I'm no expert on ACORN, but having read this article about its 40-year history, it seems silly to me to criticize a decentralized, grassroots organization with 400,000 members in 40 states and 100 cities run by honest-to-goodness poor people for the bizarre advice allegedly given by one ACORN employee in a hidden-camera sting operation.
In advocating investigations, blah-blah-blah, against ACORN nationwide for the actions, apparently, by one ACORN adivser, conservatives are employing the same logic that they have repeatedly rejected when right-wing extremists committed acts of violence like Oklahoma City, and liberals called for regulating militant militias or banning guns. Or when conservative Republican preachers have called for U.S. holy war against Muslims, or blamed gays for Katrina, or take your pick.
When it comes to their side, conservatives are quick to point out that a few bad apples don't spoil the bunch. But when it comes to the other side, it's a different story.
By David Morris
September 23, 2009 | AlterNet
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