I’ve been reading today (and watching the actual videos) about the scandalous practices coming out of ACORN. ACORN was a program I strongly believed in and, when I lived in New York, one of the very few programs I made regular donations to because i very much believed in its stated goals and aims, the grassroots way of empowering the disadvantaged. Now I’m in shock. I want my money back. I want these people to go to jail.

Here’s the deal. Two young amateur journalists posed as a pimp and prostitute wanting to set up a brothel. They went to ACORN branches across the country and there, despite clearly stating what they were trying to do, got all kinds of “good” advice on how to set up the brothel without the government being aware of it, how to claim they were earning only 9,600 a year if in fact they were earning 96,000, how to hide the brothel’s true nature, how to smuggle illegal aliens across the border to work in the brothel and more.

But it is worse and this is why I say those workers who gave this advice need to be cooling their jets in jail: They knew and did not care that the “prostitutes” were to be CHILDREN. That’s right. They did not care that little 13-15 year old girls were going to be smuggled into the country and forced to work as prostitutes. One of them even gave advice on how they could claim child tax credits –but for no more than 3 of the children because claiming 4 would send alarm bells to the government. They were told to hide the fact that the children were earning any money at all, from turning tricks or otherwise. One worker advised that they needed to maintain tight control over the children to make sure they didn’t talk.

This is so beyond immorality that I can’t even wrap my mind around it. That you’d end up with just one counselor doing such a thing would be shocking in the extreme but so far at five different branches across the country they got helpful advice on how to harm children and make a good buck off it all at the tax payer’s expense.