“Muscle for Money”, extortion, fraud, intimidation, harassment, threat of violence, makers of mayhem, “off the hook”, “a living nightmare” are just a few of the many words and phrases that pops into your head when ACORN aka Community Organizations Intl. comes to mind. 

They are responsible for a rein of terror under the blessings of certain politicians that have brought about the economic upset of a nation, but after all, that is their plan.

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“…Demonstrations against the Virginia Beach-based firm were part of a Muscle for Money campaign funded by the Services Employees International Union (SEIU) against mortgage loans ACORN viewed as being too costly for low-income people.

After Jackson Hewitt and H&R Block negotiated agreements with ACORN, the group’s attention shifted to Liberty Tax, said the company’s founder and CEO, John Hewitt. Harrassment in the ACORN campaign began with threatening letters and culminated with protests aimed against corporate offices throughout the country.

Hewitt recalled meeting Wade Rathke, ACORN’s founder and then its chief organizer. ‘He was like a hippie right out of the 1960s,’ Hewitt said.

Liberty Tax agreed to make changes to give customers a better understanding of the mortgages they were receiving, but refused to go any further, Hewitt said.

‘All of sudden, four bus loads of homeless people pull up in front of our headquarters here in Virginia Beach,’ he said. ‘They came pouring into the building like a Mongolian horde. There was screaming and fighting. One employee was bitten and another was scratched. They both had to go to the emergency room.’

All of the protestors were arrested and Liberty Tax filed a complaint but it was later dropped because the legal expenses pursuing it would have required would easily have exceeded hundreds of thousands of dollars, Hewitt said.

Despite it all, Liberty Tax ultimately signed a long-term agreement to pay just under $50,000 a year to an ACORN affiliate, Hewitt said.

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ACORN’s muscling for money is nothing new

“ACORN has used threats and intimidation to advance its agenda since its founding in 1970 by Wade Rathke, who adapted the tactics he learned as a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society – a group former New Leftist David Horowitz describes as “the first terrorist political cult.”

In 1969, Rathke started a Massachusetts chapter of the militant Welfare Rights Organization founded by George Wiley. As Horowitz explains in his book, “The Shadow Party,” Wiley used the Cloward-Piven strategy (named for left-wing Columbia University sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven) to purposely overwhelm New York’s welfare system and thereby encourage either increased benefits or social upheaval…”

 

ACORN, the 2010 Census, $11 Billion and You: Are You Comfortable?

“The Census Bureau has been given $11 billion to conduct the 2010 census. Now we find that they are partnering with ACORN.

What ACORN claims to be and what they are is two different things.

ACORN claims to be a grass-roots movement for lower and lower-middle class families but they are actually an entity unto themselves with their own political agenda and they are not above using strong-arm tactics.

One thing about the new census as Chaffetz points out is that it must have the trust of the American people. It will not have that if ACORN does the census work.”