New report reveals the truth about ACORN

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Ties to voter fraud, union busting, poor labor practices, and federal grant violations just a few chapters in ACORN’s notorious history

By Employment Policies Institute 7/6/06, Washington, DC –A new report released today by the Employment Policies Institute reveals the truth behind the community group ACORN, including new information about the group’s hypocrisy over paying their employees the minimum wage, ties to voter fraud, federal grant violations, and union-busting. ACORN and Minimum Wage Hypocrisy – ACORN is a vocal proponent of minimum wage hikes—except when it applies to them. ACORN actually sued the state of California to have its employees exempted from the state minimum wage. ACORN argued that being forced to pay higher wages would mean that they would be unable to hire as many employees—the very dilemma faced by businesses.

Not only does ACORN fail to pay their employees the “living wage” which they advocate, but ACORN’s failure to pay their employees overtime or in a timely manner has led to demonstrations and lawsuits against the group.

ACORN and Voter Registration Fraud – ACORN has been linked to voter fraud in at least 12 states, including Ohio in 2004. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group; in Franklin County, two ACORN employees submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms; a grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN employee for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form.

ACORN and Federal Grant Violations – The ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC) had a $1 million government grant stripped after it was caught using the funds illegally. Evidence uncovered by the Inspector General of the AmeriCorps program found that AHC utilized the AmeriCorps grant to increase ACORN membership, a violation of federal guidelines. AHC had distributed leaflets stating that low-income, first-time homebuyers were required to join ACORN (at an annual cost of $60) in order to receive the government-subsidized counseling which was supposed to be free. Despite this apparent fraud, the group continues to receive millions in taxpayer dollars.

ACORN Union-Busts Its Employees – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found that ACORN violated the National Labor Relations Act and required the group to rehire and pay restitution to employees terminated for attempting to form a union. ACORN employees have historically demanded higher wages, safer working conditions, and more timely payment of contracted wages. These efforts have been repressed behind closed doors by the hypocritical ACORN leadership, which organizes tens of thousands of public and private sector employees into unions.

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ACORN - The Indictment Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree
November 3, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The acronym ACORN stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It's a hard left remnant of the model developed by the notorious communist "organizer" Saul Alinsky in the stockyards of Chicago in the 1930's. ..

Saul Alinsky and the Lessons He Taught Bill and Hillary
Author: Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky Courtesy the Wanderer
http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/Alinsky-SaulRef.html
Saul Alinsky wrote two books outlining his organizational principles and strategies: Reveille for Radicals (1946) and Rules for Radicals (1971).

Rules for Radicals opens with a quote about Lucifer, written by Saul Alinsky: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."

In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky says: "Here I propose to present an arrangement of certain facts and general concepts of change, a step toward a science of revolution." He builds on the tactical principles of Machiavelli: "The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-nots on how to take it away."

Rules for Radicals is concerned with the acquisition of power: "my aim here is to suggest how to organize for power: how to get it and how ot use it." This is not to be done with assistance to the poor, nor even by organizing the poor to demand assistance: "...[E]ven if all the low-income parts of our population were organized ... it would not be powerful enough to get significant, basic, needed changes."

Alinsky advises the organizer to target the middle class, rather than the poor: "Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is."

Alinsky is interested in the middle class solely for its usefulness: "Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority."

To accomplish this, Alinsky writes that the organizer must "begin to dissect and examine that way of life [the middle class lifestyle] ... He will know that 'square' is no longer to be dismissed as such -- instead his own approach must be 'square' enough to get the action started."

Rules for Radicals defends belief that the end justifies the means: "to say that corrupt the ends," writes Alinsky, "is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles ... the practical revolutionary will understand ... [that] in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind."

Altogether, Alinsky provides eleven rules of the ethics of means and ends. They are morally relativistic:

"The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind."

"The second rule of the ethics of the means and ends is that the judgment of the ethics of means is dependent on the political position of those sitting in judgment." Alinsky elaborates his meaning on this point, saying that if you were a member of the underground Resistance, "... then you adopted the means of assassination, terror, property destruction, the bombing of tunnels and trains, kidnapping, and the willingness to sacrifice innocent hostages to the end of defeating the Nazi's. Those who opposed the Nazi's conquerors regarded the Resistance as a secret army of selfless, patriotic idealists ...." Rules for Radicals is therefore concerned with how to win. "...[I]n such a conflict, neither protagonist is concerned with any value except victory."

"The third rule of the ethics of means and ends is that in war the ends justifies almost any means."

"There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds, he becomes a founding father."

Rules for Radicals teaches the organizer that he must give a moral appearance (as opposed to behaving morally): "All effective action requires the passport of morality."

The tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends states "that you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments ... Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means."

Rules for Radicals provides the organizer with a tactical style for community organization that assumes an adversarial relationship between groups of people in which one either dominates or is dominated.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:5:./temp/~c1109ELV8i:e647497:

H.R.3221

Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)
SEC. 2401. HOUSING COUNSELING RESOURCES.

There are appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year 2008, for an additional amount for the `Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation—Payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation’ $100,000,000, to remain available until December 31, 2008, for foreclosure mitigation activities under the terms and conditions contained in the second undesignated paragraph (beginning with the phrase `For an additional amount’) under the heading `Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation—Payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation’ of Public Law 110-161.

Check out their Grantees!!!!!
http://www.nw.org/network/nfmcp/documents/AwardeesbyGrantAmount-FINALforwebstie.pdf

Acorn, LaRaza...!!!

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