By Paul Chesser on 9.16.09 @ 6:08AM
Obama's ACORN condones what Hillary's State Department condemns.
By now the only people who have not heard about the undercover
video
reports that
expose the radical housing and election fraud group ACORN as
human trafficking enablers are those who limit their
news consumption to the formerly mainstream
media. That is few.
The rest know about the damning evidence captured by activists
James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, who (as of this writing) have
shared via the new Big
Government website (has one ever seen a more splashy
debut?) the criminal intentions of ACORN tax and housing
specialists in Baltimore, Washington, Brooklyn and San
Bernardino, Calif.
There's plenty to nauseate taxpayers who, according to a
Washington Examiner
analysis, have seen $53 million in federal funds flow to the
organization and its affiliates since 1994. Nudging the ACORN
employees into territory with which they seemed
all-too-comfortable, James and Hannah requested help obtaining a
home for their brothel while seeking advice on how to deceive the
government, avoid paying taxes, hide their illegal business, file
false documents, violate campaign finance laws, and likely a host
of other felonies.
That list is an infuriating peek into where the mind of a
publicly funded crook would go. As elicited by the "pimp and the
prostitute," the ACORNers came off as routine, wink-and-a-nod
corruption condoners, if not perpetrators.
Then you get to the child sex trafficking. Did James and Hannah
know something ahead of time about the depths of these sick
minds? Convicted predators are unacceptable even among their
fellow prisoners, often getting beat up or killed behind bars.
But the ACORN workers acted as if sexual abuse of kids was just
another hurdle to overcome for their potential clients.
To refresh, after James and Hannah recorded a stupefying amount
of desire to aid and abet, they posited the
following at the Baltimore ACORN office:
James: Well here is the problem: Not only does
Kenya (Hannah) have her business, do her thing, but she works
with girls who are like 14, 15.
Kenya (Hannah): Well there are like 13 girls
from El Salvador that I have kind of gotten wind on the street
that they are coming and I have let the right people know that
I am interested in taking care of them and getting them used to
the area and getting them used to society.
Shira (ACORN worker): That
you keep to yourself.
Later came more advice to keep the prostitution ring quiet:
Shira: No, no, no, no, you don't bring that
up. [Kenya/Hannah] is purchasing a house. Do not. She is buying
a house to live in….
James: We understand.
Kenya: Okay no phones, no El Salvadorian
girls…
Shira: No nothing.
James: Well they still exist but you just
don't talk about it….
Shira: That is between you and whatever. What
ever you do you do not you do not discuss it…
Similar scenarios played out during the duo's visits to the other
ACORN offices. How does the Obama Administration, the top
beneficiary of ACORN's efforts over the years, feel about this?
Here's what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote in a
Washington Post op-ed
upon the June release of the State Department's 2009 Trafficking
in Persons report:
To some, human trafficking may seem like a problem limited to
other parts of the world. In fact, it occurs in every country,
including the United States, and we have a responsibility to
fight it just as others do. The destructive effects of
trafficking have an impact on all of us. Trafficking weakens
legitimate economies, breaks up families, fuels violence,
threatens public health and safety, and shreds the social
fabric that is necessary for progress. It undermines our
long-term efforts to promote peace and prosperity worldwide.
And it is an affront to our values and our commitment to human
rights.
The Obama administration views the fight against human
trafficking, at home and abroad, as an important priority on
our foreign policy agenda. The United States funds 140
anti-trafficking programs in nearly 70 countries, as well as 42
domestic task forces that bring state and local authorities
together with nongovernmental organizations to combat
trafficking.
How ironic: activity condoned by ACORN contracts human rights.
Meanwhile, the annual TIP report assesses each nation's efforts
to combat trafficking and assigns grades based on their laws,
enforcement, successes and failures. In his introduction to this
year's report, Ambassador Luis CdeBaca wrote:
Sadly, there are thousands who are trapped in various forms of
enslavement, here in our country…oftentimes young women who are
caught up in prostitution. So, we've got to give prosecutors
the tools to crack down on these human trafficking networks….It
is a debasement of our common humanity, whenever we see
something like that taking place.
What does the TIP report say about the country invoked by James
and Hannah?
El Salvador is a source, transit, and destination country for
women and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial
sexual exploitation and forced labor. Most victims are
Salvadoran women and girls trafficked within the country from
rural to urban areas for commercial sexual exploitation….
Salvadorans have been trafficked to Guatemala, Mexico, Belize,
the United States, Spain, and Italy, for commercial sexual
exploitation.
The State Department verifies the activity is occurring, and the
rotten ACORN enables it. Yesterday House Republican leaders
called upon President Obama to halt all funding and break
government ties with ACORN. Considering their radical propensity
to weaken civil society and undermine national security, that and
a cruise ship to Gitmo sound commensurate for their behavior.
topics:
ACORN, Sex Trafficking
