Congress de-funded Acorn due to phony Rethug video & Fox News pressure

[upi402]

Acorn really helps the working poor. And now congress says it had to take away their money to protect tax payers.

WTF? The banksters get armloads of tax dollars and remain at the roulette table while giving themselves bonuses. Someone remind me which party has the majority?


Not just Fox News but WaPo and New York Times reported that the kid was dressed as a pimp in the Acorn office. In fact, it looks like it was an edited video and the media has not corrected it. And congress needs to address it too.



John Atlas, 'Seeds of Change' on Democracy Now;

"A federal judge has reaffirmed her earlier ruling blocking the congressional effort to de-fund the anti-poverty group ACORN. On Wednesday, Judge Nina Gershon cemented a decision from last year that such action amounted to an unconstitutional “bill of attainder.” Judge Gershon has asked all federal agencies to allow ACORN funding without delay."

http://www.democracynow.org/

[uppityperson]

1. another story about Judge Gershon

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/judge-govt-funding-acorn/

A federal judge retained her position that it is unconstitutional for Congress to prevent funding for the activist group ACORN after a government request that she reconsider.

U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon cemented her earlier decision in December and made the injunction against government intervention permanent, asking all federal agencies to spread the word that money to ACORN be allowed without delay.

The judge wrote that it was "unmistakable that Congress determined ACORN's guilt before defunding it." Congress may investigate ACORN but cannot "rely on the negative results of a congressional or executive report as a rationale to impose a broad, punitive funding ban on a specific, named organization."

The Center for Constitutional Rights had charged Congress in last year's case of violating the group's constitutional protections......

[upi402]

2. Well the Constitution is 'Just a piece of paper'

Or more accurately, "Just a God damn piece of paper" -George W Bush

[thereismore]

3. Activist judges!

:sarcasm: