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Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN):ACORN was founded in 1970 when Wade Rathke and other community organizers from the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) were sent to Little Rock, Arkansas. In the 1960s, the NWRO spearheaded a campaign of disruptions and sit-ins at welfare offices across the country. Their goal was to eliminate the eligibility requirements for welfare and to so flood the system with clients that the system would collapse. It was a form of left-wing anarchism designed to bring down the existing democratic capitalist system. We all know what ensued, however: A cycle of welfare dependency which destroyed individuals, families and communities across the country, many of them minorities who have never recovered. The black family was, as Charles Murray has outlined in Losing Ground, as intact as the typical white family in 1950. By the 1970s, however, it was caught up in a rising tide of illegitimacy, rootlessness, and poverty. In reality, the Great Society and the left-wing radicalism of NWRO did more to destroy the black family than centuries of slavery. Since then, ACORN has mushroomed into a nationwide coalition of community organizations lobbying for low-cost housing, health care, welfare rights, the “living wage,” and other far-left goals. ACORN has over 350,000 members and more than 850 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the United States, as well as in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and Peru. Closely allied with the Democratic Party, despite its nominal non-partisanship, ACORN has been heavily implicated in the 2008 banking crisis. The efforts of ACORN to secure low-rate mortgages for unqualified borrowers, combined with the assistance of Democratic members of Congress, led to the biggest banking and financial crisis since the Great Depression. ACORN's goals and methods are closely patterned after the ideology and tactics of socialist revolutionary Saul Alinsky, as outlined in his book Rules for Radicals (1971). Its aim is to unite welfare recipients and working people around such issues as housing, free school lunches, unemployment and Vietnam veterans' rights, and emergency room care. ACORN has also united with environmental groups to promote notions of “environmental justice,” a highly dubious campaign which asserts that polluting industries are purposely sited near minority neighborhoods. Environmental justice, like predatory lending, is primarily an Alinsky-inspired cover for a political union of leftists whose efforts are directed at bringing down the capitalist system by raising a sense of outrage among its constituencies, and increasing the vote for leftist candidates. In the 2008 election cycle, the ACORN coalition has emerged as the single organization most responsible for corrupting the election process in the United States. Its local affiliates have been investigated in more than a dozen states and many of its operatives have been convicted of voter fraud. Its canvassers in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Gary, Las Vegas, and many other cities have submitted thousands of phony signatures registered to non-existent addresses. ACORN’s response to these charges of massive voter fraud is to attack its accusers with charges of racially-inspired vote suppression. This is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. Shockingly, much of ACORN’s illegal voter registration efforts is financed by the American taxpayer. This, for example, takes the form of grants to such organizations as the ACORN Housing Corporation. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003 alone, the ACORN Housing Corporation received $1,710,203 “to provide low rent housing & loan counseling services to low income individuals.” As with other left-wing organizations which receive federal funding for specified activities (think Planned Parenthood), the monies are fungible. In other words, monies provided by the U.S. government for housing assistance free up funds in other ACORN accounts to fund direct political activity, including voter registration drives. The entire thrust of ACORN’s activities is directed less at aiding the underclass in improving their situation in life, as it is in increasing discontent, and increasing voter registration to vote themselves largesse from the federal treasury. Much of ACORN’s voter registration effort has been directed at dismantling traditional registration procedures and so flooding the offices of election officials that they are unable to verify the signatures submitted. It hires workers at minimum wage to collect signatures, which are often bogus. As Sol Stern has pointed out in a 2003 City Journal article, ACORN’s methods are simply a reincarnation of those employed in the 1960s by the National Welfare Rights Organization, the far-left group which gave it birth. Columnist Stanley Kurtz points out that, unlike the NWRO, ACORN usually flies below the radar in order to avoid detection, but promotes the same type of behaviors and causes destructive of the black community, among them the “living wage,” opposition to “big box” stores, combating “predatory” lending, and rolling back welfare reform. Its campaign against banks, for example, is conducted in such a way as to extort large contributions which are then used to finance its illegal voter registration activities. Its “in your face” tactics extend to physical confrontation, disruption of lawful meetings, and personal abuse. Barack Obama’s Ties to ACORN Contrary to the blatant misrepresentations on his campaign web site, Barack Obama’s ties to ACORN are long and deep. His work with ‘Project Vote’ was part of a partnership with ACORN. In fact, the extent of Obama’s connections to ACORN are openly revealed in an article in the radical journal Social Policy written by ACORN activist and National Association Board member Toni Foulkes. Among other things, Foulkes acknowledges that Obama was a key figure in ACORN’s leadership training programs. He credits Obama with being instrumental in creating the “shock troops” which, under the leadership of Madeleine Talbot, stormed the Chicago City Council chambers in 1997. Obama became skilled in inciting his trainees to adopt these direct, violent and confrontational tactics. It was a union of Alinsky and ACORN, using physical intimidation to gain what they could not through the peaceful democratic process. According to Kurtz, it appears that Obama also used his membership on several foundation boards to direct funds to organized political supporters, in violation of the tax guidelines which normally should have precluded partisanship. While ACORN would probably maintain the charade that its ‘get-out-the-vote’ activities were non-partisan, any disinterested observer would conclude otherwise. As disciples of Saul Alinsky, they would have felt no compunctions about using any means possible to achieve their desired objectives. Moreover, ACORN’s role in Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign reveal a deep involvement in the outcome. In 2008, the Obama campaign has donated over $800,000 to ACORN’s voter registration efforts. Obama’s own web site “Fight the Smears,” lies about Obama’s extensive involvement with ACORN because the truth would be devastating to his campaign. At its core, ACORN is a radical socialist organization which is attempting to impose collectivization on the United States. For anyone who understands Saul Alinsky’s methods, the current economic crisis can be seen as the catalyst for the kind of change necessary to bring about such a revolution. And the housing and banking crises created by ACORN and its minions in Congress can be interpreted as their means to that end. That revolution cannot be achieved solely by mobilizing the poor and disaffected. It requires assembling a coalition of various far-left groups, including radical environmentalists, radical feminists, labor union activists, and a sufficient number of middle class voters to constitute a majority. In reality, Alinsky had nothing but contempt for the middle class which he considered “materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt.” His task, and that of his henchmen, however, was to craftily enlist the middle class in furthering its own destruction. He recognized that in order to attract middle class voters, his operatives would have to drop the incendiary vocabulary and tactics, and adopt more mainstream standards of behavior, dress, etc. Barack Obama is Alinsky’s perfect front man for revolution. Handsome and charismatic, and with a gift for oratory, he is the perfect messenger for those too ignorant to comprehend the meaning and ultimate intent of his message. That message is straight out of Rules for Radicals, from the ubiquitous “Change” mantra to the slick oratory and polished appearance. But Barack Obama cannot escape his past, which defines his character and permeates his political philosophy. One could, perhaps, excuse one careless association in his personal history. But Obama’s entire life is replete with radical and corrupt associations, from communist poet Frank Marshall Davis, to William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Michael Pflager, Penny Pritzker, and ACORN’s Madeleine Talbot. When he was not cavorting with communists or socialists, he hung with corrupt real estate dealers who financed his first political campaigns while cheating the people of Chicago and Obama’s own constituents. Consumed by ideology, he nevertheless exhibited no compunctions in using the, now convicted, Tony Rezko to finance his political ambitions. For someone with as thin a record of executive experience and accomplishment as Barack Obama, character becomes an all-important measure of the man. And, based on his associations, and the manner in which he has attempted to disguise or rationalize them, the man is unfit to be President of the United States. What is astounding is that the mainstream media, normally hungry for scandal, treats these multiple associations with an astounding indifference because it’s clearly in the tank for Obama. Should Obama win this election, not only will our country be imperiled, but the mainstream media will be directly implicated in its destruction. As Shawn Hannity has said “2008 is the year journalism died.” More about ACORN:
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