ACORN is stirring up trouble again.
A community organization breaks into a foreclosed home in what they are calling an act of civil disobedience.
The group wants to train homeowners facing eviction on peaceful ways they can remain in their homes.
Derek Valcourt reports their actions are not without controversy.
Near Patterson Park, the padlock on the door and the sign in the window tell part of Donna Hanks foreclosure story.
“The mortgage went up $300 in one month,” said Hanks, former homeowner.
She says the bank refused to modify her loan and foreclosed, kicking her out of the house in September.
The community group ACORN calls Hanks a victim of predatory lending.
“This is our house now,” said Louis Beverly, ACORN.
And on Thursday afternoon, they literally broke the foreclosure padlock right off the front door and then broke into the house, letting Hanks back in for the first time in months.
“We are actually trespassing, and so this is a way of civil disobedience to try to stay in the house,” said Beverly. ”Legally it’s wrong, but homesteading is the only means that she has left to stay in her house. And we feel as though this is the right thing to do at this particular time to save this family.”
Donna Hanks and ACORN don’t seem to care that the bank no longer owns the property, they sold it! So Ms. Hanks is calling this place that she didn’t pay for her home when in fact it’s owned by someone else. And ACORN is going to start training people to squat in other people’s property!
Will President Obama come out and denounce this practice, or can we kiss our private property rights goodbye?
H/T American Thinker
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When I am feeling really, really mellow I will blog on this. Read somewhere else Acorn had done the same thing. Need that civil security force to get into gear so they can quell Acorn. That’s what they are for, isn’t it, to keep violence down?
Not Acorn, just us rednecks? OH, my, we are in trouble now! LOL.
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There isn’t anything about this that is right, but it’s all warm and fuzzy and I think they (ACORN) deserve a KITteN award.
Kick
In
The
t
e
Nuts award
Hence forth known by the warm and fuzzy accronym KITN.
All attempts at humor aside, this strays from civil disobedience by a large margine in that ACORN is a federally funded project using taxpayer dollars to break the law, and when these squatters are taken to court federal monies will most probably be used to defend them pitting the Govt. against the private sector by proxy. But, not to worry, some greasey lawyers have surely spent hours and hours, on our dime, figuring out how to present their case so as not to appear they are govt. paid lackeys.
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