The real reason they hope ACORN fails

There's been a lot of hoopla about secret hidden-camera videos of low-level employees of the anti-poverty group ACORN lately -- some of them quite embarrassing. I haven't seen any video yet from "real reporters" James O'Keefe or Hannah Giles of an ACORN employee who works in the agency's Charlotte, N.C., office by the name of Hector Vaca. And don't hold your breath waiting for Vaca to appear on the Fox News Channel anytime soon, because he doesn't fit the story line.

Vaca was one of eight ACORN employees in North Carolina who was just laid off because of funding problems -- problems closely related to the recent exposes by the right-wing media. His work had nothing to do with what millions of folks with the time and the money to be sitting on a couch watching TV at 5 p.m. when Glenn Beck comes around think ACORN mainly does, i.e., advising garishly dressed prostitutes and pimps. Vaca was actually helping folks in Charlotte who are battling the worst economic crisis in our lifetime and fighting for them to stay in their houses, a project so "radical" that Citigroup and Bank of America (just the kind of folks you'd expect to partner with ACORN in its vast "socialist" conspiracy) are backing it. It is work that is so important that Vaca is continuing to do it now, even without a paycheck:

In Charlotte, head organizer Hector Vaca spent time this week driving through neighborhoods, visiting homeowners who are struggling with their mortgage payments. The program, in partnership with Citi, aims to offer free advice to residents who could be facing foreclosure. Vaca, 35, said he hands out fliers and will offer his cell phone, too, to homeowners who want to call for free assistance right away.

Vaca, who said he grew up poor as the child of an immigrant, has been an ACORN organizer for three years."I love my job," he said. "I get to help people who have never been able to get the help they need."

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/The_real_reason_they_hope_ACORN_fails.html

Read the rest. It is a good followup to the ACORN piece Rachel aired last night.

It's not enough for the ogres at the top economic tier that they keep poor people from voting. They want every dollar they can swindle out of the poor too. Can't have a group registering them to vote AND know their rights, know what resources are still there, know how to keep the bank from taking what little they have....

Oh, and they want the poor to be invisible so the working class and middle class might still remain calm until it is time to devour every last one of those groups too. ACORN made the poor less invisible. The top tier hates that.

What is up with that? I thought the vid would be up all over the place this morning?

I know very little about them. Most I've learned quite recently.

the attacks against them seem kind of lopsided and manufactured by the right wing.

As near as I can figure, they have been sloppy at times, and possibly not tightly and professionally managed, but my guess is the real reason the right is in such a tizzy is that ACORN tends to help poor black people!

And when they help these poor blacks register to vote, the right suspects the new voters vote overwhelmingly Democratic!

The right wing fervor seems rooted in both racism and hatred of blacks and also a subversion of democracy in trying to prevent poor people from voting.

ACORN also helps people that are getting screwed by their banks and helps poor people prevent bankruptcy. They're one of the few nationwide organizations dedicated to helping the poor "work their way up" in our savage system, and the right is trying quite successfully to destroy them? (there is probably many other nationwide orgs focused on helping the poor? I dunno)

You would think the right would applaud any organization that strives to turn poor people in to middle class people?

Rachel pointed out even Corporate Propaganda main stream media is getting this story completely wrong!

Compassionate bunch, these righties!

-90% jimmy

Anyone listening to the underlying messages and intentions of Jame O'Keefe's (O'Kreepy) and Faux Noise's campaign against ACORN knows that the Radical Right is back at one of its usual behaviors--waging class warfare from the top down on the poor and working-class Americans. It's an old schtick used by the Bourbon Reconstructionists, their southern Republican successors, and their allies elsewhere in the country.

Class warfare is still class warfare when it is being waged from the top down. You don't have to be a radical to see the obvious. You don't have to be a liberal to see the obvious. All you need is to have a brain and know how to use it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=377131&mesg_id=377131

here's a link to the DU political video section. Originally posted last night 10-ish.

-90% jimmy

It's so refreshing to hear her (and some select others) actually discussing these things which the rest of the media "overlook" somehow.

Yay for journalism.