September 16, 2009
ACORN: A Party to Sexual Slavery?
To put it mildly, Democratic blog No Quarter has developed something of a credibility problem over the years for past threats and outbursts that didn't pan out, but one of their writers does get credit for making a very interesting observation this evening in regards to their own party amid the snowballing scandal of ACORN offices showing themselves quite willing to commit fraud and accept the trafficking and prostitution of foreign minors.
Linda Anselmi writes:
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865 and it declares that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States."We claim we abolished slavery in the US, but we did not. We only passed a law and made it illegal. We said as a society we find the acts and practices of slavery so reprehensible and inherently harmful to our society, that hence forth we will not tolerate them.
But slavery still exist in America today. We just don’t see it. It is no longer this easily identified black vs white, North vs South, leg chains and bull whips image that we can point at in disgust and outrage. It has gone underground and become embedded in our society.
Anselmi further cites the Department of Justice, noting:
...Under federal law, the technical term for modern-day slavery or coerced labor is "severe forms of trafficking in persons." ...defined as 1) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under 18;
or 2) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of subjecting that person to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
...Trafficking covers the use of minors for commercial sexual activity even if there is no force, fraud, or coercion.
Put simply, ACORN officials in Baltimore, Washington, New York, San Bernardino, and as-yet-unknown other cities have willingly accepted and apparently condoned sexual slavery. There is no indication that any of the officials that have gone on camera have attempted to contact law enforcement. In fact, they did not seem overtly disturbed at all.
Perhaps there is a perfectly acceptable excuse for shockingly consistent behavior among ACORN employees in various locations. Perhaps it has something to do with the way they were trained, or they were told to act this way by legal counsel (someone allegedly filled both those roles as a "community organizer").
Or perhaps it is exactly what it looks like: a group so steeped in corruption and criminality that even the human trafficking and prostitution of minors doesn't horrify them at all.
The question is just screaming to be posed: How many ACORN locations did these "investigators (Inquisitors?) have to infiltrate before they were able to implicate three corrupt officials?
Has anyone bothered to ask that question?
I smell a rat. Better still, I smell a FOX.
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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
Well Tom, this isn't the same thing as the Gov't working to get Delorean to take some coke. Even if the visited 10 places and only got these places to not bat an eye at what they were saying, that is still too much of a pattern when considering the other things ACORN is known for. Your argument may hold merit if A: ACORN wasn't being investigated for fraud in several states, and B: this was on maybe one office out of them testing say ALL of ACORN offices.
Oh, and YOUR tax dollars went to fund a brothel of under-aged illegals (or so the ACORN offices believed)in, so far these cases. . . you feel that is a good usage of your money?
"you feel that is a good usage of your money"
Yeah, he probably does. Can you believe that some people actually defend this garbage? Yuck.
I don't think that children should be raped, but that's just me.
Posted by: brando at September 16, 2009 12:17 PMCool, fixed. Sorry about the junk comments.
Posted by: Kevin at September 16, 2009 02:52 PMGolly gee gosh, Tom Degan, that's a dadgum gosh darn good question.
Here's another one for you, buckaroo. How many Acorn offices did the investigators visit in which the Acorn folks turn them down AND IMMEDIATELY REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO THE POLICE?
Inquiring minds, like wanna know and stuff.
You know what, pilgrim, I smell something too.
Posted by: George Bruce at September 16, 2009 04:12 PM"ACORN offices showing themselves quite willing to commit fraud and accept the trafficking and prostitution of foreign minors" -- I see no evidence of this on behalf of ACORN but there is evidence of this on tape that the pimp and prostitute were willing to engage in this activity and were soliciting advice on how to continue this criminal activity which makes them guilty of conspiracy. Despite a few ACORN representatives acting incredibly stupid and irresponsible, they broke no laws.
This pimp and his whore posing as journalists visited over 30 ACORN offices across the country on a witch hunt to find 3. Who funded this? All the other ACORN offices told the pimp and his whore to leave immediately and they had no interest in engaging in their criminal activity that the pimp and his whore were committing conspiracy for. The Philadelphia ACORN office even called the police and reported their criminal activity and the police report is available online. Where are all those tapes? There has to be hours upon hours of video footage showing the majority of ACORN offices and their representatives engaging in moral and responsible behavior and not engaging in highly illegal behavior being instituted by a pimp and his whore posing as journalists. Where is all that video footage? Why won't they make all that footage available? There must be an obvious and biased reason for it. This video footage would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the majority of ACORN offices and their representatives were quite moral and responsible citizens when it comes to the pimp and his whore having an alarming amount of knowledge and expertise when it comes to prostitution, brothels and underage sex trafficking. An investigation should be conducted indeed.
The pimp and his whore posing as journalists reported a murder from a San Bernadino ACORN representative without confirming or verifying if it was credible in which it wasn't. Real journalists would have known to do that.
The Baltimore D.A. are preparing to bring charges against the pimp and his whore posing as journalists (guy couldn't keep the camera off her ass) because apparently in Baltimore, it's a felony to record individuals without their knowledge or consent. Real journalists would have known that.
I call upon the pimp and his whore posing as journalists to release ALL THE TAPES!!! All their encounters with all the ACORN offices and all the ACORN representatives that they recorded on video...release them!!! If you are right and have nothing to cover up or are not being biased in any way then release the tapes. You have nothing to lose by doing that. Release the original recordings of the tapes we have seen without gaps in the time-lines and without time-lines that are from 5 years ago. Release them!!! Let the public go through all the footage and make their own judgments about the pimp and his whore posing as journalists with an alarming amount of knowledge about prostitution, brothels and under age sex trafficking in soliciting advice on how to continue their criminal activity and commit conspiracy and the majority of responses (including the Philadelphia PD police report) from ACORN representatives. And last but not least, show who funded your country wide operation. If you have nothing to hidee than you have nothing to lose.
Posted by: Lipiwitz at September 16, 2009 06:03 PM>>"This pimp and his whore posing as journalists visited over 30 ACORN offices across the country on a witch hunt to find 3. Who funded this?"
Lipshits, you and all the other lefties are going crazy over this story. Or crazier, since you were already nuts.
ACORN is supporting chld sex slavery, and the question burning YOU up is "Who funded the people doing the investigation?"
I did not think the left could sink any lower in my estimation but somehow you always find a way to act even more disgusting.
>>"apparently in Baltimore, it's a felony to record individuals without their knowledge or consent."
Sorry, Lipshits, but it is not. However, thanks again for showing you main focus of interest in all this - getting those fucking reich-wing Rethuglikkkans!
The Philadelphia ACORN office even called the police and reported their criminal activity and the police report is available online.
So, one out of (if we are to believe you) scores of ACORN offices bothered to report this to the police, while four of them (so far) went along with it.
And you, with your sick pedophiles brain, believe this makes ACORN look good!
"Sure, I found more than half a dozen people who were happy to aid me in shipping in little girls for whores-- but that was only out of 20 locations!"
ACORN: WE'RE ONLY 20% IN SUPPORT
OF SELLING CHILDREN TO BE RAPED.
I can see the advertisement now....
Posted by: Foxfier at September 16, 2009 06:47 PMRelease the tapes!
Posted by: Lipiwitz at September 16, 2009 07:35 PMFoxfier...it was 3 locations buddy. Parents kept you home a lot so you wouldn't be indoctrinated into becoming a smart person? Here's hoping you at least wash your hands.
Steve...we don't believe this makes ACORN look good. This may come as quite a shock to you but the Left agree with you on this. If ACORN has people this stupid and incredibly irresponsible on their payroll then ACORN needs to clean their house and they should be cut off from federal funding until they do. I know you live in the delusional world of having one Leftie go crazy so well must go crazy similar to you all being a bunch of Mark Foleys and Larry Craigs right? Fabrication of one's own reality is a gift that just keeps on giving.
There have been a whopping 4 (that's FOUR) representatives fired out of hundreds of thousands of representatives, activists and volunteers affiliated with ACORN and all it's affiliates. FOUR!!! Not really something the left is going to hit the "self destruct" button on. Sorry. And this effects the housing division and not the other divisions so...congratulations? Yay? Ummmm...the activists are still there son.
If the pimp and his whore posing as journalists had actually filled out paperwork and allowed ACORN to process that paperwork with full knowledge of their criminal intent then ACORN would be implicated in criminal conspiracy activity which would have been legally damaging. Real journalists would have known to do that.
What we are being shown is a few minutes of footage with gaps in the time-line that "Woodward and Bernstein" were not smart enough to dump to the can without (it's quite easy to us smart folk) and we're not being shown the hours upon hours of footage that we now know exists. Hours upon hours of footage that shows the exact opposite of what we are being shown. Hours upon hours of footage who told the pimp and his whore posing as journalists that ACORN was not interested in engaging in their criminal activity that they had an alarming amount of knowledge in. Where is that footage?
Posted by: Lipiwitz at September 16, 2009 08:08 PM>>"it was 3 locations buddy."
No, Lipshits, it was four. So far.
>>"What we are being shown is a few minutes of footage with gaps in the time-line"
No, Lipshits, you are lying again. The complete unedited tapes are avilable for you to see if you want.
>>"Hours upon hours of footage who told the pimp and his whore posing as journalists that ACORN was not interested in engaging in their criminal activity that they had an alarming amount of knowledge in. Where is that footage?"
It does not exist except in your sick, sick mind.
>>"Steve...we don't believe this makes ACORN look good. This may come as quite a shock to you but the Left agree with you on this."
The left agrees with me? Is that why the left, in the form of you, is running around focusing its fire not on the kiddy sex slave fans in ACORN but on the people bringing this to light?
Or as you charmingly call them over and over again, "the pimp and his whore posing as journalists".
You don't give a crap about ACORN wrongdoing, Lipshits. What has you enraged is the people who caught them at it. You make that clear in comment after comment.
Lipiwitz, you're a Discworld fan? (Their trolls have trouble counting to big numbers like "four", as well.)
Posted by: Foxfier at September 16, 2009 08:32 PM>>"If ACORN has people this stupid and incredibly irresponsible on their payroll then ACORN needs to clean their house and they should be cut off from federal funding until they do."
But why? According to all the lefty comments I'm seeing here, ACORN was the hapless victim of some pimp and his whore, and only some tiny percentage of them are dirty. That's what Lipshits keeps telling me. Why this need for a house cleaning? Just fire the four people and then prosecute the pimp and his whore. Right? That was the lefty line until an hour ago.
There's a new video out. An ACORN guy is offering to help smuggle teenage girls across the border into America to act as sex slaves.
I'm sure he was just funnin' thoough. Those ACORN people have a whacky sense of humor.
Posted by: Steve at September 16, 2009 09:22 PMSteve Foxfier -- who gives a crap about ACORN? You do!!! 4 people got fired from an activist organization from the biased videos released from a pimp and his whore posing as journalists!
Look, did you actually read the Baucus bill released today in the health care reform? It's a freakin' Christmas gift to insurance companies. ACORN is not very high on the Left's "to do" list right now. It's your obsession, not ours.
Here's whats going to happen: ACORN has an independent investigation and audit being conducted over this. Once they clean up their house, they get their funding back. The activist wing of ACORN and all it's affiliates remains untouched so it has no political repercussions against the Left at all. In the end, the pimp and his whore posing as journalist got 4 people fired. Congratulations? They won't release all the tapes so ACORN's lawyers will get them eventually and as far as the trailer park Woodward and Bernstein? Well...it's all about following the money.
Posted by: Lipiwitz at September 17, 2009 12:50 AMLipiwitz - If that Philadelphia police report is online as you claim, why haven't you linked it for every one's benefit?
Also, if these investigators visited 30 offices (your source please)but only got a few cooperators, why wasn't the bad conduct uncovered before the tapes were released and the people fired in advance? Hey, we're being set up by a hooker and pimp team, don't talk to them! The alibi doesn't make sense Bozo.
Posted by: daleyrocks at September 17, 2009 01:31 AMLipiwitz: "Release all the tapes!"
According to Big Government, they have.
As of San Bernardino, they were batting 4-4, with every office they've touched being totally accepting of tax fraud and the trafficking of children for prostitution.
With Juan Carlos offering support in San Deigo (and apparently asking of the wanted a business partner so he could get his cut), they are (apparently) now batting a perfect 5-5.
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at September 17, 2009 11:43 AMSteve Foxfier -- who gives a crap about ACORN?
Clearly, you do, since you're having a melt down about it-- and just keep on lying.
Wait, you clearly have a problem with reality, since you haven't figured out yet that the woman was *posing* as a hooker. Odd, since you were able to figure out that the guy is a journalist... wonder why you can't get your brain around her being a journalist, as well?
Posted by: Foxfier at September 17, 2009 11:43 AMI find it fascinating that the liberals, who enforce their own brand of politically correct morality on the rest of us, give themselves and their international allies a pass.
The latest scandal -- ACORN "attorneys" offering to facilitate the infiltration of minors across our border for the purpose of sexual slavery -- is just the latest in a string of offenses that they countenance.
Look at the treatment of women and homosexuals by the taliban and al quaeda. It's OK, though, because "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Liberals will never raise their voices to hold their jihadi friends accountable for their murderously sexist and anti-gay behavior.
Posted by: Jim at September 17, 2009 10:00 PMSome talking-head REALLY needs to segway this into an illegal immigration debate.
It's NOT about hating brown people. It's NOT even about the Mexican border. Many sex slaves are from Asia and come across the Canadian border.
I know it's been tried, the argument that terrorists are using the Mexican border to smuggle in terrorists. Thas true, but of course thas also nuthin the MSM or liberals(I repeat myself)cares about.
Stopping illegal immigration is about stopping slavery in our great nation.
Thas it and thas all. And don't call it 'human trafficking'. Thas the Liberal NewSpeak term for it. Call it what it is. Slavery.
Human Trafficking is when I take a bus or a plane. A human(me) is being Trafficked from one place to another.
Call the people who do this what they are. Not 'Human Traffickers'. They are Slavers.
Noun 1. slaver - a person engaged in slave trade
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/slaver
I live in Florida..Plenty o Hispanics. They get pissed off cause some bastards dinna go thru the proper channels to become citizens while they did. And just cause I live in Da South, it's not about white folks(I am one) gettin all pissy about all these brown people show up and 'dilute our national heritage' or any nonsense like that.
No, it's none of that. Regardless of race, I'm royally and righteously pissed off about this issue because of the sex trade. Doesn't matter if it's some El Salvadorian or a White Russian chick.
It's Wrong. And it must stop.
Posted by: Keapon Laffin at September 19, 2009 12:44 PM
