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[[Image:Nghfuyr.png|right|thumb|Current logo of the ACLU.]]
[[Image:Nghfuyr.png|right|thumb|Current logo of the ACLU.]]
The '''ACLU''' is the American Civil Liberties Union, which was run for its first 30 years by an American socialist named Roger Baldwin, who helped found it in 1920. This organization is devoted to protecting certain types of civil liberties of Americans and defending them in court.
The '''ACLU''' is the American Civil Liberties Union, which was run for its first 30 years by an American socialist named Roger Baldwin, who helped found it in 1920. This organization is devoted to protecting certain types of civil liberties of Americans and defending them in court.
==ACLU and Rush Limbaugh
The ACLU rushed to the aid of talk show host Rush Limbaugh when he was under investigation for 'docotr shopping' to feed his prescription narcotics habit. The ACLU argued that the privacy rights of the drug addict and self-proiclaimed 'Republican kingmaker' were being violated by an overzealous states attorney who was a Democrat. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108140,00.html</ref>
==ACLU and Free Speech==
==ACLU and Free Speech==