Isn’t the flip side of that equally valid? Can we reasonably expect ACORN to explicitly include policies against prostitution, drug trafficing, etc. etc. when they have no expectation of such?
I get the impression that you don’t laugh enough. It isn’t exempt from responsibility if it allows such shenanigans to go on. But as I said, and you must surely understand, you can’t blame an organization for the off track actions of employees that they would have no ability to predict.
But you know that. You’re just waving arms to take focus off how utterly without merit your previous arguments were. It’s all good.
I’m assuming they taught you at lawyer school how to understand such things. Is it your contention that hiding underage prostitution money is within the scope of ACORN’s agency?
Again, you are letting your partisan bias cloud that fine legal mind of yours.
Perhaps not specifically naming each and every possible problem, no. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some policy that workers not involve themselves in any activity which might bring the organisation into disrepute, or something along those lines. Or one which suggests that they keep the right to fire someone who breaks the law.
What evidence do we have that ACORN employees did something illegal and/or wrong in this situation?
A section of video. Not the entire video, but heavily edited clips that have now been determined to be tampered with. A bit of video the creators refuse to release the raw footage for.
ACORN was tried and declared guilty by right wing media seconds after this video came out. Based solely on this video the government cut off funding to the company, people lost their jobs, and the organization has been severely compromised.
This has been bullshit from the beginning. So when are we going to see the makers sued? When is the government going to return their funding? When are we going to see the people who were screaming for ACORN’s blood earlier in the thread man up and admit they made a mistake?
Is this going to be it from the right wing from now on? Nothing but bullshit hatchet jobs on anyone they don’t like? Hey that group of people doesn’t agree with us, let’s get some video of their leader raping puppies! Seriously, don’t you have any other tools in your belt?
Advising tax prep clients to report all income, from whatever source derived, is within ACORN’s agency, as is advising clients to hide illegal income. The specific issue of prostitution is not relevant here, although it makes splashier news than, say, disguising short-term capital gains as long term ones. So your question focuses on the wrong element: hiding money, if ACORN employees advise it, falls within the scope of their agency, since their purpose is to advise the client on tax and mortgage issues.
How tall are you? Do you mind if we call you “Stretch”?
If someone has a video of your leader raping a puppy, I’m OK with the edited version. These tactics aren’t radically different from what 60 Minutes has been doing for decades.
Oh. Very good summation, actually. Thank you for it; you are, as always, a veritable font of the easily-understood-by-the-layman explanation of the law.
I mean that sincerely.
It’s probably a little late, but do you want to ask the admins to change the thread title to “ACORN workers caught on tape apparently advising on hiding income from tax authorities”?
ETA: Shodan? Still waiting to hear from you, buddy.
So 60 minutes has been faking video to make organizations it doesn’t like look bad, and it’s been doing it for decades? Maybe it’s just been accepting faked video and using it to conduct smear campaigns against organizations it doesn’t like. Either way, cite please.
The wiki article on 60 Minutes Controversies is a good place to start. Link.
And guess what? They got sued for it, and rightly so. So now do we get to watch these asshats get sued? Can they be forced to produce the raw footage and reveal their backers? Can all the right wing blowholes who called for all kinds of horrible things done to ACORN the second it was handed to them get sued as well? It doesn’t matter if other people did it too, what they did was wrong, and they should be punished for it, criminal or civil.
It wouldn’t bother me one bit if pimp and ho got sued for their actions. I was just pointing out that gotcha journalism is not solely the work of the rightwing.
Thats all you have? The program has been on for decades and they have not been perfect. That is a pretty good track record, thanks for proving it.
No that’s not all, it’s a “good place to start.” There are plenty of others which Google would find for you quickly but I’m sure that no matter how many there are, you’d say that that proves they have a pretty good track record. I’m not going to argue Sorites paradox with you.
Judge blocks cutting off ACORN’s federal funding.
Nice timing.
That certainly explains why I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Republican voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
When come back, ACORN haters, bring evidence.
Finally the repub hysteria has been properly responded to. It was a witch hunt. Now Fox can start to cry again.
God bless our activist judges:
Ohhh, those sweet, sweet Fox tears! They taste like karmic justice!
Which tastes like candy corn, for some reason. It’s very strange…