Posted on 09/12/2009 8:33:22 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is a local news report out of Baltimore saying Maryland officials are considering prosecution of the young undercover filmmakers for taping the ACORN workers at the Baltimore office. They say it violates Maryland State Law to "surreptitiously" tape someone without their consent. They are comparing it to the Linda Tripp taping of conversations about Monica Lewinsky's activities with President Bill Clinton.
An ACORN official also says she doubts the "authenticity of the videos," even though they took steps to fire the Workers in the video. She claims with "technology" available today, the video could have been "dubbed."
You can see that the machine has kicked in, and there will be a full-out assault on these two filmmakers, not only to silence them, but to strike fear in anyone who would dare to speak out about what is happening in the infrastructure of the Left in America. Groups like ACORN are largely responsible for the election of Barack Obama as President, and the Democrats will protect them to the end of the line because they help them to stay in power.
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
LOL! If your only defense is that someone dubbed it, just turn yourself in right now. Oh and if it’s all CG and dubbed, how does Maryland think it can prosecute anybody. You can easily tell which states are part of Zero’s thug-ocracy.
The demonRATS ride again!
I thought that was a telecommunications law.
Then we need to gear up to help defend them to the end of the line.
It may have been faked? I hope they stick to that story as much as Dan Rather stuck with his.
They’re just verifying what about 2/3 of Americans already know: ACORN is corrupt from top to bottom and democrats (liberals) will go to any length to preserve their right to do anything to anyone at any time, as long as they are in control and choose the act of corruption.
Precisely! I'm not a lawyer, but IIRC Linda Tripp broke a law against taping *phone* conversations.
Yep, kill the messenger
At least one CNN person covered this story! LOU DOBBS
Sept. 11, 2009 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/11/ldt.01.html
[snip]PILGRIM: There is more trouble tonight for the left-wing activist group ACORN. Two more employees have been fired after the release of a second videotape showing workers illegal giving advice to filmmakers who were posing as a pimp and a prostitute. Now, this is the second tape made public in two days. It’s just the latest chapter where ACORN appears to be on the wrong side of the law. Bill Tucker has our report.
BILL TUCKER, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the second time in as many days, a video has been posted on the internet of ACORN Employees appearing to give illegal tax advice to a prostitute who’s looking to establish a brothel using underaged prostitutes from El Salvador.
The latest video was secretly recording at the Washington, D.C. offices of ACORN a group that says its overriding mission is providing housing assistance to the poor. in a statement issued Friday by the head of the ACORN D.C. office, it was announced that the employees in the video had been fired. “We have fired them and are initialing an internal review of practices reminding all staff of their obligations to uphold the highest legal and ethical standards.”
On Thursday, a similar scenario was shown in a video shot in the Baltimore office of ACORN
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your business is a performing artist. Which you are, OK, so you not lying, we’ll play on words.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It’s kind of boosting my ego.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But you’re a performing artist, OK? So, stop saying “prostitute.”
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.
TUCKER: The two employees in that video were described as “part time” by the head of the ACORN office in Baltimore. They no longer work for ACORN
SONYA MARCHANT, ACORN BALTIMORE: The two employees that were filmed in the video were immediately dismissed because they did not follow the protocol of this organization.
TUCKER: ACORN’s legal council says the woman in the video denies ever giving tax advice to a pimp or a prostitute. ACORN’s spokesman Scott Levenson vehemently denounces the Baltimore taping saying, “Our position is that this film is doctored. It is not an accurate portrayal of what happened in our Baltimore office and we are likely to take legal action. In fact, we already have legal opinions that it is likely that a felony was committed.”
ACORN, which is active in hundreds of neighborhoods in 41 states, claims that the two activist filmmakers responsible for posting the videos tried the same thing at their offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Philadelphia and failed.
ACORN gave CNN a copy of the police complaint filed against the filmmakers In Philadelphia. The filmmakers, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles are not commenting and Giles was a no-show for an agreed-to interview with CNN. Congressman Steve King of Iowa wants a federal investigation of ACORN.
REP STEVE KING (R), IOWA: We’ve got to audit them completely, every single affiliated corporation that they have. There should be a Deportment of Justice complete forensic audit. We need to do congressional investigations and we need to shut off every dime going to ACORN until such time as they can have a clean bill of health.
TUCKER: The latest episodes come the heels of a variety of charges of voter registration fraud.
ACORN is under investigation in at least 10 states for voter registration fraud and just this week, arrest warrants for 11 ACORN voter registration workers were sworn out on charges of registration fraud in Florida in an investigation that ACORN did help initiate. In Nevada, ACORN officials are fighting criminal charges for creating a voter registration incentive program base on the number of voters registered, which is illegal under Nevada law.
Now, ACORN has called those charges political grandstanding by the secretary of state and the attorney general there, who, Kitty, both happen to be not Republicans, but Democrats.
PILGRIM: Bill, tonight we’re also learning that the Census is cutting ties with ACORN for the 2010 Census. What do you know about that?
TUCKER: A letter went out this evening from the Census Bureau to the president of ACORN announcing they no longer wish to be affiliated with them and they’re ending a partnership arrangement with them. ACORN has responded saying there was never any funding at stake in this, there were no programmatic relationships or commitments that needed to be made and that they are going to connote to encourage people to participate in the Census. But this has got to be just another big blow to ACORN, Kitty, it’s been a rough week for good reason and it ends with the Census Bureau saying thanks, but no thanks.
More on this at link, with talking heads weighing in.
I think ACORN is walking right into a trap. This journalist didn’t sound like he was naive and must have known about Linda Tripp, possibilities of prosecution, etc. Acorn already stepped in it the first day when they said that this was ONE city and isolated..the next day another one. And there may be more. Also, I think there are people who worked in ACORN who have come forward or are ready to come forward and/or give inside information. So the more they bluster the more they are painting themselves in a corner.
Yep the machine is kicking in. I expect Holder to be stepping right up with an invistigation any minute.
I hope these two kids do not let the bully’s deter their efforts. They should be standing up and being louder and louder getting the word out about ACORN!
No telling how many real horror stories like this come out of those offices.
I don’t think it would be too wise for the courts to try to prosecute these filmmakers. Not right at this point, with people ready to stomp Washington — and the government in general — into the ground...
I'm glad there are still some patriots left who will risk their own safety to uncover a corrupt organization that is being funded by tax payers. It is fear of being prosecuted or ostracized that stops Americans from speaking out against tyranny like 'hate crimes', homosexual rights, reverse racism, and other forms of political correctness that are eroding our freedoms. Freedom comes with a price, and certainly these two good people were aware of the possibility of being prosecuted; but praise God they were willing to pay that price for the greater good. We need to support them in any way they should need it. Money for attornies, whatever, May there be many more just like them.
No, but they do have to post notices that there are surveillance cameras.
They will NOT be prosecuted for exposing ACORN...
I hope the two black ladies who were fired are paying attention. Their employer has just given them a winning argument in a wrongful termination lawsuit. If it is the position of ACORN that the film did not accurately reflect what occurred, they should not have used it as a reason to fire them.
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