It could negatively impact some of their membership.
Posted on 06/07/2009 4:52:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ACORN, the publicly funded national organization linked to voter fraud in several states, is now actively interfering with the exercise of firearm civil rights in New Jersey, and the Second Amendment Foundation is calling for an immediate federal investigation.
One example of ACORN's gun control activism is when its officials intervened in an unsuccessful attempt to defend Jersey City, New Jersey's local gun control ordinance, which was struck down December 13, 2006 in New Jersey state court as a violation of state law pre-empting stronger local gun ordinances.
"ACORN has, since 1998, received an estimated $31 million in government funding," said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. "Now they have intervened in a New Jersey gun rights case in defense of an illegal Jersey City one-gun-a-month ordinance that violates the state preemption statute."
"For the past few election cycles," Gottlieb noted, "ACORN has clearly grown more partisan toward the political Left. ACORN'S PAC, in fact, endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president, even though their tax-exempt status prohibits endorsement of political candidates. That's hardly surprising since he used to serve as their legal counsel and he taught the group about community organizing. ACORN and Obama are lockstep in seeking to destroy our Second Amendment rights," he stated.
"The organization is currently under FBI investigation over allegations of voter fraud in several states," he added.
"Bad enough that ACORN is implicated in fraudulent activities in several states, but now an ACORN chapter in the Garden State is working against the ability of New Jersey gun owners to exercise a constitutionally protected individual civil right to own a handgun," said former NYPD detective, Sid Frances.
"It is an outrage that this group has intervened to defend an antigun ordinance that has already been declared illegal by the court," he observed. "So long as ACORN accepts one penny of public funding, the organization should remain absolutely neutral on social issues, political campaigns and especially legal actions defending the right to keep and bear arms."
"We call upon the FBI to expand the scope of its ACORN investigation and focus on the group's involvement in the Jersey City case," Gottlieb stated.
"We support Ohio Congressman John Boehner's request that the White House immediately block all federal funding of ACORN activities until this group's questionable activities are fully investigated. We want to know how they are paying for attorneys, and why Seton Hall's Center for Social Justice and the Public Interest Law Center are providing legal assistance to ACORN for this effort."
"This is still the United States, not a socialist gulag," Gottlieb concluded. "Public money should not be given to private organizations which then turn around and utilize that funding to usurp the electoral process and erode constitutionally guaranteed civil rights."
The fact that the federal government is planning to use ACORN as part of it's 2010 Census is cause for Americans to be very concerned.
Many political observers see something more sinister at play with Obama and ACORN's interest in disarming law-abiding citizens.
"This gun control effort is part of an overall government takeover by the radical left who now control the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The next part of the Obama-ACORN plan is a new military force separate from the US Armed Forces," claims political strategist Mike Baker.
"Obama has called for a 'civilian national security force' as powerful as the US military, comments that were ignored by the vast majority of the corporate media but compared by conservatives to the Nazi Hitler Youth," warns Baker. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s)
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," said Senator Obama during his campaign.
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I totally agree. Looks like nobody is going to call ACORN out.
The GOP is silent in this matter.
Very troubling.
That doesn't describe Hitler Youth -- that describes the GESTAPO!!!
Buy a Gun if you can, but by all means buy ammo, If you can find it. A prudent man forseeth the evil and hideth himself, while the simple pass on and are punished. Hard times they be coming, but what else can we expect.
barbra ann
Acorn are the brown shirts and they will be used by Hitl...Obama to confiscate firearms.
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It could negatively impact some of their membership.
A number of landowners hereabouts plan to ask any census workers, who pass their "NO TRESPASSING" signs and arrive at their door, if they have any sort of affiliation with ACORN. If the answer is "yes", they will be charged with trespass and impersonating a government employee and be held under guard until the Sheriff arrives to haul them away.
...and those are the nice landowners... ;-)
Video link from post no. 1 (made clickable):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
“Obama Civilian Security”
ACORN must be eliminated if the GOP hopes to win in 2010. Other wise they will keep illegally registering voters, those “Voters” will vote for Democrats.
Your tagline? Add “they are already here”.
Absolutely!
Sure will be a lot of 'brown shirts' stained with red.
I don't know. It's outrageous...they are qualified for $8 billion more tax dollars.
We need to support Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly's investigation and exposure of these criminals.
“Next come the brownshirts: Are we ready for them?”
I’d say there are enough of us to take care of brownshirts if anyone is stupid enough to create such a force and send it against the People.
Extremely good ideas...
Are they ready for us?
Yep.
A WHOLE lot!
I believe you are right. He spoke of having his ‘own group’ equal to the army when he was campaigning. I forget the name he called it but it was frightening sounding.
ACORN was in place and has been rapidly growing and being highly financed. They've already been GPSing our homes.
LOCK and LOAD! They want my guns.....COME GET ‘EM!
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