Posted by
Defend America on Friday, November 13, 2009 8:30:43 AM
Another Bogus ACORN Lawsuit
by Michelle Malkin
ACORN is doing what it does best: playing the victim, blaming
everyone else for its self-inflicted wounds, perpetuating false
narratives and defending the entitlement industry to the death.
On Thursday, the disgraced welfare rights organization filed
suit over a congressional funding ban passed in September after
nationwide undercover sting videos exposed ACORN's criminal element.
The group and its web of nonprofit, tax-exempt affiliates have
collected an estimated $53 million in government funds since 1994. This
pipeline is apparently a constitutionally protected right. According to
ACORN's lawyers at the far-left Center for Constitutional Rights, the
congressional funding ban constitutes a "bill of attainder" -- an act
of the legislature declaring a person(s) guilty of a crime without
trial.
Now cue the world's smallest violin and pass the Kleenex:
ACORN's lawyers say the group has suffered cutbacks and layoffs as a
result of the punitive funding ban. The congressional persecution means
ACORN can no longer teach first-time-homebuyer indoctrination classes
and -- gasp -- the loss of an $800,000 contract to conduct "outreach"
on "asthma."
Message: The demons in the House who defunded ACORN (345 of
them, including 172 Democrats) are cutting off oxygen to poor people!
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/11/13/another_bogus_acorn_lawsuit