Thou Shalt Not Covet Your Neighbor’s House

02/20/09

I like my neighbor’s house.  It’s a nice two story with four bedrooms, three baths, gourmet kitchen, and it has a pool!  I like it so much I think I will go change the locks and move into it myself.  Sound absurd?  Not if you are ACORN.  They are training people in cities throughout the country how to “peacefully” protest foreclosure by “taking back” foreclosed homes.  Some might cheer and say, “Yea!  Stick it to the evil banker!”  However, they aren’t protesting at the banks.  They are breaking the locks off foreclosed homes, taking possession of the homes, and changing the locks.  These homes don’t belong to them!  Hell, they even don’t even belong to the banks.  As you will see in the video below, this particular house had been sold and the new owners were in the process of renovating the house.  And this is being called a “peaceful protest.”  The ACORN rep interviewed called it trespassing.  I call it breaking and entering.

When you listen to the reporter, you will hear that the house was foreclosed on back in September.  Also, that it was foreclosed because the owner couldn’t make the payment after it went up by $300.  In her words, she tried to get it refinanced but the bank said no.  I’m not an accountant nor am I a banker, but if someone can’t afford an additional $300 they probably couldn’t afford the original payment either.  Not to mention that ACORN was calling this woman’s circumstance an example of predatory lending.  Um… excuse me?

http://wjz.com/local/acorn.foreclosure.2.939119.html (sorry, I wasn’t able to embed the video, only the link)

ACORN has already shown that it can rig elections.  ACORN peddles Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  ACORN has forced banks to make bad mortgage loans.  And now ACORN is training people to steal houses.  And we, the people, are paying them to do it.  Lest we forget, ACORN stands to receive billions from the stimulus bill which contains $1 billion for “community development block grants” and $2 billion for the “provision of emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes.”  Where is the outrage?

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