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Originally Posted by classicman
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ACORN is indeed organizing acts of civil disobedience to help home owners facing foreclosure.
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Home Staying campaign is described on the ACORN website.
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Teams of ACORN Home Defenders – volunteers from local communities – will employ civil disobedience as needed to help people who have faced foreclosure to stay in their homes until a comprehensive federal solution has been put in place.
"Once they have your home, there's nothing you can do except to resort to civil disobedience," said Baltimore ACORN Foreclosure Fighters Co-Chair Louis Beverly, a leader in the Baltimore Home Staying campaign. "We're trying to get loans modified so that people can stay in their homes."
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The details about the specific "victim" in Baltimore, as described by Michele Malkin in her NY Post editorial? Thats a different story.
Hell, its Michele Malkin, a habitual liar in pursuit of her personal political agenda. I would like to see the more questionable allegations in her editioral verified by a reputable source.
In any case, IMO, the ACORN act is much like those acts committed by groups like
Operation Rescue in the past, who would use civil disobedience to block abortion clinics, including questionable tactics against women entering such clinics and or the doctors/employees working in such clinics.
I recall Malkin praising such efforts in the past as "front line fighters for justice." So whats the difference between ACORN and Operation Rescue?
The ACORN (or Operation Rescue) dramatic and very public type actions are not my style of political protest, but if groups want to engage in acts of civil disobedience and accept the consequences, its ok with me up until the point they approach physical violence, personal intimidation or threats of violence, or gross destruction of property.