President Barack Obama's favorite bunch of community organizers has been accused of a lot of unethical and potentially illegal things in the past such as rampant voter fraud. Republican supporters in the 2008 presidential election accused ACORN submissions of invalid voter registration applications as widespread vote fraud. A week ago, ACORN workers were charged for falsifying hundreds of voter registration cards in Florida. However, the Baltimore City ACORN office, just five blocks from Homewood Campus, has taken community organizing to a whole new level.
ACORN officials in Baltimore offered to help get a housing loan and falsify tax documents for a proposed house of prostitution that would employ underage girls from El Salvador. Undercover filmmaker James O'Keefe captured all of this on tape in order to see how far the ACORN employees would go. You can find the videos on YouTube and numerous blogs on the web. It is a creepy experience.
I probably should not have laughed, but I found the over-the-top pimp and prostitute clothing and acts absolutely hilarious. But I was more astounded by the fact that the two ladies from ACORN did not blink an eye, and proceeded to find tax and legal loopholes to assist a criminal enterprise.
Needless to say, authorities are involved now and the ACORN employees were fired. But really, the director and his assistant repeatedly pointed out that A) they were going to run a brothel and B) the girls were underage immigrants. At what point do you stop being a human and think to yourself, "Hey, let's help them get some federal money and evade the legal system while whoring out underage Latinos"?
This is disheartening since the government has directly funded over $31 million to ACORN since 1998. This number is probably substantially higher, considering the fact that ACORN has also received money indirectly from federal block grants distributed by states and localities. Stimulus money paid by millions of Americans is going to ACORN. Community organizing has definitely evolved to the point that, in addition to voter registration fraud, the organization gives outrageous advice on how to run an illegal prostitution business in Baltimore as well as how to fraudulently claim child prostitutes from other countries as dependents for income tax bilking purposes. Holy crap - are you listening, IRS?
Looks like the liberals owe the conservatives an apology for being super-obsessive about ACORN and its business practices. This does not mean that Al Gore is now the sole cause of global warming or that Barack Obama is actually the Antichrist in disguise, but let's give credit where credit is due. The federal government has been too lackadaisical with what organizations it is supporting and it needs to focus on cutting out wasteful and harmful spending such as this.
There seems to be some progress though. In light of recent issues, Congress recently voted to defund ACORN, and the Census Bureau last week severed its ties with ACORN. Can you imagine the kinds of questions they might ask when they knock on your front door?
I'm thinking that the question, "How many underage girls live here, and would they be willing to move to Baltimore?" could be pretty high on the list.
