Aaron Siri Exposes the ACLU’s Stunning Betrayal of Civil Liberties
In West Virginia, a crucial battle over parental rights and medical freedom is unfolding. At the center is Governor Jim Justice’s executive order, which protects the right of families to claim religious and philosophical exemptions from childhood vaccination requirements. But this safeguard is now under attack—and surprisingly, one of the attackers is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The ACLU’s Unexpected Role
The ACLU, an organization historically known for defending individual liberties against government intrusion, has joined bureaucratic forces to sue the state. Their aim? To eliminate parental choice and strip away the rights of families to make deeply personal medical and educational decisions for their children.
Attorney Aaron Siri highlights the irony. The ACLU once defended the free speech rights of neo-Nazis, arguing that protecting even the most unpopular voices was essential to safeguarding liberty for all. Yet today, the same organization seeks to exclude children from public schools simply because their families hold different beliefs about vaccines.
Flimsy Arguments, Deep Hypocrisy
The rationale for eliminating exemptions rests on shaky ground. Proponents often cite talking points—such as the pertussis vaccine stopping transmission or claims about millions of lives saved—that crumble under closer scientific and statistical scrutiny.
More troubling, Siri points out, is the contradiction at the heart of the argument. Exempt children do not disappear from society. They join homeschool pods (sometimes with over 100 kids at religious facilities), attend ballgames, and play in parks. In other words, the state’s own approach ensures the very “clusters” of unvaccinated children it claims to fear.
From Liberty to Dogma
At its core, this fight is not about health—it’s about ideology and coercion. The lawsuit represents an attempt to impose a state-sanctioned belief in pharmaceutical products, overriding religious and philosophical convictions. It seeks to punish families for dissenting from majority orthodoxy, rather than protecting their right to live according to conscience.
ACLU’s Identity Crisis
By joining this lawsuit, the ACLU has veered sharply away from its founding mission. Instead of standing guard over freedom of choice and belief, it now enforces conformity. What was once an organization that championed civil liberties has become a tool for punishing dissent.
As Siri underscores, this is a world turned upside down: the ACLU—long synonymous with defending unpopular freedoms—is now actively working to undermine them.
