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Posted on 02/23/2009 11:19:31 AM PST by peace with honor
Police in Balitmore today made what is believed to be the first arrest in a civil disobedience program aimed at supporting homeowners who refuse to vacate their foreclosed homes. " This is our House now " ACORN member Louis Beverly reportedly said after cutting a lock with bolt cutters at the home
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We haven’t seen anything yet.
You sure can buy a lot of bolt cutters with 4 Bil.....
Wait until responsible people have had enough of propping up the welfare state and stop paying too.
Oh, this should be fun.
ACORN, no less taking over!!!!
An activist with ACORN — the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now — faces criminal charges after breaking into a home in southeast Baltimore on Thursday to protest the foreclosure crisis sweeping the country.
“This is our house now,” ACORN member Louis Beverly reportedly said after cutting a lock with bolt cutters at the home.
Beverly will be charged with fourth-degree burglary, according to Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Baltimore Police. Attempts to reach his attorney, Justin Brown, were not immediately successful.
Donna Hanks, who owned the home since 2001, lost it in September when she couldn’t make her $1,995 mortgage payments. It was not immediately clear whether Hanks re-entered her home last week, but she was not expected to be arrested, Guglielmi said.
Other police departments contacted by FOXNews.com said arrests would be made if an individual is determined to be residing at a foreclosed home illegally.
“If they’re trespassing and it’s not their property, absolutely, there’d by an arrest,” a police source in Boston said. “If they were told to leave the property and they didn’t, they’d be charged with disorderly conduct.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,498669,00.html
Just curious... is ACORN predominately black?
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Founded in 1970, ACORN is a community-based, grassroots organization that primarily focuses on — among other social issues — health care, affordable housing and voter registration programs. Its large-scale voter registration drives most recently came under scrutiny during the 2008 presidential race, during which ACORN reportedly gathered more than 1.3 million voter registration forms in 21 states. Approximately 400,000 forms were reportedly rejected for duplications, incomplete forms and fraudulent applications.
President Obama, who was endorsed by ACORN, served as a local counsel for the organization in a 1995 voting rights lawsuit.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,498669,00.html
I believe that the Left's (and ACORN's) goal is to turn recently-built developments into ghettos by moving low-lifes into vacant, foreclosed homes. This will depress property values and bring crime into neighborhoods where none existed previously.
The ghettoization of America. Brought to you by the Democrat Party, which was heard to say, "Don't thank us, it's our job".
Every criminal that used to break into vacant houses to steal the copper, appliances, look for a place to ‘party’, etc. will now be claiming to be part of acorn. I’ve had to enter these invaded vacants before. It’s not fun.
Excellent. I don’t like seeing folks lose their homes, but I’m not willing to buy those homes for them.
As best we can tell ... Obama was VERY involved with them in his “community rfund raising days”.
Yes, that will definietly “level” the “hood” to where we are all equally miserable.
I’m sure it isn’t. And frankly, it would seem to me that ACORN could be charge with some form of incitement here.
They are instigating this civil disobedience. They have been proud to claim this was their idea. Arrest some management types. Shutter some offices!
$1995/month house payment? People are stupid. The libs insist that we disregard Adam and Eve in favor of Darwin, yet will not allow the same Darwin principles apply to society.
The Bank or Mortgage Company should keep pressing charges, do not back down and reach an amicable solution, or they’ll have it happen by the hundreds, then thousands.
There is a Michelle Malkin link around here today which explains this deadbeat's whole story.
Because it is stealing. The use of a home has a monetary value to the home owner or bank that owns the property.
Name one [horizontal] commandment that the left doesn’t actively encourage people to break.
“The ghettoization of America. Brought to you by the Democrat Party”
Bringing the joys of living in Democrat-run Detroit to ALL us us, everywhere!
Somehow I’m not surprised to see ACORN is involved - they represent the entitlement mentality at its finest.
(If your don’t mind my using the term “mentality” in regard to ACORN...)
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