Health hazard: ACORN mob strikes
Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
They’re baaaaack. The housing entitlement mobsters of ACORN menaced a Sacramento foreclosure auction event today — and helped send an auctioneer to the hospital with chest pains. Homeland security alert, Ja-No? Left-wing extremism is on the rise:
A large crowd of protesters disrupted several foreclosure auctions today on the Sacramento County Courthouse steps, winning temporary cancellation of one Sacramento foreclosure and sending an auctioneer to the hospital with chest pains.
Bidders on the homes, all declining to provide their names, called the ACORN protest the first major disruption of an established auction schedule that plays out every weekday at the courthouse following 37,000 foreclosures in the capital region since Jan. 2007…
…As the first auction was to begin at 9:30 a.m. on the Sacramento County Courthouse steps, Los Angeles ACORN member Kathleen Thompson-Boons asked an unidentified auctioneer with LPS Financial Services of Sacramento “to stop the auction.”
When the auctioneer resumed seeking bids from nine potential bidders, Thompson-Boons asked again, prompting the auctioneer to say, “If you’re not going to bid, then go away.”
Seconds later, protesters surrounded the group, chanting, blowing whistles and creating a commotion that made it impossible to hear. The auctioneer, who had a pacemaker according to associates, began to collapse and was later taken to a local hospital.
The protest continued for about 90 minutes. ACORN members left after cheering a concession by LPS Financial Services to cancel a specific requested foreclosure auction for one Sacramento family. Minutes later, as the group left, the auctions resumed as scheduled.
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So, threats and actual physical harm on the courthouse steps…Way to go…Ahnold what happened to your testicular orbs ?
This is just the beginning. It won’t be long before they move to using violence to stop such auctions and other related actions. They need to be stopped NOW (but of course, we know that will never happen)
Where’s rico when you really need him ?
( R.I.C.O. ) that is…
If the auctioneer dies, it’s Murder 2 at least…
Yeah right. like *that* would ever happen. The ACORN freaks will throw a party to celebrate the death if it were to happen.
And where the heck were the coppers ? Checking bathhouses for unlicensed weapons ?
Where’s Sgt. Friday when we REALLY need him ?
Democrap thugs gone wild (again). Violence is their MO.
ACORN counting heads for in accurate census near you.
Why is it always the libs with the hyphenated last names?
More aliases ?
So where’s Janet Napolitano when you really need her???
Actually, no murder charge could come of it, I know, but they said on CSI…
As repugnant as these thugs are, they would have to have an intent, something not even the longest stretch could articulate.
Best you could get is disturbing the peace, maybe trespass or malicious mischief (section 602 of the California PC if it’s not been changed since I left- a rather unique section of the California penal code)
So yeah, thugs and goons all, but let’s not be melodramatic.
Isn’t ACORN supposed to be out counting something?
Ummm…A large crowd surrounding you yelling and screaming at you is not an overt threat ? When you have nowhere to run and the cops are mysteriously absent…
Oh, and acting on the orders of the Court ?
Sounds like extortion, and kidnapping…Both Felonies and any death during the course of… Felony Murder. Unless Cali does not recognize that either ?
Tell that to the folks killed after OJ I…
So they held off auctioning one property for one ACORN member? They’ll just auction it off tomorrow instead.
I guarantee they will out-count everyone when it comes to the Census.
Probably auctioned it an hour later that day. Hopefully to an NRA member.
This is a serious issue here. I would think that the auctioneer who had the pacemaker should file a civil lawsuit if no charges are pressed against the hyphenated one and who gang.
And to think our tax dollars go to these thugs.
Unbelievable, and no one can do anything about it.
Not exactly sure who’s their daddy??
Well it is Kalifornia where the fruitcakes roam and PC rules. Perhaps President Obama will have Justice look into it?
Of course there is always personnel revenge-only as a last resort.
Did anyone call the police?
Isn’t that what the police are for?
Did the police arrived?
Did they do anything to protect the rights of the auctioners?
Do leftist radicals have carte blanche freed reign to hurt others and stifle their freedoms and liberties, no questions asked?
Appears to be the case.
Can anyone say “Anarchy?”
William
“Fascism in this country will come from the left while everybody is looking for it on the right.”
Can’t remember who that quote was attributed to (Huey Long maybe?), but it is certainly ringing true.
These ACORN zealots are out of control. If you can’t make the payments on your house, then you either a)lose the house b)refinance if you’re not a total deadbeat, c) don’t buy a house. I guess these common principles have gone over the heads of these people.
No, let’s never suffer hardship America, living lives overleveraged in homes that you could never afford in the first place. Yes, there are fraudulent mortgage brokers like there are homeowners. They are both feeling the pain of what happens when a housing bubble collapses. Eighth bubble to be exact.
As a renter, I’m living in a former HUD forclosure bought as a real estate “investment” by a Navy couple who now own the home. It’s a money pit. It’s got so many problems I wouldn’t know where to start. A lot of these foreclosed homes are left in such a state I wonder why anybody would buy them after they’re trashed by their irresponsible former owners.
This isn’t to say that all homeowners who go into foreclosure or are facing it haven’t done everything they could to live within their means and refinance. It’s the other segment of America, the entitlement class, who don’t really investigate what it takes to own a home and what is involved in homeownership that I have the biggest problem with.
Oh come on, I thought The One said he’d hold off the pitchfork-wielding mob so long as we did what we were told.
At least Mussolini could keep the peace while he annihilated Italy and destroyed freedom. I guess they don’t make irrational power-lusters like they used to.
You gotta love those weenie folks at the auction company who caved in to ACORN!! Nothing like that sort of encouragement to ensure that there will be more and larger disruptions!
Does this not qualify as a hate crime under the Hate Crime Prevention Act, HR1913? Under this law, all the victim has to do is preceive a threat to him or herself.
Not to split hairs, but no one ever needs her.
The trains ran on time they used to say.
Not totally off topic, someone today tried to tell me that GM’s problems were due to Bush, because “they couldn’t sell cars in Japan, but Bush let other people sell cars here.” There are lots of ignorant people out there…ACORN has millions to choose from.
They’re safe in a jar on the Democratic night-stand.
They’re safe in a jar on
the DemocraticMaria’s night-stand.Kind of the same, really…
So now they need to bring in ACORN thugs from out of town.
Clearly, there were plenty of auctions in LA yesterday, and these people were in Sacramento because they recognize they are failing.
As for the poor auctioneer, if I were him I would sue ACORN! We know they just received a lot of crisp government cash!
A modest, but very important, correction:
And more reason for future Tea Parties!
And my Beloved Arizona gave America both Janet Napolitano and John McCain
WHAT DID WE DO?
reckless endangerment? felony charges? what do the lawyers here have to say?
13-28, fascism is a leftist ideology. The left has wants to promote state rights, collectivism, “equality”. The right promotes rights of the individual. I wish we would get rid of these confusing terms and clarify one’s political leanings as being a statist, or an individualist.
True-but I am at the point of Enemy and Ally with no middle ground. I do not plan to go quietly into the nightmare of the New World Order.
The headline should have read:
“ACORN member Kathleen Thompson-Boons was arrested and charged with inciting a riot.”
Where were the anti-riot police with pepper spray?
The Sacbee reported nothing on this story so far and it is only in the Modesto Bee. I guess there was no Prop 8 angle to the story so they decided not to cover it.
Expect more of Obama’s bownshirt outburst as the National Service Act takes affect
Looks like these Acorn Terrorists learned the lessons Adolph Obama Taught them.
Nazi Brownshirt Tactics are coming to America.
They really should hold the auctions on the 1st day of the month while the ACORN mob are waiting at their mailboxes for their welfare checks.
True, but the victim has to either be black or gay. White guys don’t qualify for hate crime status.
So much for the rule of law.
If anyone doubts that ACORN is nothing more than organized crime with an air freshener hanging on it, they would be delusional. ACORN is among those groups that are “The New Mafia”. While no of Sicilian origin, their methods are essentially the same, just without weapons.
going galt is looking better and better. let these communists try to fund their oppression with the taxes of the poor.
I can (in a stretch, after all this is California) understand the lack of police coverage. But this was on the courthouse steps, being supervised by a court. Where were the court security guards? At least the guys running the metal detector could have called for backup or something.
That auctioneer should sue ACORN and the County. One of the primary purposes of State and Local taxes is to “Serve and Protect” the citizens.
Nope. Most ACORN folks just honestly don’t know who their Daddies are. It’s a Ghetto thing, Bro!
*Without the weapons? We don’t know that.
*Organized Crime, We know that now, don’t we.
*Taxpayer supported as well, We know that.
*Reverse Discrimination by Activists is the New Racism.
*All registered Democrats, in multiple precincts, We know that.
*They are not subject to the Law, They are Entitled.
Qusetions?
Shelly Orio
orios@saccounty.net
Above =s the media contact for Sacramento County district attorney. I’m not media but I sent an email to her anyway referencing the Sacramento Bee article that MM is using. I asked her if there have been any arrests yet. Maybe we should all contact someone in the Sac County offices to ask….
It makes it sound fancy.
Gee, where’s that liberal compassion?
STARVE THE BEAST
Refuse to be eaten!!!
Ummm, actually if you look at it these days, it is to uphold and defend the “Law” originally being the Constitution. That minor detail having been perverted, the Law Enforcement officials do not technically have any responsibility to protect citizens but only the law. That is how they have gotten away with this madness for so long … simply amazing what can be done with a little play on semantics.
I’m a staunchly conservative black American. My grandfather on my father’s side came over from Jamaica early in the last century. My grandmother on my mother’s side was the granddaughter of a slave. I was taught by both sides of the family to love the USA, work hard, and be the best I can be.
My father was a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars and served with distinction in both. Currently, I’m on my 20th year as an AF Reserve officer. I’m a Christian first, and because of that, often called “conservative” (my politics put me to the right of Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas).
I say all that to say, can we dispense with the assumption that everything untoward in this administration and it’s supporters has to do with black folks? Last time I checked, ACORN had plenty of white folks in it, and where I live, in ultra-Liberal WA state, the most likely persons to have hyphenated last names are decidedly lacking in melanin; in fact, I don’t know of any black folks, personally, with a hyphenated last name.
Then, there was some crack earlier in the “Swagga” about Obama not letting them “smoke their crack” with nary a qualification about who “they” were, if they were a subset of some one group or all of them. The implication was that it was all black people.
I don’t walk with a “swagga” and at 42, I’ve never worn my pants sagging, nor have I permitted my kids, particularly my son (who just graduated from USMC Recruiting Depot San Diego last week as a PFC) to walk with a “swagga”.
Getting to my point, it’s getting tiresome trying to tell the liberals I know that conservatives are not the racists, that in fact, LIBERALS are, when I constantly run into totally overbroad characterizations about black folks from the conservative camp. Yes, I’m aware of the pathologies that are inherent in American black subculture that are totally ruinous and I’m THE guy in my circles talking about it the most, but I also have the good sense to not make blanket statements that imply that everyone of ANY color is exactly the same as the next person of the same color. When you talk like that, it plays right into the stereotype of the white, secret racist that fills the ranks of the “conservative movement” where black folks like me play “Uncle Tom.”
NEWSFLASH: We don’t all look alike and we don’t all act alike.
Thank you, sir. That needed saying.
Thank you and your family, also, for your service. Please be so kind as to pass that along to your freshly minted Devil Dog.
You have my admiration…not for anything external, but your choices and character.
Alan Keyes
J. C. Watts
Major O
three men I would vote for instantly with no second thought!
Major, you’ve impressed me sir! Thank you for your service to this country!
Amen Major O!
I don’t like seeing comments like that here either.
Maybe it’s Janeane Garafalo trying to ferret us racist right wingers out? lol
As for the article above… one more reason I’m buying a guy by year’s end. If the cops can’t protect me and the law doesn’t cover me, I’ll handle it myself.
oops. lol
that should be gun.