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How is ACORN not organized crime?

I mentioned this many months back when Nevada election cops nailed ACORN for appearing to systematically defraud Nevada's registration system. You remember how ACORN attempted to register "Mickey Mouse", "Tony Romo" and most of the starters for the Dallas Cowboy football team. The organization has created a system for which the natural by-product appears to be fraud. I wondered back then how that is not a classic example of organized crime and why some energetic U.S. Attorney somewhere doesn't lower the boom on this kind of activity.

Well, that idea is even more ripe for an answer as more stories throughout the nation emerge about ACORN. There is no question ACORN is trying to game the system. But with videos like these, along with more evidence around the country of voter registration irregularities, it is hard not to see ACORN as an organization designed to engage in criminal activity.

The latest deal involves ACORN employees helping an undercover filmmaker, posing as a pimp, set up a prostitution ring. It's pretty amazing stuff and the ease by which ACORN employees offer advice like this makes one wonder what the thousands of ACORN employees around the nation do all day when there isn't a hidden camera to film it. It is a further outrage when you know that ACORN receives taxpayer money, and under the Obama Administration, it is in line to get funded with billions more.

You can see more information here. But all you really need is to view the video.

The government needs to stop enabling ACORN and put a stop to this behavior.

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