ACORN’s Unusual Severance Package
September 24, 2009
Acorn has filed a lawsuit (POLITICO has the complaint) on behalf of itself, plus two employees caught on video tape handing out advice on how to avoid paying taxes on a brothel and hush up the employment of underage sex workers. Acorn claims Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams “suffered extreme emotional distress with attendant physical symptoms and injury to their reputations.” I guess Acorn ought to know; the group’s chief, Bertha Lewis, fired the employees and trashed them on the TV talk shows last weekend.
Acorn’s lawsuit seeks $500,000 in damages for each of the employees they fired, plus $1 million for each in punitives, presumably due to the damage to their reputations inflicted by Acorn. Of course, the real goal here is to intimidate the heroic filmmakers, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, along with Andrew Breitbart who publicized the shocking footage, with harassing litigation designed to drain their wallets and publicly slime them.
This is how these corrupt thugs play. Break the rules, screw the taxpayers and sue the good guys. We need a big boot to squash this outfit of lawbreakers.
Let’s go good guys. Don’t back down. Keep up the pressure. More videos. Pictures say a thousand words and no slick trial lawyer can lie their way out of this. I wish taxpayers could sue this outfit.
Has a defense fund been set up yet for O’Keefe, Giles and Breitbart? I’ve got my checkbook ready.
Posted by Dan Pero in the categories: ACORN
One Response to “ACORN’s Unusual Severance Package”
This is the perfect example of the proverb “it just depends on whose ox is getting gored”. ACORN is a corrupt organization which should be dismantled BUT—-,
ACORN’S lawsuit against the Republican “activist” cameraman and his female colleague is just a case of the “chickens coming home to roost” on the shoulder of the “Public Watch Dog crucifying Republicans”. They “scream foul” and often hire an attack dog attorney, to harass, threaten, bully, sue, prosecute and “shake down” investigative reporters and their host media into sacrificing the identity of their sources when some Fat Cat Crook Republican is “caught with his pants down” and winds up on the morning news.
While I detest the frivolous lawsuit industry and the racketeering profession which “owns and operates it” -, unless and until the Republican hierarchy and Big Business ceases “compromising, threatening, suing and subtly bribing” the Public Watchdog media into a compromised, whimpering and impotent silence I’ll have no mercy for their howls of “foul play”.
Only when the Republican hierarchy and their “special interest” Fat Cat constituents lobby for, defend and promote the “public’s right to know” about THEIR “dirty laundry” as well via an effective and operational Federal Shield Law for Investigative Reporters, whistle blowers and the media -, will I have any empathy for Republicans who get their socks sued off for “blowing the whistle” on the Democrats “dirty laundry”.
This ACORN lawsuit against the “Republican operatives” is just a case of “sour grapes” for the “spotlight shy, accountability avoidance Republicans who are all too efficient at subtly “bribing” the media into a compromised “impotence” or silence with trainloads of “special interest” advertising revenue for the network media “public watchdog”.
The Republicans can prove the integrity they espouse by aggressively defending the “public’s right to know —, ALL sides of the story” by supporting an aggressive and effective Federal Shield Law for reporters, the media and whistleblowers. Unless and until they do that they will get no sympathy from me when Acorn or any other Democrat operative sues the Republicans for “blowing the whistle on them”. Currently it’s only a case of “it just depends on whose ox is getting gored”; it has NOTHING to do with “justice” or “fair play” in this case.
Ivan L Fail
Sparta, Missouri