Posted by
MAXINE on Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:36:09 AM
Anti-ACORN
Guerrilla Art goes viral in Los Angeles. Here is an example, stencil
spray painted on the side of a signal control box on a typical LA
street corner. Image Credit: Publius
Unearthed! Barack Obama's Twisted ACORN Roots
Many
of the citizens here in the lower 48 (otherwise known in Canada as
Americans), have been treated to a fair amount of change in the
political landscape over the last week or so.
It really all
started with the fact that a whole lot of people showed up at, and
filled the mall park that runs between the Capitol Dome building and
the Washington Monument (about one mile long and 1/4 mile wide).
ABC News posted a story dated September 12, 2009 quoting a DC fire department official as estimating the crowd at 70,000 people
but upon further investigation, the very first comment was logged at
1:59AM (the actual times have since been scrubbed from the log of
comments), the very early morning before the gathering even got
started. Maybe ABC News got confused in that the estimate of the crowd
may have been for people sleeping in the mall area waiting for the
gathering to begin some six hours later!
Then, at the beginning of the week, investigative tapes began to be broadcast by FOX News and Andrew Brietbat's new website "BigGovernment.Com"
catching the largest names in media flat-footed. The first tape showed
ACORN advisers instructing two young people, one posing as a front-man (p_mp, flagged as inappropriate), and
the other, a hooker, on how to fill out the paperwork so that the house
they wanted to use as a brothel would qualify for Government/Taxpayer
money. This tape, combined with the successful prosecutions of ACORN on
the charges of voter fraud, caused the Census Bureau to drop the
organization from the list of agencies they planned to use to collect
information for them from citizens.
Four more tapes were
shown throughout the week and it has become apparent the ACORN suffers
from a "culture of corruption", so much so that both houses of Congress
decided to vote to de-fund the organization from any Federal monies it
may receive and to be placed on a list to never do business with them
ever again.
For The Record: The
“De-fund ACORN Act” passed the House Thursday, September 17th, 2009 by
an overwhelming margin of 345-75. The House vote comes just days after
the Senate voted 83-7 to block ACORN from receiving federal housing
grants. With these votes, 80% of the members of Congress have weighed
in to block ACORN from receiving any more taxpayer dollars.
The
President of the United States, Barack Obama, insists that his ties to
the organization, ACORN, were minimal but here is some information that
might be useful to those who would like to have a complete
understanding of the ties that bind this President to an organization
that has grown and thrived by building itself on a "culture of
corruption".
Anti-ACORN
Guerrilla Art goes viral in Los Angeles where Obama “Hope” poster
artist, Shepard Fairey, studio wall was targeted with the stencil spray
painted image. Image Credit: Publius
This excerpted and edited from WorldNetDaily -
While
ACORN remains riddled in scandal, lawmakers have voted to cut off
federal funding to the group, the U.S. Census Bureau has severed ties
to the organization – and the White House has blasted its behavior as
"unacceptable."
But just how extensive are President Obama's personal ties to ACORN?
The following is a timeline outlining some of the purported connections between the president and ACORN through the years:
1990s: Obama meets ACORN
ACORN,
or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, first
noticed Obama when he was organizing on the far south side of the city
with the Developing Communities Project. A March 2, 2008, Los Angeles
Times article by Letta Tayler and Keith Herbert, titled "Obama Forged
Path As Chicago Community Organizer," explored Obama's pre-law school
days as a community organizer in Chicago and his efforts to build a partnership with Chicago's "Friends of the Parks."
"Obama's task was to help far South Side residents press for improvement," the Times article explained.
National
Review Online noted, "Part of Obama's work, it would appear, was to
organize demonstrations, much in the mold of radical groups like
ACORN."
The Times article reveals
that Madeleine Talbot, who at the time was a leader at Chicago ACORN,
was thoroughly impressed with Obama because "he got people to vote with
their feet."
"At the time, Talbot
worked at the social action group ACORN and initially considered Obama
a competitor," the article stated. "But she became so impressed with
his work that she invited him to help train her staff."
Talbott personally led Chicago ACORN's campaign to intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers, Stanley Kurtz reported.
"Long
the director of Chicago ACORN, Talbott is a specialist in 'direct
action' – organizers' term for their militant tactics of intimidation
and disruption," Kurtz writes. "Perhaps her most famous stunt was
leading a group of ACORN protesters breaking into a meeting of the
Chicago City Council to push for a 'living wage' law, shouting in
defiance as she was arrested for mob action and disorderly conduct. But
her real legacy may be her drive to push banks into making risky mortgageloans."
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I
recovered the copy of the comment that was made by the original ABC
News article (referenced at the top) on the attendance to the 9/12 Tea
Party Rally on the Washington DC mall:
"The
time stamp of the very first comment says it all - it was stamped in
advance of the rally, way in advance - comment and stamp here:
obama gave his speech to congress on wednesday, not tuesday as the article states twice.
Posted by: ericgwitte 1:59 AM"
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This is beginning to become one rockin' beginning to Carter's Second Term!