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Originally Posted by FSETH
ACORN workers have been convicted of submitting false voter registration forms. In some cases thousands of forms. This is not the same or as serious as voting fraud, but it still shows the character of the group from the top to the bottom with fraud and embezzlement from the founder all the way down to the worker bees.
Here is another great thing about ACORN.
Sometimes the group's tactics are confrontational, veering into civil disobedience. For instance, in the late 1980s, ACORN activists in a number of cities, including Chicago, seized abandoned houses and encouraged "squatting" by homeless people, in an attempt to force local governments to salvage abandoned properties and convert them into low-income housing. The targets of ACORN's protests sometimes describe the activists as intractable or even aggressive.
Of course I would be upset if Republicans were doing this. If this is a group that you feel is worthy of your support or our Presidents, then I am baffled.
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People on both sides have been acused. People on both sides have been convicted.
As for seizing abandoned properties; again, I don't see what the beef is. The property was abandoned, deteriorating, not benefiting anyone, so people squatted.
And BTW, squatting is not in and of itself illegal.
Again, my point is that ACORN does not support republican positions, so people try to demonize them by making all these claims tha they are immoral, criminal, and taking federal money. All that other BS that can be said of replublican organizations too. But somehow it is worse because ACORN does it.