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Defund ACORN Now!

madurobob

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I have a few right wing friends and I suppose thats how I got on this mailing list. I get this newsletter regularly form "Ameripac" and this week's installment was particularly stupid-filled. Its the exact same look and feel (and crazy) of a regular second amendment newsletter I get, so I suspect they are related ("Obamas gonna take yer gunz!!!!").

Anyway, the one I got today starts with the breathless headline:
Wall Street Protestors Plan Strike Wave
TELL CONGRESS: I Don't Want My Tax Dollars Funding Strikes & Social Unrest! DEFUND ACORN NOW!
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Wait, what? What the hell does ACORN have to do with the OWS folks? I'm pretty sure ACORN closed its doors for good over a year ago. How, exactly, are we supposed to defund them?

Then the newsletter continues:
The Wall Street protestors are making plans increase the social unrest. Rumors have been circulating that the agitators will be launching a nationwide general strike on November 2nd. There is also talk that the protestors are orchestrating a worldwide strike next year.
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Um, I got the email at 11:23PM today, November 3rd. And they are waring me of plans for a nefarious nationwide general strike... yesterday?

So, you can read the rest by following the link, but be warned it may cause brain damage.

But, I wonder, does this sort of stupidity actually work? That is, do people really read this crap and think "hell yeah, I'm sending these guys a check"? I must admit I get a couple of left-wing newsletters that can be pretty dumb at times, too. But none of them come close to the crazy I get from Ameripac. Each one I get I have to ask myself if this is really a parody run by The Onion.
 
I'm just wondering if I should quit my day job and start spamming people with news letters waring them of the dangers of the Symbionese Liberation Army and that if they simply send me a donation my PAC can take care of the danger.
 
All joking about the Sympathetic Lesbian Army aside, I think things like this work in the same way that weight-loss miracle drugs or magic hair regrowth treatments work. People feel dumb and helpless and scared and right there in their in box is someone who claims to be ready to fight the good fight against foes both real and imagined. All you gotta do is cut them a check.
 
Some people just can't let go of a good enemy. For perspectives on this visit your local John Birch Society chapter.
 
madurobob said:
I have a few right wing friends and I suppose thats how I got on this mailing list. I get this newsletter regularly form "Ameripac" and this week's installment was particularly stupid-filled. Its the exact same look and feel (and crazy) of a regular second amendment newsletter I get, so I suspect they are related ("Obamas gonna take yer gunz!!!!").

Anyway, the one I got today starts with the breathless headline:


Wait, what? What the hell does ACORN have to do with the OWS folks? I'm pretty sure ACORN closed its doors for good over a year ago. How, exactly, are we supposed to defund them?

Then the newsletter continues:


Um, I got the email at 11:23PM today, November 3rd. And they are waring me of plans for a nefarious nationwide general strike... yesterday?

So, you can read the rest by following the link, but be warned it may cause brain damage.

But, I wonder, does this sort of stupidity actually work? That is, do people really read this crap and think "hell yeah, I'm sending these guys a check"? I must admit I get a couple of left-wing newsletters that can be pretty dumb at times, too. But none of them come close to the crazy I get from Ameripac. Each one I get I have to ask myself if this is really a parody run by The Onion.
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the reason people are doing this is because of the articles on foxnews which document how the group ACORN has just changed their name and is one of the main groups behind the OWS protests.

www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/26/exclusive-acorn-playing-behind-scenes-role-in-occupy-movement/

and

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/0...orkers-and-shredding-documents-after-exposed/
 
TruthersLie said:
the reason people are doing this is because of the articles on foxnews which document how the group ACORN has just changed their name and is one of the main groups behind the OWS protests.

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Well Fox knows what it is talking about when it comes to backing an astroturf grass roots movement, but here they give no evidence. They claim two things. First, some people who worked for ACORN are now working for another non-profit, and second, this group is "one of the main groups behind the OWS protests". What should
the former ACORN workers be doing, should they have walked off into the corn patch and starved to death? And the allegation that they are "one of the main groups behind the OWS protests" is totally unsubstantiated (as usual).

My question is, where the heck is ANSWER? I know that all of the anti-invasion protesters were stooges of ANSWER. How did ANSWER totally miss the bus on OWS??

Daredelvis
 
ANSWER is far too radical for most Democrats. I'd say 99% of them. The only thing they had which appeared to get Democrat's support is they had the demonstration permits on the DC Mall to protest the war. Some conservative groups, like the Church of the Brethren who wanted to protest the war could not do so officially at that protest because of ANSWER. And the ANSWER people were parading out the "Free Mumia" nonsense. On that topic, most Democrats, even those who are against capital punishment, would pull the switch on the electric chair personally.
 
BenBurch said:
ANSWER is far too radical for most Democrats. I'd say 99% of them. The only thing they had which appeared to get Democrat's support is they had the demonstration permits on the DC Mall to protest the war. Some conservative groups, like the Church of the Brethren who wanted to protest the war could not do so officially at that protest because of ANSWER. And the ANSWER people were parading out the "Free Mumia" nonsense. On that topic, most Democrats, even those who are against capital punishment, would pull the switch on the electric chair personally.
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I understand that, and you understand that, but viewers of FOXNews don't.

Daredelvis
 
TruthersLie said:
the reason people are doing this is because of the articles on foxnews which document how the group ACORN has just changed their name and is one of the main groups behind the OWS protests.
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Yeah, I can understand people getting riled up that some people made unemployed by ACORN's closure are now working with OWS*. But, that doesn't explain the leap to calling for defunding an organization that doesn't exist. Its just bizarre.

*We wouldn't want anybody out there creating jobs, afterall.
 
daredelvis said:
My question is, where the heck is ANSWER? I know that all of the anti-invasion protesters were stooges of ANSWER. How did ANSWER totally miss the bus on OWS??
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ANSWER was and is an anti-war project. OWS is not specifically an anti-war project, so I'm not sure why you would expect ANSWER to be leading it.

PSL, the party that sponsors ANSWER, has been active in Occupy LA, but they haven't been in the lead. It turns out they're actually not the grand puppetmasters of the left that some people imagine them to be.
 
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The authors of the article are clearly suffering some mental illness. Delusional twits, probably OCD to boot. Unable to come up with a rational philosophy of governance, they simply shriek about hobgoblins in their closets.

Sick people, they are.
 
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