ACORN scandal: baltimore city state’s attorneys may bring charges…against the (fake) pimp and pro!

Thanks for the update, AGII. This is unconscionable.

As for Patricia Jessamy, well, she is only going to throw more gasoline into the fire if she attempts malicious prosecution. A good defense attorney will hand her and her department their collective arses on a silver-plated platter.

Please go ahead and charge the young man. That way he can call many, many acorn employees to testify. If we shake the ACORN tree, I wonder how many nuts will fall.

Can you say, “complicit”, perhaps?

Jessamy may well serve herself better by shutting up.

Thank you AGII, it is an important story- my particular interest is because of the child prostitution that was treated as if it was ever day fare. I expected the tax fraud. I hope the FEDS grab the case,(either for underage importation for prostitution or tax fraud-or both!) they can decide if these young people’s supposed crimes are worthy of any prosecution. Hopefully the career employees of the justice department have a vested interest in seeing to protection for the whistle blowers; and choose to investigate ACORN on a nationwide scale.

Let’s hope there is a good defense attorney available. I will contribute funds to these young people so they can have the best.

A good defense attorney would probably jump for this one. I do believe Ms Jessamy fired before she aimed.

The two “stingers” are doing what journalists should have been doing all along.

The only good thing if there is a suit is that, these videos will become worldwide famous for an extended period. I would be willing to chip in a few bucks for exposing a willingness to encourage others to break tax laws and support the sexual slavery of children.

It would be outrageous if these people were severely punished by what they did, especially given the results of their investigation. Whatever happened to the concept of citizen arrests?

I doubt that a jury would convict them of anything given the facts, and to pursue such a case would only inflame public dialogue further.

What a crock!

Memo to Jessamy – If you choose to prosecute the two reporters for illegally taping Acorn employees, it not only proves how corrupt Acorn is but your office. The Census Dept. has already notified the President that they are severing ties to Acorn. Attorney Jessamy, the entire nation is watching you. It shows that you are part of Obama’s dirty politics. Shame on you!

Great work by the video ‘players’! I love Baltimore. Its a great city, and Giles/O’Keefe have done us all a great service with their undercover work. I hope this inspires a lot more expose’s across the country.

Does anyone else think that members of Congress have been in touch with Jessamy?
I’m sure things have been hot in Baltimore!
If these ACORN employees were unfairly exposed, why were they fired?
Keep them on the payroll and defend them Ms. Jessamy…go ahead, make my day!

the audio portion could possibly have been obtained in violation of Maryland Law.

It did not help Monic Lewinsky did it?

Whether or not they can prosecute the ACORN people is almost immaterial at this point. The exposure continues of their tactics and nothing is more powerful than the will of the people when they see that they have been duped, cheated, lied to.
The public is not going to let this die any kind of death and the longer it is in the public domain, the worse it is going to be for Obama and his criminal friends.
Expose him! Expose him! Expose him!

If these ACORN employees were unfairly exposed, why were they fired?

That’s what I wondered, too.

I was reading about Linda Tripp last night, a blurb somewhere, that she was in trouble for the taping. I don’t remember what came of of. I might go google that now! :O)

You know it! The oportunity to cross-examine the Acorn employees would be delectable.

Next thing will be the proverbial RACE CARD!

Thanks for the name, (I am one cup o’ coffe shy of awake.)

I recall there was some legal movement but I don’t recall her prosecution goe it. It seemingly didn’t matter to the Feds at the time…
LOL.

Thanks for the great read SarainItaly

Spot on, AC. Jessamy has woefully misfired on this one–wrong target, wrong reason.

Monica refused to testify in Maryland so the charges were dropped. Ken Starr used the recordings made from a Hotel in Virginia to initiate discovery of the dress etc.

You big tease!

Dealt from the bottom of the deck, as always.

And how is it different than NBC’s Dateline “To Catch a Predator” – setting up pervs who want to have sex w/ children? It’s no surprise that those at ACORN are not assuming any personal responsibility and are trying to pass the buck.

Under state law (Maryland), prosecutors must prove the defendant knew it was illegal to tape record conversations at the time of the taping. The prosecution has evidence that Tripp knew as early as November that taping was illegal.

“To secure a conviction, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ms Tripp taped a telephone conversation subsequent to the date she became aware that it was illegal to do so,” Leasure wrote in her ruling.

http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/00may07/inter.htm#4

If this applies, I think Hannah and Keith can claim they did not know it was illegal…

Hopefully, this won’t be swept under the rug like so many things have been when it gets to close to Obama.I knew this presidency was going to be a nightmare, my only surprise is that it happened this fast.Kudos to those young folks for exposing more things connected to Acorn. Where is MSM?No wonder their ratings are so lousy, they can’t report things, they only cover it up!!!!

hey, good point!

Where is MSM?

Out starting rumors and creating panic on the Potomac…

And wiping the “brown” off their nose…

PLEASE HELP.

Inspired by these revelations on NQ, I researched ballot law in MD; sure enough, MD has a law requiring the candidate for office to be qualified under law to hold the job. So, I want MD to file an election fraud complaint with MD AG Gansler. First, I need to know who in the D party submitted the Certification of Nomination, NP or the state party Chair. Anyone here from MD? http://jbjd.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/model-complaint-of-election-fraud-to-state-attorneys-general/

DC police reporting 1.2 million at rally.

I think ACORN is doing some housekeeping today, their site is “unavailable”. Scrub, Scrub, Scrub

hahah

AGII-do you know if there will be an open thread or coverage on NQ for the 9/12 Tea Party in D.C. today?

who is covering it? i am not sure if there is a live thread planned. i will go check the queue.

there is a post after mine, posting at 2pm. So, this thread will be up, and then Lisa’s (very funny post) is scheduled.

We can use this one in the meantime. Our queue master has stepped out, so I don’t want to mess with her scheduling, but feel free to chat away!

If FOX airs streaming, I will chat too. It starts at 1pm EST, correct? 20 minutes?

Wow, really?

I have a horrible hacking cough and headcold so I am not “sharing the love” but I am glad people are out.

I am not at all surprised about Jessamy. Shes a partisan hack working for a disgusting city. Of course shes going to blame the reporters. Thats how the game is played.

SCORE< FOX is streaming live.

http://www.foxnews.com/

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/

The same DC street corner as it supposedly looks now, with updates every 2 seconds.

http://www.trafficland.com/city/WAS/camera/9087/index.html

WTF is going on? Are they looping old video to pretend no one is there?

Rational Thought on September 12, 2009 at 12:53 PM

i can’t get teh vid from c-span to work, and FOX has no sound?

ok, i am hooked up on c-span now

Fox News (Beck) and C-Span.

I will help them too. They are heroes!

Hc-hope you feel better soon.

“Son of a bitch”
prosecute the whistle blowers and let the crooks go free.
HOPE AND CHANGE, HOPE AND CHANGE! >said in a thouroughly disgusted voice<

The ACORN corruption and our economic woes are intricately connected. Hanna Giles and James O’Keefe are American heroes, and 99% of the MSM are zeroes.

You describe what I was taking forever to get at. That is the point isn’t it? If ACORN would allow anyone to get a mortgage, with all that political support and no oversight, exactly how far and how deep does this go? Doesn’t it seem to also link ACORN to the voter fraud via perhaps the payment for the higher-ups to perhaps get a house if they could recruit others to do their bidding in the falsification of voter records, thus influencing the election? The underlings take the fall, and everyone else just keeps scratching each others back.
Onofre-you are onto what is really going on here. There are implications we probably haven’t put together yet. Isn’t it a type of money laundering to take promised government money for an organization then turn around and donate back to those very politicians then receive special allowances in the form of billions of dollars in recent legislation, and coincidentally, your guy is the one elected to office to make this all possible?

These fired employees should sue ACORN then. But I am sure they willhave a new job in no time just tokeep quiet.

Ahh oops, seems I am lunch for spammy.

Thanks Katmoon! Seeing pics of all the folks on the mall is making me feel better already.

From hota air:

Is that the Italian version of Hot Air? j/k-I couldn’t resist.

hahahaha YES!

Maybe one could get these documents from Maryland and file suit!

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/14583

i do believe this is the first time in history that americans have protested against the government and the white house only 9 months into a presidency. says a lot about this president..doesnt it?

I was just going to ask if any of you have seen coverage of the Tea Party on the MSM stations — I’m afraid to watch anything but FOX, because if I see a headline across CNN that reads “Tens of Thousands of People ALLEGEDLY march in D.C.” (like they did with the ACORN fiasco – “Acorn advisors ALLEGEDLY caught advocating tax evasion”), I think I’ll scream…..

says a lot about this president..doesnt it?

Perhaps that he is less a president than he is the Chief Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Officer for Graft and Corruption.

My favorite sign I saw so far: “For the first time in my adult life, I am NOT proud to be an American…”

Michelle’s 5-o’clocker will get a little more burly with that one.

I put on a Level II Environmental Suit and checked CNN. They’re showing That One do song-and-dance lecture #1356 to some group of bots.

All I know, Ferd, is that sometimes I’d like to o’clocker one after she says things that led to that sign….

I understand that sentiment. That is one really angry woman. Phew, am I ever glad I’m not That One.

Canada Free Press is the front for Douglas Haggman, Founder of Northeast Intelligence Network, or “NEIN,” for “no” in German. “CFP” intentionally stole work produced on my blog, without accreditation, and are reaping the notoriety for this usurpation. My ire vests not in this theft of intellectual property but rather, in the knowledge that this unscrupulous group will unjustly benefit from the caliber of the work, my work. And people will tend to credit other tripe that comes out of this group, assuming it has any intrinsic value whatsoever, which it does not.

Way back in December 2008, Justin Riggs was contacting state elections officials all over the country to obtain Certifications of Nominations. HI sent back both the DNC and RNC Certifications, which he posted, along with the cover letter from elections officials. A blogger who has helped me on several projects, including distributing the memorandum I wrote trying to resolve the issue of standing confronted by Plaintiffs in federal court, by proposing military Plaintiffs who could survive a Motion to Dismiss; thought I might be interested in Justin’s work and emailed the link. Already familiar with the SC Certification, as soon as I saw the HI Certification, I noticed the extra line regarding BO’s Constitutional qualification. Then, I looked at the cover letter from HI elections officials; this contained a cite to Hawaiian Revised Statutes. I checked with Justin; no, he hadn’t cited this law to obtain the Certifications. So, I looked up the law. And sure enough, this was the requirement that party officials must Certify the candidate for POTUS is Constitutionally eligible for the job. (I also noticed there was no “Received” stamp on the Certification from HI, as well as the signature anomaly. But none of these details was material to creating any cause of action that could halt the Congressional ratification of the EC vote; or, after such ratification, that could prompt Congress to initiate Impeachment proceedings.)

You will find these documents posted and/or referenced throughout my blog, beginning last December, and recently highlighted in an article I posted on August 13, “IF DROWNING OUT OPPOSING FACTS IS un-AMERICAN THEN, IGNORING UNPLEASANT FACTS IS un-AMERICAN, TOO.” The distinction is again pointed out in the just published “MODEL COMPLAINT OF ELECTION FRAUD TO STATE A’sG.” Notice, CFP did not reveal the provenance of information they just ‘published’ about the Certifications or provide an explanation as to why it took them so long to ‘find’ this information and realize its significance.

Today, WND copied my work, crediting ‘author’ JB Williams. Figures. Its leader, Joseph Farah, set up the Western Journalism Center from which he spun WND, not to investigate and report hard ‘news’ but merely as a means by which to spread his political propaganda to a larger audience. http://jbjd.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/model-complaint-of-election-fraud-to-state-attorneys-general/

I have the live feed from fox but no sound? Do u have sound??

I could be having a blond day LOL

This shows what bad shape this country is in. Interesting the AG is black. She is showing everyone what the real values of black culture are, not the American values we’ve all been taught to cherish.

Apparently Jessamyn thinks it’s important to cover up for ACORN no matter what.

So interesting these are the people who ran Obama’s ground campaign.

Have you no recourse?

C-Span – I never got sound on FOX. Watch c-span.

Taking your work..ass! I check your site ofter jbjd; seems you should be able to prove by using the way back machine.

I mean often…my fingers are not used to going faster. Geez!

Now I have both sound and picture on FOX but cannot get C-Span!

I took another look at her campaign poster. She not only looks like a bot but also uses similar phrases, “(Yes) We Can Make a Difference”.

Oh No You Won’t.

Yes; I can point out in comments like this how corrupt are both CFP and WND, and hope people hear. At some point,I will post an article dedicated to pointing this out. But for now, on my blog, I have posted this explanation in my replies to comments posted by my readers. BECAUSE I WANTED TO KEEP THE FRAUD COMPLAINT IN FRONT SINCE THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!

I know; of course, I can prove the work is mine. But what really bothers me is that, people who read this one article coming from either CFP or WND and, appreciate the observation and attention to detail that resulted in this ‘finding’ about the Certifications, could assume this represents the general caliber of either ‘publication’ and wrongly give them credibility in the future. But neither of these sources is credible for ‘news’!

Or maybe a Garbage truck?

Perhaps even better. I hope they have a RCRA landfill awaiting them.

Then we will begin to work our way through Allport’s Scale of Prejudice going from 1 – 5.

Scale 1, Antilocution

Antilocution means a majority group freely make jokes about a minority group. Speech is in terms of negative stereotypes and negative images. This is also called hate speech [2]. It is commonly seen as harmless by the majority. Antilocution itself may not be harmful, but it sets the stage for more severe outlets for prejudice.

I remember when you wrote about this. I’m sorry this has happened to you; I know from reading you that hours of research has gone into everything you write. I have found both WND & CFP to be untrustworthy for a long time now.

Thank you for appreciating the effort and the caliber of work. You could help to educate others who cite to either CFP or WNC, by giving your opinion whenever you see these comments. (I am really surprised at how few people looked up Douglas Hagmann and his organization, NEIN, when these were mentioned in that CFP article about anonymous news anchors claiming they had been prohibited from reporting certain ‘news’ stories. This guy is a neo-Nazi, just judging by what came up on the Google search!)

naw their whole deck is race cards

Did you see GO GREEN, Recycle Congress!

CNN actually had it live feed on internet.

I thought of you immediately when I saw that.

From the head nut at ACORN

ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis claimed that the videos capturing her former workers were “doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist ‘filmmaker’ O’Keefe and his partner in crime.”

Lewis said ACORN will take legal action against FOX News and those involved in the making for the videos. ACORN offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, among other places, were also targeted, she said.

You’re right–I forgot. They don’t even need to mark them.

Ohhh, where can I get one of those? At a Hazmat Botmat outlet? If you’re wearing it to watch CNN, it must filter out airwaves, but is it good enough for the thought waves being transmitted to and from the whitehouse fishy-center?

They have them at the De-obotomat, where one goes to get their entire bodies and minds scrubbed from exposure to That One and his toxic concoction of Kool-aide, cheetos, dirty socks, and er, ah, um, and uh-infested, mind-numbing prattle.

This reminded me — last night Glenn Beck had on a woman (Marcel something) who was a Board Member of the D.C. Acorn organization and she was fired after she and a few other co-workers demanded to see the books. As I’ve been saying a lot lately whenever I see some conservative or some regular-ol’-nice-person speaking out against Obama or complaining about his policies at a town hall meeting – thank God she happens to be black. If there is any lawsuit, she seemed more than ready to speak out against Acorn’d practices and to tell her tale, ’cause apparently Beck is the only one giving her a venue to “speak truth to power.”

Hmmmm, that was a typo up there above, but the more I see it, the more I like it: maybe “she was Acorn’d” will take the place of “he was punk’d.”

Acorn’d–LMAO. I’m going to remember that one.

Hahahahaha

Well, it’s about time I returned the favor: you’ve been making me laugh ever since I came on board…..

ACORN–a shiny new word that can be a:

gerund–ACORNing Together-We Can Make a Difference

verb–I ACORN at the office often and don’t get a bit accomplished.

noun–I just go me a good-paying ACORN.

adjective–That’s one ACORN ride you have there.

I have to say that is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. Derision is the sincerest form of jeering and you got that one down cold.

It seems to me someone has something screwed up here. I hear persons accusing the reporters of participating in illegal taping activities in the State of Maryland. I haven’t checked, but I would guess that msnbc’s program where they tape and capture sexual predators is shown on a regular basis in that state. I would also guess that the State of Maryland hasn’t initiated any charges against Chris Hansen and MSNBC regarding this program, even though it has been active and repeatedly shown for a number of years now.

To me this simply demonstrates the hypocracy rampant in politics. I would call it something else, but might get in trouble. If they follow through with this I hope someone in the media has the guts to take the issue all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. The government can’t have it both ways at it’s convenience. If it’s ok for trapping sexual predators, it certainly should be ok to use the same tactics on ACORN….unless there pre-exists some secret immunity agreement of which most of us are unaware!

jbjd, I would recognize your writing in a blind taste test.

It is appreciatted.

What is interesting anatomicly, when it comes to reading MSM news articles from many “news outlets”, is how they freely co-opt what others have spent valuable time working on critical issues.

It is increasinly difficult to tell original composition from theft.
(AP) can’t quote them but everybody else does.

Keep at it.

Politically and racially motivated? She should be ashamed or there is no such thing in Saul’s book?

they don’t speak for all Black people.

Well, I thought this was coming. That is why this should have been done by the regular media, because they have lawyers on staff to handle this. It is very expensive in this system we have to be right. It is much more expedient to just go along to get along. That is as much of our problem than anything else we face. The far left has used the legal system to bully and intimidate for a long time now. On the other hand, the rich have always used our legal system in the same way. Neither has a right to misuse the legal system, but nothing is stopping it. The line that separates us from banana republics just got a little bit thinner again. I guess that is the “change” we were to believe in.

It never was about skin tone so much as it was about the abuse of power. Give people of any color enough power and they can find ways to abuse it and to overreach.

I think this shows the weakness right now in our entire system. People have lost what power they once had. The system itself rules the roost.

He said special interests and insurers will be fighting change. But Obama said he will not waste time with them and others who may try to kill an overhaul for political reasons.

The president asked people in the audience to knock on doors, talk to neighbors and make phone calls so that an overhaul can be passed now.

He is in full evangelist campaign mode now. He had to have a talk today so that the MSM could have something to show besides American people exercising their constitutional rights. I saw the part where he kept saying repetitively … are you fired up? ready to go? fired up? ready to go? etc. Sounded something between a hell fire sermon and an Amway meeting. I don’t think there is a nation on this Earth besides us that has a President that would give that kind of a speech. I am not sure what that says about us as a people… but whatever that is it’s probably not good.

Docelder, has it occured to anyone else that as a poster sated HLS reported a million or so people in DC and what does BO do? He goes to an Obot convention instead of addressing the larger crowd?

“Obama said he will not waste time with them”

I ask anyone who will listen…is he not POTUS of all the people or am I to believe I am a waste of time.

If the Yukwad BO only knew many of these Americans of the million in DC want single payer healthcare and are not going to get it from BO.
The way I see it BO is wasting MY time.

No one is going to file charges. However, the discretion properly lies in the executive branch – law enforcement and prosecutors – to determine whether to file such charges. You raise the chief reason they won’t; equal protection, which is the principle that, even an otherwise just exercise of discretion can be considered unjust when not applied equally.

Thanks for mentioning Linda Tripp. It got me thinking of the comparison of now and then and using the justice system politically.

Patricia Jessamy (Acorn/ radical left) & Ken Starr (Buckley laissez faire GOP and all their attendant operatives *cough* Ann Coulter) exemplify the ideologies of the power bases of the USA at this time. It has an almost mythological feeling*.

* See:
http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Sa-Sp/Scylla-and-Charybdis.html

Nothing of value can get done like this. But plenty of character assassination to say the least. However, I think that until the msm butts out of American Politics these are the kind of choices we are going to see.

Nothing of value can get done like this. But plenty of character assassination to say the least. However, I think that until the msm butts out of American Politics these are the kind of choices we are going to see.

Amen–they should merely and solely report the news and stop pontificating on its meaning. I can do that for myself and don’t need some two-bit hack giving me an officious lecture on something they really know nothing about.

Presidential pimps and Community Organizers pushing child sex trafficking crimes.
Hillary’s stated goal was the unearth and prosecute such crimes. Since her l995 speech on human rights and their being identical to women’s rights, she’s been a beacon. But working for the Empty Suit Community Organizer must very disturbing….
Hope they put these despicable “community organizers” –whose kids were there and were heard while giving advice on hiding underage kid-prostsitutes–in JAIL where they belong! Enough!

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