More ACORNs for weasel Welch

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1. Transcripts reveal that O’Keefe and Giles said they needed ACORN’s help to protect Giles from a violent pimp-but they carefully edited this out of their videos1. O’Keefe and Giles used clever editing and voiceovers to hide a key fact that the transcripts show to be true in each case: In each office, the duo claimed that 20-year old Hannah was being threatened by a violent abusive pimp. They pleaded for ACORN to help protect the prostitute (and in some cases underage girls as well) from the pimp by helping her get a place to live. O’Keefe and Giles edited this out of the video given the news media and the public, but neglected to remove it from the transcripts.

Remember, for example, the tape of the NY ACORN worker advising the prostitute to hide money in a tin can, presumably to evade taxes? The transcript shows it was so the pimp “can’t get it from you if he wants to come and rip up the place.” And the prostitute told the loan counselor that her pimp had ” all these 13, 14,15 year old girls from El Salvador and that’s what-I need to protect them like I know what its like and I have to protect them and like give them somewhere to live.” 2

(What the Transcripts Show About the Doctored ACORN Video Tapes, ACORN)

And the links to transcripts are all provided in the above document. In New York, for instance, ACORN workers were doing nothing worse than trying to help a self proclaimed prostitute get away from a violent pimp!

Thanks weasel Welch.

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  1. On November 12, 2009, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a case challenging Congress’s unconstitutional defunding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The case charges Congress with violating the Bill of Attainder provision in the U.S. Constitution, violating the Fifth Amendment right to due process, and infringing on the First Amendment right to freedom of association by targeting affiliated and allied organizations, as well. CCR attorneys say members of Congress violated the Constitution by declaring an organization guilty of a crime and punishing it and its members without benefit of a trial.

    On December 11, 2009, the Honorable Nina Gershon, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New YorkJudge granted a preliminary injunction to stop Congress from singling out a single organization for punishment without proper investigation or due process.

    The plaintiffs are ACORN, the ACORN Institute, and the New York ACORN Housing Company. The suit is ACORN v. USA and was filed in federal court in the Eastern District of New York.

    (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) v. USA: Victory!, press release from the Center for Constitutional Rights)

    Hey, did I say “thanks weasel welch” yet? If I did it was pure irony.

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