locogringo..It appears that hussein obama's acorn organization is almost worldwide..And here I thought that acorn voter fraud and other despicable stuff was only in the USA.
ACORN 'reaches out' to Western Union
Author says organization seeking chunk of money transfer industry
: August 25, 2011
wnd.com
The radical group ACORN is attacking the $444 billion international remittance industry in the hope of getting its hands on a major chunk of the financial action, says award-winning investigative reporter Matthew Vadum.
Because ACORN, which used to employ Barack Hussein Obama, has had only limited success in tapping into the money transfer industry in America, its operation in Canada has ramped up its campaign, he said.
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"ACORN Canada is employing its usual Saul Alinsky-inspired in-your-face tactics against Wells Fargo and Money Mart," said Vadum, author of the explosive new book "Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers." In addition to Canada, the U.S.-based ACORN also operates in Mexico, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Czech Republic, Kenya, India, and South Korea.
Vadum, senior editor at Capital Research Center, a think tank that studies left-wing advocacy groups and their funders, has compiled the information from nearly three years of research and hundreds of interviews. His book tells the real story about the multinational criminal activist group with longstanding ties to President Obama and the Democratic National Committee.
"ACORN Canada is putting pressure on the two companies in the hope they will hand over mountains of cash to make the group go away," Vadum told WND.
ACORN Canada's president Kay Bisnath complains the fees banks and other companies charge for money transfers are "exorbitant." Ostensibly to help poor people, ACORN is demanding that Western Union charge no more than 5 percent for overseas remittances. ACORN's other target, Money Mart, often hosts Western Union concessions in its branches.
"But ACORN's demand that Canada cap remittance fees is just the group's opening bid," Vadum said. "ACORN would rather take a forced 'grant' from the companies than have a rate cap imposed by law."
ACORN already has recruited Canada's notoriously left-wing media as an ally in its fight. That nation's taxpayer-funded TV network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC), has run several stories promoting ACORN's current campaign.
Canada's largest daily newspaper, the Toronto Star, also is helping ACORN by churning out its political spin, according to Vadum.
In the latest in a series of reports, the Star's immigration reporter, Nicholas Keung, wrote a feature that used Rassel Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant to Canada, as a prop.
When Mohammad uses Western Union's services he "pays a hefty price to help out his two widowed aunts and six school-age cousins in Bangladesh," Keung writes. That "hefty" price is $11 to ensure that $100 makes its way safely to his relatives overseas.
But is 11 percent really too much to pay to transfer funds to Bangladesh, Vadum asks.
He notes that with close to 159 million people packed into an area smaller than Iowa, 40 percent of Bangladesh's population lives below the poverty line. Living in Bangladesh is dangerous. Residents are at high risk of contracting hepatitis A and E, typhoid fever, dengue fever, malaria, and leptospirosis.
A third of the country floods every year during monsoon season. Bangladesh is plagued by political instability, poor infrastructure, corruption, and inadequate power supplies.
"Doing business in such a perilous environment isn't exactly easy or cheap," Vadum said.
"ACORN isn't pushing for a 5 percent cap on remittance service charges to help anybody," Vadum explained. "The real goal is to extort funds from deep-pocketed businesses. ACORN then uses its ill-gotten gains to fund its subversive political activities."
Vadum's book notes that ever since its creation in 1970 the group's goal has been to overthrow capitalism. As its mission statement says, "We will continue our fight … until we have shared the wealth."
Here's just one example from the book of what ACORN did to another financial services firm based in Virginia Beach, Va.
Liberty Tax Service was targeted by ACORN in 2005. More than 100 angry ACORN members showed up at the company's headquarters.
ACORN accused the company of charging excessive interest rates on refund anticipation loans for income tax filers.
"All of sudden, four bus loads of homeless people pull up in front of our headquarters here in Virginia Beach," CEO John Hewitt said.
"They came pouring into the building like a Mongolian horde. There was screaming and fighting. One employee was bitten and another was scratched. They both had to go to the emergency room."
The company agreed to pay ACORN $50,000 a year.
"To me, it's just to stop them from harassing us," said Hewitt. "Even though I felt dirty by paying them money, I said, you know, it's a business decision."
Now that ACORN has offices in Canada's national capital of Ottawa and the major cities of Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver, it's just a matter of time before the group's victims start piling up north of the border, Vadum warns.
Although ACORN, the shell corporation that ran the extensive ACORN network, filed for bankruptcy in U.S. courts last November, the group's state chapters have incorporated themselves separately under assumed names.
ACORN’s largest units, ACORN Housing and Project Vote, continue to operate. ACORN Housing legally changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America. Project Vote continues to operate out of ACORN's old headquarters in Washington, D.C.
ACORN officials openly admit that the new ACORN state-level front groups will re-federate under a new umbrella group in time to help re-elect President Obama next year. |
