Tell Eric Holder: Stop your attack on the First Amendment

"Attorney General Holder: Your department’s seizure of two months worth of the Associated Press’ phone records amounts to nothing less than an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment. 

But sadly, this indiscriminate surveillance of journalists is part of a larger pattern within your department to go after whistleblowers without consideration of the vital role a free press plays in our democracy. 

The Associated Press in calling on you to return the records you seized and to destroy any copies you have made. In addition, we call on you to end your dangerous war on whistleblowers."

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

History of ACORN

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities.

From 1970 to its end in 2010, ACORN had grown to more than 175,000 member families, organized in 850 neighborhood chapters in 75 cities across the U.S. and in cities in Canada, the Dominican Republic and Peru.

ACORN's accomplishments include successful campaigns for better housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, job conditions, and more.

ACORN members participated in local meetings and actively worked on campaigns, electing leadership from the neighborhood level up, and paying the organization's core expenses through membership dues and grassroots fundraisers.

ACORN constantly challenged the traditional notions of what a community organization is, and its family of organizations included two radio stations, a voter registration network, a housing corporation, and several publications.

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Editor's 2 cents: Why, that evil organization! And, they were responsible for getting voters registered. The new voters usually voted Democratic! Trouble was...the Republicans couldn't have that. They needed to kill off as many of these voting blocks (blacks?) as possible.