Posted on 02/20/2009 9:00:14 AM PST by lewisglad
A community organization breaks into a foreclosed home in what they are calling an act of civil disobedience.
The group wants to train homeowners facing eviction on peaceful ways they can remain in their homes.
Derek Valcourt reports their actions are not without controversy.
Near Patterson Park, the padlock on the door and the sign in the window tell part of Donna Hanks foreclosure story.
"The mortgage went up $300 in one month," said Hanks, former homeowner.
She says the bank refused to modify her loan and foreclosed, kicking her out of the house in September.
The community group ACORN calls Hanks a victim of predatory lending.
"This is our house now," said Louis Beverly, ACORN.
And on Thursday afternoon, they literally broke the foreclosure padlock right off the front door and then broke into the house, letting Hanks back in for the first time in months.
"We are actually trespassing, and so this is a way of civil disobedience to try to stay in the house," said Beverly. "Legally it's wrong, but homesteading is the only means that she has left to stay in her house. And we feel as though this is the right thing to do at this particular time to save this family."
Inside, there's spray paint on the walls and evidence that someone has possibly been remodeling.
The group says it was staging similar demonstrations in six other cities nationwide while urging a moratorium on foreclosures. They want that until President Obama's stimulus plan begins on March 4. The plan is designed to help threatened homeowners.
"As you all can see, Donna is reclaiming her home, and she's putting a lock on her door at this time," said Beverly.
But that padlock won't stay there for long.
The current property managers told Eyewitness News they were unaware of ACORN's actions Thursday and were contacting the police and their lawyers
It’s not homesteading!
It’s B & E and criminal trespass.
OMG.
ACORN is where 0 got his talking points as community organizer. And they also contributed to his winning the election. They are an abomination.
Couldn’t ACORN be sued for this activity? They are the instigators of this, and it appears they are damaging private property. Does ACORN have any assets that could be attached? Real assets, I mean, not a bin of “I heart Obama” thongs.
And all the ACORN squatters should be hauled away to jail. Let the maggots protest in jail.
Tax protests being planned -
http://atlantataxprotest.blogspot.com/
Also see www.instanpundit.com Glenn has a poll up
Also see Rick Santelli’s protest page
Just so I understand, she signed for an adjustable rate, and when it adjusted, she couldn’t afford it? So they foreclosed? I don’t see where ACORN has a right to this do this..
that’s
www.instapundit.com for the tax protest poll
Think I better call my neighbors and warn them that their houses are sitting here unattended and will be seen as fair game.
Your tax dollars at work supporting Acorn. They are also trolling for foreclosurers with cold phone calls.
Enough already with this damn pond scum ACORN!!!!
Is this BHO’s idea of hope and change? Paid thugs rabblerousing?
“Predatory lending.” There is always a code word. Never your fault.
Someone should tell the owner ACORN is known to vandalize and strip a residential property of anything valuble if the eviction does go down. Gotta make da Man pay somehow.
Fumigate those homes. They obviously have a pest infestation problem.
ACORN has no right to be there, it’s all street theatre for the local news.
So now ACORN isn’t just a politically corrupt unlawful enterprise, it’s now an all purpose criminal enterprise. And since this is a multi-state effort, the feds should shut it down.
These are the same people that think the Death Tax should be so high that we lose my parents house should they pass on.
This could literally be the beginning of the end.
How come someone isn’t calling the cops while they are breaking into homes live on the local news?
Your tax dollars at work. I’m so glad my government is funneling millions of dollars of my money to ACORN.
Barack Obama praised Brazil’s economy. Squatting was part of the plan. (They really believe they have a ‘right’ to a house. -that is without working for it.)
This is why ACORN qualifies for all those Bailout dollars . . .
Tax funded ACORN committing felonies. I should be outraged..
“Is this BHO’s idea of hope and change? Paid thugs rabblerousing?”
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Yes.
Next question.
I have a feeling ACORN will become increasingly aggressive, probably taking on the Black Panthers as a paramilitary arm, until the productive have enough and start to take matters into their own hands. The best way to crack an ACORN is with a sledgehammer.
I would suspect the local cops realize that ACORN is tied at the hip with Obama. They may be afraid to take action. I agree your suggestion is the action they should be taking.
Even the president seems to be of the mind that folks are not going to be allowed to lose their homes, even if you and I have to pay for them so they don’t.
What a scam. You place folks into a home they can’t pay for. Then you blame the default on the economy. Then you gift them the home, because it just isn’t fair. They won’t be able to make the payments, so let’s call it what it is, a gift house.
If anyone mentions reparations again, they should be shot.
what happens when acorn goons start entering OCCUPIED homes?
these are left wingers, racists, and thugs when the murders start happening will acorn be held to account or will it still be dismissed?
Perhaps we should send a list or reporter’s homes to acorn to let them know that those reporters who support them would welcome their homes being taken over.
Will they try the same stuff in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis etc?
They are going to revert back to 20% down and financial history for a purchase. And the slums the illegal aliens created are going to be wright-offs financed by the US government. They are now abandoned homes and areas you don't want to visit.
Out of curiosity, and to see if things have changed, did anything like this happen during the 1930’s depression?
Put the house in a trust. The trust won't die. A good estate attorney should be able to assist you.
“Couldn’t ACORN be sued for this activity”?
...in “Rules for Radicals” top 10 rules by Saul Alinsky, Rule #5- “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage”.
In other words...”sueing” ACORN is a scary thing for ANYBODY considering the power of the press and the way they would slant this “lawsuit”. Then the ridicule starts. The “mean old banks” comments continue. bhussein joins in the rhetoric, tells people to “get in the banks faces” etc. These Marxists are very tight. They’re all in it together.
“”This is our house now,” said Louis Beverly, ACORN.
And on Thursday afternoon, they literally broke the foreclosure padlock right off the front door and then broke into the house, letting Hanks back in for the first time in months. “
Throw their butts in jail. ALL of ‘em.
Is it possible that this is the same Donna Hanks?
http://php.app.com/fed_employees/details.php?recordID=745685
A Federal employee - working for the Social Security Administration?
>It’s B & E and criminal trespass.
To take a phrase from Jurassic Park: “Shoot her! Shoot her!”
>OMG.
Indeed.
“What a scam. You place folks into a home they can’t pay for. Then you blame the default on the economy. Then you gift them the home, because it just isn’t fair. They won’t be able to make the payments, so let’s call it what it is, a gift house.”
Know what else? None of these people were the ones hurt by the economy crashing having their life’s savings destroyed...because these kind never saved a dime in their life....but why should they when they’ll be given it all?
It would be interesting to know how many of them were on government services to begin with.
These people weren’t even means tested in many cases.
A lot of hard working middle-income people would have loved to have had their own homes, if they had been informed how easy it was.
IMO< the reason so many poor know about it, was because they were hooked up by government offices where they were already receiving services.
They get to live in luxury - you get to pay for them to do it!!
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“IMO< the reason so many poor know about it, was because they were hooked up by government offices where they were already receiving services.”
Absolutely! Government funded groups are the first to get the goodies passed out...like LaRaza, Rainbow coalition, etc...you know the same groups Fannie Mae gives MILLIONS to every year.
Why don’t banks simply give the local sheriffs and police departments written permission to enter any foreclosed property they own, for any reason, to get rid of trespassers? I know in my old neighborhood it was extremely difficult for squatters, especially at night, to be arrested because the sheriff didn’t have permission from the owner to enter the property and do a search.
ACORN is an arm of the Democrat Party. They can do anything they want and get away with it(voter fraud, extortion, embezzlement, etc.) As long as the Democrats are in power, Acorn will be allowed to commit any crime. Stay armed, stay safe, stay informed.
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