Congressional Report: ACORN Didn't Break Any Laws Promoting Child Prostitution But Filmmakers May Have
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, December 26, 2009, 7:07 PM
The House Judiciary Committe led by Rep. John Conyers, whose wife was convicted on bribery charges this year, found that ACORN hasn’t violated any federal regulations in the past five years.
This is the same group that hired convicts still in prison -CONVICTED OF IDENTITY THEFT- for canvassing voters. ACORN was also secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents.
The democratic committee believe that the filmmakers who caught the leftist officials at ACORN promoting the illegal acts may be the real criminals.
The Politico reported, via FOX Nation:
A Congressional Research Service report commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee says ACORN hasn’t violated any federal regulations the past five years.
The report, released by Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers’s (D-Mich.) staff Tuesday evening, also reports that the undercover filmmakers that allegedly caught employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now breaking the law may have violated state law in their filming operation.
Separately on Tuesday, a New York federal judge rejected a motion from the Justice Department to reconsider a decision that ruled a bill that stopped funding for ACORN as an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
The CRS report is part of a slew of government inquests into the group, which was swept up in a number of embarrassing situations in the past several months. The Government Accountability Office recently opened its own report, and Republican Reps. Darrell Issa of California and Steve King of Iowa have led the charge in demanding more investigations and hearings into the group.
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maria commented:
Americans law system stinks, especially under Obama.
nadadhimmi commented:
Expect a show trial to be ordered by Holder/Himmler. These people will be punished for having the audacity to oppose Der Fuhrer/The One. Expect long prison terms for the political opponents of the living god. I say bring in the white Stallion Incitatus into the Senate. Calligula is a piker compared to Soros, Obama and Jennings. Obama is even on his pleasure Island, only for him it’s Oahu, not Capri.
jonyjoe101 commented:
All I need to hear is the word “conyers” and I know the report is worthless. Just like he and his wife are, why anyone takes anything they say serious is like mike tyson would say “ludicrous”.
Theres no doubt in my mind that the congressman knew about his wife’s illegal activities, but since he his a minority they let him slide.
shiba07 commented:
total corruption, i feel like i’m living in a third world nation. and for some reason, many people still think we will have fair elections in 2010. not with acorn and the seiu thugs helping the dems win.
GrayRider commented:
Everything is upside down and inside out with Obama as president and the leftists in charge. Frankly, folks…it is going to take a real revolution to restore sanity and common sense to America.
ar05075 commented:
You’re right
Just_Saying commented:
Where in the world can we move? How in the world can we fight it, since judicial ways obviously don’t work?
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jim m commented:
As I have said before: It’s all about ideology with Obama. There is nothing so corrupt so vile, so evil that cannot be excused as long as you are ideologically OK with The One. Conversely, there is no good deed that will go unpunished if you disagree with him ideologically.
ACORN could be promoting slavery in the US and Obama would still back them (Oh, wait, that’s exactly what they are doing! My bad)
Tommy John commented:
You gotta be *** kidding me!! This is what our Government has become?!? This is what our Country has become?!?!?
Mutha F*** the United States Government!..and Mutha F*** the degenerates that put these pond scum in office year after year!!
Harry Schell commented:
Who bought Conyers (this time)?
Kevin commented:
I keep picturing like in the cartoons, a large barrel with the US flag on it, jumping around and rattling just before the big explosion, that’s how I see the country right now– the fuse is lit and just waiting for that perfect spark to touch the powder.
joe camel commented:
I try to remain color blind in society, but..alas, the more I watch these black politicians and their continued disregard for law, well, let’s say I am failing…
Joanne commented:
OT
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGY3MTI4YTRjZmYwMGU1ZjZhOGJmNmQ0NmJiZDNmMDY=
“Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law? [Andy McCarthy]
You just can’t make up how brazen this crowd is. One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.
Interpol is the shorthand for the International Criminal Police Organization. It was established in 1923 and operates in about 188 countries. By executive order 12425, issued in 1983, President Reagan recognized Interpol as an international organization and gave it some of the privileges and immunities customarily extended to foreign diplomats. Interpol, however, is also an active law-enforcement agency, so critical privileges and immunities (set forth in Section 2(c) of the International Organizations Immunities Act) were withheld. Specifically, Interpol’s property and assets remained subject to search and seizure, and its archived records remained subject to public scrutiny under provisions like the Freedom of Information Act. Being constrained by the Fourth Amendment, FOIA, and other limitations of the Constitution and federal law that protect the liberty and privacy of Americans is what prevents law-enforcement and its controlling government authority from becoming tyrannical.
On Wednesday, however, for no apparent reason, President Obama issued an executive order removing the Reagan limitations. That is, Interpol’s property and assets are no longer subject to search and confiscation, and its archives are now considered inviolable. This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States.
Interpol works closely with international tribunals (such as the International Criminal Court — which the United States has refused to join because of its sovereignty surrendering provisions, though top Obama officials want us in it). It also works closely with foreign courts and law-enforcement authorities (such as those in Europe that are investigating former Bush administration officials for purported war crimes — i.e., for actions taken in America’s defense).
Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media, and the American people to scrutinize?”
Joanne commented:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=140105.5;wap2
I took out a bunch of paraghaphs, but Obama’s Executive Order may have something to do with the following:
“INTERPOL – New World Order “International” Police Force
Interpol and U.N. Back ‘Global Policing Doctrine’
By DOREEN CARVAJAL
Published: October 11, 2009
PARIS — Interpol and the United Nations are poised to become partners in fighting crime by jointly grooming a global police force that would be deployed as peacekeepers among rogue nations riven by war and organized crime, officials from both organizations say.
It is the first step toward creating what Interpol calls a “global policing doctrine” that would enable Interpol and the United Nations to improve the skills of police peacekeepers, largely by sharing a secure communications network and a vast electronic trove of criminal information, including DNA records, fingerprints, photographs and fugitive notices.
“We have a visionary model,” said Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of Interpol and the first American to head the international police organization, which is based in Lyon. More than 187 member nations finance the organization.
“The police will be trained and equipped differently with resources,” Mr. Noble said. “When they stop someone, they will be consulting global databases to determine who they are stopping.”
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is contributing more than $2 million to finance the development of international global policing standards, according to Andrew Hughes, an Australian who currently heads the U.N.’s force of police officers.
But Mr. Noble of Interpol says he takes a dim view of transforming warriors into beat cops, because the mind-sets are so different.
“We caution on making the delegation of civil police development tasks to military structures,” Mr. Noble said, citing the example of an attack that freed hundreds of Taliban from a prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, last year. Although Interpol immediately asked for information about the missing prisoners, he said, “we were really shocked and dismayed to learn there were no fingerprints and photographs despite billions spent to train police there.”
With the meeting of justice ministers on Monday, which coincides with a general assembly of Interpol police members, the group is expected to debate the global police issue and to craft a declaration that would lead to an action plan for international police peacekeeping within 12 months. Interpol and U.N. Back ‘Global Policing Doctrine’”
Anonymous commented:
The S.E.A.L. court martial trial. The Black Panther exoneration. Obama’s “shout out” prior to announcing the Fort Hood massacre. Bill Ayers. Rev. Wright. Nationalizing banks, the automobile industry and eventually the health care. Jennings, Van Jones and Jarrett, oh my! Now this. When will law abiding citizens stand up to this thugocracy we are becoming? It will only worsen.
Read Atlas Shrugged. Yes, again.
p.s.: It’s only been a year (one year!) We have at least three to go, although it’s obvious that they plan to stay in power a lot longer than that!
If we do nothing, our nation will resemble Zimbabwe before long.
Scrapiron commented:
I’m waiting for the day buses line up outside congress and all democrats are frog marched on board and transported to a super max prison to spend the rest of their lives. Another good option would be for terrorists to hit DC with a CBR attack which takes out the entire city. A less attractive but effective option is for the military leaders to say that’s enough and take over the government, line the politicians against a wall and shoot them all. The blood would contaminate the ground for a thousand years with AIDS and every other disease known to man including a massive amount of dumb ass genes.
Joanne commented:
http://threatswatch.org/analysis/2009/12/print/wither_sovereignty/
Even more on Obama’s executive order….
Daniel commented:
Doesn’t CRS translate to – Can’t Remember Stuff?
Conyers, huh.
What. A. Load. Of. Stuff. Crapola. Meadow Muffin. Steaming Divot.
Boogy commented:
Obummer’s ACORNYS are protected mafia grunts. Mafia makes moneies in child traffic. Obummer is a community ( e.g. gansta!) organizer. Racketeering, child prostitution are all good jobs, and can buy votes from the independents. Nothing here to do about decency of innocent children, it is power politics. Gestap’O’ style.
Auntie Em commented:
What a bunch of turds we have elected to protect us. We’ve not only invited them into the henhouse, we’ve offered to cook our children for them.
If I had no hope in Jesus Christ, I would see nothing wrong with this.
chemman commented:
Nothing is illegal for those that support the community organizer.
What universe have I ended up in. This one certainly is going to blow up before long.
C-Christian Soldier commented:
Ahhh- one of the primary ‘Rules’ from Alinsky is are perfectly applied by the Congressional fascists—–
DEFLECTION!!!!!
Take the blame from the guilty corrupt- organization (ACORN)and put it on the truth tellers.
C-CS
manateespirit commented:
#20 and #26. Spot on.
“So, you say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world”. (This should be the theme for the 2012 election…perhaps the 2010 election as well).
Yes I do. Away from the Obama vision. Away from the plan to destroy America.
Tim H commented:
Typical of Conyers, this man is as racist as they come. ACORN can do no wrong in his book because they steer money to “urban” needy. But exactly how much money makes it to the real needy and how much is skimmed off the top? This is how Obamanation intends to “reshape” the country, bring down the middle class because the lower class is too damn lazy to raise themselves out of poverty while the gov is handing them money so they can keep sitting on their butts.
Franklin commented:
If we don’t do something about ACORN now, 2010 won’t help us any. They are already working to “Franken” every state.
It’s not just ACORN stuffing the ballet box, it’s them getting the Secretary of State installed to ‘acorn’ the recall/ballot check/investigation. It happened here in Minnesota, and who knows where else?
We need to keep pressure up on Congress, White House, Media and whoever you can think of to prosecute this illeagal organization.
Email, call, fax or visit Congress, White House and the media and their editors (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, etc.).
Hold pro-America, Conservative rallies at local TV stations.
By MAIL cancel your subscription to your local MSM propaganda rag. Tell them why. Note who their advertisers are and send a few of the bigger ones a copy of your cancellation letter (be sure to cc these advertisers on your letter). Tell these advertisers you will not patronize them any longer because they are supporting political propaganda which you object to.
Aren’t you tired of complaining? I sure am.
squeaky commented:
and then there’s the san diego acorn office director caught on tape discussing the likelihood
that it will be those doing the filming that will
be charged. the same san diego office that did a massive dump of files just before the ag
investigation of the office.
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/10/exclusive-audio-from-acorn-claims-jerry-brown-will-whitewash-investigation/
Tom63010 commented:
Had this been one of the MSM outlets that did this undercover work they would be praised!
Here in Missouri our Secretary of State Robin Carnahan has the backing of ACORN in her run for the seat retiring Senator Kit Bond is leaving.
I’m sure there won’t be any shenanigans with that race.
StevefromMKE commented:
Well if this is the standard they are going to set, then “Dateline” and “20/20″ and EVERY local news team that has undercover or hidden camera investigations need to be prosecuted as well.
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Adam from NY commented:
I can’t say that I’m at all unsurprised about this. You’d think this administration would understand how serious a problem human trafficking is, and, you’d think they’d try to prevent its spread. Just goes to show you the double standard in America’s left wing: American citizens that don’t fit into favored groups are evil, others are little more than products of their environment. There is no justice; there is moral relativism and there are favored groups. With each passing day this nation seems to get worse and worse.
sheik yer'mami commented:
A criminal government protects its criminals.
Who would have thought?