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Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as a Criminal Enterprise?

You don't have to read very long to get the answer to the the question posed in the title. The second sentence of the first paragraph of the Executive Summary says it all...

Both structurally and operationally, ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate.

This is LONG overdue.

Link to the report:

capitalresearch.org

-Overview: ACORN nabbed in sting operation--

My friends at GCP have created an entire sub-forum for the rotters:

ACORN-SEIU-Unions

Michell Malkin has a similar sub-forum:

ACORN Watch
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Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 4:16 am Post subject:

Hints of more to come....

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...in the coming days, you’ll learn a lot about the full ACORN story. It is an amazing story, in its own way. After waiting years for the mainstream media to finally peel back the ACORN layers, Big Government will have to take it upon itself to do so.

To start this, we are publishing an internal quasi-employee manual Big Government has obtained. Given to all ACORN employees, it isn’t your normal manual. It doesn’t discuss things like sick leave or vacation time, but, rather, as the title states, the “Principles and Foundations of ACORN.” How an organization communicates with the public is important. How it communicates to its own employees, however, provides a richer understanding of an organization’s nature.

The whole thing is worth a read. I draw your attention to just one sentence (ACORN emphasizes it with italics):

ACORN’s lifeblood is conflicts with targets outside the organization.

Senate Votes to Cut ACORN Funding in Transportation Bill

The Senate vote 83-7 to cut funding for ACORN from the current transportation and housing appropriations bill.
Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced the bill.
The vote follows three straight weekdays of BigGovernment.com’s video exposés on the child prostitution-promoting organization.

Here is a list of the <a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00275">7 democrats who believe that an organization that promotes the prostitution of immigrant children is worthy of government funding:

Michelle Malkin

comments (102)

is covering the story.

Democrats voted in March to allow ACORN funding in the Youth Brigade's bill.
Those funds will not be affected by this vote today.

ACORN is also a leading member of Barack Obama's Health Care For American conglomerate that is helping the president push his nationalized health care plan.

Once again... ACORN is the largest radical Leftist group in America today.
This radical group worked closely with the Obama campaign during the election. But, the community organizing group was not open about this. The photo below was scrubbed from the ACORN website before the election:

One of Barack Obama's first big "community organizer" jobs involved ACORN in 1992. Obama also trained ACORN employees. He represented ACORN in court. Obama worked with and protested with ACORN. His campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN in 2008 for voter registration efforts.
And, ACORN even canvassed for Obama last year.

sadly all too true..

‘ACORN 8′

[..there are more than 300 organizations under the ACORN umbrella]

Anatomy of a Shakedown

[When government money, power and influence become part of the equation however, lofty principles tend to fall by the wayside. Other organizations are created to cause chaos and disrupt the system.

The Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was perceived by many as a well-intended organization, but it appears that the association that Wade Rathke founded was intended to cause chaos and disrupt the system when it was in a position to do so.

[..]

It seems that at the beginning of the campaign SEIU wanted a slice of the $6.3 billion that was on the table with the sale of Manor Care. For SEIU and ACORN organizing in poor communities takes a little bit of finesse and a lot of political theater. When SEIU could not muster up the required public outrage they switched tactics. In late 2007 SEIU released a press statement warning of the possible health risks posed by the Carlyle Group.Veil of secrecy? Interesting. On cue enter ACORN and Barack Obama. After staged demonstrations across the county and several changes of tactics, SEIU hires ACORN as a “consultant” to protest the Carlyle Group. ACORN readily accepts the money, but has one problem – how to turn the people out, to make them care about the issue. Using the same tried and true manipulation tactics that Stanley Kurtz detailed in his article about ACORN and the Community Reinvestment Act, ACORN spins the fight against the Carlyle Group as rich (whites) versus poor (blacks):]

more @ link & much more here..

ACORN Reader
http://therealbarackobama.wordpr...-reader-videos/

The ACORN Crooks & Liars Edition
http://therealbarackobama.wordpr...-liars-edition/

happyfeet points to an jaw-dropping bit from NPR

It’s also important to keep in mind that ACORN’s workers are coming from the same low-income neighborhoods the organization serves, with all that entails — poor schools, high crime and the sorts of social problems that have been documented for decades.
So the flaws conservatives are pointing out about ACORN are not so much problems associated with that organization per se but more about the problems of being poor and minority in urban America.

What has being “low-come” have to do with knowing right from wrong? Is NPR saying that low-income black people are incapable of not participating in prostitution/child sex slaves and voter fraud?

Wow. Who are the real racists here? Posted by Darleen @ 4:43 pm
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For snorts and giggles (thanks, Carin), please read BigGovernment’s “Counterpoint” column by Laurie Essig who manages to resemble nothing more than a teacup poodle baring her teeth while using every Leftist/Vagina Warrior shibboleth at her disposal (privileged, racism, straight white male who hates, etc.).

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Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 5:28 am Post subject:

ACORN drops tarnished name and moves to silence critics. NEW NAME = COI

ACORN affiliate: We’d like $6 million more in taxpayer money, please

Dems on playing the race card: 'You ain't seen nothin' yet'

ACORN Story Grows But Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover It

Glenn Beck defeats ACORN ( They are defunded )

Lest we forget: Barack Obama IS ACORN

Will someone now audit Barry's ACORN-tainted $778,642,047 in campaign funds?

...this article gives a very detailed picture of what 0bama did as a community organizer.

Obama's "community organizing" left Chicago neighborhoods in ruins.

Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy

ACORN Cries Racism, Calls in Barack Obama Supporters for Aid

Inside Obama's Acorn [2008]

New Zealand Tops CNN in ACORN Reporting
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Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 9:22 am Post subject:

ACORN wants another $6 million despite scandals
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Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 3:08 pm Post subject:

Congress Voting To Defund ACORN

Exclusive: ACORN Illegally Operating in Maryland

NPR exposes ACORN-SEIU $$ connection [Flashback: 10-15-2008]

Jennifer Brunner and ACORN Boss and Whistleblower in Ohio Voter Fraud (FReeper knew it)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119382/posts

http://anitamoncrief.blogspot.com/2008/11/acorn-whistleblower-asks-what-happened.html

RACIST!
Obama never had anything to do with ACORN!
LIES!
Damned LIES!
ACORN GOOD!
ACORN doubleplus GOOD!

House Republicans to Focus on ACORN-IRS Ties

Will Obama’s DOJ Block Investigation of ACORN?

Beck Tells Greta He Will Reveal New ACORN Video that Will "Peel the Skin Off Your Face" - Video

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Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 3:35 pm Post subject:

BEST OF THE WEB TODAY

Caught in Traffic

Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 3:49 pm Post subject:

Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 3:58 pm Post subject:

Another ACORN video to appear today on Glenn Beck

September 15, 2:21 PMBucks County Conservative Examiner

Doreen Linder

Glenn Beck's show on Fox News at 5:00PM EST will premier another about ACORN(Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) by independent film maker James O'Keefe. This is supposed to be the most scandalous yet.!

Most of the videos have been breaking on the morning show, Fox and Friends but apparently they are holding back for prime time. The prior videos can be seen on Andrew Breitbart's website www.biggovernment.com. The undercover videos show James O'Keefe an aspiring Congressional candidate and his associate Hannah Giles as his prostitute girlfriend going into ACORN offices in Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, and most recently Brooklyn, NY trying to obtain a housing loan for a brothel. ACORN workers in all three offices tell Giles and O'Keefe how to cover up prostitution to make it look like a legal business for tax purposes, hide funds in different bank accounts, and obtain a mortgage for a house to use as a brothel. They also go on to advise Giles that in her profession she has to "think quick."

ACORN was defunded yesterday by the United States senate because of it's possible illegal activities by a vote of 83-7. The Census bureau was relieved of their duties of outreach for the bureau in 2010; Now their is also breaking news that the organization is also being investigated by the Brooklyn DA.

It is respectful that Glenn Beck is going to the extent he is to report the ACORN story along with FOX news. He is also been vigilant in reporting about the 9/12/09 Tea Party in DC, and transparent on Obama's agenda on health care. Thank you, Mr. Beck!

http://www.examiner.com/x-19160-Bucks-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m9d15-Another-ACORN-video-to-appear-today-on-Glenn-Beck

Furious

Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 3:58 pm Post subject:

The constant denial by the left that the media is biased is now completely proven to be a joke. It's not paranoia from the right at all. The MSM is criminal and corrupt to the core. There is no doubt about that what so ever any more. And it's really obvious our MSM in Canada are in lockstep with the US MSM. So what's that tell you? Other countries media are reporting the weekend demonstration and the ACORN stories. It also shows how closely related our left in Canada is with the left in the US.

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Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 4:26 pm Post subject:

It appears you really DO "reap what you sow".......!!!!

Anxious

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Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 5:08 pm Post subject:

'Pimp & hooker' catch B'klyn staff

By JEREMY OLSHAN

Last Updated: 12:41 PM, September 14, 2009

Posted: 3:30 AM, September 14, 2009
The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute.

Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their careers, counselors at the social-services group shockingly offer suggestions on how they can launder their earnings.

"Honesty is not going to get you the house," a loan counselor at the offices told two activists posing as a mortgage-seeking pimp and prostitute.

"You can't say what you do for a living."

ACORN workers in two other cities, Baltimore and Washington, DC, had already fallen hooker, line and sinker for the hidden-camera sting operation by two conservative activists.

Four ACORN employees have been fired as a result of the earlier videos, and last Friday the Census Bureau severed its ties with the group, whose members had been hired to do canvassing during the 2010 census.

Mayor Bloomberg spoke out on the controversy today.

"Prostitution is illegal in this state and I don't know why they would -- why an organization like ACORN, who's trying to encourage voter turnout and voter registration, why they're getting involved in any of that stuff," Bloomberg said. "But clearly it's not appropriate and they shouldn't have been doing it. Whether they broke a law or not I don't know. You'll have to talk to the legal (authorities)."

The Brooklyn DA's office announced today it would be investigating the group.

In an unrelated outrage, ACORN was accused of widespread voter fraud during the 2008 presidential election by helping unqualified voters to register.

As in prior videos released by the filmmaking team of James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, employees of the group -- which specializes in housing and voter activism -- were eager to dispense advice on gaming the system and skirting the law.

"You know, what goes on in the house we don't care," one counselor said. "We just help you with the mortgage."

O'Keefe and Giles were garishly dressed as a stereotypical pimp and prostitute. O'Keefe was decked out in excessively snazzy flesh-peddler couture, and Giles, going by the name "Eden," wore almost nothing.

The ACORN workers were not the slightest bit judgmental or put off by the request for help in getting financing for a brothel.

Counselor Volda Albert freely offered financial advice to the young couple, and held back on giving out any life advice.

"I can't tell you don't do it, because you won't listen to me," Albert said.

For tax and banking purposes, and to establish a legitimate income and credit history, Giles was told she needed to start saying she was a "freelancer."

"Don't say that you're a prostitute thing or whatever," she said.

Albert also suggested that Giles open two accounts at separate banks, depositing no more than $500 each a week to ensure few eyebrows are raised.

As for the rest of the money she earned from turning tricks, Albert told her to hide it away.

"When you buy the house with a back yard. You get a tin . . . and bury it down in there, and you put the money right in, and you put grass over it, and you don't tell a single soul but yourself where it is," she said.

Albert even had advice on protecting O'Keefe from getting tied by authorities to Giles' prostitution.

Her illegally obtained revenue could be given to O'Keefe through an intermediary, and then he could use it for a down payment on the house by applying for a "no doc" loan.

In the earlier videos, counselors offered similar suggestions to a "prostitute," telling her to list her occupation as "performance artist," and even offering advice on how to claim as dependants underage girls recruited for the business.

Milagros Rivera, the Brooklyn office administrator advised Giles, "don't get caught -- it's against the law what you are doing, and there's a chance you'll get caught."

Before bidding them good luck, Albert offered two final suggestions.

"Save for a rainy day," she said. "And live well."

O'Keefe, who majored in philosophy at Rutgers University, said he and Giles funded the project themselves. This kind of undercover, guerrilla tactic is the "future of investigative journalism and political activism," he said.

Inspired by "Rules for Radicals," Saul Alinsky's bible for rabble-rousing, more often associated with the left, O'Keefe said he has been targeting and exposing the "absurdities of the enemy by employing their own rules and language."

"If you can make impossible demands on your enemy, you can destroy them," he said.

So he began using a hidden camera "in a location I'd rather not disclose" and started visiting ACORN offices around the Northeast.

As with a series of videos O'Keefe made in 2008, in which Planned Parenthood employees agreed to earmark his donations for the abortions of African-American babies, he said he expected ACORN would yield maybe "a few gotcha moments."

"But we never imagined they would all comply -- it's just disgusting they didn't just throw us out of the office," he said.

In a statement released Saturday, ACORN said that it could not defend the actions of its employees but that what O'Keefe and Giles did was criminal.

"And, in fact, a crime it was -- our lawyers believe a felony -- and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators," the statement said.

Fox News aired the Baltimore and Washington tapes.

O'Keefe said, "ACORN wants it both ways."

"You can't fire the employees and then say I have defamed them," he said.

jeremy.olshan

@nypost.com

The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute.

Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their careers, counselors at the social-services group shockingly offer suggestions on how they can launder their earnings.

'UNDERCOVER': James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles show off the not-so-subtle costumes they wore during their ACORN stings.

"Honesty is not going to get you the house," a loan counselor at the offices told two activists posing as a mortgage-seeking pimp and prostitute.

"You can't say what you do for a living."

ACORN workers in two other cities, Baltimore and Washington, DC, had already fallen hooker, line and sinker for the hidden-camera sting operation by two conservative activists.

Four ACORN employees have been fired as a result of the earlier videos, and last Friday the Census Bureau severed its ties with the group, whose members had been hired to do canvassing during the 2010 census.

Mayor Bloomberg spoke out on the controversy today.

"Prostitution is illegal in this state and I don't know why they would -- why an organization like ACORN, who's trying to encourage voter turnout and voter registration, why they're getting involved in any of that stuff," Bloomberg said. "But clearly it's not appropriate and they shouldn't have been doing it. Whether they broke a law or not I don't know. You'll have to talk to the legal (authorities)."

The Brooklyn DA's office announced today it would be investigating the group.

In an unrelated outrage, ACORN was accused of widespread voter fraud during the 2008 presidential election by helping unqualified voters to register.

As in prior videos released by the filmmaking team of James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, employees of the group -- which specializes in housing and voter activism -- were eager to dispense advice on gaming the system and skirting the law.

"You know, what goes on in the house we don't care," one counselor said. "We just help you with the mortgage."

O'Keefe and Giles were garishly dressed as a stereotypical pimp and prostitute. O'Keefe was decked out in excessively snazzy flesh-peddler couture, and Giles, going by the name "Eden," wore almost nothing.

The ACORN workers were not the slightest bit judgmental or put off by the request for help in getting financing for a brothel.

Counselor Volda Albert freely offered financial advice to the young couple, and held back on giving out any life advice.

"I can't tell you don't do it, because you won't listen to me," Albert said.

For tax and banking purposes, and to establish a legitimate income and credit history, Giles was told she needed to start saying she was a "freelancer."

"Don't say that you're a prostitute thing or whatever," she said.

Albert also suggested that Giles open two accounts at separate banks, depositing no more than $500 each a week to ensure few eyebrows are raised.

As for the rest of the money she earned from turning tricks, Albert told her to hide it away.

"When you buy the house with a back yard. You get a tin . . . and bury it down in there, and you put the money right in, and you put grass over it, and you don't tell a single soul but yourself where it is," she said.

Albert even had advice on protecting O'Keefe from getting tied by authorities to Giles' prostitution.

Her illegally obtained revenue could be given to O'Keefe through an intermediary, and then he could use it for a down payment on the house by applying for a "no doc" loan.

In the earlier videos, counselors offered similar suggestions to a "prostitute," telling her to list her occupation as "performance artist," and even offering advice on how to claim as dependants underage girls recruited for the business.

Milagros Rivera, the Brooklyn office administrator advised Giles, "don't get caught -- it's against the law what you are doing, and there's a chance you'll get caught."

Before bidding them good luck, Albert offered two final suggestions.

"Save for a rainy day," she said. "And live well."

O'Keefe, who majored in philosophy at Rutgers University, said he and Giles funded the project themselves. This kind of undercover, guerrilla tactic is the "future of investigative journalism and political activism," he said.

Inspired by "Rules for Radicals," Saul Alinsky's bible for rabble-rousing, more often associated with the left, O'Keefe said he has been targeting and exposing the "absurdities of the enemy by employing their own rules and language."

"If you can make impossible demands on your enemy, you can destroy them," he said.

So he began using a hidden camera "in a location I'd rather not disclose" and started visiting ACORN offices around the Northeast.

As with a series of videos O'Keefe made in 2008, in which Planned Parenthood employees agreed to earmark his donations for the abortions of African-American babies, he said he expected ACORN would yield maybe "a few gotcha moments."

"But we never imagined they would all comply -- it's just disgusting they didn't just throw us out of the office," he said.

In a statement released Saturday, ACORN said that it could not defend the actions of its employees but that what O'Keefe and Giles did was criminal.

"And, in fact, a crime it was -- our lawyers believe a felony -- and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators," the statement said.

Fox News aired the Baltimore and Washington tapes.

O'Keefe said, "ACORN wants it both ways."

"You can't fire the employees and then say I have defamed them," he said.

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Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 5:22 pm Post subject:

You gotta see the video at the link.

JUST PLAIN NUTS

Newest video ACORN confession: 'I shot him'

Employee boasts of setting stage for self-defense killing

An ACORN worker in San Bernardino, Calif., says she assembled the groundwork for a case of self-defense, then picked up a gun and shot her former husband.

The statements by a woman identified as Tresa Kaelke at an ACORN office in California come in a new video released on Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com website.

The video is the latest in a series of revealing reports assembled by filmmaker James O'Keefe and associate Hannah Giles, who previously reported on visits to ACORN offices in several cities, including Baltimore, Brooklyn and Washington.

In San Bernardino, the two visited Kaelke's office posing as a politician and a prostitute to explain they were looking for help to set up a prostitution business, trafficking in underage girls from El Salvador.

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Kaelke admits she used to run a service and states, "I have some experience in how not to get caught."

Then she brings up the death of her ex-husband.

"I shot him. I shot him," she states. "I just picked up the gun and said f--- you and I shot him and he died right there." She confirms it was in self-defense.

"Before that I had done … some groundwork, went into the domestic violence shelter, pleaded my case with them, so everybody in town would know this was happening," she continued.

She also boasts of her influence with area politicians, including Sen. Barbara Boxer, and tells the undercover operatives they can run their business the way they want.

more: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109954
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Posted: 09/ 15/ 09 5:44 pm Post subject:

Ruh-Roh!

ACORN Organizer: "I killed him . . . I shot him.”

The story later today (9-15-2009) at BigGovernment.com.

Beck's mail list message of 30mins ago:

On Today’s Program
Worst Acorn video yet

If you didn't think ACORN could get any worse after several of their employees (in multiple locations) tried to help a prostitute buy a house, lie to the IRS and run a brothel with underage hookers from El Salvador...you were wrong. It gets much worse. In today’s tapes, this ACORN employee gives away the farm -- she names names of politicians she talks to each day, plus what bills they are lobbying heavily for (with taxpayer money). Oh, this Acorn employee is also a former hooker herself, who (in this audio tape) admits to killing her abusive husband.

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