Former Leftist Activist, Turned FBI Informant, Pulls Back the Curtain On ACORN

Big Government ^ | 9-12-09 | Brandon Darby

[kingattax]

I first experienced ACORN in post-Katrina New Orleans. I was part of a relief organization, Common Ground Relief, which had been delivering much needed aid to the 9th Ward, an area that had been hit especially hard by the flood waters and by neglect.

Rumors immediately began surfacing, questioning our motives and intentions. I was very confused by these rumors. Who was behind them? How could anyone question the vital work we were doing in the community? We lived and worked in the 9th Ward. We suspended our regular lives and, in many cases, left our families to travel to New Orleans to help those affected by Katrina and poverty. We slept on dirty plywood floors and shared everything we had with the residents. Most of us were white. Was our skin color the issue?

I knew from personal experience that the majority of the Black 9th ward residents didn’t care what color our skin was. It took me awhile to get over the hurt I felt at such allegations and to find out where they were coming from.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[cripplecreek]

ACORN doesn’t want anybody on their turf muscling in on their action.

[SECURE AMERICA]

I knew from personal experience that the majority of the Black 9th ward residents didn’t care what color our skin was. It took me awhile to get over the hurt I felt at such allegations and to find out where they were coming from.

Must suck to be a liberal. Guy is doing the right thing but his feelings are hurt because some asshats were talking bad about him?

[WHBates]

From the article:

"ACORN receives tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers to promote their agenda. Free speech is sacred, of course. However, it is clear that ACORN has made a practice of blurring the lines between free speech and tax-payer-funded activism."

How have we come to this place in our nation these are the same people that attempted to destroy our nation in the sixties. While we were sleeping are nation has been infested top to bottom.

[SkyPilot]

In the following weeks, I was made aware of the fact that ACORN had reopened its New Orleans office (several months after the storm). Various groups from around the city informed me that Acorn was upset with us because we were in “their” community and had not sought approval from ACORN to operate there. I was told that ACORN said that we were “privileged white people who had come to a Black community as saviors and we refused to work with local Black leadership.” The more I pondered the matter, the more I realized what was happening. As usual in marginalized and impoverished communities, a small group of radical self-proclaimed leaders was insisting that all local aid and relief came through them—even if they were AWOL for several months. Though the majority of residents either hadn’t heard of ACORN or simply disagreed with their politics- ACORN insisted that they were THE Black leaders.

Sounds like the situation I ran across in Somalia in the early 90's.

Thugs are thugs - and they are cowards. I worked Katrina relief too, and the real heros (the first responders, the military, the coast guard, and real relief organizations) were the ones the MSM and the Left blamed for an act of God.

Our "President" got paid by these domestic terrorists and criminals, and was closely associated with ACORN for years.

That alone would have disqualified him for even a SECRET security clearance.

ACORN receives tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers to promote their agenda.

Actually, ACORN got FOUR BILLION in taxpayer money in the Porkulous bill.

This is so outrageous that even the MSM can't cover it up.

Some people need to be arrested.

[ronnie raygun]

Now exposed we need to run with this, demand ZERO speak on this, demand our tax payer moneys given to this crime syndicate be stopped IMMEDIATLEY and crush this organization NOW!

[Guenevere]

bttt

[SE Mom]

Wow- this is a gutsy fellow. Thanks for posting!

[Venturer]

Those are exactly my thoughts.

This is the appreciation you get when you deal with people like ACORN. It’s actually funny in an ironic way, it’s the thanks the northern white soldier gets for fighting to free the blacks from slavery, and 99% of liberals just dont get it.

[Just mythoughts]

And the Jon Stewart media made darn sure they painted George Bush as a ‘racist’ devil not caring what happened to these people. I do note this guy who experienced first hand what he was accused of doing and being neglected to mention how far out the waves of the flood of lies traveled.

The Jon Stewart media will also get its own time of accounting for the flood of lies they have spewed.

[ElayneJ]

“While we were sleeping are nation has been infested top to bottom.”

Note what’s been happening in public schools for the past 40 years. The primary objective has been teaching multiculturalism - as Beck said, focusing on what divides us instead of what unites us - creating a nation of hyphenated Americans who talk about “their culture” instead of our American culture. And the theme of victimization and the absence of moral grounding. We created a vacuum and something had to fill it. Just my opinion, of course. :)

[Rome2000]

ACORN is a communist front organization and their lawyer is POTUS.

[ElayneJ]

From the article:

“She is also quoted as stating that “When people ask me, ‘What do you do?’ I say, ‘I create crisis’, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.””

It’s all about “change.”

[WHBates]

I agree completely.

[comps4spice]

And the state run media is their propaganda arm.

[ElayneJ]

I hope it’s not too late to turn this around.

[noodler]

thx also to the link-very interesting. In a Jeramiah moment i might say HAMERICAAASSSS ACORNNNZZZZ HAVVVVE COMMMMM HOEMMMMM TO ROOTTSSSZZZ. but i won’t.

[TADSLOS]

Ms. Fithian has been quoted in various mainstream news articles as saying, “Nonviolence is a strategy. Civil disobedience is a tactic,” and “Direct action is a strategy. Throwing rocks is a tactic.” She is also quoted as stating that “When people ask me, ‘What do you do?’ I say, ‘I create crisis’, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.”