• ACORN Sues Over 'Unconstitutional' Funding Cuts By Congress
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[QUOTE]In an attempt to regain the millions in funding it lost in the wake of a hidden-camera scandal, ACORN is suing the federal government over congressional legislation that cut off funding to the community organizing group.Representatives for ACORN sued the federal government Thursday morning in an attempt to regain the millions of dollars in funding the community organizing group lost after filmmakers videotaped its workers offering advice on how to commit tax fraud and various other felonies. The suit charges Congress with violating the Constitution when it passed legislation in September that specifically targeted ACORN to lose federal housing, education and transportation funds. That qualifies the legislation as bills of attainder, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the suit on behalf of ACORN. A bill of attainder punishes a person or group without the benefit of a trial, and is illegal under Article 1 of the Constitution. Bills of attainder have traditionally been understood to have more serious legal consequences -- including the seizure of private property and even capital punishment -- than Congress' decision to withhold funds that are at its discretion to disseminate. Though members of Congress have accused ACORN of corruption, it is not clear how the exercise of its own prerogative is outside the bounds of legislative power. Critics of the group in Congress blasted the lawsuit as a last-ditch effort to save the foundering organization's bottom line. "ACORN's baseless lawsuit is the first public acknowledgement we've seen from ACORN of just how desperate they are to use any mechanism available to subsidize an organization that is teetering on bankruptcy and financial insolvency," said Kurt Bardella, spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. Congress began cracking down on its funding to ACORN after its employees were secretly videotaped in a number of cities offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute to lie to the IRS and acquire illegal home loans. Footage showed staffers advising the "pimp" and "prostitute" on how to falsify tax forms and seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador that the pair said they wanted to bring to the country to work as child prostitutes. The videos set off a firestorm in Congress. ACORN pledged an internal inquiry and fired the staffers who were caught on tape, but it was only the latest of many legal troubles for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. State investigators raided ACORN offices in Louisiana last week, seizing computer hard drives and documents in a probe of alleged embezzlement and tax fraud. Staffers in multiple states have been accused of committing voter registration fraud. Congress took the "prostitute" videos as clear evidence of systematic problems within ACORN and voted with bipartisan support in the House and Senate to freeze funding for the group in appropriations bills in September. Thursday's lawsuit claims that Congress violated the right to due process enshrined in the Fifth Amendment -- declaring the group guilty of a crime and punishing its members without completing an investigation within the Department of Justice or the IRS. "It's not the job of Congress to be the judge, jury, and executioner," said Jules Lobel, an attorney representing the Center for Constitutional Rights. "We have due process in this country, and our Constitution forbids lawmakers from singling out a person or group for punishment without a fair investigation and trial." The lawsuit itself singles out three defendants -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Director of the Office of Management and the Budget Peter Orszag, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan. The three were responsible for facilitating the defunding of ACORN by Congress, according to attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights. ACORN claims it has been badly hurt by the congressional actions, and has had to fire workers and close some of its 1,200 branches around the country. Though it remains unclear precisely how much money the national organization was receiving from federal sources and aid programs, a lawyer pressing the suit said ACORN has already lost an amount "in the millions" since the freeze took effect.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/12/acorn-sues-unconstitutional-funding-cuts-congress/?test=latestnews[/url]
What, these idiots again?
[QUOTE=DarkendSky;18342011]What, these idiots again?[/QUOTE] Yep
WE ARE ENTITLED TO FEDERAL FUNDS ahahahaNO. Go and collect donations from supporters like everyone else [editline]07:36PM[/editline] If these idiots can get federal funding, I'll bet we could get FP federal funding, if we declared it to be an 'Internet Culture Research Foundation'.
ACORN is mad because Congress froze their funding over a fake video, along with the other lies and fearmongering the Republicans have been spreading around since the election. Not surprising.
[QUOTE=Urkel01;18342572]ACORN is mad because Congress froze their funding over a fake video, along with the other lies and fearmongering the Republicans have been spreading around since the election. Not surprising.[/QUOTE] How is the video fake?
[QUOTE=Gaslit Man;18342697]How is the video fake?[/QUOTE] lookit you. look at how dumb you are. Known extremely conservative group poses as a pimp or whatever, talks about child prostitution with some "ACORN workers." Obviously every single person in ACORN supports child prostitution!!!! PURGE THE LIBERAL FILTH NOW Plus this thread is authored by Emperor Scorpious, an extreme conservative who does not know the concepts of "facts" or "evidence." The source is fucking FOX NEWS which is known to doctor video to support their views, and has a heavy conservative bias.
[QUOTE=Urkel01;18342764]lookit you. look at how dumb you are. Known extremely conservative group poses as a pimp or whatever, talks about child prostitution with some "ACORN workers." Obviously every single person in ACORN supports child prostitution!!!! PURGE THE LIBERAL FILTH NOW Plus this thread is authored by Emperor Scorpious, a known extreme conservative who does not know the concepts of "facts" or "evidence." The source is fucking FOX NEWS which is known to doctor video to support their views, and has a heavy conservative bias.[/QUOTE] So, just because they're conservatives, they're fake. And just because I posted this thread, everything here is completely void?
Fox News is a [U]heavily[/U] biased and therefore untrustworthy source. You are heavily biased in favor of Fox News's misinformation. How can a thread by you be trusted as valid?
[QUOTE=Urkel01;18342838]Fox News is a [U]heavily[/U] biased and therefore untrustworthy source. You are heavily biased in favor of Fox News's misinformation. How can a thread by you be trusted as valid?[/QUOTE] You do have a point I guess...
[QUOTE=Urkel01;18342838]Fox News is a [U]heavily[/U] biased and therefore untrustworthy source. You are heavily biased in favor of Fox News's misinformation. How can a thread by you be trusted as valid?[/QUOTE] Regardless of what the source is, ACORN is [i]still[/i] suing the Feds.
If you trust Fox News to tell you even half of the truth then you're a fucking fool. They make their money off of being a bunch of two faced fear mongering dipshits.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;18342872]Regardless of what the source is, ACORN is [i]still[/i] suing the Feds.[/QUOTE] From a Google search of this, the only sources I see are FOX, a conservative site called biggovernment.com, and the Washington Times, a conservative newspaper. Why is this?
in world war I primitive tanks carried bundles of sticks on the front of their hulls which they dropped into trenches so they could cross them and the term for these objects is "fascines" but they could also be termed "enormous faggots" and basically if a wwI tank ever goes to mars and needs to cross the Valles Marineris it should strap emperor scorpius to the front of its hull
[QUOTE=angry black man;18342961]in world war I primitive tanks carried bundles of sticks on the front of their hulls which they dropped into trenches so they could cross them and the term for these objects is "fascines" but they could also be termed "enormous faggots" and basically if a wwI tank ever goes to mars and needs to cross the Valles Marineris it should strap emperor scorpius to the front of its hull[/QUOTE] I actually laughed out loud.
[QUOTE=angry black man;18342961]in world war I primitive tanks carried bundles of sticks on the front of their hulls which they dropped into trenches so they could cross them and the term for these objects is "fascines" but they could also be termed "enormous faggots" and basically if a wwI tank ever goes to mars and needs to cross the Valles Marineris it should strap emperor scorpius to the front of its hull[/QUOTE] *Emperor Scorpi[b]o[/b]us
[QUOTE=Urkel01;18342950]From a Google search of this, the only sources I see are FOX, a conservative site called biggovernment.com, and the Washington Times, a conservative newspaper. Why is this?[/QUOTE] There's also the New York Post (seems conservative biased at first glance, at the very least it's dumb) "newsrunner.com" (seems fairly neutral) beltway blips (also seems neutral) "asanamerican" (horribly conservative) and chiefsplanet (a fuckin football site who cares) Still seems pretty biased to me. I'm sure this happened, but it sure is hard to find a source that doesn't color it as "ACORN SUPPORTS PIMPS AND IS BAD" Basically the point of this is that you can't find proper sources and also you can't debate worth a damn. Why did you bother posting this thread?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;18343040]*Emperor Scorpi[b]o[/b]us[/QUOTE] what im saying is that you're gayer than two dicks on fire trying to extinguish each other with cumjets
[QUOTE=Urkel01;18343124]There's also the New York Post (seems conservative biased at first glance, at the very least it's dumb) "newsrunner.com" (seems fairly neutral) beltway blips (also seems neutral) "asanamerican" (horribly conservative) and chiefsplanet (a fuckin football site who cares) Still seems pretty biased [b]to me[/b]. I'm sure this happened, but it sure is hard to find a source that doesn't color it as "ACORN SUPPORTS PIMPS AND IS BAD" Basically the point of this is that you can't find proper sources and also you can't debate worth a damn. Why did you bother posting this thread?[/QUOTE] Your opinion.
[QUOTE=angry black man;18343167]what im saying is that you're gayer than two dicks on fire trying to extinguish each other with cumjets[/QUOTE] *fucks male prostitute, later jizzes all over bill banning gay rights* [QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;18343189]Your opinion.[/QUOTE] You accept Fox News as a valid source for information, when it is not. You argue that ACORN is bad with this thread. Your argument is invalid. I've seen your posts before, and you pretty much get constantly shit on by people who know better than to listen to your hateful conservative crap. Why do you bother? Or better yet, why don't you leave, or take a good, hard look at yourself and how much of a shithead you and other conservatives are? Seriously, you're spreading lies and misinformation about a community nonprofit group that helps the poor. What the fuck, dude.
[QUOTE=angry black man;18343167]what im saying is that you're gayer than two dicks on fire trying to extinguish each other with cumjets[/QUOTE] A gay conservative? What?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;18343217]A gay conservative? What?[/QUOTE] You're so conservative that you can't even perceive a fellow conservative being gay.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;18343217]A gay conservative? What?[/QUOTE] go poke yourself in the cochlea. literally. in. the. cochlea. take your cuticle-tipped digits and kindly insert them into your ear canal. remember to retract your phalanges first, so your fingermeat will curve good. now wriggle it into the spiral... thats goood. wriggle for me baby. goku.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;18343217]A gay conservative? What?[/QUOTE] lookit dis baby
They only get 2% of their funding from the federal government... It is unbearably hypocritical, though, that ACORN's funding is being cut off for defrauding the government while Blackwater continues to milk multibillion dollar contracts while constantly breaking the law and defrauding the government, on top of slaughtering unarmed Iraqi civilians because their CEO thinks he's on a crusade to exterminate Muslims.
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