You’ve come a long way baby! That was the line from an advertising campaign in 1968. ~The advertiser was attempting to cash in on the women’s movement, what I called Feminist 2.0 at the time. A lot of young women, high school and college as well as some in the professions, became voices for a generation concerning the rights of women. Unlike today’s Feminist 3.0 follow-on, those women of the late 60’s through the 1970’s fought hard for recognition that women, too, were contributors to society beyond being housewives and mothers. Yes, you could be. feminist and anything else you desired to be, including a housewife and mother. Most of what I see today doesn’t come close to comparing to those days so many decades ago.

Today’s “Women’s Movement” is a partisan political movement. They only represent themselves and a small number of women whose politics they approve of. What kind of Civil Rights movement is this? It’s the same as many today/;Black Lives Matter doesn’t really care about black lives being lost to violence. If they did they would have thousands out daily protesting in cities like Washington D.C., and Chicago, IL., where the weekly death toll of black-on-black violence is appalling.

So many civil rights groups, like the NAACP, have become nothing other than partisan bull horns whose logic can’t stand up to the least critical review. All, in all, since the 1960’s, those we thought to be the caretakers of our civil rights, have become nothing more than money grubbing parasites upon society that should be extinguished by the indifference of the public they chosen to ignore.

If we’re witnesses to anything, it is the erosion of our civil rights that is perpetuated by a government of unelected civil servants who’ve been given the task by our elected officials, those that have abdicated responsibility for the outcomes of the laws they pass, to regulate our lives.

When it comes down to a watchdog group, who would you trust to help guard and protect your civil rights against government interference? Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC) (an actual hate group), National Organization for Women(NOW), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),or the one that would most likely serve youth best, None Of The Above (NOTA)? Think about which each (of the real) organization stands for, to used to, and see if they represent anything like they did, say 30 or 40 years ago. No, they don’t. They represent enriching themselves and making self aggrandizing statements about circumstances they are woefully incapable of addressing.

So to answer my own question: No one is looking out for your civil rights.That’s why it’s become much more easy in the last two decades (P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, anyone?) for our government to pass laws that actually violate specific amendments inn the bill of Rights. Fourth or Fifth amendment? Who’s with me? It won’t be long before they begin looking at the First and then there goes the “Congress shall make no law…” stuff because, well, they will have and we will have just said, Well, at it it shut that [progressive/conservative] jerk up! And I said nothing.