Whither the ACLU?

Mark Krikorian writes in National Review:

You want to know why normal people feel nothing but loathing and contempt for the ACLU? Just look at their complete silence on this Mohammed-video business. Not a peep on their website, which is all war-on-women, get-out-the-vote Democratic-party talking points. This despite the fact that the FBI is being sent to hunt down the producers of material that is unquestionably protected by the First Amendment.

The ACLU’s defense of the free-speech rights of Nazis to wave their obscenities in the face of Holocaust survivors in Skokie was consistent with the group’s advertised image, as upsetting as it was to many people. For that same organization to slink away from an issue where the ACLU should be the leading defender of Americans’ right to produce material deemed by others to be objectionable is beneath contempt. It’s immaterial whether this decision stems from simple physical cowardice or whether, like other leftists, the ACLU in some sense shares the Islamists’ loathing of the West. Either way, the ACLU should be ashamed of itself, assuming that’s possible.

I'm going with impossible.