ACORN is filing a lawsuit against Andre Breitbart, James O’Keefe and Hanna Giles for secretly taping the two dirt bags in Baltimore. The two dirt bags are suing for $500,000 each and ACORN is suing for $1 million.
In Baltimore the law states that both parties must consent to being recorded. The Baltimore City State attorney, Patricia Coats Jessamy, is an Obama shill, and will no doubt be on ACORN’s side. This is the only reason I can see why ACORN would risk a lawsuit. The discovery process is not something ACORN should desire, unless of course they have things already rigged in their favor. Time will tell.
From Politico:
ACORN filed suit today in Maryland against conservative filmmakers James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles and conservative Web site Breitbart.com for secretly taping the organization’s employees at its Baltimore office.
In the complaint, ACORN alleges that the filmmakers entered into the organization’s offices in July with a “hidden camera and microphone” and taped employees Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams. Both employees are listed as plaintiffs on the complaint, filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.
The crux of the lawsuit centers around a Maryland law which makes it illegal to tape someone without their consent – ACORN is alleging O’Keefe and Giles did so. ACORN is asking for $500,000 in damages to be awarded to each of the employees filmed by O'Keefe and Giles, and ACORN itself wants $1 million in damages.
Breitbart.com, one of the suit’s defendants, is run by conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, whose Web site BigGovernment.com first posted most of O’Keefe and Giles’ videos. Breitbart has appeared on television with the filmmaking duo, and has a content-sharing relationship with the Drudge Report.
In other ACORN news the IRS is dumping them too. ACORN will no longer be able to help with tax returns. It is stated that ACORN helped out on some 25,000 returns. Well there goes 25,000 tax audits! I wonder if Charlie Rangel and Tim Geithner went to ACORN to have their taxes done?
Via: Memeorandum
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I will pray that acorn LOSES the suit. This has NOTHING do with "recording" laws being broken. This has to do with the simple fact that acorn was CAUGHT and EXPOSED for the liars that they are and what do liars do as usual? They RAIL. Liar spelled backwards is Rail.
That's all fine for the NWO freaks installing cameras on street poles everywhere and them wanting to vaccinate people with RFID chips and never mind the people screaming violation and privacy. But when the same recording tactics are used on the freaks, they make a big circus out of it and cry wolf.
See the hypocrisy. You can't have it both ways. The TRUTH ALWAYS comes out in the end. Tit for tat, butter for fat.
Someone...Glenn? needs to quick, fast, and in a hurry... get a defense fund going for these kids.
cb on bonanzle:
I will pray that acorn LOSES the suit. This has NOTHING do with "recording" laws being broken. This has to do with the simple fact that acorn was CAUGHT and EXPOSED for the liars that they are and what do liars do as usual? They RAIL. Liar spelled backwards is Rail.
I could not have said it better myself!
@eloh:
http://www.2dialog.com/freemarket/main.php/micro_sites/actionpage/id/96
Fast enough for you?
Two notes: ACORN is suing for defamation? Didn't they do that to themselves?
If these two college kids broke the law, shouldn't there be a criminal suit instead of ACORN's civil suit? I'm thinking ACORN's jumped the gun on this one.
ACORN's just sore because it got embarrassed and lost its connection with the Census Bureau, congressional funding, and the IRS.
Euripides:
I think the whole lawsuit is just a cover to make ACORN appear like victims instead of victimizers.
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