Comments on: Big Government, ACORN, and tax advice for underaged brothels.

By: cwilson

cwilson — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:37:36 +0000

What’s important about prostitution and human trafficking is that they are specific triggers for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO. The RICO law is designed to enable the Justice Department to go after criminal enterprises. It defines “racketeering activity” as including importing illegal aliens for immoral purposes, falsifying identification documents and immigration papers, mail and wire fraud, and the sexual exploitation of children, among others.

O'Keefe and Giles deserve a Pulitzer.

By: void

void — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:12:26 +0000

I’ve been blogging, tweeting, emailing and otherwise vocalizing the above idea for a few months now … time to get louder and turn their tactics against them … counter their actions by any legal means possible.

ACORN is the bane of liberty.

Breitbart is the bane of ACORN.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:18:08 +0000

that after ACORN”s initial response to the airing of the video made by Hannah and O’Keefe on national telly, they would then toss their workers to the media just as they had done with the eleven workers in south FL. Tossing their workers into a pit as a blood sacrifice is nothing new to Wade & Dale Rathke. BTW, Wade’s book “Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families” is a great promotion for Marxism. As one reader said, “The United States is “the land of the free,” not “the land where everything is free”. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that if you get enough votes, you can take what is mine and make it yours.”

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“The Democrats call themselves LIBERALS…but the only thing they are liberal with is the taxpayers money!!”

By: minncon

minncon — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:39:15 +0000

The ACORN Employees tax advice is here:

http://files.me.com/drcody/dhii0a

By: minncon

minncon — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:28:20 +0000

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:34:15 +0000

Her name is Hannah and she is a 20 year old journalism student. According to her statements during the program, it was her idea for the script. She called O’Keefe and they worked for 6 weeks planning how they were going to do it. When Glen Beck asked her who funded her (one his current schticks mocking astroturfing charges) she said “I drained my saving account to do the project.” She clarified that her account only covered her costs and O’Keefe covered his costs from his own funding.

By: randy streu

randy streu — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:32:07 +0000

it’s always good for a laugh.

By: gensec

gensec — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:29:25 +0000

… at least long enough to ask the obvious follow up that is.

In the linked article, ACORN claims that their office exposed offering to help underage prostitution was atypical (what they say every time ACORN is caught in criminality), and that other ACORN offices refused the same offer:

A spokesman for ACORN, Scott Levenson, when asked to comment on the videotape, said: “The portrayal is false and defamatory and an attempt at gotcha journalism. This film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed. ACORN wants to see the full video before commenting further.”

What’s that you say, there are more ACORN offices that were asked to help child prostitution??

Well of course we believe you. And of course you can point us to the police reports, where those ACORN offices called the cops to tell them about traficking in underage girls for the sex industry.

…

What, there are no police reports? So you’re saying that multiple ACORN offices were told about illegal sexual exploitation of children, but not one of them told the police about it?

So even if ACORN’s spin was true, it means that if you walk into an ACORN office with a proposal for underage prostitution, they’re more likely to offer to help you than to report you to the police!

By: danasdaddy

danasdaddy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:28:23 +0000

Who would ever have imagined a well-mannered, good-intentioned group of community organizers doing something so underhanded. This MUST BE a setup by the vast right-wing conspiracy! #tonguefirmlyplantedincheek

By: Robert A. Hahn

Robert A. Hahn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:08:21 +0000

Wow, this is as big a news story as Van Jones. It’s been on the Fox News site for five hours, and so far only John Fund at the WSJ thinks it’s newsworthy.

You’d think the Democratic Party Media wouldn’t be so anxious to get caught spiking inconvenient news so soon after having to eat crow on Jones, but here they go anyway.

By: larueladue

larueladue — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:00:27 +0000

By: larueladue

larueladue — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:59:45 +0000

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:19:24 +0000

And in this case, as The Gipper said, I don’t care who gets the credit. I just want the firestorm over this one to be even bigger than the one over Van Jones.

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:46:36 +0000

All of the ACORN incidents are just isolated incidents.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

By: Achance

Achance — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:34:23 +0000

Wouldn’t do for some nice Republican AG to do something like that, his friends across the aisle wouldn’t like it.

By: Richard Mullins

Richard Mullins — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:29:08 +0000

He posted a diary on this first and while you make more widely read, he did have it first.

By: cwilson

cwilson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:20:11 +0000

With all the widespread lawlessness of ACORN, can’t some enterprising DA bring a RICO case against the whole organization?

By: Steph C

Steph C — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:10:45 +0000

It’s a play on the “one bad apple…” hominem. At this point, I’m wondering how many bad apples it takes to know the whole bad.