In the above video the ACORN outers, Hanna Giles and James O'Keefe, say about potential suits from ACORN, "Bring It On". Well ACORN has brought it on.
Community activist group ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute.
The liberal group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland requires two-party consent to create sound recordings.
This has got to be the dumbest political move since Bill Clinton said, "I did not have sex with that woman."
Glenn Reynolds is pretty sure ACORN is falling into a trap.
Yes, it's almost as if the real point of the videos was to provoke a lawsuit that would open ACORN to the legal intrusions of discovery. And of course, Giles and O'Keefe will get even more publicity, and it shouldn't be hard for them to attract aggressive legal counsel and a hefty litigation fund.
I have heard lots of folks in comments to this story offering to donate to a legal defense fund. It is almost as if ACORN wanted to keep this story alive.
As to keeping the story alive? I was already getting tired of it and hadn't planned to write anything further since the story had served its purpose. It got the Census Bureau to sever ties with ACORN.
H/T Instapundit who thinks as Althouse pointed out, "I'M PRETTY SURE THEY'RE FALLING INTO A TRAP". Yes they are. Click on the Instapundit link for more.
I believe part of the criminal mindset is the conviction that you'll never get caught, or if you do you can brazen your way out of it. Have you noticed how many times criminals are outraged at the cops or journalists that bring them down, as though they somehow cheated?
So ACORN still has some humiliation to go through before the reach the stage where "I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids."
Steve Skubinna · September 24, 2009 1:20 PM
Steve,
The final stage is: "Sure I committed other crimes, but I'm not guilty of that one. An injustice has been done." Heh.
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Don?t bang your head!
I believe part of the criminal mindset is the conviction that you'll never get caught, or if you do you can brazen your way out of it. Have you noticed how many times criminals are outraged at the cops or journalists that bring them down, as though they somehow cheated?
So ACORN still has some humiliation to go through before the reach the stage where "I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids."