Jeremy Scahill: ACORN Got Pennies Compared to War Contracting Firms- Their Crimes Pale in Comparison

Rachel Maddow with the second half of her report on the political witch hunt of ACORN and the problems that the De-Fund ACORN Act is going to bring for private war contractors if it actually passes.

As Rachel notes the De-Fund ACORN Act has a bill of attainder problem. The Constitution prohibits the legislature from enacting bills of attainder, which means the De-Fund ACORN Act must also include "any company that's ever been indicted for breaking campaign finance laws, or that's ever filed fraudulent paperwork with any federal agency". That means a good deal of our military contractors are going to be swept up under the law as well and it cannot only be enforced against ACORN.

Rachel reads off a list of all of the military contractors that would have their funding cut off and goes into the list of other crimes like murder, prostitution and contract fraud that they have committed as well which pale in comparison to what ACORN has been accused of.

Jeremy Scahill is asked whether the war contractors are worried about this law touching them. His answer. "Hell no." It's all about politics and too many in Congress are bought and sold by our military industries. And as he notes, ACORN got pennies when compared the massive sums of money these private contractors received.

And as Media Matters has documented, the media has done their part to hype the ACORN corruption story while completely ignoring the real fraud that Scahill talks about in this segment.


10 min video

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/jeremy-scahill-acorn-got-pennies-compared

Billions have gone to the Mercenaries. Billions. and our troops electrocuted, sickened by polluted water on their bases and some jackass goes an unrecommended this post.

Shame on you!

know what's in the video?

Shame on you! :eyes:

not to hard to figure out.
I'm surprised by you..

What ever will Scahill do when he has no one to vent against?

Check this out, and the wheels grind slowly, I know that, but 640,000 hits?

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=blackwater+charges+&aq=f&aqi=&aq=f&aqi=&oq=blackwater+charges+&fp=69ff31901b811ad

I don't call it venting, I call it reporting.

and we simply cannot abide by that, regardless of how valid the criticism may be.