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ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - swampy - 02-20-2009
BALTIMORE
"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 into our house," said Beverly. "Legally it's wrong, but homesteading is the only means that she has left to stay into her house. And we feel as though this is the right thing to do at this particular time to save this family..."
..."The group says it was staging similar demonstrations in six other cities nationwide while urging a moratorium on foreclosures."
http://wjz.com/local/acorn.foreclosure.2.939119.html
Civil disobedience and breaking the law and ACORN will teach you how.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - mattkime - 02-20-2009
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - kanesa - 02-20-2009
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - swampy - 02-20-2009
Another intelligent discussion contribution from the left. Thank you Kanesa.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - kap - 02-20-2009
swampy wrote:
Civil disobedience and breaking the law and ACORN will teach you how.
Civil or not, does not disobedience and breaking the law go hand in hand? MLK did that. Gandhi did it, too. Both paid dearly for their causes, or some would call "criminal activities". What about the Boston Tea Party? Was it not law breaking?
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - Lux Interior - 02-20-2009
Those ACORN dudes got big nuts
If you want an intelligent discussion, start by posting something intelligent.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - NeverMind - 02-20-2009
I bet you never even heard about ACORN before this election swampy.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - $tevie - 02-20-2009
Civil disobedience means breaking the law by its very definition. Think Thoreau, Gandhi, Martin Luther King. It also means that you fully expect to be punished for it.
The fact that you know about this incident proves the thinking behind it. Right or wrong, stupid or smart, dumb or clever: it got lots of media coverage and gave ACORN a chance to make their case to the public.
People that do this stuff know there could be arrests and even jail time.
Remember, they aren't murdering people, they are breaking into empty houses. Like I said, you can disagree with it but you can't deny it worked.
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - Mac1337 - 02-20-2009
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?
Re: ACORN Trains Citizens To Protest Home Foreclosures - Mac1337 - 02-20-2009
$tevie wrote:
Remember, they aren't murdering people, they are breaking into empty houses. Like I said, you can disagree with it but you can't deny it worked.
Are they for hire? I could use them.