By Michelle Malkin
Published: 02-18-09
Fresh off the trillion-dollar porkulus bill signing in Denver President Obama immediately launched into his next New Raw Deal expansion: a massive mortgage entitlement program forcing lenders to refinance at an initial cost of $50 billion to $100 billion.
Thats in addition to the bipartisan-supported $50 billion in the stimulus bill to bail out homeowners underwater on their mortgages and the $2 billion in neighborhood stabilization funds to alleviate the foreclosure crisis.
In tandem with the White House Bad Borrowers Bailout Obamas old friends at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) are launching a new campaign of their own: the Home Savers campaign. What a coinky-dinky huh? As with most of the bully tactics of the radical left-wing group it aint gonna be pretty. They are the shock troops on the streets doing the dirty work while the Community Organizer-in-Chief keeps his delicate hands clean.
Trumpets ACORN: On Feb. 19 ACORN members will launch a new tactic in fighting foreclosures: civil disobedience. Participants in the ACORN Home Savers campaign nationwide will simply refuse to move out of foreclosed homes or in some cases will move back in. ACORN homesteaders intend to squat in their homes until a comprehensive federal solution for people facing foreclosure is put in place.
ACORNs foot soldiers funded with your tax dollars will scream pound their fists chain themselves to buildings padlock the doors and engage in illegal behavior until they get what they want. Its a recipe for anarchy. Threatens Baltimore ACORNs Louis Beverly who calls himself a Foreclosure Fighter:
After youve used all your legal options your last resort is civil disobedience. Were talking about families who have been in their homes 20 or 30 years. People who are assets in the community who look out for the elderly who have community associations and these are the people being kicked out of the community.
We can all sympathize with good folks who cant pay their bills. But as Ive said repeatedly in my criticism of the mortgage entitlement mentality embraced by both parties in Washington home ownership is not a civil right -- and neither is home retention. Artificially propping up the housing market will only result in more of the same costly borrow-spend-panic-repeat cycles that got us into this mess in the first place. Failing corporations need to fail. So do failing home borrowers. This is borrowing from frugal renter Peter to pay profligate Pauls home loan.
Now thats the kind of theft that should be the subject of civil disobedience.
Instead ACORN offices funded with your tax dollars are training teams of Home Savers -- described as people ready and willing to mobilize on short notice to defend the homesteaders against attempts to evict them. Ready willing and able to mobilize on short notice because they are either unemployed or employed full time as ACORN shakedown artists.
Guess whos encouraging them to defy the law. Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio who told them: Stay in your homes. If the American people anybody out there is being foreclosed dont leave. The housing bullies will be assisted by left-wing propaganda documentarians at the Brave New Foundation headed up by Hollywood lib Robert Greenwald who will disseminate sob stories to crank up pressure while Obama pushes his housing entitlement plan.
ACORN is targeting the following cities: Tucson Ariz.; Oakland Calif.; Los Angeles Calif.; Contra Costa County Calif.; Orlando Fla.; Baltimore Md.; New York N.Y.; Houston Texas; San Mateo County Calif.; Denver Colo.; Bridgeport Conn.; Wilmington Del.; Broward County Fla.; Boston Mass.; Flint Mich.; Detroit Mich.; Minneapolis Minn.; Raleigh N.C.; Durham N.C.; Albany N.Y.; Cincinnati Ohio; Cleveland Ohio; Pittsburgh Pa.; and Dallas Texas.
ACORN has waited three decades for this moment in the sun. And as Obama promised ACORN members at a forum in December 2007 Were going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. Were gonna be having meetings all across the country … so that you have input into the agenda. The moment is nigh. Prepare for lawlessness.
Michelle Malkin makes news and waves with a unique combination of investigative journalism and incisive commentary. She is the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild .
