Basically, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is an organized crime gang, funded and shielded by the U.S. Government.

ACORN was born as the National Welfare Rights Organization(NWRO) in the psychedelic 60's when other radical, leftist organizations crawled out from under their rocks to attack civilization. Many the of drug damaged Hippie youth of that time are US Senators and Representatives, and university professors now.

Organizations such as the Black Panthers, the Weathermen (Obama's mentor Bill Ayers was a member), the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.) of Patty Hearst fame, and many others.

While ACORN has never exhibited the violence of these other radical groups, they have proven to be much more destructive.

They call themselves community organizers. Barack Obama proudly points to his political roots as a community organizer, and he is joined is at the hip with ACORN.

Community organizer; that's an innocuous term and has the connotation of being a positive thing, and in general, it is.

But what is being organized; some good things like housing assistance, child care, assistance to needy families, affordable heath care, etc.; and some bad things like practicing voter fraud, indoctrination of young people and naive, uneducated people into radical left-wing ideology, political corruption, promoting a victim mentality with an accompanying need for revenge and sense of polarization, and fostering a class warfare environment.

Hamas and Hezbollah operate in much the same way; they control and allocate human services provided by others and receive the unearned and misguided appreciation of their clients who are then provided with and readily accept destructive ideological propaganda.

ACORN is responsible for one the most massive voter fraud crimes in history and rather than being investigated by Congress and the Justice Department, they were given billions of dollars of tax payer money in the so-called stimulus plan. Guess who benefits most from ACORN's nefarious activities; not the poor, but the Democratic Party so don't look for any criminal investigations at the national level.

TribLive News:

ACORN is at the center of a scandal involving a $1 million embezzlement by Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke. ACORN discovered the embezzlement in 2000 but did not alert law enforcement officials.

Cleveland Plain Dealer:

Board employees said ACORN workers often handed in the same name on a number of voter registration cards, but showing that person living at different addresses. Other times, cards had the same name listed, but a different date of birth. Still another sign of possible fraud showed a number of people living at an address that turned out to be a restaurant.

WCCO.com:

Instead, Hatch's office and the defendant were able to pick other recipients for two-thirds of the proceeds: the Minnesota chapters of the Legal Aid Society and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN. The state got $250,000 to cover its investigative costs.

CBS News:

Philadelphia's municipal voter registration office has rejected about 3,000 cards submitted by ACORN _ the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now _ since April because of missing information or invalid addresses.

The Seattle Times:

King and Pierce County prosecutors filed felony charges today against seven people who allegedly committed the biggest voter-registration fraud in state history.

And finally, The Rotten Acorn; a listing by state of voter fraud by ACORN.

There's lots and lots more, I could fill pages, but I think maybe you get the picture.