American Brownshirts

The Connecticut Working Families Party last weekend organized a bus tour that made stops in protests outside the homes of AIG executives. Imagine in your job if a busload of nuts picketing right in front of your home was the reality. Many of these executives feared for their lives and rightfully so.

At the same time our liberal controlled Congress passed laws to tax the executives specifically. This is a retroactive tax on economic activity and a violation of the Constitution's Ex Post Facto clause and what is called, Bills of Attainder. (A bill of attainder is an act of the legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Bills of attainder are forbidden by Article I, section 9, clause 3 of the United States.) But it passed anyway. Imagine your pay, approved by contract, was taxed punitively after the fact. It’s a dangerous scenario for us all. You may not like the AIG payouts, but that is a separate issue.

But let us turn our attention to the bus tour and the connections this group has to President Obama. The Washington Times reports that the president wants ACORN to "partner with the Census in counting the number of Americans in the country." In the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the top Republican Party official in that state accused President Obama of "trying to inject politics" into the 2010 count. Remember Obama, was the ACORN legal council for many years. So these groups are active and all over!

Democrats have now given billions of dollars to ACORN by deviously including certain words and phrases in a bill under the guise of, “neighborhood stabilization activities.” The bill provides $4 billion which can be handed out to “states, units of general local government, and nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities.” As has been reported, these nonprofit entities include ACORN. It is outrageous that our taxpayer dollars could flow to such an entity.

The Connecticut Working Families Party is an offshoot of ACORN as well as aligned with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. The following is from the group’s own website:

“Our issues at ct-workingfamilies.org are affordable health care, living wage jobs, and fair taxes. According to the site, the party advocates an Earned Income Tax credit on the Connecticut state taxes and residents paying income taxes by percentage not “disproportionately big businesses and the very wealthy.” Our party’s joint founder Is Joe Dinkin of ACORN (The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).

You think I’ve gone too far in the connection? I guess then history never repeats itself!