ?

You understood correctly

I don't know a lot about greenpeace but I think they say that nuclear power is bad because of all the waste it produces.

Some time ago I saw some reseach that said that coal powerplants produce way more radioactive waste than nuclear plants. Only difference is that waste is not concentrated but thrown into atmosphere.

They also said that you would get more energy from coal if you would produce nuclear fuel from it and use that in nuclear plants than burning the coal in regular powerplants.

If I get the time I could try looking up the links but it would be quie hard. They are posted somewhere in a thread with about 2000 posts
if anyone is interested then the topic is here but as it is in Estonian it is probably of little use.

While the ACLU is great for defending the "rights of the downtrodden," the "underprivlidged," and so forth, it is hard to ignore that most of the time, they come across as possibly the most idiotic, self-serving, irrelivant, thorn-in-everyones-side organization.

For example, the ACLU's stance on Corporate Personhood is a perfect example of how they are not serving as constitution police. A company is not, never will be, and cannot be treated as a person (even though currently in the US it is, much to the attest of common sense). You can put a person in jail to stop them from doing something (or arrest them); you cannot do the same to an entire company. And since a company cannot be a person, it cannot vote, or lobby congress... oh, wait, that's right, they already do.

Their support for affirmative action (the great unequalizer, or as I like to call it, the reverse discrimination doctrine) is also rather disconcerting. Setting particular "quotas" on underrepresented groups undermines their dignity as human beings. Personally, I would find it to be a slap on the face. So, a particular group HAS to have affirmative action to get a job? That is a pretty sad commentary on said group. Not only that, but it unfairly discriminates against those who could otherwise have gotten jobs, only to be denied because their "quota" on other groups has yet to be filled.

And last, but not least, their stance on abortion. Call me stupid, but if someone gets pregnant, they ought to have to live with the consequences of their actions, rather than murder another person. The only times abortion should be legal, IMHO, is either in cases of Rape/Incest or life-threatening physical harm to the mother. Do people have reproductive rights? Yes, but it doesn't give them the right to terminate another beings life. Choices have consequences, and people need to realize that it isn't their right to remove the consequences of their actions when they have to destroy another "life" (quoted, because "life" is a very touchy term when talking about abortion) to achieve it.

Big Mac ..::)

I'll go for a Whopper

Don't overreact about it. I just saw a bit too absolute claim and responded. Had it been "another person" I wouldn't have made that joke.

As for abortion, I'm not totally against it but it should be strictly regulated. I think in Estonia you have to have at least one child and (or?) >30y old to make an abortion. Of course those other reasons listed before should also apply.