ACORN buster busted:
Alleging a plot to tamper with phones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people Monday, including James O’Keefe, 25, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group’s credibility.
Also arrested were Joseph Basel, Stan Dai and Robert Flanagan, all 24. Flanagan is the son of William Flanagan, who is the acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. All four men were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.
Should have stuck with the video format. Radio has so many complications.
Come down, Icarus…you’re flying too high!
Those nuts at ACORN are going to have a field day with this.
Let ‘em. These modern day Sons of Liberty will be back.
Not to mention the Wee-we Won-one party…
Major, major thread jack here for Virgil:
A cajun dies and is sent straight to hades for partying and chasing women all his life.
Initially, he is put in with the general population. The next day, the Devil is making rounds and comes across the cajun who is not even breaking a sweat. When asked why he is not even uncomfortable, the cajun replys: “Mister devil, dis aint even as bad as a hot spring day in Big Mamou in the springtime.”
So, the Devil puts the cajun in another facility and cranks up the heat with added boilers. After a day, the Devil once again appears and, despite a sheen of sweat on the cajun’s brow, he seems completely comfortable. When asked why, the cajun replies that this is no worse than a hot day on Cow Island in the summer.
Thinking he will outfox the cajun, the Devil resorts to cold. He puts the cajun in a place with no heat and pumps freezing air into it. The next day he shows up, takes one look and asks: Cajun, you have icesicles on your nose and ears, you are shivering from head to foot and yet you have a grin from ear to ear. What is going on? The cajun responds: “Mister Devil, dis can only mean dat the Saints done won the Super Bowl! Geaux Saints!
Good one Boss, much appreciated! I had a long reply with a like joke of my own about the Saints involving the “Big Guy” upstairs which was “disappeared” by the digital gremlins–I’m too tuckered out with keyboard fatigue to re-do–maybe later.
Yes, when you operate outside your realm of expertise you can invariably expect to get your backside handed to you.
Xairboss, that one’s going to a couple of the locals at work tomorrow.
“All four men were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.”
Lord suffering GGEEZZ-us! You could use that to nail most lobbyists and half of Congress if you applied it literally and evenly.
“intent?” We have thought crimes now? PS: BTW, Joe, the defense attny representing the
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group, Eddie Castaing, is one of the best criminal attnys in Louisiana–in the nation in fact, he successfully represented the RNs against charges brought by Louisiana’s Attny Gen. charging them with the Katrina deaths at Memorial Hosp–and a close college friend of mine since we were undergrads at LSU. (even if he refuses to admit it publicly
WEll, to be fair, ‘intent’ is often used. “Intent to commit robbery” “Intent to commit rape” and so on.
Then there are the “hate crimes” and to me those are the real thought crimes.
I should add – and you can throw in most of the current cabinet and tzars.
Are we not all, at times, infatuated with our own self-importance? This unfortunate lad, in light of his recent expoits, should rush straight to the front of the line and say, “I WAS WRONG, MORE ON OPRAH TOMORROW.”
There are so many laws — we are all likely to be criminals at any given moment. And I don’t mean just speeding or the like. Actual go to jail crime.
We don’t know what he was doing, but it is the case that nearly anyone could be charged and convicted of a crime. It just takes a prosecutor who is willing to look and do it.
It will be interesting to compare the number of days between this story breaking and it getting widely covered in the MSM (prediction: 1).
i’ll be interested to find out what really happened in a few days, after the trial by press release portion of the festivities dies down.
Color me skeptical.
This is what I think he was doing. There had been reports that the senators office was overwhelmed with phone calls about the health care bill. So much so, that nobody was getting other than a busy signal when calling. O’Keefe was there with his cell phone videoing the fact that the phones were in working order, but that the office was instructed to not answer. That is all.