ACORN’s Lifeblood
by Mike FlynnThe investigative journalism of James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles has opened yet another chapter in the corruption-tinged history of ACORN. For most Americans, ACORN is a political organization, running voter registration drives and get-out-the-vote efforts at election-time. With a rather alarming regularity, the pop into the news cycle with allegations of fraudulent voter registrations and, even, voter fraud.
No doubt, the recent undercover videos from ACORN Housing offices in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and, now, New York, are shocking. I’m a long-time observer of ACORNapalooza, and I found myself in stunned, silent disbelief as the interviews unfolded. It wasn’t just the subject-matter. No, it was the fact that not one ACORN employee seemed to even flinch when presented with the ridiculous scenario of a pimp and a prostitute trying to get a mortgage to house a dozen or so underage El Salvadoran child-prostitutes. They just oozed seamlessly into conjecture about whether or not a child prostitute could be considered a “dependent” for tax purposes. What do these employees hear on a daily basis that this scenario was just another problem that needed fixing?
But even these videos, no matter how disturbing, are just part of the ACORN story. As, too, is the pattern of problems with the voter registration system. This past weekend, Brandon Darby discussed his experience with ACORN when he was coordinating relief in post-Katrina New Orleans. ACORN saw New Orleans as their “turf” and targeted Brandon and his colleagues, trying to intimidate them to either submit to their “leadership” or leave. This is a pattern readers of Big Government will soon hear more about.
In fact, in the coming days, you’ll learn a lot about the full ACORN story. It is an amazing story, in its own way. After waiting years for the mainstream media to finally peel back the ACORN layers, Big Government will have to take it upon itself to do so.
To start this, we are publishing an internal quasi-employee manual Big Government has obtained. Given to all ACORN employees, it isn’t your normal manual. It doesn’t discuss things like sick leave or vacation time, but, rather, as the title states, the “Principles and Foundations of ACORN.” How an organization communicates with the public is important. How it communicates to its own employees, however, provides a richer understanding of an organization’s nature.
The whole thing is worth a read. I draw your attention to just one sentence (ACORN emphasizes it with italics):
ACORN’s lifeblood is conflicts with targets outside the organization.
Think about that. ACORN’s lifeblood isn’t empowering disadvantaged communities nor lifting people out of poverty. It isn’t concerned about increasing economic growth to improve the lives of its members. It’s lifeblood is conflict. Conflict with targets. It actually thinks of the world outside itself as targets.
It explains a lot:
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Outstanding commentary Mr. Flynn and thank you not only for sharing this, but for your contributions for exposing these criminals as well. I will continue to discuss this story on my own blog and continue to refer folks to this fine site; we must not cease our efforts!
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am very impressed with the work done by the film crew and believe that the extraordinary corruption that is ACORN is finally coming into the light. Keep up the great work!
There's another possible explanation for the behavior of the ACORN "tax advisors" and "home loan advisors" in O'Keefe's three videos thus far (I'm hoping he has more to offer). Think about it. The people advising what look like naive youngsters may be thinking, "We'll get 'em in deep and then put the squeeze on them." I would not be surprised if ACORN's offices nationwide run major extortion operationsamong the so-called clients and constitutents they have allegedly helped. The more illegal their clients' "businesses" the better. The squeeze could easily have some thin cover like "contributions" to ACORN's ongoing efforts to help "the community." It worked for the old Mafiosi so why not for ACORN?
Excellent commentary! ACORNS lifeblood is conflict. They are MILITANT and that is what they teach ans spread; MILITANT LIBERAL FASCISM.
My God, what a dead giveaway this document is.
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WOW. Just wow. How can this possibly get any better? When Big O is IMPEACHED and his entire administration toppled, that's how!! Where are Jesse and Al? Where is the White House's response? So many questions and WE DEMAND ANSWERS!! Can't wait to see what you have for us next!!
I don’t know about the whole world being a target Mike, but certainly Capitalism, Christians, Conservatives, and Constitution. This is an insidious organization that needs to be dealt with by a real U.S. Attorney General who is willing to bring forth racketeering charges.
Michigan –
Clearly ACORN's targets would not be those with whom they have aligned themselves, those whom share ACORN's depraved ideals. I interpreted it as any whom do not share the same beliefs – it is they who are ACORN's targets. In other words, those groups who you have listed above.
James O'Keefe is on Fox News right now!
It is high time someone turned the table on this trash!
"We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it. "
~Saul Alinsky~
The AG we got now aint gonna do a damn thing ! Just look at how he swept the Black Panther case under the rug. Just think what would have happened if they would have been Klan members . Do you think he would have swept that under the rug ?
Read Section 5 "Actions Secure Wins" in the attached manual. Seems like James and Hannah are following ACORN's own playbook to the letter!
I don't see how this can possibly be ignored. We DEMAND that the WH answers for this outrage!!
DirtyWhiteBoy: If this was white centered, or had even a hint of a Klan story, Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center would be swarming all over the with busloads of ACLU lawyers. This is about race, and anyone who says it isn't, is delusional. It is about the Black Race crying racism for generations and being allowed to get by with it.
What's interesting about the highlighted text is: If the goal is to minimize/eliminate internal conflict, then that would (by default) mean that everybody agrees with policy. And, based on what we've seen from James' and Hannah's videos, it infers that ALL ACORN employees are in agreement with these policies. Hence, it is INSTITUTIONAL, and not INDIVIDUAL policy.
Keeps spinnin', Bertha… it's all just twistin' in the wind!!
Keep up the good fight, Mr. O'Keefe and Miss Giles!!
(I meant to say, the content that FOLLOWED the highlighted text!)
I can't seem to read anything or print anything except the 1st page. Is there a glitch or are they holding back until tomorrow?
Can't wait to read the whole document. Internal information is the best – it shows who they really are at the core.
Mike, what may need to be investigated in the near future is the paying of "hush" money (tax payer money) to the fired workers to keep quiet on the subject of their training — among other things. It's hard for me to believe that all the fired workers would keep quiet out of loyalty when ACORN wasn't too loyal to them.
Nancy: ACORN is rotten to the core………….
Great job. What about HUD and the banks that ACORN has control of. Where is Washington looking under their seats. WHY ISN'T CONGRESS INVESTIGATING THIS CORRUPTION OF TAX PAYER MONEY?
Hey nancy, just click on the document and drag it up, you should be able to pull up the rest of it.
If this were true, they would be compliant as well as co-conspiritors!
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A "bottoms up" organization chart. That means corruption begins at the staff level and is spread upward. So it is a corruption epidemic. No leadership and no ethics accountibility.
The liberals thrive on this.
I spent all of one day working for an ACORN like organization down in NYC. It was the Public Interest Research Group, and they were/are basically glorified panhandlers running a pyramid scheme. The job pitch seemed kind of up my alley as a fresh out of college, political science student looking to help change the world. Of course the actual goals of the group looked eerily like this document. After a spending a day begging for money with a bunch of unwashed hippies (well, I should correct myself, their brains at least were throughly washed) I ran as far away as I could from that group and went and found a real job.
On a side note, I recently got paid 20 bucks extra for my one day working for them, seems they got nailed in a class action lawsuit because they wern't paying minimum wage! Don't you love that! One of their goals is to increase minimum wage, but they wern't even paying their employees that much! Shut these groups down NOW!!!
Thank you everyone at Big Government for doing the work that the MSM not only refuses to do, but is actually doing all they can to cover this filth up. Stay safe, we need you. I look forward to reading all that you uncover. To think that ACORN “can” get over 8 billion dollars from the stimulus package is inconceivable. Because our dear leader started his polotical carreer with ACORN, I suspect that whatever is uncovered will blow away just like the Black Panther case. Isn’t it interesting that a Democrat wanted a full Congressional investigation into ACORN, only to back off. He said he was told to move away from the issue by “the powers that be.” I understand that Obama himself, as well as Rham Emmanuel told him to drop it. The Republicans have done a thorough investigation into ACORN, and all of it’s 361 affiliates. Queen Nancy, and King Harry won’t allow it to be brought out of Committee. I wonder why?
I am thrilled to see ACORN's "lifeblood" splattered on the walls and pooling on the floor. Keep it up guys. Can't wait to see what you post tomorrow!
I don't see impeachment over this. I doubt it rises to the level…
but the whitehouse's lack of response is noteworthy.
Kickbacks. Corruption in the ranks of Congress (gasp!). Guaranteed votes.
This all goes back to the great Saul Alinsky, founding Father of Community Activism. Here is part of his Bio: "Alinsky is often credited with laying the foundation for the grassroots political organizing that dominated the 1960s.[5] Jack Newfield writing in New York Magazine included Alinsky among "the purest avatars of the [populist] movement," along with Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez, and Jesse Jackson.[13"
Ol' Saul had a lot of students; Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, David Axlerod, Rham Emanuel and a host of Liberal Fascists. Isn't it quite ironic, that the Father of Community Organizing will also go down in history as the Jew who Destroyed it?
the acorn housing website is still up. It has addresses for the offices on it. FOR NOW
This year, I've been in 5 or 6 states helping install electronic medical records. At each location, the subject of drug reps came up, and at each location, the physicians had all refused to accept gifts from the drug reps.
A lot of states now legislating boundaries for drug reps, saying exactly what they can and can't do to entice a physician to prescribe their drug. No more all-expense-paid vacations to Tahiti, no more gentlemen's club nights out, no more big screen tvs.
It just struck me how similar lobbyists are to drug reps. I know one of Obama's promises was to get rid of lobbyists, and we all know he broke that promise in week one. If they can legislate against one cause of corruption, why can't the legislate against the same cause in a different business?
Every ACORN office should be chained shut and the FBI along with Justice Department should swarm in and collect evidence.
I want to know when someone will investigate the foreclosure/housing crisis and ACORN. I wonder what % of the country's foreclosure's were linked to ACORN related financing or referrals. Can someone track down those #'s??? You know doing this type of housing "advising" is going to cause lots of people just walking away from their homes. Where is HUD to investigate them??? Are they held to any housing regulations like banks and mortgage companies are when they are investigated for unfair housing practices??? HUD already does undercover investigations of banks and mortgage companies with fake applicants to make sure their is fair housing practices. Why don't we have something for these agencies that "advise" people on how to buy a home??? The corruption is deep in ACORN, we must DEMAND further investigation and ONGOING investigation of them.
Like it or not, we are judged by the company we keep. I would not want to be associated with the White House at this point. The sad thing here is, even if this goes all the way to the top, the scoundrels behind this wil just create another front group in the name of some charitable organization. If Obama really wants to get rid of fraud and excessive waste, why doesn't he completely defund ACORN? I sincerely hope he does, or it will be his political demise.
There was a great turn out to the ACORN protest in New Orleans on 9-11! We were right across the street from the ACORN office building. They came outside and watched us protest while “at work”. …
http://www.breakdownofamerica.com/?p=1388
Sorry, but the Attorney General is busy investigating the CIA…maybe some other time.
I think I'm witnessing the complete failure of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. ACORN activists have applied these charltan rules effectively in small controlled environments, but what Hannah and Jeff have demonstrated is the complete and utter failure of said rules. They are kind of like a straw man meaning their is no foundation to them, no roots lets say. Therefore, those that have chosen to use them to intimidate, ridicule and bully to get their way are left vulnerable simply b/c the rules lack a strong basis in which to succeed long term. Instead, H and J are showing us or even teaching us how damned easy it truly is to chop them off at thier childish rules off at the knees giving them no leg to stand on.
too agree with the suggestion that these ACORN workers MUST work with a clientele that is burdened with challenges that many of us are rarely exposed too. It's almost as though the six women exposed thus far are so accustomed to serving a seedier or more street oriented clientele that little affects their psyche or soul anymore. It appears to be more symptomatic than intentional malice. Remember, even though these women are obviously breaking many laws, they live in a world few of us have been exposed too. I'd suggest keeping the focus on ACORN and not these worker bees. Something tells me life hasn't been kind to many of them. Yeah, I know, my liberal heart is showing, but these ladies are only a symptom of a much larger cancer.
"Under no circumstances can conflict be ignored in the hope that it will simply go away. It always gets worse, for lack of attention."
I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
Nice find, Mike. Thank you and thanks to Andrew as well.
Great job in exposing these frauds but the real challenge is to make the connection between those in our Govt who are giving them money(our money) How far up does this go I think we all know the answer to that.
Dr cathy: There are a lot of folks who are not aware of the great Saul Alinsky. They should be. He was nothing more than a Liberal Fascist:
Great work BigGovernment.com! This organization must be investigated top to bottom and any and all federal, state and local monies stopped immediately. Not only that, as taxpayers we should see restitution and punitive fines levied against ACORN and its enablers, both private and governmental. Keep letting in the daylight on these crooks, race peddlers, poverty pimps and low lifes. The liberals have demanded billions to support these programs, but cannot show us one cultural, societal or physical success. What we HAVE gotten for our dollars is a sub-culture that believes "non-judgmental" includes promoting child prostitution and defrauding taxpayers.
Of course the White house failed to respond, they fail to respond to anything that goes against their interest and/or policy beliefs…. just like the anti-abortion protester, that had been protesting peacifully for a long period of time, and not one public issue of condolences…. Unlike with Tiller.
Because they are just as corrupt.
Email John Conyers – the retard Senator who says "why read the bill" He is the head of the judicial committee that first stated the powers that be told him NOT to investigate ACORN – WHO IS THE POWERS THAT BE MR. CONYERS ?????
great video – let this burn in your head ….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU
What have we done Amerika ?
How ACORN survives:
http://crosssection.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/i-ca...
Excellent post!
If conflict is ACORN's lifeblood, then BigGovernment.com must surely be at the top of its favorites list, right?
And at least the word is finally getting out about ACORN's pro-business side, as in "No Child Rapist (or Child Rapist Profiteer) Left Behind – Change for America, ACORN Style" at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Keep fighting the good fight!
And let's keep that ACORN "lifeblood" flowing…
irish – September 14th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Great job. What about HUD and the banks that ACORN has control of. Where is Washington looking under their seats. WHY ISN’T CONGRESS INVESTIGATING THIS CORRUPTION OF TAX PAYER MONEY?
Because the Dems control the house, senate, WH, DOJ. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are in charge. This is why every Dem we can get out of office in 2010 is a nod in the right direction. Only then will ACORN be investigated. Expect Holder’s DOJ to block it every step of the way though.
Great point on the PIRGs being a good deal like ACORN. I, too, worked for a PIRG (in Michigan) briefly. I was in college, and on summer break, and needed to find a job. I first took a 3-day seminar to sell Cutco Cutlery, realizing by the end of day 2 that while the knives may have been good, the sales techniques required deception, and that's not my thing, so I handed in my binder and said good-bye. The PIRG was next, and it turned out to be basically the same deal, only with shabbier offices.
I lasted less than a week. Despite being a brainwashed lefty at the time, and fully agreeing with the politics, it was obvious even to me that the tactics they were using were BS.
Eventually, I got work as a carpenter, and a second job as a dishwasher. The honest work didn't really wash away the dirty feeling of working for PIRGIM, but at least building houses meant I was leaving something useful behind at the end of the day.
Thank you, thank you for publicizing the truth about ACORN! Keep up the good work! The public simply is not aware of the rackets being run by ACORN, how Obama was a part of ACORN, how ACORN has helped in all his elections, and how he has repaid and continues to repay ACORN.
I don't consider Alinskyite tactics a complete failure. They are very effective until the fatal flaw is discovered. Exposure. Radical rabble-rousing only fully succeeds with a fully compliant media. True, they've got about 85% of it but, enough exists to stop it. An unregulated, completely open Internet will bring these people down. The victory will only be complete when we embarass the non-cable Broadcast Media and remaining print peddlers to start doing the job. I think they may go broke first but, that, to me, is victory. If Federal funding is completely withdrawn, these clowns are done. Then start clobbering the SEIU types.
As this plays out, I think their political power will start running for cover. Quite a few probably already have.
It's going to be very interesting to see who is going to provide cover and "aid and comfort", to these slimebags. I fully agree with getting as many dems defeated as possible but, who replaces them? I don't fully trust most repubs right now and truly independent, is merely a pipe dream right now. Got to get people of principle.
It would not surprise me to find out that members of both houses are being paid off by these people, Rangle probably backed off when the head of syndicate sent him a copy of his deposit slips.
This is obviously a money laundering (tax payer money) and vote fixing organization, the only reason they are fixing votes is so they can get their hands on the money, look's like it was working too, the Dem's have kept the poor around for a reason, turing them into middle class works against their goals.
Obama, chief community organizer = chief shake down artist; cheat, steal, victimize children, as long as the money and votes keep coming who cares! Hope and Change, RIGHT!
Obama taught these people, and it's obviously one of the biggest organized crime rings ever created, will it be investigated properly?
Well with the foxes in the hen house I doubt it, not at least by those who should be doing it, I wonder if Obama will be the first sitting president to be sent to prison when this is all said and done, here's to hoping.
Greate work, keep it up!!!
Of course they try and get everyone in on the corruption, people then have to indite themselves if they talk. Compartmentalize the cells, but make sure everyone is dirty in those cells so that they all spy and and report on each other.
Too bad they didnt read to the end of the story though, someone always talks, then they all start talking. As soon as the higher up's realize that they can either squeal and stay free or stick together and sink they start fleeing the sinking ship as fast as they can.
Hey remember Acorn Employee's (and all the flea organizations they have spawned) there are only so many life rafts to go around, better make your deal before the Agencies know everything and your information is worthless!
Any of you that can tie in Prince O or his staff / government types better either leave the country or get a deal real quick, If Obama has no problem leaving new borns to die in a corner (abortion survivors) how much is he going to worry about having a few of you offed to save his skin?
Podesta and Sorros are probably already compiling their hit lists… laugh if you want, these guys are serious
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There has not been and will not be any investigation, most of the whole Washington group is Corrupt and the ones that aren't they are treatened
This comment is a copy of one I made at another story on this site. It applies to both stories equally. Long live biggovernment.com!
Biggovernment.com is kicking some serious boo-tay. I have no sympathy for these sacks of human gobbidge (I know, I know, spelling) whose miscreancies are being brought to light. They were the victims of a scam? Oh, yeah? YEAH? Seems to me that the real scam victims are the taxpayers of the United States of America!
I'm sickened by the lack of reporting by so-called major media outlets. Not surprised, just sickened. And, the fact that I'm no longer surprised by such blatant failures is even more sickening. It's infuriating that we must learn to expect mediocrity and slavish devotion to the political principle of statism from these "news" organizations.
(Witness CNN and their resistance to covering the Van Jones story.) I'm proud of you guys. O'keefe, Giles, Breitbart: All three of you are the taxpayers' truest friends. Screw these bogus "helping hands" Democrats! You own my sincerest thanks for making these cockroaches scurry away from the light.
The problem is that pages 2-6 are all red – totally red! I haven't had any problems with any of the transcripts thus far. I don't know if there's some code in there that my Firefox browser can't read, or what, but the only white page with print is the first…all others are solid red. –
*edit* – never mind. Thank you for your help – but it was the browser. Had to use IE temporarily. I hate IE – virus prone and all.
YES, Acronies have helped and got paid in return. Just like obama giving the Unions a 51% interest in GM.
Damn, things may have to get ugly, these governmental and presidental crooks won't go by by easily. The Dynasty of the Bushes, prior Clinton bull, and now the Obama clan, which the dems and repubs have set up loopholes in how many bills passed in the last 20 plus years, will take a long time to FIX. I guess we will have to do Marshall Law enacted by the Citizens….and Quarantine The District of Columbia till all the RATS are CAUGHT
This is a close to a mob manual as you can make! They should retitle the sections as follows:
____Section 1: Exploit the vulnerable. (ACORN "must" bring new membership each month)
__Section 2: Exploit the poor for your wealth. (You've got to get good at bringing in money so you can have the wealth you deserve)
__Section 3: Don't get Caught. (Coordinated autonomy allows the top to deny any wrongdoing in what its subsidiaries do.)
__Section 4: Include everyone [even prostitutes] (A multi-issue organization with "diverse" members)
__Section 5: Act… Or Else! (They speak of cardiac arrest. What methods do they use as the analagous defribillator?)
__Section 6: Act like a leader, even if you can't. (Most of our members have no leadership experience)
__Section 7: ACORN now owns your life. (Not having enough time is no excuse for not working and ensuring others are working)
__Section 8: Lie, Lie, Lie (Every ACORN member must learn to "improvise" when knocking on doors.)
I hope this was an adequate analyzation…
Was this ACORN document written by and for a 6 year old? This would not pass the first draft stage of a jr college writing assignment. Another big FAIL for the Nut Brigade known as ACORN.
There's a reason why conflict is their lifeblood: it permits creation of an artificial crisis which they can use to go to their contributers and beg for more money. All these kinds of organizations do this.
People who contribute to ACORN, or to People for the American Way, or similar advocacy groups, get used to receiving letters citing the latest emergency and asking for extra donations in the good cause. Without those created emergencies, their fund raising would be considerably less effective.
Hit them where it hurts:
http://crosssection.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/hitt...
[...] organization’s orbit. “Organize the unorganized” as it says at the end of their Core Principles. They can use these names and numbers to grow their [...]
Hi Alice, we don't need to promote this bum, he's a House Representative and his wife was found guilty of fraud and is awaiting sentencing as I recall!! They are from Detroit a city run by dhim's and has a high unemployment level.
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[...] a criminal lean. You can't weed it and expect anything worthwhile to grow. It needs agent orange. Read this manual and you will get the picture. Good Lord I like some of the things you say. You know they are saying they will put employees [...]
[...] lives for conflict, organizes for conflict. from their employee manual obtained by big government who has been all over this entire story: ACORN’s lifeblood is conflicts with targets outside the [...]
Waldo: Absolutely! It would certainly make a lot of sense — and would keep ACORN's coffers full. Perhaps that is what is behind Lewis's claim that they don't need no stinkin' federal money, that they get plenty from their members. That claim made me pause, too. Wait, aren't the people they're helping pretty well tapped-out?
[...] A couple weeks ago, Mike Flynn noted that ACORN’s employee manual states that, “ACORN’s lifeblood is conflicts with targets outside the organization.” [...]
“ACORN’s lifeblood is conflicts with targets outside the organization.” ????
You know there is something radically (no pun intended) WRONG when the New Regime and its ilk (Acorners, etc.) are pushing a so-called HEALTH CARE REFORM PACKAGE that will FINE &/OR IMPRISON PEOPLE TOO POOR TO BUY THE GOVERNMENT-MANDATED HEALTH CARE!!!???
SEEMS LIKE THEY’RE SIMPLY TRYING TO DESTROY AMERICA. Period.
Additional reading should be to look into the Union Membership manuals of EVERY Union.
When I worked for a company that was under a unionizing attack, I learned that many unions have statements in their manuals that are either directly quoting or invoking the political agendas and beliefs of either a Socialist or Communist party.
I would love to see a site with a library of union manuals scanned and published for all of us to see and study.
Seeing their manual in this context is very worthwhile and will help patriots understand the ideology that drives the liberal quest to destroy the Republic created and enacted by the signers of the Constitution.
UNIONS are responsible for most of the problems the U.S.A. is experiencing today. THEY are the reason that most American companies now outsource. THEY are largely responsible for putting the “Big O” into office. THEY are largely responsible for the Big Push for “health care reform.” If it wasn’t for UNIONS, we could STILL BUY QUALITY PRODUCTS MADE IN THE USA, instead of the worthless CRAP “made in China”!
WE NEED TO CRACK DOWN ON UNIONS AND BRING AMERICA’S JOBS BACK HOME.