Posted on 06/30/2009 4:33:42 AM PDT by Scanian
ACORN, which played a starring role in creating the subprime mortgage crisis, plans to add insult to injury by harassing lenders across the nation with protests tomorrow in an effort to coerce them into supporting President Obama's Making Home Affordable foreclosure-avoidance program.
Austin King, director of ACORN Financial Justice, sent out a press release today advising of the demonstrations that are planned as part of its "Homewrecker 4" campaign. The four financial companies targeted are Goldman Sachs, HomEq Servicing, American Home Mortgage, and OneWest. Read the whole document here.
ACORN plans to hit Dallas, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York City, Wilmington (Del.), Columbus (Ohio), Houston, Little Rock, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Seattle.
But let's not forget that ACORN helped to cause the mortgage bubble by strongarming banks into making loans they shouldn't have. And cheering them on was ACORN's lawyer, Barack Obama, who contributed to the increasingly hostile environment for banks when he represented plaintiffs in the 1995 class action lawsuit Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank. The suit demanded that Citibank grant mortgages to an equal percentage of minority and non-minority mortgage applicants. The bank settled the case three years later and reportedly agreed to beef up its lending to unqualified applicants.
ACORN refuses to acknowledge the role that it and the CRA played in the current crisis on Wall Street, and President Obama continues to support stronger enforcement of the disastrous law.
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We’re supposed to give these socialist nuts intrusive Census information? Who’s protesting against them at their headquarters?
How come the right wing does not fight fire with fire?
The democrat Obamanation with taxpayer subsidized thugs like the unions and acorn does all it can to destroy America and rinos never seem to rise up against the evil they commit against God, family and country.
Good question. I do know that if the thugs are picketing in front of the credit union today when I go there, there's going to be a little shoving if they so much as touch me.
I do believe that we need to step it up a notch or two.
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Paid protestors. We conservatives have to protest without a paycheck.
Shouldn’t this be the lede of this story?
“But let’s not forget that ACORN helped to cause the mortgage bubble by strongarming banks into making loans they shouldn’t have. And cheering them on was ACORN’s lawyer, Barack Obama, who contributed to the increasingly hostile environment for banks when he represented plaintiffs in the 1995 class action lawsuit Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank.”
BFL
Worse.
Through the government, these people are stealing YOUR paycheck in order to have the time to agitate to steal MORE of your paycheck.
Calling for people to disguise themselves and attack others with stun guns?
This is the kind of stuff that the State Run Media looks for to use against conservatives.
You might want to think about asking for this to be deleted. JMO.
Agreed. They are itching to shut down conservative media, so don’t give them the ammo.
Unfortunately, as Hitler, Mao, Lenin and others have discovered, activism by the mob (usually stupid and lazy) is feared by the hardworking. They just have to start standing up to these thugs and saying no.
Sorry
But don't post suggestions of violent physical confrontation here on FreeRepublic.
Besides, actions speak louder than words.
A possible alternative would be to discuss the probability that such thuggery will likely lead to counter action...
Let’s have the Authorities go to these Mug-fests and start Kicking A$$E$ and taking names.
Then check the welfare rolls to see how many are being subsidized by “Mean old Whitey” and then cut off their funds.
When I was a kid we were notified that any rioters would be shot by the police, in Manhattan,N.Y. in the 1950’s.
This whole Acorn Mob is Ghetto Generated , Led by Obama and his leftist thugs in his Administration.
Many Thanks to the IDIOTS who put this foreigner in OFFICE.
There’s going to be a time when ACORN thugs go too far and one or more of them are going to get capped.
“There’s going to be a time when ACORN thugs go too far and one or more of them are going to get capped.”
And.. I didn’t say I’m “advocating” it — merely saying it could happen in the future.
ACORN plans to hit Dallas, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York City, Wilmington (Del.), Columbus (Ohio), Houston, Little Rock, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Seattle.
But let's not forget that ACORN helped to cause the mortgage bubble by strongarming banks into making loans they shouldn't have.
And cheering them on was ACORN's lawyer, Barack Obama, who contributed to the increasingly hostile environment for banks when he represented plaintiffs in the 1995 class action lawsuit Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank.
The suit demanded that Citibank grant mortgages to an equal percentage of minority and non-minority mortgage applicants. The bank settled the case three years later and reportedly agreed to beef up its lending to unqualified applicants.
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