ACORN to crash tea parties ??

[PocketProtector]

With $4B in TARP $$....looks like they have a plan to spend it.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...ible-backlash/

Tea Party Protesters Gird for Possible Liberal Backlash
Tea Party organizers are poised for a possible backlash during their nationwide demonstrations on Tax Day, April 15.

FOXNews.com

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

What would a party be without party poopers?

As anti-tax protesters organize tea parties across the country on April 15, rumors are swirling that a backlash is brewing.

Some believe ACORN, which has been under scrutiny for accusations of voter fraud, is preparing to crash some of the tea parties. But ACORN says it is only helping to organize dozens of rallies on the same day in support of President Obama's first budget.

"This is the first we've heard of these so-called 'tea parties.' And, frankly, a bunch of small get-togethers by fringe conservative activists dedicated to simply saying 'no' is of little interest to us," said ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring.

He did not say where the pro-Obama rallies would take place, leaving open the possibility that they may clash with some tea parties.

Tea party organizers, meanwhile, say they're not worried at all about possible disruption.

"If ACORN wants to send some of their paid, pretend activists to show up, that's fine," John O'Hara, who is holding a tea party in Chicago, told FOX News. "They don't have a message that resonates with the American people or resonates with this broad coalition that's upset with the spending that's going on in Washington."

"We don't take them seriously," said Mark Mekler, who is organizing a tea party in Sacramento. "We expect people to attempt to infiltrate, we expect people to attempt to disturb what we're doing.

"But the reality is this is a very broad-based grassroots movement," he told FOX News. "There is no leader at the top. There is no individual event that they can disturb that would cause us a problem nationwide."

Taxdayteaparty.com, which is helping to organize the protests, said more than 250 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies on April 15. Some believe ACORN will try to make the tea parties look like fringe group efforts at best, and racist undertakings at worst.

Mekler said he is not concerned with how outsiders may try to portray their efforts.

"The people who are involved understand they're not racist, they're not fringe, they're not even partisan," he said.

"I mean, these are events where we have across-the-board Democrats, Republicans, conservatives, liberals, libertarians. The people who are going to be there know what's going on. We're not worried about these folks polluting the event."

ACORN said if there are protesters, it won't be from its ranks.

"The idea that ACORN is out to disrupt these meet-ups of fringe activists is yet another conservative fantasy," Kettenring said.

"At this point, it would not surprise us to wake up tomorrow and see conservative media fingering ACORN's 500,000 member families as the principle cause of global climate change," he said in a written statement.

[625]

With billions of our tax-payer dollars funding ACORN, they seem to have no problems organizing one illegal activity after another. Let's see, voter fraud, check, trespassing, check, breaking and entering, check. These are just the laws broken that we know about. With the money they have to play with, I can only assume many other laws are being broken. No doubt these whackos will attempt to disrupt the tea parties using any means necessary.

[adymond]

I like how this is labled by the left as small groups of fringe people.

And why the pro-Obama rallies from ACORN? I thought they needed to be non-partisan. Would this be grounds for them to loose tax exempt status? And why do they assume the Tea Parties are anti-Obama? This is more anti-government not caring who they are duty bound to represent.

[Dredly]

This shouldn't come as any surprise. ACORN's entire purpose is to be Obama's army, anything that can be considered anti-obama is going to be protested and fought against

[LittleRedToyota]

oooohhhh....this could make the tea parties a lot more fun.

[625]

oooohhhh....this could make the tea parties a lot more fun.

Fun? Listening to and watching a bunch of mindless robots work their socialist magic is not my cup of tea. Har, har.

[LittleRedToyota]

Fun? Listening to and watching a bunch of mindless robots work their socialist magic is not my cup of tea. Har, har.

you're just not thinking "interactive" enough.

[625]

you're just not thinking "interactive" enough.

If only it were legal. I'd love to pretend I was Ryan Howard in the middle of a group of ACORN robots.

[DonSmithnotTMD]

And why the pro-Obama rallies from ACORN? I thought they needed to be non-partisan. Would this be grounds for them to loose tax exempt status?

Churches don't

[LittleRedToyota]

If only it were legal. I'd love to pretend I was Ryan Howard in the middle of a group of ACORN robots.

i'm not talking about anything illegal.

just protests and counter-protests...and the interactions between the people on each side. it really can be a lot of fun.

just get 'em one on one and start actually debating them. most of them have no frickin' clue what they are talking about and are just there for the excitement of a protest. so, when you cut down all the "lines" they have been fed, their brains kinda short-circuit and they get a weird look on their faces and just go back to chanting slogans louder that they did before.

but, sometimes you can see in their eyes that you have actually broken some rote neural pathway in their brains and they are really fighting to repress the existential "oh crap" moment going on in their head.

it's been awhile since i have really done any protesting or counter-protesting but i was in college during the first gulf war, and we used to go to all the anti-war protests and do this.

the best one was when they had some anti-war protest downtown pittsburgh that they got maybe 100 people to show up for. the news media was there covering it and the anti-war protestors were all excited about "getting their message out".

five of us went down to protest their protest...we stopped at the army navy store downtown and bought a USMC flag. we set up off to the side, held up the flag, and started yelling questions at the protestors. the news media started paying more attention to us than the anti-war protestors. this reeeeeeeaaaaaallllly pissed off the anti-war protestors who started shouting all kinds of insults at us.

went home and watched the 11 o'clock news that night and the news story focused almost entirely on our counter-protest. i laughed for days.

and then there were the people who used to routinely protest the software engineering institute at CMU because they do DOD R&D there. this stuff never made TV, but it was still fun to go mess with the protestors.

"so you are against precision guided weapons, eh? i guess you prefer something more like carpet bombing?"

"er, um, ah, er, um....

...SEI MAKES PEOPLE DIE--SEI MAKES PEOPLE DIE--SEI MAKES PEOPLE DIE..."