If all goes as planned, on April 1, America will wave farewell to a very large and overtly corrupt organization. News came out yesterday that ACORN – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – is shutting down on April Fool’s Day. Irony? Maybe.
ACORN has been so tainted by its inexcusable behavior over the years that it has no other choice but to close up shop. They were essentially a legalized, and government supported, mafia; bullying their way to power, crippling the very people they claim to work for.
Let me tell you something: If you know what is right, if you know what is pure, and if you can but for a second imagine attaining and sharing those things, then you must will all your power seek it out. If you do not, then the memory of that moment you imagined will forever itch inside your head and ache inside your heart until you are ruled by fear and tormented by regret.
That was the feeling I had carrying out the ACORN project, that’s what has kept me functionally sane during the aftermath of the video releases, and that is what drives me forward. You’ve seen the product of the actions taken by James O’Keefe and me last summer. Its time more people with a hunger for righteousness began, as Robert Greene said, exploiting “the chaos of the world instead of succumbing to it.”
We live in a quick cruel world that demands we bolt out of dreamland and wipe nostalgia’s sweet kisses away. Principles and beliefs are ageless only so long as those who possess them see to it they are not forgotten. Societies will always tend towards all things bad if the powers-at-be do not lead wisely and are not held accountable by the people.
The future is a blank canvas, a giant glowing question mark held in place by eternity. This is something that would send most people into a tailspin of wonder ,anxiety and fear. But to others, this makes life a bit simpler, an unknown future ought allow us to fully operate and thoroughly enjoy the present moment.
Challenge: take a step back and look at life on the Grand Scale. We are but specks of dust, here today gone tomorrow. What kind of spec are you going to be: The kind that gets swept under the rug? Or the mote that flies into the eye of deceit, threatening to agitate it beyond repair and forcing it to submit to truths brutally thorough cleansings?
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Well done young lady…well done!
Hannah,
You truly performed a public service exposing these pondscum. Don't think for a minute that they are going away. These people NEVER go away!
I know most of us expect great things from you in the future. You will be an important soldier in the fight. Thanks for all that you do. These bastards finally pissed me off enough to get more involved. People like you serve to balance them by providing a positive reason to be involved. I not only see the enemy, I am bolstered by all of my friends. Thanks to all the people who add positive, constructive, and motivational posts here. We can, we must and WE WILL WIN!
Great job you've done Hannah and I hope that the organization does explode. However, evil never goes away and there are some that think that Acorn is just blowing smoke. http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/23/aco...
great job
x's & o's
I was appalled at the actions of the Acorn workers and am glad you all had the guts to expose them. Unfortunately most Acorn offices are just renaming themselves and it will be business as usual. I believe I even read somewhere that their funding has been reinstated. If you think we had voter fraud this last election cycle, wait until the next one.
This lady can write. This has to be some of the most profoundly stirring prose I've read in some time. ____"We live in a quick cruel world that demands we bolt out of dreamland and wipe nostalgia’s sweet kisses away." Stirring, fabulous. You have my ear from this day forward. Keep up the fight.
ACORN's takedown is now part of your legacy.
However, they'll be back under a different name. Maybe, Chock Full O'Nuts?
Great job, Hannah! Your country needs you. Keep up the fight.
you and James did yeoman work on this and TRULY embarrassed some very dodgy folks…
But do not be fooled by this sanctimonious retreat; much puffery is taking place here. You must stay vigilant; and continue to bring these misdeeds into the cleansing atmosphere of open sunshine.
Good luck…
https://secure.ahcoa.org/
Acorn new face.
You both did a great job and shook their system, but they are very corrupt and determined
They just come back with different names and get the grants again.
This is the website and they have a FACEBOOK page. I would not post anything negative because I still want to see what's going on instead of them kicking me out.
https://secure.ahcoa.org/
Excellent work. Now if you would, please expose those bogus rallies for illegal amnesty. How is it that 50,000 illegal aliens can afford to take a day off work, travel to Washington and hang out. I work, put my kids through school, volunteer in my community and I don’t have the option to march. Working people don’t have time to assemble and protest at the drop of a hat.
Who is paying their way? Who paid for the signs that were all from the printers? Who paid for all of the equipment and fees to assemble?
This is not a grass roots movement – it is organized and funded from outside.
Don't count your acorns yet. Here in Arkansas where ACORN was founded, they have already rebranded themselves and changed the signs. They are still there, just with a different color. Money will start rolling in any minute.
I agree. To bad the rally wasn't in Phoenix, then the best Sheriff in America, Arpaio, could have had an awesome sweep.
Excellent shot.
But the liberal zombies will keep coming.
Your next target, should you choose to accept it, is Obama himself.
yeah flowery…oh please! suck up the attention. obviously needy for it. Acorn is hardly gone. And if you believed that flowery speech in the least, you would admit it. instead of spreading propagana yourself, for adulation. [stirring quote was taken from a book I read. will remember soon. ]
Yeah, look at this: Same address as acorn and some fax number. ummmm…things that go bump!
Offices – Arizona
Affordable Housing Centers of America
1018 West Roosevelt Street
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Phone: 602-253-1111
Fax: 602-258-7143
**********************
Phoenix ACORN
1018 West Roosevelt St.
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Phone: 602-254-5299
Fax: 602-258-7143
Charter buses and box lunches and cases of water are not free either. Oh, I bet SEIU paid a bunch because if we get another 30 million immigrants with no skills then they can have more members. Or, perhaps the Democratic party who want their votes?
Good job Hannah.
Plenty more work to do.
Thanks.
Fly into the eye of deceit, Hannah…and tap it out!
YUP used to be ACORN and how nice they are centered in Chicago too! Just one more head on the evil serpent.
I heard that Congress is still funding ACORN. If this is true, it is possible that our taxes will be used for them to settle some of their debts in Bankruptcy Court(s), I'd guess. DOES Anyone out there have some info on this concern??? thanks,
& way to go, hannah!!!
I look forward to new dirt that will be stirred up in the future as ACORN morphs itself into its newest agency. I also look forward to more of these groups being exposed for their immoral or politically maligned opposition to our Constitution. I am sure that Hannah and James have started a new trend of investigative journalism which will be necessary for the survival of our country, it will ultimately help us to balance the budget in the future as all of these parasitical groups sucking the life blood from our Nation are exposed for what they truly are….parasites who destroy….
Acorn is just breaking up into many smaller units. Just making sure they are under 50 employees per to get under the limit of providing health care.
Now if we could take down all of the other government sanctioned organized criminals known as "unions", they are the root of this problem and they have been since the 1930s the first time they flexed their muscles.
Take down SEIU and the rest will follow, Andy Stern and Richard Trumka are the heads of the modern La Cosa Nostra and these thugs are the brute force behind the power mad radical left..
JFK knew what they were and he was very likely killed by their hand because of it…
When they run out of love for Obama will the SEIU do the same to him…?
(snore)…
Great writing Hannah! You are truly an inspiration to me! I'll do what I can to be that "fly in the eye of deceit" from this end. I know you'll hold up yours! God bless you. God bless James. I have every confidence that we will win this war against this President of "God damn America" Barack Hussein Obama and his comrades who are trying to enact a coup d'etat on America. Darkness is always overcome by the light.
Ms. LEWIS: We are ACORN, Inc. I'm still Bertha Lewis. We still have a board the board may be smaller. I'm the ACORN lady. No, we continue to fight. Poor people haven't gone away. Black folks haven't gone away. People of color haven't gone away. And as we've seen in this last drama around health care, organizations like ours are needed now more than ever.
Hmmm which class of the above 3 do you fit? All?
Buh, bye!
If you can't debate, you can disappear…
You guys can claim credit all you want but ACORN gets the last laugh. They had an impact in stealing enough elections to get this the "Health Care Bill" passed. They lined the pockets of rich white bankers and politicians that ran them from the shadows. I have no doubt that you guys forced them to rename themselves but they are to good of a front for politicians, media, and corrupt bankers to disappear
Give 'em hell, Hannah! Viva la conservative tsunami !!!!!!!!!!
You are trash Diggy!
To the coward that goes by the screen name of "Diggy", you are pure scum!
You can't rationally disagree with someone in a civil way so you post this trash…?
"Diggy · 22 minutes ago
Don't quit your day job whore."
Try actually learning how to argue against a point instead of resorting to typical low brow liberal scum bag tactics!
I hope somebody sues your butt off for harassment!!!
I spent this weekend getting rid of overgrown blackberry bushes. Can't just cut down the green, you need to dig up the roots too. And to be sure, put everything in the trash and don't leave any of it laying around least it start growing again.
Thank you Hannah, I pray that you, James and Andrew are grooming an army to continue your work because an army is what it will take.
You put forward some outstanding thoughts there, sistuh, poignantly expressed.
Great job, Ms. Giles!
Can you back up your claim?
Can you cite a "reputable" source?
By the way media matters is NOT a source nor is the Huffing-paint Post.
Try again.
Everyone keep an eye open for the next disguise they use. Acorn is gone but not for good. They will re-emerge as a newly named liberal supporting, Soros funded, unethical, baby killing, group of b@stards that will need stopping. So keep that one eye open!!!
"Societies will always tend towards all things bad…"
Yep, entropy is the natural order unless the guided hand intervenes.
Hannah gets it.
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
[For a light hearted take on our present peril]
Well Meat for Brains,at least your name fits you. Why don't you stop and think for a minute if you ever do actually have the capacity to have an original thought. Why would a young woman of Hannah's talents and age do what she did? There are a million easier ways she could have attained fortune and fame without subjecting herself to the likes of you. Yet she did it knowing full well the accusations and ignorant rhetoric that would be hurled her way. It would be a waste of time for me to try to explain any of it to you so I won't. As for Hannah, she doesn't owe you or any one else any explanation. Her work speaks for itself and if you can't understand that, then go give all your money and time to some sympathetic progressive Democrat and remind him of all the rights you should have and how you need to be taken care of by other peoples money. What a moron.
Could use some editing.
Report his post for "libel"
I agree WELL DONE. Please go after SEIU….
Why was I given a thumbs down? All I was alluding to was that ACORN is likely to just start sprouting up everywhere if we are not vigilant.
Hi Michael,
Yes, no organization that is politically connected could weather that video of ACORN counseling folks to break the law.
Liberal or not, conservative or not, a public sting of that kind demands all politicians, and government agencies, to turn their backs. After all, when funding comes from the very source that is making the laws, and the law (of ethics if nothing else) is being so egregiously violated, there is no other course than for lawmakers and grantors to turn move their money and tax exemptions elsewhere, even if one feels that victimless crime should never be prosecuted.
Thanks for carrying this story.
Dr. Ann Voisin
Missy8s is "DiggySlayer"!
Good job…
Any recipes for deposed troll? Seems a waste to just let 'em rot. Think of all the welfare recipients we could feed! Kinda like processing roadkill, no???
That's how the lefties read it, so they flagged you down for it…
The adage is true…
To anger a conservative lie to them, to anger a progressive tell them the truth…
When you see trash like "Diggy" use the "report" button, if they can't behave in a civil manner use it.
That goes for profanity, misappropriation of screen names, using offensive screen names and making unfounded or libelous claims.
Link to the Breitbart Terms of Use agreement:
http://www.breitbart.com/terms_of_use.php
Use it when you know you are right!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor...
NPR late this afternoon. ACORN IS NOT DEAD we are just reorganizing per Bertha.
Just more DAMN LIES. Fed Judge ordered funding restored I think it was 03/16/10. Peter Orszag issued a White House letter Sunday (I read it then but can not find it now) to all governmental agencies to turn on the money. Never let a good crisis (House Dog & Pony Show) go to waste. Acorn will get temp funding from a bank or two today and do a name change in a few weeks and then fold the ACORN shell. SAME PEOPLE will be in NEW AND IMPROVED Community Organizations. Did anyone really think that Barack Hussein Obama would really allow his campaign staff to be shut down?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor...
NPR late this afternoon. ACORN IS NOT DEAD we are just reorganizing per Bertha.
Just more DAMN LIES. Fed Judge ordered funding restored I think it was 03/16/10. Peter Orszag issued a White House letter Sunday (I read it then but can not find it now) to all governmental agencies to turn on the money. Never let a good crisis (House Dog & Pony Show) go to waste. Acorn will get temp funding from a bank or two today and do a name change in a few weeks and then fold the ACORN shell. SAME PEOPLE will be in NEW AND IMPROVED Community Organizations. Did anyone really think that Barack Hussein Obama would really allow his campaign staff to be shut down?
Recipe:
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ACORN shook down "rich white bankers", you mordant idiot; they didn't help line the pockets of same !
LOL……………how to ruin, with one swift blow, your own argument! Nice going Steve; you cretin.
I had heard they were opening up in different areas under different names. Having to run in a more independent fashion will work against them in some ways. They will never be utilized by O to run the census or any other job he can think of them running as "small and local" agencies. That is where they HAD power to really destroy. But I have no doubt they will still have power to destroy our country in smaller ways.
We must deconstruct all of these parasitical groups destroying our country, NEA, EPA, BLM, etc….I think we are beginning to see others in higher GOP places grasping this concept. I saw Newt say it tonight on Hannity……Please don't think I am a Newt fan because I am not. He is a political monster…with some good points.
That comment has been deleted.
I don't for a minute believe that ACORN is dead! They are most likely re-incarnating themselves as the IRS agents, census takers, educational loan officers and any other Big Government Enforcers being recruited for Obama's national civilian security force!
Thanks for helping to expose the poisoned fruit of this tree!
The comments by the troll "Meatbrain" was deleted by the Administrator. Too bad. It is encouraging to me to see how stupid some of those basement dwellers are. It gives me hope that we can change the direction of the country.
Thank You Mr Walsh, I really get tired of the never ending attacks on Hannah, James and Andrew and I am not letting them get away with it if I have anything to say about it…
I appreciate your prompt response.
Thanks again.
I kind of figured that out when I noticed some other posts getting thumbed downed. I guess I'm a little slow getting my mind around the lefty world view.
Hey crap for brains, I suspect your one of those acorn negro that claim you are a slave when really snuck across the border.
You clearly show the signs as you have no manners and act like an obamamoron as we know if you said this in person you'd be picking up your teeth.
This shows what obama breeds as what he feels the United Socialist Africa should be and to spit on young ladies.
As to liars.
USA did not make negro slaves, their own country did ( and still do it to this day) and were bought by countries like span, france and england long before there was even a USA.
Most negro in the USA did not even come directly from Africa but came from mexico, cuba, south america and lie to this day as to their origin.
What people will remember is the whites gave their blood and lives to free the slaves and when giving them a chance to lead this country as obama that in one year you stole over 3 trillion dollars, ,made this country be the laughing stock to the world and only got into the whitehouse by using money from selling drugs and commies who worked for the lowlifes of acorn.
I can remove the above post containing the original comment if you would prefer…
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No, let's leave it, so that everyone can see what kind of people we're dealing with. Sticks and stones, etc.
The report button is there for a reason and "libel" is a big reason…
While I agree that allowing somebody to expose their hateful dementia to scrutiny is for the most part a good idea, in this case it was libel and that cannot be allowed to stand.
As for the hateful remark by the one known as "Diggy" on the first page I reprinted the original comment to expose him for the dirt bag he is.
The Terms of Use are your friend, operate within them and they can't win…
http://www.breitbart.com/terms_of_use.php
Thanks again Mr Walsh
Well written prose, your writting continues to improve as does America from your efforts. You have awoken many. I can only hope that what ever you caught is highly contagious.
You go Girl …
ITA,…….. you stole my quote, I love that sentence……………. Hannah CAN write, perfect balance I'd say.
Is meat protein allowed?
Keep talking Hannah. You'll only implicate yourself further. Release the unedited tapes.
kad,……….they are funded from outside, can't post the info though as I will be attacked. Keep looking
as it has been reported by several sources over the weekend & this week. Limbaugh even mentioned
it. Most folks are shocked when they learn. It's right under your nose, in plain sight. Many don't wish
to talk about it after they learn, & I can't blame them. It is very embarrassing for some among us.
ACORN is merely a large cockroach, Hannah. Are you up to the task to investigate it when the bug starts popping up in other places with different names?
Far better for people to think that you are an uneducated idiot than for you to open your mouth and remove all doubt. The banks and ACORN used each other. ACORN rounded up the customers, the banks made the liar loans and sold the to the MACS. the tax payer got the bill.
ACORN had a major impact on our election system
I see you ran out of an argument in 1 sentence before name calling. That is more than most self confessed smart people.
Get some zit cream, get a job, get a girl friend, and get out of your parents basement you afterbirth brain dead moron.
Ha ha Lorben a Newt fan? Did you notice he's slimmer? A little tan,…… he's running!
Sounded like he'd been reading our comments on the Bigs, to me. I'll quit now, before
I become nasty.
Ex acorn semi employee?
Now you done it.
throwing out some tidbits and holding back the steak.
I have a big nose so it must be blocking my sight.
WoW DY,………been there done that,………how many scratches do you have on your arms?
You have shown the world once again that the truth shall set you free, and innovation IS a renewable resource!
Thanks again Hannah.
You need to follow your own advice, you poor benighted microcephalic POS.
I suggest that you GOOGLE just what ACORN and Obama did TO the highest level of bankers at Northern Trust, for starters.
After doing that, I would greatly appreciate your explanation of how banks make money by "loaning" those who they know will NEVER repay them and please don't hand me that crapola about them them bundling them and then selling that paper off to bigger banks/institutions. It really didn't work like that.
And as far as your last sentence is concerned………………………thanks for the laugh; your projection complex is one of the worst I've ever seen on line.
a little salt and pepper
roll em in flower and cornmeal
fry em up
tastes like chicken
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Glad I am not the only one holding my tongue on what I think about him…If he runs, he is going to be bitterly disappointed in the primaries, cause he isn't gonna make it. Fresh blood is what this nation needs…his days are gone. There seems to be some interesting GOPers out there of late. I think the November elections will shake out more and more who will replace Obamao in 2012 and as we watch them move on repealing this Bill.
I think since they are spineless so it may be more like a jellyfish. Of course, they may be best used for fertilizer in the victory gardens which are gaining in popularity. Just do not leave them in the sun as they putrify rather quickly, might have something to do with the disinfectent powers of sunshine.
Gold star to Arizona Cat!!! You nailed it!
I liken these people to dandelions or kudzu: regardless of how often you remove them, they always seem to find a way to return. A scatological metaphor occurred to me but I didn't want to crawl into the gutter as the lefties often do.
"These liberal zombies will keep coming" someone wrote. True. We can but remain vigilant and make a loud, unequivocal statement this November!!
Ok I missed it so if I guess correctly can you confirm?
Is it the churches we attend?
I know that ACORN is a very corrupt org. Obama shook down banks very true.
Banks are some of the biggest contributors to ACORN.
So how many banks write a loan and hold it? They write the loan and then sell it. That is how they make money. They get rid of the the junk loans right away. That is what the MACs did. They bought all these crap loans from the banks, bundled them as quality paper, and resold them. That is how the banks made money off the liar loans. As along as you have a willing buyer for the junk paper you can make a killing these loans. Econ 101 i think it is called.
not projection , just returning the mud that was sent my way.
Which party do you think will benefit most from the votes gained by amnesty? Now you have your answer.
Can you back up your completely baseless claims or would you prefer to dig YOURSELF a bigger hole?
Missy8 the trollinator! You go girl!
You don't know your arse from your elbow, but thanks for finally beginning to state a few facts….vis-a-vis
Obama and Acron; that's a start, at least.
You have very little info or knowledge about how banks function, who was and wasn't doing what, and your broadbrushed statements are palpably specious. You have NO knowledge of econ 101, so stop pretending you do.
And as far as "slinging mud" is concerned, you pathetic baby, you, are struck in the prekindergarten level and not even at a particularly high level at that stage, either. Pity that…………………………….
ACORN will be back like a venereal disease. It never truly goes away. Watch for it to sprout up somewhere else soon.
They will after you show produce the documents proving that obama was born as a muslim in iran, and that his wife was a street hooker
Perhaps the putrification has to do with the overall weak structure? Couldn't handle regular atmospheric pressures? Too bloated and squishy for regular gravity? Not enough solid, underlying "substance"?
May be over-rated as "fertilizer", since you would expect something to grow after having fed that crap to it…
Okay, I'm just being negative 'cause of who they are. Reply welcomed and appreciated. Hell, I got to rant for a few sentences because of it…
TX!
Hannah, thank you for your public service! You and James are amazing young Patriots.Congratulations!
Stay vigilant. We all have much work to do. November elections will have their newly organized crew out in full force.
I am so impressed with your advanced level of maturity and wisdom. You see things in this cruel and sometimes ugly world clearly but without the jaded world-view of many older writers. Please don't give up. I would love to see the "Acorn outing" repeated on perhaps some leftist politicians. What the two of you did was brave and heroic. There isn't a day that has gone by that I haven't read several lamentations from the left wing nut bloggers or the media. Bravo!!!
Whether or not they wil try to morph these cockroaches into other and smaller nests, they've have definetely been weakened nonetheless! A scattered army is a weakened army and allows for their soldiers to be picked off one-by-one. Wherever they rear their ugly heads, we'll be waiting. Thank you Hannah for marking the targets for us!
Semper Fidelis
Thank you. This is what I've been sure of for a long time. They have announced amnesty is the next big push and the illegals will all be registered as Democrats before the Nov. elections. Obama said he can use an executive order and postpone the elections if necessary. Wake up America!!
HC, are you the "Fry Cook of Doom"…?
You know what happens to acorns? They take root and grow into oak trees. Acorn has planted its seeds, and they will grow and flourish. Hannah Giles will have done nothing more than make a few more bucks for the corporate funders of the Right – and Andrew Bretbart. She can write flowery prose, but her flowers spays the perfume of hate and racism.
Great work Hannah. You and James really put it on the line, inspired a lot of people on this side of the political fence, and made a difference! But if we thought we saw corruption before, wait until the November elections. We need to be organized and energized and ready to stamp on these roaches wherever they appear.
You're drafted!
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