Mind you, I’m unfamiliar with any actual felonies that ACORN has actually committed. But Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) is proposing that corporations found guilty of having committed a felony be ineligible for government contracts for 5 years and that corporate felons should be disallowed from making political donations for the same amount of time.
Sounds good to me. After all, both House of Congress idiotically voted overwhelmingly to deprive ACORN — again, a community organization that committed no crime, and that comprises, in fact, American heroes — from receiving federal funding (via a likely unconstitutional bill, btw). So shouldn’t a similar measure be taken to protect the American tax-payer from corporations that have actually been found guilty of things like fraud, murder, prostitution, etc? Corporations that receive more money from American tax-payers in a day than ACORN has in its lifetime? Corporations like Exxon-Mobil, Pfizer, Halliburton, Blackwater, Lockheed-Martin, and hundreds of others?
McCollum makes the case for the “Against Corporations Organizing to Rip-off the Nation (A.C.O.R.N.)” Act [PDF] in an interview with Mike McIintee of The UpTake:
And, btw, for those under the delusion that ACORN employees committed crimes in those rightwing “sting” videos propagandized by Fox “News” and the other non-wingnut outlets who fell for it, think again. (The author of that dKos piece deserves a huge Project Censored award as far as I’m concerned!)
The dKos piece is excellent. Deconstruction 101.
I will give it the anti-brainwashing award!
There’s ONE reason the congress acted SWIFTLY (unlike health care) to defund ACORN: it’s the proof of the power of how rightwingers and the GOP/conservatives have taken over the media.
What have I been saying like a broken record over and over?
There can be only ONE reason for a group in the extreme minority to somehow get whatever they want: they control the media. There’s no liberal media.
Think about it.
Floor Statement by Sen. Bernie Sanders on Federal Contracting Fraud
http://sanders.senate.gov/newsr...e-ffd2624ddcd2
http://sanders.senate.gov/newsr...c-0578357616e3
Felonious corporations like APF (or Xe/Blackwater front group) in Montana?
Oh that’s right.. We can’t tell if they’re real cops yet, WHY IS THAT? I swear to god, how come DHS (or FBI) can’t either legitimize or have these APF rounded up in less than 24 hours?
In my opinion,
“DHS breaks all manner of laws, the US Constitution against citizens and voters, but when it comes to real fucking domestic terrorists, DHS is not ready for prime time and in fact doesn’t take any action, beyond denying the public from knowing what their activities are.”
I guess DHS’s oath’s don’t really stand for the protection of the United States, or the constitution, and I will pile on here with opinion saying, “DHS never did stand for protecting our country, and one can only assume they were created to manage America as a giant prison.”
And if not the DHS, then how come the FBI can’t straighten this out in 24 hours or less?
Like it or not, at the same time the military should not be on the streets, and neither should local law enforcement be a corporation (which by definition must seek to make a profit, eventually that conflicts with taking an oath.)
Man this country is fucking broken.
You know the funny thing is I sort of ignored this whole APF thing for a couple days. I thought oh it’s just another Alex Jones thing going hyper… Two days later and now this thing is all over the place. And it should be all over the place.
While everyone is all worried about David Letterman’s blackmailer, and earthquakes, all we get is the same fucking “Paid / For Profit Journalist shit”
Real news = (things like)
Electronic Vote Tabulation Devices
Banksters
Sibel Edmonds testimony / investigations
Blackwater/Xe/APF
Bad-Shit(tm) in the FLU SHOTS
H1N1 in the FLU SHOTS
The United States is not mathematically going to last 10 more years of this monetary, oath breaking, and war agenda.
If you look at Betty’s (4th) and Keith Ellisons (5th) Districts, they are surrounded on three sides by none other than Michelle Bachmann.
I’ve noticed a dearth of pro-Acorn t-shirts on the internets; just a bunch of shirts repeating the lies and slanders. I’d hop on the problem myself, if I could draw anything whatsoever, but . . . well, there’s a two-dollar idea for anyone who wants to run with it.
Jon,
Just buy one of the ones with the false accusations on it, then take a black magic marker and cross out that stuff and write “Bullshit” over it
Will you nambis wake up and face the simple fact that your not going to defeat these people with reporting the truth, filing law suits, or even marching in the streets. No, every single real american must come to grips with the notion that they may actually have to do something on a personal level.
This is just bull shit. USC Title 29 already debars contractors for up to 6 years. Yet again, this hardly stops the GSA from awarding contracts to individuals who were already kicked off other contracts. Who pays? Ultimately, the poor contract employees, that’s the citizens hired by these criminals, but I could go on and on. Simply put, Contracting should be illegal as a general rule. This is nothing but a scam, a three card monty, hide the pea under which corporation?
We got to drastically reduce most of the Federal Gov’t. Get private enterprise out of War, Security, and all other pesudeo law enforcement.