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You've Been Warned, Canada:

ACORN’s Campaign Against Money Mart May Lead to Violence and Blackmail



image(Special to Canada Free Press) Pressure. Protests. Picketing. This is how it begins. The Canadian branch of the U.S.-based organized crime syndicate ACORN is gearing up to extort Money Mart, a check cashing and payday loan company. In greater Vancouver, British Columbia, ACORN has been leading a shakedown campaign against Money Mart over the supposedly exorbitant fees it charges to transfer money to dangerous, corrupt, politically unstable, kleptocratic Third World hellholes like Somalia and Kenya where people get murdered for a single dollar.

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It's standard operating procedure at the radical activist group ACORN whose anti-capitalist ideology is roughly similar to that of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP). If Money Mart doesn't cough up protection money, ACORN will intensify its actions against the company. (In the U.S., ACORN used to employ President Obama as a community organizer.) ACORN's corruption and brutal, in-your-face tactics prompted investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in the U.S. Congress to accuse ACORN of carrying out "a nationwide strategy of tax fraud, racketeering, money-laundering and manipulating the American electorate." Their report accuses ACORN of evading taxes, sloppy accounting, defrauding donors, defrauding the U.S. government, filing false statements, obstructing justice, and plundering employee pension funds. As I detail in my new book, Subversion Inc: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, here's what ACORN did to another financial services firm in Virginia Beach, Virginia. John Hewitt, CEO of Liberty Tax Service, felt ACORN's wrath when it staged a violent protest against his company in 2005. More than 100 angry ACORN members showed up at Liberty's Virginia Beach headquarters. ACORN accused the company of charging excessive interest rates on the refund anticipation loans it offers to income tax filers. "All of sudden, four bus loads of homeless people pull up in front of our headquarters here in Virginia Beach," Hewitt said. "They came pouring into the building like a Mongolian horde. There was screaming and fighting. One employee was bitten and another was scratched. They both had to go to the emergency room." The demonstrators were arrested and the company filed a legal complaint but withdrew it later because it would have been too expensive to pursue, Hewitt explained. The company agreed to pay an ACORN affiliate $50,000 a year. "To me, it's just to stop them from harassing us," said Hewitt. "Even though I felt dirty by paying them money, I said, you know, it's a business decision." Liberty Tax Service is just one of ACORN's many victims in the United States. ACORN now has offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, and Vancouver. Canada: you've been warned.


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Matthew Vadum,  matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.

His new book Subversion Inc. can be bought at Amazon.com (US), Amazon.ca (Canada)

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