Consider what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had to say about pandemic management in 2008:
“The notion that we need to ‘trade liberty for security’ is misguided and dangerous. Public health concerns cannot be addressed with law enforcement or national security tools.”
13 years later, in a guest essay in The New York Times, the ACLU proclaimed that:
“the real threat to civil liberties comes from states banning vaccine and mask mandates”.
Think what you want about these policies, but the shift in ACLU values is real.
“The notion that we need to ‘trade liberty for security’ is misguided and dangerous. Public health concerns cannot be addressed with law enforcement or national security tools.”
13 years later, in a guest essay in The New York Times, the ACLU proclaimed that:
“the real threat to civil liberties comes from states banning vaccine and mask mandates”.
Think what you want about these policies, but the shift in ACLU values is real.