Comments on: BREAKING: ACORN Files Suit Against Filmmakers

By: EdGi

EdGi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:59:16 +0000

Ed, in addition to discovery, RICO countersuits, ACORN ignored MD’s SLAPP reulations regarding 1st amendment related suits. MD is a 2 party state, but if MD used ACORN/Barney Franks interpretation, about half the award winning jounalists in MD would be in jail for past transgressions, and I am sure MD prosecutor views are all over past rejected complaints. ACORN’s arrogance is exceeded only by their ignorance.

By: Mikey NTH

Mikey NTH — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:33:47 +0000

#20 Steven: I do not dispute your analysis of ACORN’s motivations.

I think ACORN is going to learn that its source of income from foundations and trusts is going to dry up because those entities also have lawyers and accountants, and they are going to advise cutting all ties. The IRS and the state of Louisiana are after ACORN for unpaid taxes, and that is going to influence the advice that any attorney or accountant will give to a foundation or trust: pop smoke and break contact.

I also think ACORN is going to learn a lesson about picking fights with people who buy pixels by the bulk-freighter load.

By: 9-24-2009 | Drive Time Happy Hour

9-24-2009 | Drive Time Happy Hour — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:51:20 +0000

[...] Ed Driscoll: “It is the elephant in the middle of the room, that everybody knows it’s a corrupt organization. And that every aspect of it is rank and awful…I want them to sue me…I think I will be sued…ACORN filed suit today in Maryland against conservative filmmakers James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles and conservative Web site Breitbart.com for secretly taping the organization’s employees at its Baltimore office. [...]

By: tim maguire

tim maguire — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:01:05 +0000

#& David Thomson brings up another interesting point–how many discovery documents will have Barack Obama’s name on them?

By: cb on bonanzle

cb on bonanzle — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:41:59 +0000

I will pray that acorn LOSES the suit. This has NOTHING do with “recording” laws being broken. This has to do with the simple fact that acorn was CAUGHT and EXPOSED for the liars that they are and what do liars do as usual? They RAIL. Liar spelled backwards is Rail.

That’s all fine for the NWO freaks installing cameras on street poles everywhere and them wanting to vaccinate people with RFID chips and never mind the people screaming violation and privacy. But when the same recording tactics are used on the freaks, they make a big circus out of it and cry wolf.

See the hypocrisy. You can’t have it both ways. The TRUTH ALWAYS comes out in the end. Tit for tat, butter for fat.

By: KarrieKay

KarrieKay — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:15:56 +0000

I expect these two will have lawyers begging to help in their defense, just for the chance at helping bring down this corrupt organization.

I half-expect them to counter-sue, if it will allow discovery to move to into areas that will uncover more dirt.

Good luck to them! And good riddance to Acorn!!!!

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:35:08 +0000

I suspect I know what they’re thinking.

If they don’t fight back, they risk a short term collapse in confidence by their stalwart contributers leading to financial disaster. So they’re facing the choice of virtually certain immediate death or possible long term death. Which would you choose?

By suing, even on this kind of flimsy basis, they show defiance and implicitly seem to be saying that the accusations were unjust — or at least they hope they are doing so, in the eyes of their contributors, and thus the contributors will continue to provide cash, or so they hope.

By: Composition4u.info Blogs » “Urgent: Acorn Sues Breitbart” and related posts

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:24:05 +0000

[...] ACORN files suit against filmmakers - Ed Driscoll [...]

By: Let the Games Begin: ACORN Sues Breitbart, College Kids.

Let the Games Begin: ACORN Sues Breitbart, College Kids. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:52:21 +0000

[...] Driscoll, whose roundup is the best I’ve seen tonight, says “Paging Admiral Ackbar…Admiral Ackbar to the red comlink [...]

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:51:31 +0000

Irrespective of any other consequences of this, the one thing it guarantees is that the story will remain on the front burner for months if not years.

That’s to Breitbart’s benefit and ACORN’s detriment. It’s going to be free advertising for Breitbart’s new site worth well in excess of a million dollars. And it totally nullifies ACORN’s “3 month investigation” strategy in which they hoped to wait until the furor died down, implement some token changes, and then get back to the same old stuff.

If ACORN doesn’t drop this real soon now, and really does pursue it, this virtually guarantees the end of the organization nation wide even if Breitbart doesn’t find anything else scandalous during discovery.