ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis

Today, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Gershon, who ruled in December that the de-funding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now(ACORN) was unconstitutional, ruled that long term damage is still being done to the organization because the federal agencies who rescinded the funding have not officially acknowledged the restoration of it. This ruling came down as a response to the Federal Governments request for appeal on the courts original findings last year.

You would think, considering the overwhelming evidence of voter fraud, money embezzlement, the redirecting of funds through dummy non-profits and the videos showing ACORN employees advising a pimp/hooker team on how to hide taxable revenue generated by a brothel populated by underage Honduran illegal aliens, Judge Gershon would at the very least suspend the continuance of funding pending a formal investigation by Grand Jury. I guess we can’t expect much more from a liberal activist bench sitter who was nominated by Bill Clinton.

Instead of doing her job, this “champion” of civil rights and the Constitution ordered the flow of tax payer money to be uncapped once again, then later ordered the agencies who cut the flow of money to basically apologize. The legal order forcing the federal agencies involved to “acknowledge” their “wrong doing” is punitive in nature and couldn’t possibly recover a single ounce of reputation ACORN had in the public eye. ACORN destroyed their own public image long before anyone else could.

ACORN got it’s start in the 60’s under a different name, the National Welfare Rights Organization. One of it’s first actions was pushing the anti-capitalist Cloward-Piven strategy. The ultimate goal was national bankruptcy and economic upheaval by flooding the welfare rolls, or forced “fundamental transformation” of what they perceived to be an evil class structure based around economics. They didn’t manage to bankrupt our Nation but in a matter of years, they did manage to double the amount of people sucking off of the teet of taxpayer funded federal entitlement programs. This comes at no surprise seeing how this is always the inevitable result of liberal “social justice”; more individuals on welfare. Their number one enemy has always been the economic success of individuals over the collective.

They have been intimately involved in the election of sympathetic Democrats on the state and federal political stage and many serious reports of voter fraud have been raised. At this moment, three previous employees of ACORN are currently on trial and face prison time for their part in committing fraud. The example was set from the top.

Wade Rathke

Former ACORN International President Wade Rathke and his brother Dale Rathke, are now being investigated by Louisiana’s attorney general Buddy Caldwell for allegedly embezzling 5 million dollars. ACORN President, Bertha Lewis, had already acknowledged that 1 million was embezzled by the Rathke brothers. Aside from the money stolen, one of the questions we should be asking is why, after finding out what happened, did they covered up the crime for almost 10 years before it was leaked by a disgruntled former executive?

With the 200+ organizations under the ACORN umbrella, there have been many rumors of the funneling of money from non-profits to for-profit organizations and causes the donations were not meant to fund. I’m curious where the trail would lead if someone looked into exactly where all the federal money has gone since they started receiving funding.

Since 1994, Bertha Lewis’ organization has received 53 million dollars of tax revenue. Up until the 2008 Presidential Election, 85% of Americans were not even aware of who ACORN was. These people are crooked, communistic criminals who deserve ZERO funding from federal sources and more than likely should have their tax exempt status yanked. Those that still cling to them as a credible organization to enact real meaningful reform for minorities and low income individuals are either stupid or complicit.

Judge Gershon seems to be one of the latter. You know, they say water always finds it’s own level.