Acorn has generated a lot of news this week. All of the news was bad for Acorn and almost all of it bad for the United States. Acorn said each case was isolated and not reflective of Acorn’s standards. Let’s look at the cases and see if we can figure out if it was isolated or a pattern.

The first case that hit the news was a voter fraud case out of Florida. Acorn ended up firing 11 people because of this case. Has Acorn ever been accused of voter fraud? Was that just one time or many times? In the 2008 election, Acorn was involved in registering new voters for Barack Obama and the Democrats. That is just fine as long as they do it legally. But, almost immediately cries of voter fraud started up all over the country. In Nevada, one county registered the entire starting lineup of the Green Bay Packers. Those men live in Wisconsin, not Nevada. They also registered every Disney character. A county in Pennsylvania had more registered voters than there were people in the county. That was counting men, women and children in the total number of people. So, voter fraud was rampant wherever Acorn was involved in voter registration. Those areas also were where allegations of voting irregularity took place. In Philadelphia, there was a report of a bus that took a group of people from one polling place to another around Philadelphia. The driver of the bus was worker from Acorn. So, I think we can safely say that voter fraud is a trademark issue for Acorn and not an isolated incident.

The next two involve a man and a woman coming to Acorn to ask for help in obtaining a house. The house was to be used as a brothel involving underage sex slaves from El Salvador. In Baltimore, the Acorn employees immediately helped the man and woman. They told them how to make the income legal and how to report it to the IRS. They even told them how to use the underage girls from El Salvador as tax deductions. In Washington, D.C., the man and woman took longer to convince Acorn to help them with their brothel. In both cases the Acorn workers seemed very well acquainted with the law and how to get around IRS regulations. These were the only two times this couple made this attempt. When you have nearly identical results in two different locations it would indicate to me that there is something there. There is a small chance it could be isolated, but with two similar outcomes, that is not likely. The employees were too sure of themselves for it to be just isolated incidents. It had to be something they either practiced with regularly or dealt with regularly. I am not talking the exact details, but in general of an illegal activity that they try to make legal.

The fourth incident involving Acorn is kind of a mixed bag result. It is bad for Acorn and great for the United States. The Census Dept. decided that they will not use Acorn in any capacity in the 2010 census. That should greatly reduce the amount of census fraud that will take place. Acorn will lose some funding, which is great. And the US will reduce census fraud which is great. The US came out way ahead on this incident.

Why is Acorn important? They were written into the stimulus bill to receive $8.5 billion. For an organization as corrupt as Acorn to receive that much money is terrible. The money has not been spent, so it can be rescinded. It should be rescinded as soon as possible. Also any contracts the federal government has with Acorn should be ended right now. We should not be funding an organization that is this corrupt. Any organization that advises citizens on how to break the law should be put out on the street as soon as possible. The only problem with this scenario is that Barack Obama worked for and trained Acorn personnel. He will not like the fact that Acorn will be cut out of the stimulus bill. He promised them a place at the trough, I mean table. He will be the biggest obstacle to ridding ourselves of this obviously corrupt organization.

Glen Beck said this week that no legislation should move in Washington until we remove the massive corruption from Washington. I completely agree with that assessment. As long as corruption rules the roost, no good can come out of Washington. The Book of Mormon has the civilization falling primarily because of this type of corruption. We can still rescue ourselves from this corruption. We have to do it soon. Encourage our leaders to rid ourselves of corruption, now. The cost will be high in the short run. The cost will go higher the longer we wait. If we do nothing at all, it will be the highest cost of all. The activities of today will help in that regard. We need to sweep Washington clean of corruption. We will lose a lot of politicians in the process. Some of them may even agree with us, but if they are corrupt, they must go.