ACORN’s Coming to Getcha

Hot rumor on the right: members of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now will stalk next week’s Tea Party protests, collecting intel on the people who show up. One e-mail that’s making the rounds, via my friend Steve Gordon:

TEA PARTY CAUTION! DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING – FROM ANYONE – AT ANY TEA PARTY ANYWHERE IN THE USA —- NO EXCEPTIONS!Federally-funded ACORN operators will be at all Tea Parties to get signatures which they will give to Obama stating that the signatures are in support of his policies or to get the names of people who oppose his policies and report dissention.

NO MATTER WHAT, DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING! IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO PLAN TO ATTEND, WHO DO NOT HAVE EMAIL, GET ON THE PHONE TO WARN THEM. TRY TO CALL OR EMAIL RADIO TALK SHOWS AND LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.

PASS IT ON!

What do they do after reporting the “dissention”? I don’t know.

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Rick Massimo

"... signatures which they will give to Obama stating that the signatures are in support of his policies or to get the names of people who oppose his policies and report dissention."

They'll use your names and tell Obama they're in support of him! Or against him! I don't know which! But something! Something really bad! AAAAAAAGH!!!!!!

Ron A. Zajac

I have a funny feeling this is a blatant piece of wingnut incitement disinfo from a clever (if amoral) leftwingish type, or just the kind of person who likes rattling the cages of the profoundly undiscerning, wherever they may be found.

Think of it: If what I'm saying is true, this is a brilliant piece of double-duty text: It 1) heightens a disabling sense of paranoia in already a bit far-gone rightwing ideologues, and 2) serves as a target for derision and marginalization (well-nigh to dehumanization) by leftwing types.

meke

This is consistent with Saul Alinksy goading the enemy tactics.

Green Eagle

COLONISTS CAUTION! DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING - FROM ANYONE - AT ANY MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1776 —- NO EXCEPTIONS! Parliamentary-funded operators will be at all Colonists' Protests to get signatures which they will give to King George stating that the signatures are in support of his policies or to get the names of people who oppose his policies and report dissention.

NO MATTER WHAT, DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING! IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO PLAN TO ATTEND, WHO DO NOT HAVE EMAIL, RIDE ON YOUR HORSE TO WARN THEM. TRY TO LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.

PASS IT ON!

RobertSeattle

Oh my Gosh - Operation Wingnut Woudup has been exposed! Those Wascals!

Dale

Just google on "government agents infiltrate" and you'll get a lot of stories like this from the other side of the political spectrum - only in that case they're true, and not some sort of wingnut claptrap.

Ambergris

Hilarious!
This reveals the intended top-to-bottom organization that is diametrically opposed to any true grassroots movement (organized horizontally, not vertically). How can these tea parties be part of a grassroots movement if the members of this movement aren't allowed to build their own network? Instead, they will be reduced to listening and obeying whatever the RNC and its sponsors are telling them.

Patrick ONeill

Be afraid, be very afraid, ye fearless patriots in the tradition of Madison and Hamilton.
Don't sign your names - and maybe you should consider wearing hoods.

Ozymandi

That's it. My former political party has clearly gone absolutely and utterly mad.

*sigh*.

I just hope hope the rational fiscal conservatives get their act together by 2012 and get a solid, small government, 'culture-war' free alternative before the next presidential elections. The Republican's are clearly on their way to the no-man's-land loony bin.

Nathanhj

This was sent around by ACORN folks yesterday in response to FOX News asking about this.

Response from ACORN Spokesman Brian Kettenring:

“ACORN is helping organize dozens of rallies on April 15th in support of the priorities outlined in President Obama’s first budget – investments in education, health care, and getting Americans back to work. This is the first we’ve heard of these so-called “tea parties” and, frankly, a bunch of small get-togethers by fringe conservatives activists dedicated to simply saying “No.” is of little interest to us.

“The idea that ACORN is out to disrupt these meet-ups of fringe activists is yet another conservative fantasy. 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.”

geb

i think now that tax payers are in the auto business acorn can get free cars for people without jobs .then they can wreck that industry.why stop at houses

EriktheRed

Yup, ACORN is the new ACLU. I notice they still like to throw out George Soros, too.

But like others have said lately: better they spend their time on this than shooting up a Unitarian church or killing cops.

Major Domo

As a small kid in the mid60's, I remember a song on the radio that went like this:

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy
to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haa!!!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time... (fade out)

Hey, buddy!
Yes officer..
You a head?
No, but I'm catching up, ha ha ha....

Every time I hear about repuglican's going off the deep end, like in this case, I see a mental picture of them all singing and dancing to that tune with dead seriousness.

paul

Yes major I remember that song...I think conservatives fit this song completely... like that old stooges episode where they were about to become rich and then they came to take away the guy that promised them the riches..The right wing has decended farther than I have ever seen them go... I just believe it is simply that they are the biggest sore loosers in history... they cannot take the results last november.. so they are grasping this delusional rhetoric and thinking it is real...we must call it what it is... delusion...Nothing the right has been saying since last november even comes close to reality...they need the ambulance to take them away .hahahahahah

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