By Matthew Vadum
Why is President Obama apparently defying federal law by funding ACORN?
Judicial Watch discovered that the Obama administration is flouting the will of Congress by giving federal taxpayer money to ACORN.
Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave a $79,819 grant to the largest branch of the ACORN tree, ACORN Housing Corp. (AHC). AHC filed papers last year legally changing its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA). It's the same old organization with a brand new ACORN-free name.
Worse yet, the grant funds a political agitation and indoctrination program. Here's HUD's euphemistic description of the program:
Education and Outreach Initiative grants (EOI) - HUD awarded $6.8 million to organizations that educate the public and housing providers about their rights and obligations under federal, state, and local fair housing laws. Groups will also conduct fair lending workshops, community meetings, and individual counseling activities focused on homeowners at risk for discrimination.
According to HUD, the grant money came out of fiscal 2010 appropriations.
That's a big problem.
As I reported previously, in 2009 Congress passed four separate appropriations bills that contained language blocking federal funds from flowing to ACORN during federal fiscal year 2010, which ran from Oct. 1, 2009 through Sept. 30, 2010. All four of the laws prevent ACORN and its affiliated groups from receiving federal taxpayer dollars.
The funding prohibition in Public Law 111-117 (PDF) applies specifically to HUD. It spells out in pretty clear terms that ACORN shouldn't be getting any government funding. Let's see just how clearly it spells it out:
Division A - Section 418. None of the funds made available under this Act or any prior Act may be provided to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied organizations. [p. 80 of PDF]
Division B - Section 534. None of the funds made available under this Act may be distributed to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries. [p. 125 of PDF]
Division E - Section 511. None of the funds made available in this division or any other division in this Act may be distributed to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries. [p. 279 of PDF]
Yet despite the ban, President Obama, who worked for ACORN as an employee and as the group's lawyer, found it in his heart to hand over $79,819 of your money to his thug friends at ACORN.
As I warn in my new book, 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.
The group is gearing up right now to make sure President Obama gets reelected in 2012. Its state chapters have adopted assumed names and remain active. Project Vote, ACORN's vote manufacturing factory, continues to operate unmolested in ACORN's Washington, D.C. office.
You've been warned.
Note: This article is reprinted from 'The Ameriucan Spectator' of June 30, 2011.
This the same ACORN that has had many of its personnel indited for voter fraud after the last presidential election -- The same ACORN for which Barack Obama worked as a 'Comunity Orgabnizer' -- WD.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The Gun: Cold Truths about Cold Steel
By R.G. Yoho
Whipped into a terrorized frenzy by gun-banning politicians, and a pliable media that generally salivates to do their bidding, some Americans have developed an irrational contempt for gun owners and their firearms.
Many of these victims of mass media hysteria have come to fear the gun, like a firearm is some kind of an evil, dangerous creature, determined to take the lives of all in its presence.
However, a gun is merely a harmless, inanimate object. Unlike a politician or reporter, a firearm conceals no secret motives. It holds no agenda. Moreover, a gun can neither offer you harm nor protection.
It is only when that gun is picked up, only then does it take on the power to destroy or defend.
If you placed a loaded gun on the kitchen table in your house, and nobody was to touch the gun or set fire to your house, that gun would do harm to absolutely nobody. You could leave it there for years. It would take no lives. It couldn’t maim or injure.
It wouldn’t break into your house in the middle of the night. The gun wouldn’t sneak up your staircase and threaten to harm your children. It would offer no threat to your spouse.
If left to itself, the gun is entirely harmless.
It has been said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
When it comes to a firearm, its duty is in the eye of the holder.
A gun in the hand of a patriot has won our nation independence from tyranny. A firearm in the hand of a police officer has prevented a citizen from being robbed or assaulted. A rifle in the hands of a soldier has ended the evils of the Holocaust. A pistol in the hand of responsible citizen has secured a home or caused a potential rapist to flee.
However, a gun doesn’t need to be placed in the hands of diseased minds or evil souls, because these individuals already have them. They will always possess them.
These animals have no regard for additional gun laws. They do not respect the police. They care nothing about the good of society. And they will always have the means and intent to use these weapons to take what doesn’t belong to them or to needlessly inflict harm on others.
But the meek will inherit nothing when they are weak. There is only one way the evil heart that intends to use the gun for evil purposes can be thwarted.
These depraved individuals with guns will only be stopped by good men with guns.
That is how it’s always been. That’s how it always will be.
Comments are invited!
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Whipped into a terrorized frenzy by gun-banning politicians, and a pliable media that generally salivates to do their bidding, some Americans have developed an irrational contempt for gun owners and their firearms.
Many of these victims of mass media hysteria have come to fear the gun, like a firearm is some kind of an evil, dangerous creature, determined to take the lives of all in its presence.
However, a gun is merely a harmless, inanimate object. Unlike a politician or reporter, a firearm conceals no secret motives. It holds no agenda. Moreover, a gun can neither offer you harm nor protection.
It is only when that gun is picked up, only then does it take on the power to destroy or defend.
If you placed a loaded gun on the kitchen table in your house, and nobody was to touch the gun or set fire to your house, that gun would do harm to absolutely nobody. You could leave it there for years. It would take no lives. It couldn’t maim or injure.
It wouldn’t break into your house in the middle of the night. The gun wouldn’t sneak up your staircase and threaten to harm your children. It would offer no threat to your spouse.
If left to itself, the gun is entirely harmless.
It has been said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
When it comes to a firearm, its duty is in the eye of the holder.
A gun in the hand of a patriot has won our nation independence from tyranny. A firearm in the hand of a police officer has prevented a citizen from being robbed or assaulted. A rifle in the hands of a soldier has ended the evils of the Holocaust. A pistol in the hand of responsible citizen has secured a home or caused a potential rapist to flee.
However, a gun doesn’t need to be placed in the hands of diseased minds or evil souls, because these individuals already have them. They will always possess them.
These animals have no regard for additional gun laws. They do not respect the police. They care nothing about the good of society. And they will always have the means and intent to use these weapons to take what doesn’t belong to them or to needlessly inflict harm on others.
But the meek will inherit nothing when they are weak. There is only one way the evil heart that intends to use the gun for evil purposes can be thwarted.
These depraved individuals with guns will only be stopped by good men with guns.
That is how it’s always been. That’s how it always will be.
Comments are invited!
Send feedback to: WatchDog
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