What if there was not such a thing called the ACLU?

Q) So you are willing to die for something that you do not know anything about?

And here comes another tirade.

Well, now that I have got him going, let me just really piss him off.

Q) OK, I am sorry, your mind is on the hostages. That is why you cannot remember. Let me ask you an easy one, it will make you feel better. O.K. Do you know which unit in the American Army had the highest number of medals; purple hearts, silver stars?

A) Yes, the pilots.

Q) No, the Japanese Americans. Here comes another tirade...

By then I knew I was going to have to leave or he was going to sex me up.

Meanwhile things got worse, Immigration officers were hunting Iranians. Lawyers would not take your case. Money from Iran was totally cut off. Schools would not sign off work permits, and if you had a work permit, there were no jobs. The situation was becoming intolerable. I just wanted to say the heck with psychology, preserve your dignity, go back, fight and die like everybody else. The ticket I bought in Tehran was for a round trip, and there was still time to do it.

Finally a good news. I heard from a friend that an organization called the ACLU had sued the government on behalf of Iranians. Their reasoning was that if government wants to register foreigners, then it has to register all of them, not just nationals of one country.

The case went through the courts like road runner and the Supreme Court agreed. That caused all organizations and schools to back off.

What would have happened if there was not such a thing called the ACLU?

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