Brooklyn DA office: ACORN employees cleared of wrongdoing

"Mr. Hynes declined to elaborate on his decision. "

Need we say more?

I mean seriously, folks. Was anyone actually expecting anything other than a whitewash?

Yep Hugh, the outcome was no surprise:

I think a  poor alleged "pimp and prostitute" getting some help are the LEAST of America's worries.  My father was a member of the Catholic Worker,  who helped the black prostitutes and pimps as Jesus did.  Let's stop picking on America's poor.  Very few are Christian as Jesus was,  but let's hide the demonic vileness that comes spewing up at the sight of ACORN,  like Dracula looking at a crucifix. "Out of their own mouths they are condemned."    This is a nation where mega-corporate and political pimps and thieves run free,  and the weak die like dogs .  I was just harassed for this article in  private by a real bully, and I have to laugh at the twistedness of it all.  I am glad Hynes did as he did;  Oh, and I like Malcom X,  too!!!  And Barack Obama!  and Karen Hatter!  Yikes, what can be done???  

For an interesting argument on why ACORN bespeaks the failure of Republican ideology:  
The operative words above are: company and employees. Remember now, it is the Repubs who are pro-business... Remember now, it is the Repubs who are pro-private enterprise... Remember now, it is the Repubs who are pro-deregulation... Remember now, it is the Repubs who want to let the free market fix everything... There is no market more free than a black market in voter registration - completely lawless - observing no regulations - buying voter registrations for profit... Repubs should love this. According to their world view, this should fix all problems in the American political process. ACORN is a profit making company. Its employees work for money. None of these fraudulently registered folks are actually going to vote. It is not about getting them to vote. It is about making money. Just get someone to fraudulently fill out a voter registration application in a poor neighborhood, and make your paycheck. It is a great job, especially since about the only other jobs available in these neighborhoods are joining the military and dying for your country, or selling drugs and killing yourself and others that way, or selling your body and killing yourself and others that way. Filling out fraudulent applications is a great job in this "brave new" "free market" that the Repubs have created - nobody has to die. Of course, ACORN does get some legitimate registrations. Voter registration should only be done by non-profit volunteers but that would not be a free market.

See ACORN is: not tax exempt. Organizations that are not non-profit are profit making companies.

This is just one more small example of the failure of Republican ideology. Markets should be regulated for the benefit of the people. There should be no free markets in voter registration. Contrary to McCain's past positions, markets in sub-prime mortgage securities should be regulated and strictly controlled. There should be no free markets in human rights, (like health care).http://www.watchblog.com/democrats/archives/006238.html

Didn't someone once say, "Beware the ides of March"?

No doubt we all have our bad months and good months, just like we have our bad days and good days. Perhaps March is a bad month for some here and we should simply respect that and go on as friends.

God knows that friends are hard to come by in this  cold, cruel world . . . especially when one's very best friend is gone . . . .

What was the Senate vote last year on de-funding ACORN?

Let us recall, 60 members are Democrats, then we will say that 87 (eighty-seven) memebers of the Senate voted against funding ACORN.

Must be a whole bunch of racist Senators, to get a vote count like that!

Here are a few points out of the story that EVERY one should consider before attacking ACORN.

1. Only selected pieces of the tape have been shown, and those appear to be heavily edited--there are abrupt breaks in the action, for example, and the words of the prostitute/boyfriend duo have been altered by inserting voiceovers that make it difficult to know the questions to which the ACORN workers are responding. Also, the boyfriend had showed up at the office in the preppy attire of a college student, but in the released video snippets he appears in the garb of a pimp. Neither the videographers nor Fox News have been willing to make the full video available for review by ACORN or the news media.

2. This was not the first attempt by the two right-wing partisans to find someone, anyone, associated with ACORN who could be egged on to say something wrong. The duo tried their sting in at least seven other ACORN offices in addition to Baltimore, but they couldn't get the video they wanted. In fact, the staff in Philadelphia and San Diego called the cops on them.

3. While the two Baltimore workers played along with the stunt in the interview, no one in any ACORN office prepared or filed any papers or took any action whatsoever to pursue what the poseurs said they wanted. Beyond some comments in the interview, nothing improper happened, much less anything "corrupt" or illegal.

From The Republican Voter Fraud Hoax:

Those on the Right seem to be overlooking the fact that their people committed unethical acts when they barged into ACORN claiming they were someone they were not. They were not pimps or prostitutes...they were liars and frauds and cowards. If those of you on the Right feel comfortable defending liars and frauds and cowards, just go ahead on... it's what you did the entire eight years Bush was president.

Lot of facts there,nanute.

From you and the Hatter, both.

Just can't get my head head around the fact that 87 (eighty-seven), yes 87, US Senators voted down funding ACORN. If I do the math (you might check my arithmetic, I'm not the finest arithemtician to be found), that means that approximately 37 Democratic Senators voted against this very liberal vote getting machine.

Now tell me again, the facts and any extra-constitutional measures aside, why these 37 (thirty-seven), Democratic US Senators would vote against funding ACORN?  I really am curious.

Well,  I would agree:  There was something most unseemly about the whole set up:  It was a slimy entrapment.  It does not speak well of those who enacted it.  It reminds me of so much that is unseemly in police work:  The creation of crime where no crime existed,  just to trap someone into thinking on their feet.There should be some penalty.  

An excerpt from ACORN's Voter Regislation Drive: Myth and Realities: 

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

Hugh: This is what I think of Hugh:  Blink 182!

the preacher pounds his pulpit

and the choir girls squirm

That was just a little beyond sick and twisted, Mr. Cripps.