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Originally Posted by depmats
Look up ACORN's activities with mortgage companies in the late 1990's and the beginning of this decade. I challenge you to really look at it and then call it anything but legalized blackmail. ACORN is far far from black college kids of the 60's trying to get equality.
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I know that ACORN is the latest and greatest bogeyman to the far right.
But ACORN did not commit commit widespread voter fraud during the last election as alleged by Malkin and others
There is not $$millions in the economic recovery bill for ACORN as alleged by several Republican members of Congress.
And ACORN did not blackmail loan companies as you allege, unless lobbying for the CRA is considered blackmail by wingnuts.
Filter out all the bullshit, including all of the above as well as the unsubstantiated and sensationalist allegations in Malkin's editorial, and judge the ACORN "home staying campaign" for what it is - a self-descibed act of civil disobediance.
I wouldnt participate in it, but I dont find it to be so outrageous...or at least any more so than other political acts of civil disobediance.
And that would go back to what was probably the first act of civil disobediance in the country (or soon to be country) - the Boston Tea Party.