By Seth Richardson
If you are a prostitute hoping to open a brothel employing 13-year-old El Salvadoran sex-slaves, and you need help with the paperwork because when you present your business plan to bankers, they discriminate against you by tossing you physically out of the door and calling the police, never fear, ACORN is here to help you get a fraudulent government loan. Not only that, but ACORN will also provide you with a free tax advice professional who will show you how to commit perjury, violate RICO statutes, engage in income tax evasion and fraud, evade employment taxes, cheat your child-prostitute employees and otherwise manipulate the system to make your “business” appear legitimate.
In two cases now, in Baltimore and Washington D.C., ACORN employees were caught on hidden video and audio advising a pair of journalists posing as a prostitute and her pimp how to beat the system and violate federal and state laws. The videotapes, available at Glenn Beck’s website, are damning evidence of yet more corruption at ACORN (as if any more were needed to institute a RICO investigation). Already under investigation in 13 states for voter registration fraud, and having admitted to falsifying more than 400,000 voter registrations, at least 50 ACORN employees are under indictment for criminal offenses. ACORN officials predictably throw these low-level dupes under the nearest bus while trying to maintain plausible deniability, but the stench rising from the former funeral home in New Orleans that houses nearly 300 front organizations linked to masterminds Wade and Dale Rathke may finally be overwhelming the normally immune-to-the-stench-of-corruption bureaucrats and elected officials on Capitol hill.
The breaking news is that the Fox News Channel’s Major Garrett is reporting that the Census Bureau director Robert Groves has sent a letter to ACORN severing all ties with ACORN for the upcoming 2010 census. A small victory perhaps, but an important crack in the facade of the Obama-approved “community organization” that has every appearance of being nothing more than a giant organized crime ring run by Wade Rathke, one that has already obtained more than 53 million dollars in taxpayer money, and stands to gain access to more than 8 billion in stimulus money in the coming months. This is a start, but the Justice Department and Congress need to launch a full series of investigations of the Rathke brothers and ACORN, as well as the host of shell organizations that they evidently use to frustrate the ability to account for taxpayer money properly.
The cracks in the facade are important because the only hope for the future of the Republic is, as I predicted some time ago, that the liberal fascists in Congress, once in power, would be utterly unable to restrain their base motives and have gone insane with power. The good news is that we the People now see them, and their former employee and booster Barak Obama for what they really are, and the slumbering giant is aroused.
It’s going to be a difficult time, but on this day of all days, the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed more than 3000 U.S. citizens and others, we must remember who we are as a nation, and how we responded on September 12, 2001 to a threat to the Republic. We responded with courage and compassion, with strength and self-sacrifice, with altruism and loyalty to our fellow citizens and the ideals expounded in the Constitution, with resolve and dignity, and with an undying determination to remain the beacon of hope and freedom that drives the huddled masses yearning to breath free to board leaky boats and build rafts from inner tubes and venture forth across hundreds of miles of open ocean in an attempt to reach this golden shore and the promise of liberty and justice.
Remember the victims of 9/11/2001, and then think of the despicable corruption of ACORN and the taint it leaves upon the presidency of the United States, and ask yourself, “Is this the sort of fundamental change that I want for my country?”
If it’s not, then it’s time to stand up and hold the President and Congress accountable to the will of the People.
© 2009 Altnews
A follow up. Finally found the Sep 11th Gazette in the trash compactor. Jeff is right. The Gazette did cover the pimp and prostitute.
I emailed Jeff Thomas about the lack of coverage. His response was -
We’ve published two news stories regarding ACORN in the pages of the Gazette during the past week. The first appeared Sept. 11 on page 10, and the second appeared Sept. 12 on page 12.
I checked the Sep 12th article. It only mentioned ACORN voter registration fraud. Couldn’t find the Sep 11th edition (think it is in the bottom of the trash compactor). Can someone check the article in the Sep 11th edition. I suspect it also does not mention the pimp and prostitute.
What an amazing week this has been to realize how biased our entire Nation has become, to give a pass to an organization who blatantly condones criminal activity over and over again, in numerous locations. Not only does our local paper not cover this story with Acorn, but neither does almost all other media across this Nation. What has this country become? How far-reaching are the tentacles which direct the slant in which we receive our news? There is NO excuse for the silence on this story. What a sad day for America!!
I fear for its future!
Indeed. Of course ACORN still tries plausible deniability by claiming that these are rogue employees. Fortunately, the pair that broke the story were smart enough to go to at least four different ACORN offices and get the same results before they blew the lid off the story. They should get a Pulitzer Prize for their work.
As to the sorry state of journalism, recent polls indicate that more than 60 percent of the public no longer trust the media to be unbiased. I can’t say it’s an unwarranted position to take. Frankly I’m amazed it’s that low. I’m a journalist and *I* don’t trust the media any more either. There is no real answer as long as our new journalists are being educated by hard-left liberal J-school professors and the existing bureaucracy cares more about ideology than facts.
I’m hoping though that the public will demand, and can find, the real journalists who remain and find was to support them and their organizations. I was highly gratified that John Stossel finally jumped ship and moved to Fox. I never could understand how he could stand to be where he was.
If more credible journalists would do this, and seek out newspapers like the Gazette that are (putatively) dedicated to actual journalism and go to work for them, perhaps we could have a few newspapers that people will come to trust. I don’t hold out much hope though. I think that citizen-journalists are the wave of the future, and the inherent problems with credibility and attention to detail will render the “big scoop” and Pulitzer-worthy reportage a thing of the past. We will have to be much better informed (a good thing) and far less credulous (also a good thing) than we have been in the past, because the burden for vetting our news will devolve to us, I’m afraid.
Seth, no you are not chopped liver, but you are also not the news section or the opinion section. I am just terribly disappointed with the Gazette. Is it possible newspapers all over the country are afraid of being sued? Or are they afraid of something worse? They can’t possibly believe their readers shouldn’t know about about this mess. Heaven help us if they don’t want their readers to know about it.
I spoke with Wayne and he said the paper has been getting hammered with complaints about this, which is a good thing. I’m hoping they will have to face up to it tomorrow. Keep the pressure on, it’s the only way that the news section will capitulate. I hope Wayne will get on it as well, particularly now that the Senate has voted to deny HUD funds to ACORN.
Seth, HELP. What is going on with the Gazette? No news item or opinion piece about this ACORN business. Does this show Glenn Beck has it right, this country is in big trouble?
Well, there was MY opinion piece. What am I, chopped liver?
Anyway, your point is well taken, particularly as regards the news section reportage.
As for what’s going on at the Gazette, it’s the same old stuff, different day as far as I can tell. The newsroom picks its priorities and the editorial section picks its. I phone it in, so I’m not privy to all the scuttlebutt and rumors at the Gazette, but I’ll mention it to Wayne.
For news coverage, you’ll have to badger the news editors I’m afraid, or as I said to Jesse, contact the President and allow the poo to descend the inclined plane.
Hello?! Gazette?! Where are you?! How do you call yourself a newspaper and not cover this story? Is there any wonder that readership is down? Don’t blame it all on the internet. If that was the only reason, you would have been out of business years ago.
I’m afraid I have to agree with you, Jesse, the news division has been evading this issue. Then again, the news division and the editorial section have vastly different editorial philosophy, and the newsroom is evidently pretty typically liberally inclined.
However, there is no journalist excuse for not covering this story or the fact that the Senate has voted to deny HUD money to ACORN as a result of this scandal.
They will write about a “boycott” of South Carolina over Rep. Joe Wison’s truth-speaking during Obama’s speech, but not about rampant corruption and criminal acts by ACORN employees who see no problem with helping facilitate child sex slavery.
You might want to write to the Publisher, Steve Pope, and the Editor, Jeff Thomas, and I also recommend that readers write directly to the President of Freedom Newspapers, Inc., Jonathan Segal to express their concerns or displeasure, or their support and appreciation of the editorial practices and philosophies of both the news division and the editorial division.
jsegal@link.freedom.com
Freedom Communications
17666 Fitch,
Irvine, Ca., 92614-6022
I find it telling that the president is not saying he had nothing to do with this and throwing his acorn friends under the bus.
I find it surprising that there has not been a mention of this expanding scandal in the Springs Gazette or on any of the local TV news stations.This has got to be a story of interest to every citizen who pays taxes.