Foreclosure Imminent? Call ACORN

by McQ | February 17, 2009 5:32 pm

Of course part of the huge and porky “stimulus” bill was billions to Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) program. Of the the past beneficiaries of that program has been our old buddies at ACORN. But, you say, the election is over – ACORN can’t collect taxpayer money for fraudulent voter registration anymore.

Never fear, ACORN has found itself a new line of work. Civil disobedience[1]:

The community organizing group Acorn unveiled the campaign with a spirited rally on Friday at a Brooklyn church and will roll it out in at least 22 other cities in the coming weeks. Through phone trees, Web pages and text-messaging networks, the effort will connect families facing eviction with volunteers who will stand at their side as officers arrive, even if it means risking arrest.

“You want to haul us out to jail? Fine. Let the world see how government has been ineffective,” Bertha Lewis, Acorn’s chief organizer, said in an interview. “Politicians have helped banks, but they haven’t helped families in the way that it’s needed, and these families are now saying, enough is enough.”

Yes friends, your hard earned money (or that which has been borrowed from the Chinese or printed on that nifty little printing press the government has) is now going to fund ACORN’s civil disobedience shenanigans.

While no one likes to see anyone lose their home, if you’re a believer in private property, then you understand the concept that you have to pay for someone else’s property or they have recourse. ACORN, dealing on emotion and your money, have unilaterally decided that’s just wrong and intends to demonstrate that by attempting to disrupt lawful procedures to foreclose homes. Instead of using the money to help the family that is losing the home to find other accomodations and by doing so ameliorate the trauma, ACORN has decided to add to the trauma instead.

Acorn’s strategy is modeled on a movement the group led in the 1980s, when squatters occupied and set out to renovate thousands of abandoned city-owned buildings in New York, Philadelphia and Detroit, among other cities. The motivation was to solve what Ms. Lewis has called “the working family’s housing crisis.”

In cities like Orlando, Fla., which has one of the nation’s highest foreclosure rates — and Boston, Houston, Baltimore, Oakland, Calif., and Tucson, Ariz. — Acorn organizers have been creating networks to alert a homeowner’s neighbors when an eviction has been scheduled or deputies are on the way. Some volunteers will summon friends and relatives to converge at the home, while others will be in charge of notifying the news media. Organizers are also recruiting lawyers willing to defend for no fee those who are arrested.

The campaign, called Home Defenders, enlisted about 500 participants during meetings held Friday and Saturday in New York and five other cities. Ms. Lewis and other organizers said that they believed the number will reach into the tens of thousands within weeks.

Yessiree, just what we need – a taxpayer funded organization with obvious socialist roots attempting to deny the proper property owner’s rights while a sympathetic press looks on. ACORN’s model isn’t even a righteous model. As noted, the buildings in question in the ’80s were abandoned. The foreclosed houses aren’t abandoned, just empty. The quickest way to get in one, beside taking it unlawfully, is to buy it or rent it.

ACORN, however, would much rather spend its funds making a splash than a difference. But I’m not sure what else you’d expect from a bunch of marxist community organizers.

[Crossposted at QandO[2]]

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