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Judge Decrees ACORN Funding Cut-off Unconstitutional, Conservatives Outraged

December 18, 2009 by  

Judge decrees ACORN funding cut-off unconstitutional, conservatives outragedA federal judge has ruled that the U.S. government’s decision to cut off funding to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon issued a preliminary injunction against the government, saying that it is in the public’s best interest to continue to fund the controversial and embattled anti-poverty group, according to the Associated Press (AP).

In its lawsuit, ACORN claimed that Congress’ decision to cut off its funding was unconstitutional because it targeted an individual organization without due process.

Gershon agreed, stating in her ruling that ACORN raised a "fundamental issue of separation of powers."

"They have been singled out by Congress for punishment that directly and immediately affects their ability to continue to obtain federal funding, in the absence of any judicial, or even administrative, process adjudicating guilt," said Gershon.

Meanwhile, two congressmen have called on the Justice Department to appeal the decision, calling it "nothing short of preposterous," according to Fox News.

Representatives Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder explaining how the ruling would set a dangerous precedent.

"The district court’s decision is troubling in many respects, but most significantly, if allowed to stand, it would effectively excise from the Constitution Congress’ express Spending Clause power to refuse to appropriate federal funds to an organization that has shown itself likely to misuse those funds in the future," the letter states.
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  • Boo T

    I don’t understand why there is any debate over ACORN. This and all other community oragnizations that have anything to do with voter registration should be shut down. I also think that before you can vote, you have to produce 3 forms of ID with an addresss on at least one of those. Voting accuracy is totally important and I think the last election was not at all an honest run election. It’s so nice to have this place to vent and see we’re not the only ones who feel this way. What can I really do to let Washington know how we feel. I am ready to revolutionize, just say when!

    • T Musgrove

      We the People email our Senators and Congressmen or people. So the pick of who we want to represent us is so important. And not judge them by their talk, but by their fruit’s. Even the white man spoke with a fork tongue when some of the earlier settlers started to push across this great nation. You can start where you live, get involved and work your way up. Be honest in all your dealings, tell the truth and only do business with like minded people. Like God tells us, Tell the truth and the truth shall set you free. Keep your word, stay true to your Country. And love thy neighbor as thy self. Help others. If you see a need and can take care of it. Do it. Because it’s right.
      And pass it forward.

      • http://violacav@att.net Nadine

        I agree with you. It is time to stop all this. I am 87 years old and in all my years I have never seen such action as happen this year. We must must get back to the Constitution that our fore fathers drafted for us and has been the back bone of our Lovely Country. God Bless

  • Richard Pawley

    This is why the appointment of FEDERAL JUDGES is so important! If Americans do not wake up, vote for the morally best people running, regardless of party, and if they are believers, pray for their country, then it will soon pass into the turbulent pages of history. Our country is bankrupt! Even the president all but admitted it. We spend more than 2 million dollars for every 1 million we take in with taxes. If we took all the money away from every person who earned more than $20,000 a year it would still not be enough to get us out of hock. THE GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY and CITY are all SPENDING TO MUCH. No country that has ever been as far in the hole as we are (relative to our income)has ever avoided a financial collapse. NO COUNTRY! Many believe it is already to late. If we cannot replace our squandering congress next year and tighten our belts in preparation for the Greatest Depression there has ever been, then a time is soon coming when even the former middle class will go hungry. The money congress has already squandered is going to be responsible for at least 200% inflation, and perhaps 300%. If we don’t change immediately then I predict that within 20 years, by 2030, the United States as we know it will no longer be. Print this page and put it in your bible or along with your other important papers and see if I am right. I pray to God that I am wrong but I see economic collapse for the USA followed by every other country once congress and the FED kill the dollar. This will be followed by famine for the world, and eventually a one world money system run by the same people who got us into this mess in the first place. Wake up people! Enjoy your Christmas. There is a high probability that it will be one of your last normal ones. May God bless the United States, no one else is going to do so.

    • bbstacker

      Echoing Richard Pawley; Some get it, some don’t. The moonbats dismiss anything that doesn’t wreak of entitlement, so they think that some benevolent “feral” gov’t clown will save them. Oh, the bliss of ignorance and blindness when the Pied Piper’s tune sounds so sweet. Thank God that many of us heard the “tune” and knew it was a lie long before the 44th POSUTUS took over the Oval Office. Are we enough to restore the Constitution of the United States?

  • Wanda

    The MOB mentality is coming from this Mob that is ruining our country. Send the Mob back to Chicago.

  • Dewayne in Texas

    MY QUESTION IS HOW MUCH DID THEY PAY THE JUDGE??? LOOK AT HOW OBAMA IS PAYING SOME SENATOR’S FOR THEIR VOTE ON THIS UNSTITUTIONAL HEALTH CARE CRAP.PEOPLE IF WE DON’T STAND UP FOR THIS GREAT NATION OF OUR’S WE WON’T BE A FREE NATION FOR LONG.ACORN IS AS CROOKED AS A DOG’S HIND LEG.REMEMBER OUR COMMANDER-N-THEIF CAME FROM ACORN WITH HELP FROM THEM OTHER CROOK’S SEIU.

  • Loyal Opposer

    James, if fed funding for ACORN is unconstitutional then let’s bring it before the courts, observing due process, and stop it.

    Otherwise, people who write and agree with this drivel make me want to swear a thousand blasphemous, heretical oaths.

    If ACORN were a conservative or, heaven forbid, a faith-based organization receiving fed funding, there would now be gnashing of teeth, seething in the conservative tabloid press, conservative political campaign coffers overflowing, a couple of hate crimes, and demonstrations in the streets.

    It’s in the Constitution, people!! No matter how disgusted you are by the observance of its provisions, you may not summarily bypass or abridge them without risking the security and the very existence of this great country. Even ACORN must be afforded DUE PROCESS! You cross that line at our collective risk.

    Shame on all of you for this mob mentality you have so easily fallen into. The only sentiment that judge had in coming to her decision was the Constitution. She’s absolutely right and you damn well know it. You may be able to fool the choir, but I still believe the majority of Americans will see through your self-delusion and do the only thing that makes sense–stand by the Constitution.

    • LimestoneFreedom

      This has nothing to do with due process.

      DUE PROCESS – The idea that laws and legal proceedings must be fair. The Constitution guarantees that the government cannot take away a person’s basic rights to ‘life, liberty or property, without due process of law.’ Courts have issued numerous rulings about what this means in particular cases.

      The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the deprivation of liberty or property without due process of law. A due process claim is cognizable only if there is a recognized liberty or property interest at stake. Board of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 69 (1972).

      Due process is best defined in one word–fairness. Throughout the U.S.’s history, its constitutions, statutes and case law have provided standards for fair treatment of citizens by federal, state and local governments. These standards are known as due process. When a person is treated unfairly by the government, including the courts, he is said to have been deprived of or denied due process.

      Congress can agree to fund and not fund projects. It happens in every session. This is not a court case or accusation of a crime. ACORN’s suit should have been thrown out immediately upon its filing.

      • James

        Limestone, The 14th Amendment says “No State shall…deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” ‘Due process of law’ refers to state law it has nothing to do with fairness. For example, most states have laws that prohibit felons and the feeble-minded from possessing firearms. Such laws do not violate the 14th Amendment.

    • http://myronjpoltroonian.blogspot.com Myron J. Poltroonian

      A well presented argument for reason. However, I wonder, do you really, in you heart of hearts, believe that if, as you postulated, it was a “Faith Based” organization in question, the judge would have reached the same judicial “Opinion”?

    • wendy

      If thats the way you feel and you think she was right t.THAN I WANT MY CONTUTIONAL RIGHTS WHICH MEANS THE MAJORITY OF WE THE PEOPLE WANTED THE HEALTH CARE BILL TO DIE, BUT THE PRESIDENT OR SHOULD I SAY ANTI-CHRIST AND HIS HENCHMEN IN CONGRESS ARN”T LISTENING TO WE THE PEOPLE . WE SAID NO NO NO TO THE HEALTHCARE BILL. SO WHY SHOULD ACORN BE ABLE TO FALL BACK ON THAT? tHE CONSTUTION WAS PUT IN PLACE FOR THE AMERICAN CITIZANS NOT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE FRAUDULENT,JUST LIKE THE CONSTUTION SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THE GOV IS NOT ALLOWED TO FORCE ANY KIND OF HEALTH CARE ON ANY CITIZAN. BUT THEY DID IT ANY WAY ….. AND DUMB ASS PILOSI SAYING WHEN ASKED ABOUT HEALTH CARE AND THE CONSTUTION AND WHERE IN THIS DOCUMENT IT SAYS THE GOV HAS A RIGHT TO INTERFEAR IN THAT ASPECT SAID ARE YOU SERIOUS >ARE YOU SERIOUS. AND SHE NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION . tHIS JUDGE NEEDS TO BE THROWN OUT AND CHARGED FOR TRESSON OF DOUBLE STANDARDS. aLL THESE A>HOLES NEED TO THROWN OUT. IF THEY WANT A COMUNISTIC COUNTRY LET THEM GO LIVE WITH SHAVEZE IN VENISWALA. tHAT WOULD BE FINE WITH WE THE PEOPLE……

      • LimestoneFreedom

        Wendy and Myron… I think you both misunderstood my post. I am agreeing with you. My point is that ACORN has no footing for a lawsuit, nor would any other organization. The suit should have been thrown out of court before any opinion was rendered. In my opinion, funding for most of the agencies congress gives our money to is unconstitutional to begin with. Congress should keep their noses out of our business and their paws out of our wallets. ACORN is not entitled to due process, is all I was saying.

    • James

      Loyal O., The difficulty would be in proving that Congress lacks the power to fund such organizations. The powers delegated to Congress are enumerated in Article I, Section 8, they start with “Congress shall have the Power To…provide for the…general Welfare of the United States. In our first 147 years, that Clause 1 was considered to be a lead-in general statement to the actual powers that followed. Now, it is used to justify most federal laws. In United States v. Butler, the Supreme Court held that Congress lacks the power to “tax one group for the benefit of another.” Maybe that would work.

  • Swansong

    What? WHAT??!!!

    Cutting off funding to an organization that promotes voter fraud & other criminal behavior using TAXPAYER funds is unconstitutional??

    But on the other hand, unconstitutional Universal Health Care and Bailouts are just fine?… riiiiight….

    If this “judge’s” (term used loosely, I’m so disgusted) ruling is not a wakeup call to EVERY honest, hard working US citizen that The Courts, Congress and Federal Government (EPA, etc) are ANTI-CONSTITUTION and anti-freedom, then probably only a Thermo-nuclear explosion will wake you up!

    Impeach Judge Nina Gershon – for aiding & abetting fraud & criminal behavior!

    The rule of law is simply ‘toast’.

  • http://victorbarney@embarqmail.com Victor L Barney

    I told you before that the communist even control the Courts! The Democrats have always been run by Mobsters, Politicians, and Bankers! This is true from FDR for sure, but I believe from the beginning! Ben Franklin, the post pivotal person making our new government work, besides being a 3rd degree Mason. also belonged to the Illuminati that recently called for the “New World Order” under Lucifer! PS: FDR also was a 3rd degree mason and Remember Jimmy Carter? He had to become a 3rd degree Mason before he could become President. His Masonship was given him in 1972!

  • Dave Peery

    Interesting to note the judge referred to ACORN as an anti-poverty organization, when in fact they are not. They are a corrupt community organizing group registering people to vote and telling them who to vote for. Further, they are advising people on how to break the law and circumvent paying their fair share of taxes.

    There is no place in the constitution where these type of organizations are guaranteed rights of any kind. Like other organizations they should be self-supporting and if they break the law they should pay the price.

    • Vicki

      Organizations are not people. They have NO rights.

    • T Musgrove

      I agree with your post.

  • James

    Federal funding of ACORN was unconstitutional, but unless someone files a lawsuit and so-challenges it, ACORN will remain valid. And the person filing such suit must have been harmed by it in some way. When Congress so-funds such organizations, it cannot then say they don’t approve of what that group does with the money, that would be legislating within the States.

    • http://mst3.wordpress.com Doc

      James-

      Well said, regarding a challenge! However, I think the major stumbling block in this case was actually the fact that Congress was NEGATING an existing agreement to pay Acorn, after the fact. As usual, our representatives and senators failed to take appropriate action at the crucial time…BEFORE screwing things up!

      • Matt Mathews

        Yes Doc,
        we should have acted before things become a crises and “all” our present ones are rooted in those SOCIALIST INDOCTRINATION CLASSES called the “PUBLIC SCHOOLS” which for the most part , all our VOTERS , our ELECTED OFFICALS and their appointees must go every school day in their lives, Yet I see nobody addressing that problem much less making any effort to correct it.

        Any thing else you do to stop this SOCIALIST INVASION is just SHOVELING AGAINST the tide .

      • James

        Doc, If Congress defaulted on an existing agreement (contract) to pay ACORN, that’s another matter. The remedy there would be for Congress to void the contract because ACORN had used the money for illegal purposes, whether the contract actually forbad such illegal conduct, or not, doesn’t matter. No court would hold that Congress may be bound to support illegal activity, by contract.

  • Judy Doyle

    If the criminals at Acorn can ask or bribe a judge to reverse a Congressional mandate, then why can’t we the people do the same thing and pay or bribe or convince a Federal Judge to throw out the criminal Reid/Pelosi/obama health care bill? Can’t we get an injunction to shut that monstrosity down?

    Or, is it going to take an all out Civil War to get our message across? Emails, letters, phone calls and Tea Parties haven’t stopped the destructive son-of-satan in our white house. So, what is our recourse? Dirty judges are a dime a dozen. Mentally ill demoncrats in the Senate and the House don’t give a flip what We the People want. Perhaps it is time!

    • Michelle

      Unfortunately it will probably take a Civil War. The Democrats are doing whatever they please and spending us into bankruptcy. They want to “make history.” The history they will be making is the total destruction of the US. I wonder how their backroom deals will hold up when the country as we know it doesn’t exist. They aren’t listening to the people any more and they don’t care. You can no longer trust the courts because they say they are “doing what is right for the people” and not what the law provides. This has been going on for a long time. We really need to vote next fall, but will we even get fair elections? If the corruption runs deep one has to wonder how the elections will be stacked. We want our country back and have been fighting to get it, but they aren’t listening. Military action or Civil War may be the only answer. I hope not!

      • George

        We do not have the ability to take back our country. We may be able to defend our home for a while, until they send a plane with a bomb to wipe you off the face of the earth. The military only take orders from the government NOT the civilians. Our only hope is to vote the incumbens out Nov/2010/2012. We will be overwhelmed with voter fraud by the likes of ACORN. It has been said that ACORN signed-up over 2 million voters. It only takes a 100,000 or so votes to win an election by winning the key states, ie,welcome Obama. They did it once, they can do it again. They are in control of the banks,auto industry and now working on control of healthcare. The policys they are creating now are destroying the middle class and the dollar.

  • Wanda

    I am afraid the foothold is strong and our fight will be long and hard. But we have to stand strong and support our representaives. Don’t give up now. Chicago’s mafia can’t win, they can’t take us over. We have to make huge changes in congress next year to help stop some of this deadly bleeding that is happening. God help us all!

  • Holton Brown

    Re: Stand Waitie says:
    December 21, 2009 at 7:15 am
    Isn’t it time for a good military coup in this country. Before the old House Un-American Activities Committee was abolished by the liberals/dems/marxists (oh, I’m sorry, I repeat myself) this judge would be thrown into prison.

    Reply
    Glad to see that facsism is still alive in the USA …. query: What judges were put in jail by the HUAC???
    and just what wuold a military coup accomplish except put Nazis in control??

    • http://myronjpoltroonian.blogspot.com Myron J. Poltroonian

      In case you’ve forgotten, “NAZI”, in German, literally stands for the National Workers Socialist Party (or, more properly, in English, the National Socialist Workers Party). Try reading “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg, if you’d like a more in depth, annotated and well researched description of the term and it’s interconnection with the very fabric of “Progressivism”, both here and in Europe, than this forum allows.

    • American Patriot

      Leave it to some leftist to bring up Naziism. News flash moron, the Nazi’s were National Socialists (i.e. liberals like our modern Democrap party). Mandating that people buy health insurance, then issuing fines and prison terms for refusing to do so is much more like the Nazi party than overthrowing the government and starting again with leaders who support the Constitution. EVERY one of those “representatives” who voted for this Obamanation need to be removed from office and tried for treason, or at least violating their oath of office. They are all sworn to uphold the Constitution, not violate it. For every state that has “recall” as on option, it needs to be exercised ASAP. Don’t wait for the elections next year, fire them now!

      • J C

        Umm Patriot…I think that’s what he was pointing our

  • DT

    Well I think that pharse used by JC, Dec.21, “This country is definately circling the drain” a term I had not heard before, however
    fits the description of current events, because in circling things
    become dizzy and disoriented which describes the American public. We for the moment cannot get out of the spiral,or go against the current and will eventually drown. So I’m changing my quote of “This country is dead and just waiting to be buried” to “Circling the drain” it fits. You know what comes after the drain hole. How did we arrive at this state of afairs. As an older person I have witnessed many events
    that has brought our country to this point, saddness evades.

    • Michael Small

      Simply because we have forgotten or never knew what our Declaration of Independence was for or why our forefathers wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (our Representatives Bill of Limitations).

      Great Empires rose out of tyranny and slavery to Liberty. From liberty they achieved the level of Abundance and with abundance came complacency followed by apathy of which is the world of dependency (where we are today) the world of enslavement; i.e. the government and the banks.

      Capitalism was our salvation yet few people participate. The rest are dependent or slaves to the system.

  • Ron

    I would like to ask if anyone can tell me. Where are all the constitutional attorneys in this country. Surely there is one somewhere who is not a flaming liberal, who actually cares about the fate of this country. Everything this Democratic Congress (the biggest bunch of thieves, crooks, gays and women of questional repute ever gathered in one place)has done is unconstitutional but not one attorney has even raised a hand to question the legality of their legislative abominations ! If you (attorneys) are worried about being paid, let me know, I think I could gather up enough money in a day to cover any costs you might have or charge.

    • Diana Hardy

      Have you forgotten….Obama supposedly taught Constitutional Law at Harvard……before becoming a “community organizer” in Chicago!

      • T Musgrove

        He went to Harvard?

      • Eddy

        Harvard is a affirmative action college, No standards, any one can get in. To be excepted you had to qualify. Now you find a bunch of losers, whiners, cheats, and thieves. No one has to do their best any more just enough to get by. There are classes where no grade is given, just a simple pass or fail.You wouldn’ want to hurt their fellings, it wouldn’t be fair. It’s like voting present.

        f you don’t do well you claim to have taught and make damn sure your records are sealed so no one finds out the truth. “Our friends the progressives’ ,what a bunch of losers the turn out. No standards at all, lies and more lies just to grab power.
        strange name for them!…used to call them commies and worse.Now they have filled the schools and managed to dumb down the masses with the help of the aclu and acorn.

        and money, why do you think his records are sealed. He studied CON-stitution laws my ass. he sure didn’t learn what he’s teaching from a real constitutional law class.uless it was on how to destroy the Constitution with 50 of your commie friends in 10 easy lessons.

    • Michael Small

      There is bound to be a (few) good attorneys in this country since we have 95% of the worlds attorneys for 5% of the worlds population. As for the rest, “do you know how to get a good attorney out of a tree?”

      Cut the rope you hung him with!

      • TrueGrit

        This judge is as dirty and as corrupt as (ACORN) and has the nerve to use the phony nonsense that it is unconstitutional>What a fraud this bought off black robed hoodlum is. Where did she get her law degree ……ACORN must have given it to her.Let’s put this criminal and everyone of those vote stealing street criminals in ACORN in the Slammer where they belong. These dirty commie dogs would say any stupid thing they had to ta justify there chicanary. Its time to impeach this judge and put her behind bars and deport everyone of those rotten vote stealing criminals in ACORN.

  • GreatScott

    These people who call themselves Judges need to be tried for Treason and have the key thrown away. Locked and Loaded.

    • Michael Small

      Yes, they should be. Far too many are tyrants and do nothing to protect rights of individuals or the sovereignty of our States.

  • Rayne

    About “Acorn”….a picture (in this case, several videos) are worth a thousand words.

  • Art

    Upon an immediate lookup, I see that the Judge is from Chicago. Now for my thought: Where does it say that we HAVE to support various organizations? Since when do organizations and Judges can tell Congress to continue to spend money? Just something to think about!
    It appears as if once a program gets a little funding it will always get funding the way some Judges and people are thinking. I thought we had THREE (3) different sections of government to keep things like this from happening.

    • Lee

      The court mandate to spend money could even be traced back to the court ordered bussing of students to “achieve integration of schools”

    • American Citizen

      How often has Congress mandated states to start a program and funded its startup, then withdrew funding and it was up to the states to fund it? Many, many times. What makes ACORN think it’s any different for them?

  • Rayne

    Let’s see how “unconstitutional”, mandating that every American purchase healthcare when the court cases start flying after this abomination that 61% of the American people don’t want….. passes hmmmm!

    • Eddie Gianola

      Agreed. The healthcare debacle is the greatest assault on the American people since the Founders gave birth to this new nation. This “reform”,
      will see it’s day on the Steps of SCOTUS and those noble nine don’t always do a stellar job of interpreting the Constitution which is their job.

    • Michael Small

      Simply pass a bill in each state that blocks this action and the Health Care Bill will be null and void.

  • Stand Waitie

    Isn’t it time for a good military coup in this country. Before the old House Un-American Activities Committee was abolished by the liberals/dems/marxists (oh, I’m sorry, I repeat myself) this judge would be thrown into prison.

  • http://msnhotmail.com&yahoo pilgrim1776

    Why is anyone surprised with the above mentioned judge’s “opinion”: Judge’s do not rule, they provide opinions. The amerikan public has been brainwashed into believing that our corrupt courts are making rulings when all a discerner has to do is read any court case as they state that the “opinion” of the court, etc. Therefore, if all of the alleged lawyers were honest and lawful, they would immediately challenge these socialistic, black-robed tyrants, and demand justice!

    • J C

      Hear Hear!!!!

    • Michael Small

      Right On Pilgram. (I love that word – John Wayne)

  • CommonSense

    The responses so far, could have been used at the verdict of the O.J. Simpson trail. This was the right decision in accordance how the law should be objectively applied.

    • showmestategalMO

      That is correct conservatives can not stand Laws and decisions that they do not want to have to follow–Still waiting for the criminals from Blackwater xe-Halliburton and KBR to be tried to a fruition.

  • BARB

    ACORN CORUPT ALSO ALL THOSE ILLEGAL VOTES, ALSO EVERY STATE NEEDS TO GET THEIR OWM HONHEST VOTERS IN THERE TO GO OVER THEIR LEDGER AND COUNT THE VOTES AND THE VOTERS REGISTRATION AND INFOMATION!

    • Eddy

      I guess the only way to counter the eforts of A.C.O.R.N. is use the same tactics on them. The city where I live ,S.F., has over 100 polling places. I think that if we followed their example of voting early aond often. since they won’t ask for ID, with a phone book and a list of places, the ranks of registered votes would swell.With a few thousand new conservitves o the lists liberals would scream for a change in voting proceedures , ID maybe, proof of citizenship ? that would be a change we could live with.

  • Richard

    How can something that is unconstitutional in the first place even rate a response ?

  • Michael J.

    Liberal crusader activist judge appointed by William Jefferson Clinton.

    • Curtis S

      From wikipedia: “In the spring of 2006, Gershon presided over the trial of Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant who was accused of plotting to blow up New York’s Herald Square subway station. After a four week trial, a jury found Siraj guilty of four crimes, including plotting to bomb a public transportation system. On January 8, 2007, Gershon sentenced Siraj to 30 years imprisonment for his role in the plot.”
      Does that sound like an activist judge? Or is an activist judge a term that is automatically applied to any judge appointed by a democrat?

      • John

        Curtis an activist judge is someone who decides something that isn’t in the Constitution should be. Clearly giving money to an organization that isn’t specifically enumerated is unconstitutional. If you do not understand this, may I suggest picking up a copy of the Constitution or download a copy from the algore’s amazing internet.

    • Michael Small

      This is the reason we need to clean house starting at local levels right on up to the top. The constitution has been abused since it was first published. It has not been a conspiracy theory. It has been a fact to those who do their homework!

      The London Times – “If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North America Republic during the late war in that country should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debs and be without debt. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.”

      The destruction of this Republic has been ordained and attempted since the revolution.

      Socialism has placed this Republic in a very precarious situation that only the Citizens can change; if they are aware and have the courage.

  • s c

    What we have here is a tail wagging the dog. Anybody want to take a wild guess as to the judge’s political sentiments?
    Could comrade obama be trolling for another czar? It sure is interesting how decisions that favor the government are seen as semi-divine (by those in the government). Decisions that would put government in its place are seen as temper tantrums by the media and the government.
    ACORN is a societal cancer. That judge rates at least a swift kick in rendering her kneejerk decision. Anybody want to guess what her odds are in becoming a czar or a potential cabinet member?
    In obama’s world, she may rate a future oscar or a nobel peace prize. She does seem to be that perfect blend of legislating from the bench and sucking up to ‘enlightened, superior beings’ waiting in the shadows with prizes and rewards for “results”).

    • Chris

      I’m not sure where Congress has the constitutional authority to fund the group in the first place let alone declare that not funding is unconstitutional. It’s a bizzaro world with no coherent thought process and no regard to the constitution or the will of the American people.

      • J C

        That was my first thought too. Just where in hell do they get off funding a corrupt “community organizer” group? Oh Yeah! Wasn’t that the Annointed One’s claim to fame? This country is definately circling the drain folks. How completely UN American.

      • Vicki

        Also my first thought. Where in the Constitution is the government granted the power to spend our money on ANY community organization let alone that community organization.

      • Ted Musgrove

        According to the Constitution only Congress can make the law’s of the land. So, why does the President think he does? Because we the people have allowed this to happen. Even the Supreme Court’s don’t have the power to make any rulings except when it’s before them in a court of law with a defendant and a plaintiff. Would this not make sense?
        Our Fore Fathers put this into action because this makes the Congress work for us, not us for them. Maybe we should work toward what or who should represent us in the Congress. Would you agree with this or not?

      • American Citizen

        My thoughts exactly. Where in the Constitution is Congress given the authority to give funds to a private group?

    • Bert Stevenson

      There is a day coming when the liberals are going to call some of us fanatics, extremeists, hate mongers, etc. But there will be a day when a vast number will rise up and say, ENOUGH! Maybe even blood shed, but ENOUGH! We WILL TAKE our country back and there won’t be enough of them to stop us.

    • http://fbhood@comcast 03 Infinity

      Why is it when Carl Rove, had Attorney General fired for not being able to fine any thing wrong with Acorn . This Judge ruling should stand. The out cry is only because it helps the under-privileged.What do we want in this Country a bunch of Glenn Becks, and Sarah Palin
      running this Country. They would be much worst than Bush. George W. Bush, broke every law in the world. He was not as stupid and people
      thought he was, he was dumb like a FOX. So get over the ruling. Acorn
      did not stand a chance after President Obama won the
      white House. The NRA, is right Election has consequence.Get ready for this my Husband and I are members of the NRA, but I do not agree with
      everything they stand for.

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