Video: Jon Stewart on ACORN
by ilene - September 19th, 2009 1:15 pm
Jon Stewart on ACORN: The Audacity of Hos
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ACORN = Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
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Rotten ACORNs Don’t Fall Far From The Tree
by ilene - September 14th, 2009 1:34 pm
Here’s Karl Denninger’s outrage on the ACORN affair. Courtesy of Karl’s The Market Ticker.
Rotten ACORNs Don’t Fall Far From The Tree
It is time for America to stand up and say "ENOUGH DAMNIT!"
Last week Glenn Beck blew the doors off a story that he had been cooking for a while: an undercover independent film-maker and associate had walked into an ACORN office pretending to be a pimp and prostitute and "asked for help" in cheating the government by obtaining both a housing subsidy and committing tax fraud.
But that’s not where they stopped – they disclosed "intent" to bring in underage girls from El Salvador as the essence of their "business" to serve as prostitutes as well.
In short, they declared themselves as traffickers in the sexual abuse of children and asked this government-supported and funded "community organization" – an organization that Barack Obama was associated with very closely in his time as a Chicago "machine" politician before he ran for President – for help.
Instead of being tossed out on their tail (or having the cops called) they instead received advice from ACORN on how to swindle the United States Federal Government in the promulgation and practice of their alleged-unlawful scheme!
When the first tape broke there was outrage.
The second, in Baltimore, provoked a threat from the prosecutor – a threat to prosecute the filmmaker for "unlawful wiretapping" under Maryland statute.
(Note that not one word was said about prosecuting ACORN for suborning felony tax evasion, say much less suborning felony transport of minors across state and international borders for the purpose of prostitution!)
Once is a "rogue employee." Twice is "troubling."
But now a third tape has surfaced of the same pair asking the same questions in an ACORN Office in NYC.
You decide what this is for yourself.
As someone who has spent more than two decades trying to get kiddie porn off The Internet, as someone who has worked with law enforcement in the past in the development of strategies to combat this heinous (and felonious) act, as an individual who had multiple death threats made against him and his family in the 1990s for standing up repeatedly IN PUBLIC and stating that Internet Providers who were carrying Usenet groups that comprised 70% of the total volume of traffic under names such as "alt.binaries.pictures.teen-$#ck" were knowingly suborning and contributing to felonious conduct and
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