Posted on 09/14/2009 2:41:45 PM PDT by tobyhill
Facing intensifying scrutiny after the release of several disturbing hidden camera videos, the community organizing group, ACORN, is threatening to sue Fox News, the website Breitbart.com and the two conservative activists who produced the exposes.
ACORN is alleging that the filmmakers committed a felony by shooting the footage of ACORN employees in the act of providing advice on how to falsify tax forms and set-up a child prostitution business—to a man and a woman posing as a pimp and a prostitute.
A lawyer for ACORN said Monday that statutes in Maryland and the District of Columbia made the undercover filming illegal and that the same laws should prohibit the rebroadcast of the tapes by the Web site BigGovernment.com, where they were first posted last week, and on Fox News, which aired clips of the videos.
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Does ACORN really want to go there?
Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please,Please, BE TRUE!
One word: discovery.
ACORN wants to go that route, I say BRING IT ON! It would give Fox News an ACORN expose of the day for the length of the trial.
Lawsuit for filming a crime in process?
Oh, please do.
DO IT idiots! Nothing will drag Acorn’s sorry asses out into the light of day faster then a trial. Be one of the stupidest political mistakes in history.
I am sure the courts will punish the news media for daring to report on corruption when it involves government funds.
I would love to see the inter-organization memos flying around there.
Are your ACORNS getting hot?
Would “_LOVE_” to see this go to court.
ie. it ain’t going to happen. Even they know when to fold.
- but just in case they are as stupid as we already know they are we should all attend said hearings.
They ought to get busy and file that lawsuit. Lets see if criminals in the act have a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Maryland law.
Oh please ACORN, please sue Fox News. Please do it, I double dog dare ya
I hope that Biggovernement.com has an alternate site, not controled by them, that has copies of the rest of the tapes to release if a judge restrains Biggovernement and Fox.
Shortly the GCM will try to turn this into a “no big deal” for Acorn and series crime being committed by Biggovernement and Fox.
Where’s their legal defense fund?
I don't think ACORN really wants the publicity generated by some of their "employees" encouraging the trafficking of kidnapped children into the United States for the purpose of slavery and the sex trade.
That would be suicide on sooooo many levels for them.
Also, not that FOX News needs it, but I am willing to offer my hard earned and dwindling supply of $$$ for the defense of these two individuals who took a stand against corruption alone.
TRURE AMERICAN HEROS!
No wonder ACORN is ticked off, nothing can make people madder then the truth.
On what grounds?
My thoughts exactly! Let’s just get it out there for alllll the world to see! lol
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