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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 606507" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p>You can tell, Halloween season is approaching. The rightwing without a bogeyman to fear can't survive long. Sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight. Exit light, enter night.......Enter ACORN!</p><p>Finally, something for the Republican party to use to stoke fear among its constituency. Acorn is perfect. The nationwide community group is full of scary black and poor people – who tend to support Democrats. And, most convenient of all, it registers millions of them <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/surprised.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":surprised:" title="Surprised :surprised:" data-shortname=":surprised:" />, legally, to vote in US elections. Spooky. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/scared.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":2scared:" title="Scared :2scared:" data-shortname=":2scared:" /></p><p>Stop Acorn, and you can stop the rise of citizen democracy.</p><p>Acorn has long been a target for Republicans, who have attempted to tar and feather it with accusations of voter fraud before the 2008 election, (and several elections prior) when names like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Mary Poppins showed up on a handful of voter registration forms collected by Acorn. (Never mind the fact that none of these fictional characters actually voted and that Acorn itself flagged the fraudulent registration forms and turned them in to election officials, as required by law.) But now the vilification of Acorn is in full swing again. A couple of rightwing operatives. the pimp and the prostitute, caught a few, dumb, low-level Acorn employees suggesting ways in which they could get around US law and avoid paying taxes on her "business". Acorn immediately fired the employees, of course, after the videotapes were made public. But that hasn't stopped Republican opportunists, led by Fox News, from calling for the entire organization's destruction.</p><p>The point of the demonising is to shut down their effective voter registration process and, in the bargain, further the Republican push for state-issued photo ID requirements at polling places, even as they know full-well that some 20 to 30 million Americans – mostly urban, elderly, minority and student (read: Democratic-leaning) – voters don't have such IDs and would not be allowed to exercise their legal right to vote.</p><p> </p><p>It's ironically strang when the Bush Adm itself ....at its absolute highest levels was discovered to have tortured and abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, resulting in actual death, the right wingnut apologists write it off as the act of a few low-level "bad apples". No accountability for those who actually instituted the policies.</p><p>But when a few actual low-level bad apples – who happen to be African-American, and working for a group fighting for the American Dream for all Americans – commit petty stupidity, the entire organization must be brought down in order to save the country. Very juvenile, petty, and such bigger fish to fry.......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 606507, member: 9859"] You can tell, Halloween season is approaching. The rightwing without a bogeyman to fear can't survive long. Sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight. Exit light, enter night.......Enter ACORN! Finally, something for the Republican party to use to stoke fear among its constituency. Acorn is perfect. The nationwide community group is full of scary black and poor people – who tend to support Democrats. And, most convenient of all, it registers millions of them :surprised:, legally, to vote in US elections. Spooky. :2scared: Stop Acorn, and you can stop the rise of citizen democracy. Acorn has long been a target for Republicans, who have attempted to tar and feather it with accusations of voter fraud before the 2008 election, (and several elections prior) when names like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Mary Poppins showed up on a handful of voter registration forms collected by Acorn. (Never mind the fact that none of these fictional characters actually voted and that Acorn itself flagged the fraudulent registration forms and turned them in to election officials, as required by law.) But now the vilification of Acorn is in full swing again. A couple of rightwing operatives. the pimp and the prostitute, caught a few, dumb, low-level Acorn employees suggesting ways in which they could get around US law and avoid paying taxes on her "business". Acorn immediately fired the employees, of course, after the videotapes were made public. But that hasn't stopped Republican opportunists, led by Fox News, from calling for the entire organization's destruction. The point of the demonising is to shut down their effective voter registration process and, in the bargain, further the Republican push for state-issued photo ID requirements at polling places, even as they know full-well that some 20 to 30 million Americans – mostly urban, elderly, minority and student (read: Democratic-leaning) – voters don't have such IDs and would not be allowed to exercise their legal right to vote. It's ironically strang when the Bush Adm itself ....at its absolute highest levels was discovered to have tortured and abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, resulting in actual death, the right wingnut apologists write it off as the act of a few low-level "bad apples". No accountability for those who actually instituted the policies. But when a few actual low-level bad apples – who happen to be African-American, and working for a group fighting for the American Dream for all Americans – commit petty stupidity, the entire organization must be brought down in order to save the country. Very juvenile, petty, and such bigger fish to fry....... [/QUOTE]
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