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Former Head of ACORN Bertha Lewis

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Fmr ACORN head calls Tea Parties "bowel movement" and claims "they're coming after you" | Washington Examiner


Former ACORN head Bertha Lewis told a group of the Young Democratic Socialists on that they should "do everything [they] can" to build their organization, and then insisted that our times are worse than internment under the Japanese and the years of Jim Crow laws (h/t Morgan Richmond at BigGovernment):

Any of these groups that says, "I'm young, I'm Democratic, and I'm a socialist," is okay with me. You know that's no light thing to do -- to actually say, I'm a socialist. You've got to know, actually, we are living in a time that's going to dwarf the McCarthy era. It is going to dwarf the internment of World War II. We are right now in a time that is going to dwarf the era of Jim Crow and segregation.

They are coming. And they are coming after you. And they are going to be brutal and oppressive. They've already shown it. ... This is not rhetoric or hyperbole -- this is real. ... This tea party so-called movement -- a bowel-movement in my estimation -- and this blatant uncovering and ripping off the mask of racism...

Bertha's group lost its congressional funding after videos were released depicting actual ACORN workers offering advice on how to hide income from prostitution from the government as well as how to lie to get mortgages. This video demonstrates a contrast to rhetoric about alleged fear-mongering among Tea Party protesters.

Even more ironic is the explicit Democrat support given to the causes she lists. Liberal icon Bobby Kennedy played no small part in Joe McCarthy's efforts to investigate Communist infiltration in the U.S. government. Internment of the Japanese came under the original New Deal Democrat president Franklin Roosevelt. The era of Jim Crow laws was governed by southern Democrats like Alabama governor George Wallace and Mississippi senator Jim Eastland.
 
May Bertha live in interesting times. - Chinese curse
 
"Former Head of Acorn..."

Don't you just love that title? I do. :)
 
"Former Head of Acorn..."

Don't you just love that title? I do. :)

It's meaningless actually. ACORN simply decentralized the main organization... renamed their regional chapters and locations or moved them and renamed them. They're still there, the threat of what they represent is still there.
 
^^^Hahahh helping poor people register to vote or get housing loans is "a threat."

I wish conservatives could come up with a reason to hate ACORN that's based in reality.

(five bucks says someone brings up voter fraud that ACORN discovered and did what they were legally required to, or the prostitution-scandal that was fabricated by clever editing of video footage.)
 
Never before has such a harmless organization been so incredibly vilified. It reminds you of the mentality of Germany in the 1930s.
 
Never before has such a harmless organization been so incredibly vilified. It reminds you of the mentality of Germany in the 1930s.

Harmless. How many elections did this harmless organization fix? Did they fix it so Obama won the election? What about the sting operation that caught them red-handed pushing prostitution? Harmless? Hardly.
 
Never before has such a harmless organization been so incredibly vilified. It reminds you of the mentality of Germany in the 1930s.

That makes me wonder who the new Jews will be in the 21st century? Will white people be the new Jews to be thrown in internment camps?
 
Harmless. How many elections did this harmless organization fix? Did they fix it so Obama won the election? What about the sting operation that caught them red-handed pushing prostitution? Harmless? Hardly.

Voter Fraud perpetrated by ACORN employees did not lead to voting fraud in any way. ACORN employees are usually poor people hired to register voters, and they needed to meet a quota to get payed, and some of them were not able to honestly reach the quota. The right is painting this as a bigger issue than it is.
 
^^^Hahahh helping poor people register to vote or get housing loans is "a threat."

I wish conservatives could come up with a reason to hate ACORN that's based in reality.

(five bucks says someone brings up voter fraud that ACORN discovered and did what they were legally required to, or the prostitution-scandal that was fabricated by clever editing of video footage.)

Helping dead people to vote is a threat to honest voters all over the US. Talk about fixing elections.
 
Helping dead people to vote is a threat to honest voters all over the US. Talk about fixing elections.

Not one dead person registered by an ACORN employee actually had a vote made in their name.
 
Harmless. How many elections did this harmless organization fix? Did they fix it so Obama won the election? What about the sting operation that caught them red-handed pushing prostitution? Harmless? Hardly.

Sting operation? No there was no prostitution or pushing of it. Okeefe edited the tapes to meet his agenda. Jerry Brown got them to release the unedited tapes for California and when you watch them you clearly see Acorn over and over telling OKeefe that they can't help him. Then Giles pleaded for sympathy. It was Okeefe that had to push over and over again. Even then no crime was committed. ACORN didn't fix elections that's one hell of a conspiracy theory
 
Helping dead people to vote is a threat to honest voters all over the US. Talk about fixing elections.
Do you have any proof that ACORN as an organization registered dead people to vote and those dead people actually voted?
 
Sting operation? No there was no prostitution or pushing of it. Okeefe edited the tapes to meet his agenda. Jerry Brown got them to release the unedited tapes for California and when you watch them you clearly see Acorn over and over telling OKeefe that they can't help him. Then Giles pleaded for sympathy.

And then......?
 
And then......?

There is no then. No crime was committed. The only possible crime that was committed was Okeefe illegally filming without consent. If you want an and then here it is. And then Okeefe tried to disrupt Senator Landrieu's phone system and then one of his henchman was the son of a US Attorney and got the charges lessened against him.
 
There is no then. No crime was committed. The only possible crime that was committed was Okeefe illegally filming without consent. If you want an and then here it is. .

So you're saying no ACORN employees tried to help a supposed prostitute to cheat on her taxes or smuggle underage girls in from other countries for a prostitution ring? What videos were you watching? And why were they fired?
 
So you're saying no ACORN employees tried to help a supposed prostitute to cheat on her taxes or smuggle underage girls in from other countries for a prostitution ring? What videos were you watching? And why were they fired?

The unedited videos. Have you watched the unedited videos from California yet?
 
The unedited videos. Have you watched the unedited videos from California yet?

I've seen all of them. Are you just talking about California or the other cities as well? I can't remember where each event occurred.
 
I've seen all of them. Are you just talking about California or the other cities as well? I can't remember where each event occurred.

So why comment on something you have no idea on?

So you saw the unedited videos that were released last month or not?

mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0815002.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0815003.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/SanBernI.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/SanBernII.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/SanBernIII.wmv

mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0814001.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0814002.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0814004.wmv
 
So why comment on something you have no idea on?

So you saw the unedited videos that were released last month or not?

mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0815002.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0815003.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/SanBernI.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/SanBernII.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/SanBernIII.wmv

mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0814001.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0814002.wmv
mms://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/video/V0814004.wmv

I didn't say I had no idea. Jeez louise. I said I hadn't memorized where each event occurred. They went to several cities. No need to be overly-dramatic, dear.
 
I didn't say I had no idea. Jeez louise. I said I hadn't memorized where each event occurred. They went to several cities. No need to be overly-dramatic, dear.

I leave the dramatics to you Mellie. So did you watch the videos i listed above? Several investigations have thus far stated that Okeefe heavily edited the videos to fit an agenda.
 
I leave the dramatics to you Mellie. So did you watch the videos i listed above? Several investigations have thus far stated that Okeefe heavily edited the videos to fit an agenda.

As I've already said, I've seen ALL the videos. I'll ask again....are you saying no ACORN employees tried to help a supposed prostitute to cheat on her taxes or smuggle underage girls in from other countries for a prostitution ring?
 
As I've already said, I've seen ALL the videos. I'll ask again....are you saying no ACORN employees tried to help a supposed prostitute to cheat on her taxes or smuggle underage girls in from other countries for a prostitution ring?

So if you saw all the videos what exactly happened in the videos I listed above? How long did the videos last? If an ACORN worker was trying to help someone cheat on their taxes they would have told someone not to even file. Several times the employees told them they had to file and declare income. There was no underage prostitution ring. There was no setting up of one.
 
So if you saw all the videos what exactly happened in the videos I listed above? How long did the videos last? If an ACORN worker was trying to help someone cheat on their taxes they would have told someone not to even file. Several times the employees told them they had to file and declare income. There was no underage prostitution ring. There was no setting up of one.

Yes, they had to file income taxes and call their "business" something else in order to hide from authorities. No underage prostitutes? Selective hearing on your part. Let me find out what city that was in.
 
Yes, they had to file income taxes and call their "business" something else in order to hide from authorities. No underage prostitutes? Selective hearing on your part. Let me find out what city that was in.

There were no underage prostitutes. The prostitution ring did not exist. There is no code for prostitution on income taxes. If they wanted them to create fraud they would have just told her not to file and say she made no income. Again I doubt you watched the unedited tapes but rather the original tapes Okeefe released.
 
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