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Meantime, where is the post challenging anyone to defend an organization like ArmorGroup? That's the contractor charged with protecting the US Embassy in Kabul, whose employees have been caught in flagrante delicto engaging in heinous practices of sexual harassment and humiliation of subordinates, while collecting a huge stipend from American taxpayers. We're talking about contracts in the hundreds of millions of dollars. I can't say definitively how this compares to any subsidies ACORN receives from the federal government, but I'd be willing to bet it makes ACORN's government nut look puny in comparison.
It's funny how the ACORN staffers' transgressions throw the whole organization into question and rate a mention here, but not as funny as a couple of idiotic Republican governors who've made loud sanctimonious proclamations about cutting off their state funding of ACORN - when in fact ACORN receives no state funding. The only way these jackasses get taken seriously is because people have become unconscionably lazy and stupid. It's become too much trouble for too many people to bother questioning whether they're being lied to. Thanks to the Bush/Cheney administration, questioning the information we're fed by the right wing is considered "unpatriotic." It's a freaking disgrace.
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I don't defend wrong doing. I will say that Acorn didn't do it. People who worked for Acorn did it. If you work for or volunteer for a non-profit and decide to break the law, does that taint everything good that organization has done? I hope not. Those involved have been fired, an investigation is underway and they'll be punished in whatever way the law allows. What do you think should happen?
O.K. I'll bite and jump in.
I'm certainly not going to defend the people involved in this latest Acorn mess. If it's determined they broke the law then they should be prosecuted. But I think Acorn has done some valuable things in the inner cities. They brought a lot of people into the mainstream by getting them registered to vote. I believe they are also involved in legitimate issues like housing for low income families and access to other community services.
Acorn has been a buzz word, and a straw man, that Obama foes have been trying to attach to his coat-tails for the past couple of years. They don't like the fact that a majority of the poor Acorn got registered to vote, probably voted for liberal candidates. Can't have that!
Wonder if the people who are jumping with glee over Acorn's problems felt the same way about some of the illegal shenanigans pulled by big corporations? JMHO
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