Review: Acorn-The Takeover of America

Renew America ^ | April 22, 2013 | Michael Gaynor 
Posted on 4/22/2013 4:17:51 PM by Charlesmoscowitz
Charles Moscowitz warns that ACORN's goal is to take over America in new book
By Michael Gaynor
Morse has lots to say, and what he says about ACORN needs to be common knowledge if the "fundamental transformation" of America that ACORN and Obama have been pursuing is to be stopped.
Charles Moscowitz is the author of books and columns that have been published in The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, The Providence Journal, the New Bedford Standard Times, WND, Newsmax and Front Page. Chuck Morse received the 2003 Communicator of the Year award from the National Right to Work Committee and was named a "Heavy 100" Radio Talk Host by Talkers Magazine. Moscowitz ran for Congress in 2004 against ACORN enabler Rep. Barney Frank in Massachusetts.
Moscowitz really gets it, and the title of his ACORN book – ACORN: The Takeover of America – is right on target.
Moscowitz: "...make no mistake, groups like ACORN celebrated the economic crunch because the financial meltdown, one in which the hard earned investments and equity built up by working Americans evaporated into thin air perhaps forever, one that caused massive layoffs and chronic unemployment, trillion dollar deficits, higher taxes and government control over business that was heretofore unthinkable, is precisely what ACORN and their ilk wanted and what they have been working toward for decades. The situation today is as a result of their deliberate and planned handiwork. They couldn't have been happier over the possibility that our economic system might implode. They revel over the possibility that the earnings and the equity that was achieved by working people, those of us who ACORN might call capitalist roadsters, might have forever vanished. Their ilk thrives in an atmosphere of uncertainty and perceived impending chaos as this condition presents an opportunity for them to invent new consciousness."
As I wrote on September 29, 2008 in "Blame Obama's ACORN for the Financial Crisis" (www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=gaynorm&date=080929):
"Don't expect the mainstream media to identify ACORN and its favorite community organizer and lawyer, rookie United States Senator and current Democrat presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. among the villains in the current financial crisis.
"But media bias does not change facts."
MSNBC urges us to lean forward, but we need to look back and learn. Morse focuses on plenty of facts that the liberal media establishment won't.
Barack Obama, the community organizer who first became the Senator from ACORN, then the President from ACORN and cleverly distanced himself in the general public perception from ACORN in 2009 and thus successfully ran for reelection, candidly spoke of "fundamentally transforming the United States of America" five days before Election Day 2008, but takeover is clearer.
If you have Kindle, go to http://amzn.com/B00BI237SG and get this book. It would be $2.99 well spent, or free if you have Amazon Prime.
The book description at Amazon.com states: "Chuck Morse analyses the history of the now defunct American radical group ACORN as a metaphor for the overall direction of America in the Obama years. ACORN developed an octopus-like apparatus of hundreds of secretive interlocking groups that were funded by the top 1% richest Americans and by billions in taxpayer money. Their agenda was a transfer of power from elected representatives to appointed bureaucrats with themselves playing the role of shock-troops and middleman as they fattened their coffers and engaged in illegal activities. With decades of investigations for voter registration fraud, ACORN was finally exposed by Operation Veritas in 2009. While they allegedly went out of business their infrastructure continues under other guises and their methodology and ideology lives on."
Atypically, the book is even better than its promotional description suggests.
Morse wrote in his book that "ACORN technically went out of business in 2009 after their criminality was exposed by Operation Veritas activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles" and "[m]ost of their taxpayer funded grants were cut off as a result of the scandal" and "evidence suggests that local branches of ACORN have continued to operate under other names." He did NOT indicate that ACORN is defunct.
Defunct means "no longer living, existing, or functioning," and the ACORN family or organizations (as ACORN founder and chief organizer from 1070 until 2008 put it) definitely is NOT defunct. See "The Rebranding of ACORN" (www.judicialwatch.org/files/documents/2011/acornspecialreport08222011.pdf). The 28-page report rightly concluded that (1) "[r]umors of ACORN's demise are completely false" because "ACORN lives on in the form of its affiliated organizations, such as Affordable Housing Centers of America, The Advance Group, The Black Institute, and Project Vote" and "ACORN's newly formed state organizations will continue to carry on...ACORN's work of organizing low- and moderate-income folks) ACORN's bankruptcy papers "appear to be incomplete and/or inaccurate" and "investigators believe these papers do not account for tens of millions of dollars in ACORN funds"; (3) "Project Vote is clearly going to continue to undermine the rule of law and the integrity of elections through fraudulent voter registrations" and "has retained voter registration fraud-tainted staff," so "the scandal of 2008 is bound to be repeated in 2012"; and (4) "ACORN leaders at both the state and national levels seem to have systematically violated numerous laws, and yet, the Obama Justice Department, likely due to the president's personal and political ties to the organization, refuses to investigate."
Morse rightly asserts: "As this nation enters into the second term of the Obama administration, former ACORN operatives are operating full speed ahead in most American cities. After the collapse of ACORN, they morphed into Occupy Wall Street and elements got out the vote for Obama and liberal Democrats in 2012. They consist of a growing cadre of idealistic young people, dedicated and well-meaning young people who are willing and eager to put in long and thankless workdays for very little pay. It's really too bad that this well intentioned idealism is directed not toward helping poor people become self-sufficient and proud members of our free society."
Exactly, and ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief appreciates that even better than Morse, because before the 2008 election she was one of those well-intentioned idealists and proudly voted for Obama in the utterly unrealistic expectation that he would be good for America, and then "evolved" as she watched what he actually proceeded to do and was disillusioned.
ACORN is subversive, and as ACORN expert Matthew Vadum warned in "Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, "ACORN is still with us, doing its best to destroy American capitalism and democracy." (http://matthewvadum.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html).
In 2010 Vadum summarized the rebranding scheme as follows (www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/12/new-indictments-hit-crumbling-acorn/#ixzz2QvYecWQq):
"ACORN is hoping its latest public-relations ruse may give it an opportunity to take in untold millions of taxpayer dollars under cover of darkness just in time to influence upcoming elections.
"The ruse consists of ACORN's effort to pass off various state chapters as supposedly new groups independent of ACORN. In this re-branding charade, state chapters are pretending to break away from the national ACORN group and reincorporate themselves as independent organizations.
"At least four dummy nonprofit corporations have emerged from the re-branding process in recent months.
"They are the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, New York Communities for Change, New England United for Justice (Massachusetts) and Arkansas Community Organizations. All four groups operate out of ACORN offices and are run by ACORN staffers. The president of New England United for Justice, Maude Hurd, just happens to be the 20-year national president of ACORN.
"A senior ACORN staffer acknowledged the scam in an e-mail leaked to me:
'The truth is that it is hard for us to foresee [sic] any scenario where ACORN continues beyond the end of 2010 and some of us think it might not last that long," writes Nathan Henderson-James, director of ACORN's online campaigns, in an apparently authentic Feb. 22 e-mail.
'Last one to leave turn out the lights and wipe the server,' he writes at the end of the message.
"The message from Mr. Henderson-James was forwarded to me by various sources who obtained it from the Google listserv Townhouse, an invitation-only discussion forum run by Matt Stoller, senior policy adviser to progressive hero Rep. Alan Grayson, Florida Democrat.
"My sources advise me that the hundreds of high-level Democratic operatives, liberal activists and journalists who subscribe to the listserv are furious that Mr. Henderson-James' e-mail was leaked. Listserv members are said to be angrily accusing each other of being the leakers. This breach of security could be the end for Townhouse, one of the members reportedly said.
"ACORN Housing Corp., the best-funded of ACORN's affiliates, is also participating in the re-branding effort aimed at duping high-dollar charities and the public and allowing ACORN to continue eating your tax money. ACORN Housing has opted simply to change its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America Inc.
"There is no indication so far that ACORN intends to re-brand its voter-registration arm, Project Vote, which continues to operate."
Moscowitz has lots to say, and what he says about ACORN needs to become common knowledge if the "fundamental transformation" of America that ACORN and Obama have been pursuing is to be stopped.
© Michael Gaynor