Posted on 09/04/2008 12:05:48 PM PDT by gallaxyglue
06/25/2008
If you don't know what ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is all about, you better bone up. This left-wing group takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers -- you and me -- and has leveraged nearly four decades of government subsidies to fund affiliates that promote the welfare state and undermine capitalism and self-reliance, some of which have been implicated in perpetuating illegal immigration and encouraging voter fraud. A new whistleblower report from the Consumer Rights League claims that Chicago-based ACORN has commingled public tax dollars with political projects.
Who in Washington will fight to ensure that your money isn't being spent on these radical activities?
Don't bother asking Barack Obama. He cut his ideological teeth working with ACORN as a "community organizer" and legal representative. Naturally, ACORN's political action committee has warmly endorsed his presidential candidacy. ACORN head Maude Hurd gushes that Obama is the candidate who "best understands and can affect change on the issues ACORN cares about" -- like ensuring their massive pipeline to your hard-earned money. Let's take a closer look at the ACORN Obama knows.
Last July, ACORN settled the largest case of voter fraud in the history of Washington State. Seven ACORN workers had submitted nearly 2,000 bogus voter registration forms. According to case records, they flipped through phone books for names to use on the forms, including "Leon Spinks," "Frekkie Magoal" and "Fruto Boy Crispila." Three ACORN election hoaxers pleaded guilty in October. A King County prosecutor called ACORN's criminal sabotage "an act of vandalism upon the voter rolls."
The group's vandalism on electoral integrity is systemic. ACORN has been implicated in similar voter fraud schemes in Missouri, Ohio and at least 12 other states. The Wall Street Journal noted: "In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained ACORN's practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier."
In March, Philadelphia elections officials accused the nonprofit advocacy group of filing fraudulent voter registrations in advance of the April 22nd Pennsylvania primary. The charges have been forwarded to the city district attorney's office.
Under the guise of "consumer advocacy," ACORN has received money from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD funds hundreds, if not thousands, of left-wing "anti-poverty" groups across the country led by ACORN. Last October, HUD announced more than $44 million in new housing counseling grants to over 400 state and local efforts. The White House has increased funding for housing counseling by 150 percent since taking office in 2001, despite the role most of these recipients play as activist satellites of the Democratic Party. The AARP scored nearly $400,000 for training; the National Council of La Raza ("The Race") scooped up more than $1.3 million; the National Urban League raked in nearly $1 million; and the ACORN Housing Corporation received more than $1.6 million.
As the Consumer Rights League points out in its new expose, the ACORN Housing Corporation has worked to obtain mortgages for illegal aliens in partnership with Citibank. It relies on undocumented income, "under the table" money, which may not be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Moreover, the group's "financial justice" operations attack lenders for "exotic" loans, while recommending 10-year interest-only loans (which deny equity to the buyer) and risky reverse mortgages. Whistleblower documents reveal internal discussions among the group that blur the lines between its tax-exempt housing work and its aggressive electioneering activities. The group appears to shake down corporate interests with relentless PR attacks, and then enters "no lobby" agreements with targeted corporations after receiving payment.
Republicans have largely looked the other way as ACORN has expanded its government-funded empire. But finally, a few conservative voices in Congress have called for investigation of the group's apparent extortion schemes. This week, GOP Reps. Tom Feeney, Jeb Hensarling and Ed Royce called on Democrat Barney Frank, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, to convene a hearing to probe potential illegalities and abuse of taxpayer funds by ACORN's management and minions alike.
Where does the candidate of Hope and Change -- the candidate of Reform and New Politics -- stand on the issue? Barack Obama, ACORN's senator, is for more of the same old, same old subsidizing of far-left politics in the name of fighting for the poor while enriching ideological cronies. It's the Chicago way.
EVERY single time I hear the term “community organizer” I picture al sharpton and jessie jackson........and I snicker.
Don’t hold your breath for the media to alk about ACORN and OBAMBI
This is how Obama got the EXPERIENCE necessary to get elected to the Ill Senate—he got elected by disqualifying voters. This is how he trained.
“EVERY single time I hear the term “community organizer” I picture al sharpton and jessie jackson........and I snicker.”
see my tagline
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EVERY single time I hear the term “community organizer” I picture al sharpton and jessie jackson........and I snicker.
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Try Saul Alinsky.
Obama, all signs show, is an Alinsky radical (the father of the Chicago community organizers, a grandfather of Obama, but Obama was already steeped in neo-Marxism by time he hit Chicago). Alinsky’s organizers might even be the reason he targeted Chicago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
...and Barack Obama
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/activistinf/morality.html
THE 10 RULES OF THE ETHICS OF MEANS AND ENDS
Alinsky presents a set of “rules” on the ethics of means and ends.
http://www.answers.com/topic/saul-alinsky
Alinsky was a critic of a passive and ineffective mainstream liberalism. In Rules for Radicals, he argued that the most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired ends, and that an intermediate end for radicals should be democracy because of its relative ease to work within to achieve other ends of social justice.
The left is dominated by the old, Marxist, cum “radical” tactic of “the ends justifies the means” and that morality is simply a set of perceptions of the people, either as a weapon against the socialist, or a tool set for him to utilize. And the goal, mind you, is to control and manipulate the people in order to gain the power they need — in order to (funny part here) empower the people. Worked really well in Asia, last Century.
Lie. Pretend to be a democrat interested in freedom and the common principles of one’s milieu. Become messianic if you can to get power. Focus on the felt problems of the masses. But gain power however you can.
And that doesn’t get to: Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremigh Wright and the “Black Liberation Theology” Marxists, David Ayers the Maoist, and so on.
ping!
[Saul Alinsky's] Son sees father's handiwork in [2008 democrat] convention
ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people.
The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. Barack Obama's training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness.
It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.
I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.
L. DAVID ALINSKY
Medfield
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From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."[2]
[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
It is interesting to note that Saul Alinsky, marxist who dedicated his book to Satan, was the first/premier community organizer in the Chicago area. Barack was following in his idol’s footsteps. Sadly, the vast majority of voters have no clue regarding Saul Alinsky (our much loved BKO wrote how Hillary worshipped ALinsky), and the democrats who know actually like the notion of Obambi following in Alinsky’s marxist traditions. One has to wonder what happened to Chicago that it would advance a terrorist bomber to high position and professorship as William AYers and his anarchist wife have been, friends of Barry Soetoro Obama. But when you realize that Alinsky got his foothold in Chicago, things start to clear up.
“...and that an intermediate end for radicals should be democracy because of its relative ease to work within to achieve other ends of social justice.”
—meaning, the death of democracy and freedom. Isn’t it refreshing (sarc) to note that a potential POTUS was taught by mentors with that specific goal in mind!
'Community Organizer' means so much more then the ‘no executive responsibility’, it opens the door to Obama’s radical leftist/communist roots and philosophy of life which Obama and Axelrod do not want the American people to know about.
L. DAVID ALINSKY (son) sees Saul Alinsky’s (radical leftist father) handiwork in Obama convention http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/
“The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness.”
L. DAVID ALINSKY in letter to Boston Globe
front page of leftist radical Saul Alinsky’s book here (David Alinksy's Father):
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/hillary-clintons-idol-saul-alinsky-and-satan
Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America.http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=
Never forget it? I think we should rub this and other such facts in their ugly leftist faces 24/7. It’s time to fight fire with fire.
Never forget it? I think we should rub this and other such facts in their ugly leftist faces 24/7. It’s time to fight fire with fire.
This must be carried in the streets if necessary, by ten million town criers.
We can’t count on *anyone else* to connect the dots and give us the true ideological narrative of Barack Obama.
GOOD POST~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
someone get this to Rush and Hannity
McCain needs to make a campaign ad describe ACORN since Obambi is so proud of his service to this leftist anti-American group.
bumparooski for Monday reading
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