ACORN is far, far worse than everything you’ve heard. It
celebrates and promotes the worst pathologies in society in an
effort to kill the American experiment in self-governance.
And the rumors of ACORN’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
The radical group declared bankruptcy at the end of 2010, but its
leaders acknowledge that they are building a new network of
activist groups to continue ACORN’s work undermining America’s free
institutions.
ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis has created a group called
the Black Institute whose agenda is essentially identical to
ACORN’s. ACORN founder Wade Rathke is spreading the gospel of
Marxist social justice around the world through his offshoot group
ACORN International (also known as Community Organizations
International).
State chapters have incorporated themselves under new names. New
York became New York Communities for Change. California became
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment. Texas became
Texas Organizing Project. ACORN’s vote manufacturing division,
Project Vote, still operates under the same name and small-c
communist Frances Fox Piven still sits on its board. ACORN’s
housing bubble generator, ACORN Housing, changed its name to
Affordable Housing Centers of America. It’s the same people in the
same offices and it just goes on and on.
ACORN insiders have admitted that the “new” groups will
re-federate under a new name soon.
ACORN is a “boiler room” operation. Once the authorities get
wind of it, it moves and assumes a new name while it seeks out
fresh victims. Long before two conservative activists captured
ACORN employees on video offering to assist in the creation of a
brothel for pedophiles, ACORN insiders knew the game plan. They
knew the day would come when the ACORN brand was so tarnished it
was time to go underground. After the videos revealed what ACORN
was really about, its leaders set about laying the groundwork for
ACORN’s rebirth.
The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause
and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress
impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist
surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our
culture.
The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it,
makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so
many people seem to be hostile to it?