Posted on 02/18/2009 7:17:42 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama
It was only last November that ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- was under FBI investigation for voter fraud in several states. Oh, wait: aren’t those investigations going on now?
Never mind. ACORN -- a favorite of our Community Organizer in Chief -- has a new agenda. Which is really part of the old agenda: getting Democrats elected.
What Democrats fear most, and what many conservatives value most highly, is talk radio. Its political punch is conservatives’ biggest weapon in the war of ideas. And, naturally, ACORN wants to kill it by restoring the old “fairness doctrine.”
You’ll find a plethora of liberals seeking to make sure that your young child has access to hard-core pornography on computers at the public library, but don’t let them listen to Rush Limbaugh or, God forbid, Sean Hannity. The freedom to speak out against those in our government who seek to limit our freedoms is among the most fundamental of safeguards, and the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats are now working in earnest to destroy it.
ACORN has a long and rather thoroughly corrupt record, involved in everything from helping tens of thousands (and maybe hundreds of thousands) of people register to vote who aren’t legally entitled to do so: illegal aliens, convicted criminals and the like. And now -- apparently planning how to spend their cut of the new Obama “stimulus” spending -- ACORN is readying a campaign to kill conservative talk radio.
The Capital Research Center, a non-partisan, non-profit group whose mission is to act as a watchdog over other non-profit groups, presented a quite extensive exposé last November of the founding, funding and activities of ACORN. This shocking report shows a well-funded group grounded in Marxist ideology and gangland-style tactics, whose self-proclaimed mission is none other than the destruction of capitalism in America. Vital to their success is the suppression of free speech.
The framework for the attempt by Democrats to silence political opposition is already in place in what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) calls localism, a scheme set up in the form of local “community boards” that will decide whether or not your local broadcast station is meeting the standards required to review and renew their broadcast licenses every two to four years.
As you can see from the FCC localism webpage, localism regulations have already been through well over a year’s worth of procedural hearings, and, as of April 2008, “Broadcast Information Specialists are Available for Public Inquires.” The rules and regulations have been set forth in “The Public and Broadcasting,” which is the FCC field manual for the ACORN “activists” and lawyers to intimidate your local community boards into harassing your local radio stations into submission or recommend the revocation of their broadcast license. Given the reported $4.2 billion allocated for ACORN and like groups by the so-called stimulus bill signed into law by Obama yesterday, all that is left to fulfill this scenario is the confirmation of Obama’s new FCC chairman, nominee Julius Genachowski. After he’s confirmed, the full frontal assault on our First Amendment rights will begin quickly.
ACORN’s own website proudly displays their intent:
II. Make the mainstream media accessible and accountable to low- and moderate-income people.
A. Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting, so that grass roots community groups have equal time to express their views. B. Require cable TV companies to make good on their promises to allow community groups access to air time, or revoke their operating licenses.
Membership on the local board is a key to the ACORN’s plan: activists on state and local boards can give their national agenda support that can’t be obtained elsewhere. “Diversity” and “underserved communities” are their mantra. The plan is for the boards to control the content of stations with their ability to make licensing renewal recommendations to the FCC. We all know how intolerant the left is of any ideas other than their own -- just look how any conservative speaker is treated by the left when they speak at any college campus around the country today.
I asked House minority leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) about this open secret called “localism” yesterday. He told me, “‘Localism is quickly becoming code for the efforts of liberals to limit free speech and dissent. The American people do not believe the federal government should be in the business of dictating or restricting what’s on the public airwaves, and Republicans will fight any and every effort to stifle free speech.”
Now what we need is a ground game. This is no longer about red or blue states. ACORN, the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats are openly forcing us into a clear choice between freedom and fascism. We’ll defend our First Amendment rights and talk radio. There’s no separating one from the other.
Connie Hair is a freelance writer, a former speechwriter for Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and a former media and coalitions advisor to the Senate Republican Conference.
A REAL fight... that might involve REAL fighting, not just rhetoric and courts.
0bama doesn’t have his civilian defense corps up and running yet - they should wait.
It would be pretty easy to convert ACORN into that heavily armed and trained “corps”, and that’s probably what he plans to do.
Just try to stop them now that ACORN has their bazillion dollars from porkulus.
You’ll find a plethora of liberals seeking to make sure that your young child has access to hard-core pornography ... but don’t let them listen to ... God forbid, Sean Hannity.Well, medical studies have concluded that listening to or watching Sean Vanity on a regular basis will cause irreversible brain damage.
(Sorry, Sean-heads. I think he's a dolt. When he's forced off his talking points he sounds like a blithering idiot. Stopped watching his show yeeeeeeeers ago)
So let me get this straight. They get billions of dollars from the government yet they want to use the government to limit what others are saying? By the way does anyone know the exact amount that they got and where it is listed in the stimulus bill?
Link to the Capital Research Center expose mentioned in the article. The Human Events article has links throughout:
Birch, one of the line items was $2 billion in grants for community stabilization—search the bill for one of those key terms (”community” or “stabilization”) and you’ll find it.
The other $2.2 billion is spread out in things like grants from HUD and the like.
FCC Localism Proceedings Webpage
And the FCC manual for ACORN activists
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acorn seems to have untouchable ties into the democrat machine
and nothing appears to stick to them except our tax dollars.
The media covers for them and it’s looking like we the people
may have to step up to level the playing field of corruption.
And this is how they will take control of the Healthcare Industry. Force insurers to cover everybody, reagardless of pre-existing conditions, government puts a cap on the premiums they can charge, and 'poof'....the insurance companies ripen for "bailout" and gubmint takeover.
An organization Obama worked in, taught and used to win elections for himself.
An organization that sent thugs to the very homes of bankers who refused to give out loans to those who were incapable of paying said loan back. Ever.
An organization that recruits democrats...ONLY!
And an organization that now enters the political arena by trying to shut down the ONLY VOICE conservatives really have. And a voice that is supported NOT BY TAX DOLLARS BUT BY LEGITIMATE QUALITY MARKET ECONOMICS.
How DARE ACORN the put forth an opinion on talk radio, my tax dollars have just been made part of ACORN's salary! I RESENT THIS support of a democrat partisan group! It is wrong...now I know how UNION WORKERS feel who are forced to support a political party they despise!
WHO is ACORN...WHO IS THE FACE? What creep is the voice that has asked for the fairness doctrine to be brought forward again? (roflmao...it should be called 'e silencing of all radio conservative voices') .
Gish
Who is the leader of ACORN? Who has called for this? What is the name or names of the top dirtbags of ACORN...the seeds of blight now reaching across our nation.
I want NAMES! ( And I suspect they reach all the way to our now soiled WH. )
acorn is looking like the black panther thugs more and more.
If they (acorn) keeps most of their trash on board, a fight could
be the next big thing thay start here in these hardening times in America.
If we can stop our tax dollars from supporting their crimes,
most of their militant members may find other means of income.
Let me get this right. We are using taxpayer money to fund a group which is guilty of voter fraud and is now using our money to lobby to attack our freedoms. What kind of twilight zone have we wandered into?
The liberal idea of a "conservative" is laughable! David Gergan? John McCain?
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It would be pretty easy to convert ACORN into that heavily armed and trained “corps”, and that’s probably what he plans to do.
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If he were to ever arm ACORN to act against US citizens, it’s all over. Welcome to the 2nd revolution. I don’t think Americans would tolerate that.
This is an extreme case of the pot calling the kettle black. Audacity has a new definition.
How much money will ACORN receive from obamas plan?
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