Good points, BillK. (Though the birth certificate thing was always nonsense.)

But you left out one thing — money. Even a 501c3 needs a sugar daddy or mommy.

If it wasn’t for Jodie Evans getting a billion dollar divorce settlement from her husband, nobody would have ever heard of Code Pink.

Similarly, we only know about ACORN and other such anti-American groups because they are all heavily funded by the usual suspects — Soros and his pals.

If just a few people from the right would step up to the plate, like they have done on the other side, it would be amazing what a difference it could make.

In that respect, maybe Mr. Obama is doing our side a favor with his war on capitalism.

If any capitalists survive, they might remember which side of the bread their butter is on.

But I doubt it.

If you are a hard working AIG executive I suggest you sue each and everyone personally.

AIG Protesters

Mary Huguley, of Hartford, said AIG executives should share their wealth with people like her sister, who is facing foreclosure.

Marisa Lindsey sits with Malik Stallings 6, and Leslie Seecharan as they pass the home of James Hass, an AIG executive, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Fairfield, Conn

We think $165 million could be used in a more appropriate way to keep people in their homes, create more jobs and health care,” said Emeline Bravo-Blackport, a gardener

Another protester, Claire Jeffery, of Bloomfield, said she’s on the verge of foreclosure. She works as a housekeeper; her husband, a truck driver, can’t find work

Jon Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families

Jon Green – Executive Director
JGreen@workingfamiliesparty.org

Kate Breslin – Canvass Director
KBreslin@workingfamiliesparty.org

Carly Dickinson – 4th CD (Bridgeport-Norwalk-Stamford Area) Organizer
CDickinson@workingfamiliesparty.org

Joe Dinkin – Communications Director
JDinkin@workingfamiliesparty.org

Lindsay Farrell – Organizing Director
LFarrell@workingfamiliesparty.org

Marquita McElya – 1st CD (Hartford Area) Organizer
MMcElya@workingfamiliesparty.org

Dianna Vazquez – Administrative Coordinator

1) Political will

2) Adequate momentum.

For example, say someone wants to point out that ACORN or Code Pink are (once again) violating their 501(c)3 guidelines.

To call them on it there has to be political will.

The Dems won’t do it and when they were in office the Republicans lacked the political will.

Now say a Republican group is doing something the left believes is unconstitutional.

A left group will file suit, multiple others will file friend-of-the-court briefs, and a number of Democratic legislators will jump in as “interested parties.”

What about something like say, Obama’s birth certificate or Congress’ laws retroactively making a grab for the AIG bonuses.

First, no Republicans have the political will to make an issue of it.

Second, if anyone does sue, it will be painted as the actions of a few right-wing wackos.

There are no large Conservative groups to file friend-of-the-court briefs.

Thus the Supreme Court will rule there is no “standing” to sue, and there is no “harm” that can be shown.

Thus any number of blatantly illegal or unconstitutional issues go untouched.

For example, the Supreme Court lacks the political will to overturn a national election, so even if Obama’s birth certificate plainly says “Indonesia” it would never see the light of day.

This was first posited as a query as to what would happen if Schwarzenegger, ran for and was elected President – he’d serve.

SCOTUS would never risk overturning the results of a valid Presidential election.

To bring this full circle, neither ACORN nor Code Pink nor any other liberal group will ever lose their tax exemption; the press would paint anyone who tried to bring the case as a heartless partisan attacking a group that just wanted to “do good” and thus no one possesses the political will to even try.

http://www.acornvtnh.org/donations/online.htm
So, I’m assuming ACORN is not non-profit. Because ACCORN’s site did not give the Federal non-profit identification?

An excerpt from Adam Serwer’s article Oct. 31st 2008

ACORN’s Internal Problems

While ACORN has previously been in Republican crosshairs, Obama’s connections to the group have made it even more of a lightning rod. Neither camp has been entirely honest in making its case. In the last presidential debate, Obama maintained that his only connection to ACORN was that he represented the organization as a lawyer in a court case alongside the Justice Department. In fact, the Obama campaign paid ACORN affiliate Citizen’s Services, Inc. $800,000 for get-out-the-vote efforts during the 2008 primary but not for registration, as conservatives have claimed. In addition, Obama’s 1992 involvement with Project Vote occurred before the group came under the auspices of ACORN in 1994, according to Project Vote spokesperson Sarah Massey.

Nevertheless, ACORN is in many ways a troubled organization. Dale Rathke, the brother of the organization’s founder, embezzled nearly $1 million dollars from ACORN between 1999 and 2000. The organization later tried to conceal the embezzlement from its donors. In addition, concerns of impropriety have risen over ACORN’s stewardship of Project Vote, which is a federally tax exempt nonprofit and must be nonpartisan. The New York Times reported last week that the board of Project Vote was staffed entirely by members of ACORN, which is a nonprofit but is not tax exempt and therefore not subject to the same restrictions on political activity. ACORN also owes back taxes to several states and the IRS.

Recently the group overstated the number of new voters it has registered. ACORN first reported that it had registered 1.3 million new voters, but the exact number of new voters seems to have been 450,000, with close to 30 percent of the forms filed turning out to be faulty in some way, with many either being incomplete, duplicates, or having false names. As for the argument that ACORN is trying to swing the election through fraudulent forms, Brian Kettenring argues the organization is in fact, being victimized by employees who are being paid for not actually doing any work.

“The submission of bogus voter registrations is really workers ripping off their employer. … Registration fraud doesn’t lead to [fraudulent] votes, so if one were trying to impact the outcome of the election, that would be an ineffective way to go about it.”

An example is the RED CROSS. When I heard after 9/11 to send donations to them, I was like don’t do it. Then RED CROSS tried to keep millions, but since it had major media attention, they handed it over. Saw a small grass roots garage charity center, grow into a gigantic company after a disaster once. The victims got little. The fed govt aided them in their extravaganza and disbursements.

I checked one of these links and couldn’t find any of Obama’s grass root organizations in Federal or charities.

Explains Acorn, Myobama, etc. they have to have an EIN (federal ID number):

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/.....50,00.html

http://www.usa.gov/Business/Business_Gateway.shtml

CORRECTION? ACORN is non-profit? This article says they may have given money to support Obama. Either way the guidelines the IRS gives is they have to have registered numbers, be transparent, show their income, outcome, how every penny was spent. If they fix a hole in the wall, (cause alot of non-profits really like to milk. And I’ve found in the past, pretty easy to check on a church or non-profit organzation like a church. Usually they have audit, IRS records and stuff. I know My.Obama that Sweetness-Light showed they weren’t non-profit, and gave to different agencies that paid for their organizations. But, where’s the registration numbers, etc. profit or non-profit. I think Obama is a blowing a smokescreen.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi.....ed_cha.php

http://www.usa.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml

This talks about transparency do to the Transparency Act of 2006 by Bush. So, much for Obama hiding billions of dollars from everyone in the country.
http://www.usaspending.gov/

I suppose the irony escapes them ..