ACORN's up to their old tricks again

ACORN, the "community activist group" currently being investigated by 14 states as well as the FBI for suspected voter registration fraud in the 2008 election (members of the group have previously been convicted in numerous states on such charges), and which now stands to be given free access to up to $4 billion dollars by a grateful Messiah as part of his "stimulus" bill (in addition to the $53 million dollars or so of taxpayer money already given to the group in recent years, has now added burglary and property theft to their impressive resume:

"A community organization breaks into a foreclosed home in what they are calling an act of civil disobedience."

Sorry. Sitting at the front of a bus because you have been denied that seat because of your race is civil disobedience. Illegally occupying someone else's legally acquired property is simply your garden variety breaking and entering.

The group's members actually have the gall to come right out and admit to the press that what they are doing are crimes that are no different than shoplifting or auto theft:

"'We are actually trespassing, and so this is a way of civil disobedience to try to stay in the house," said [ACORN thug Louis] Beverly. 'Legally it's wrong, but homesteading is the only means that she has left to stay in her house.'" (Emphases mine)

Ironically, it was the irresponsible "Community Reinvestment Act" lending policies forced on banks by groups like ACORN that ended up putting people like this into houses that they could in no way afford in the first place.

"'This is our house now,' said Louis Beverly, ACORN."

You've certainly got that right.

Oh, wait a minute, for a second there I thought he was talking about the White House, not this woman's abode. My mistake, although what I first understood his statement to mean is probably much more likely to be proven true than the latter.

UPDATE: ...and that didn't take long:

"An activist with ACORN — the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now — faces criminal charges after breaking into a home in southeast Baltimore on Thursday to protest the foreclosure crisis sweeping the country."

Yep, it's the aforementioned Mr. Beverly, who now is facing fourth-degree burglary charges.

This latest news story also documents the rampant "failure" of ACORN's voter registration efforts in getting the Messiah elected:

"Its large-scale voter registration drives most recently came under scrutiny during the 2008 presidential race, during which ACORN reportedly gathered more than 1.3 million voter registration forms in 21 states. Approximately 400,000 forms were reportedly rejected for duplications, incomplete forms and fraudulent applications."

Fully one-third of the registration forms the group submitted were rejects, in other words. And that's not counting the ones that slipped through the cracks and were counted as legitimate votes, cheapening yours and mine. That's not a very good success rate, when falsifying such documents is a serious crime punishable by prison time.

That's the obvious kind of results one gets when one pays people by the form to sign people up for something.