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Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - $tevie - 02-20-2009
Civil disobedience. Look it up.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - Mac1337 - 02-20-2009
$tevie wrote:
Civil disobedience. Look it up.
That wasn't my question. I need to hire their "services". It is for a good cause.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - $tevie - 02-20-2009
You have to do it yourself. That is why I think you don't get it.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - swampy - 02-20-2009
Well, if you liberals are content with ACORN receiving tax dollars and using it to promulgate this kind of criminal behavior, good for you. I dont want a dime of my money going to this crap.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - cbelt3 - 02-20-2009
Sigh.
Nothing new. ACORN has been focusing on housing for decades. They had a big thing going in various cities with 'squatting protests' to fight for affordable housing, homeless housing, etc. A high school classmate of mine got his BA at U-Mich (yah, the Proletariat's Republic of Ann Arbor) , and went headfirst into ACORN. Ran into him a few years later (mid 1980's) and he was this wild-eyed guy, shoeless, flapping torn jeans, soliciting money from people at stop signs. We went and had a cup of coffee (my treat), and he chatted me up excitedly about the 'mission' that involved squatting in an abandoned building.
I gave him a $20 and a pat on the back. At least he was seriously putting himself on the line for his beliefs, and you gotta respect that. I wonder what happened to him. He was a brilliant guy, wealthy family, etc..
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - $tevie - 02-20-2009
I don't want a dime of my money paying for the war in Iraq. Life is unfair.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - NeverMind - 02-20-2009
swampy wrote:
Well, if you liberals are content with ACORN receiving tax dollars and using it to promulgate this kind of criminal behavior, good for you. I dont want a dime of my money going to this crap.
You worry about stupid things.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - kap - 02-20-2009
Dakota wrote:
And when I called them thugs everybody jumped on me. Comparing MLK with people who don't pay their mortgages? What are you doing to his name?
I was merely questioning the difference between civil disobedience and criminal activity. MLK was jailed because he broke the law hence he was a criminal.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - Acer - 02-20-2009
Since when did "affordable housing" require that you own your home?
How much effort was ACORN putting into making sure folks of limited resources had sound financial counseling to help them plan for their goals?
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - Gutenberg - 02-20-2009
ACORN does not get federal grants and does not have nonprofit status because its activities are often political. Can anyone show me a federal grant that went to ACORN?
ACORN Housing does not count. It is a nonprofit, has separate governance and administers low income housing.
So. Can anyone show me a federal grant that went to ACORN? Anyone? Bueller?