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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on February 21, 2009, 11:03:40 AM
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Some community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore.
Police were at the home Thursday night looking for fingerprints and other evidence.
The activists who staged the break-in belong to the Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now or ACORN.
After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters "this is our house now."
... ACORN says that they will move Donna Hanks back in despite the fact that she no longer owns the house. During the taping of this story a man by the name of William Lane told ABC2 News that he owns the house currently--and plans to sue Acorn.
link (http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story/Acorn-Breaks-into-Home/9SzMKGCA6E6YqJ9cSAZmKw.cspx?rss=702)
...Donna Hanks' story is all about what went wrong in the housing boom - and a roadmap of how we got to where we are today. In 2001, Hanks sold her longtime house on Clinton Street and bought this row house flanking Patterson Park, for 87-thousand dollars -- cash. By March 2008, she had lost the house to foreclosure. Last fall, Hanks was evicted. Since then, the 56-year-old has lived in four different rentals.
Yesterday, ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, cut the lock on the South Ellwood Street property. Hanks stepped into the house for the first time since September 29th. ACORN officials say she'll live there after the house is made livable. It's ACORN's way to press for an immediate moratorium on foreclosures until the President's plan can get going, says community organizer Joseph Cox.
"The context for today is that we're still calling attention to all the people this plan is too late to help and also call attention to those folks whose houses are going up for auction today and tomorrow and next week and the week after, who are going to be too late to benefit from that plan."
Hanks, who works in hotel catering, refinanced the house several times since buying it to pay for renovations. She also had to pay medical bills, because she is uninsured. The last time around, in 2005, she responded to a flyer in the mail, and got a loan of nearly 250-thousand dollars. Wells Fargo, she says, subsequently bought the loan.
"When it came to a problem with work schedule, in the winter season dropped down for two months, I had to try to make an understanding with Wells Fargo, that that was the problem why I couldn't keep up the payments, and they didn't want to hear it. They wanted their money ASAP, regardless of what was going on."
In hindsight, she concedes, the loan was too much. But at the time, she figured the lender knew the numbers.
"To look back at it now, the house was not worth the amount of money that was given, but I took it upon that that was the going thing."
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link (http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wypr/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1472193§ionID=1)
Welcome to Zimbabwe.
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Feeling a little emboldened, aren't they?
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Welcome to Zimbabwe Obamaland.
Fixxed
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Oh my Lord. This woman paid cash for a home then mortgaged it to the gills .... and then some, and ACORN feels she has a right to be put back in the home?
They better find a better poster child or they are all going to be doing hard time. Hard to gin up support and sympathy for someone like this.
KC
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Hanks, who works in hotel catering, refinanced the house several times since buying it to pay for renovations. She also had to pay medical bills, because she is uninsured.
I guess they have changed the meaning of renovations to mean stupid crapola she didn't need but wanted. Oh, and they had to add in the slam that she is uninsured. Why didn't she take some of the cash and buy health insurance?
I would love to see the receipts for her home renovations and medical bills. I bet they don't even come close to the amounts that she borrowed and squandered.
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sHE WAS LATE GETTING STARTED. She should have been a "filpper" annually thru the Clinton years, using the cash equity from sale after sale (annually, only, of course) so by the "bust" she would have owned a much bigger home outright. Someone ALWAYS gets caught out when the "boom" goes "bust", so you sgould have enough CASH to last a couple or three years, and get going when the demand re-opens.
Clearly, even on her single "flip" she had enough to survive, but "cashed out" insted. She's got no beef with anyone but HERSELF.
ACORN, infested with felons, isn't it?
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Calling Al Sharpton in
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As of last week, this is OUR tax dollars at work.
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ACORN is one nut that needs to be crushed and soon.
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I hope they try this here in Texas... :evillaugh:
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I hope they try this here in Texas... :evillaugh:
Mike, don't hold that much hope in Texas. It's gone downhill over the last three decades. SEVERELY downhill. Too many liberals from other states have moved into Texas and it's not the bastion of the Republic it used to be. I could tell some stories that I've personally experienced recently. I cut to the chase, the State of Texas is as greedy as any other LIBERAL state and they use the SAME tactics. I can safely say that the Texas I knew is no longer.
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Mike, don't hold that much hope in Texas. It's gone downhill over the last three decades. SEVERELY downhill. Too many liberals from other states have moved into Texas and it's not the bastion of the Republic it used to be. I could tell some stories that I've personally experienced recently. I cut to the chase, the State of Texas is as greedy as any other LIBERAL state and they use the SAME tactics. I can safely say that the Texas I knew is no longer.
Virginia used to be a decent place to live, but after 2 back to back Dimass :loser: governors (one of them is now senator), I don't hold much hope for us.
All of these morons were voted in by morons moving into the northern and eastern shore areas from liberal yankee states....
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See the brains behind Acorn .... http://www.foxbusiness.com/video-search/m/21910345/non-profit-pickets-for-foreclosure-victims.htm#q=OR+ACORN+OR+%22Association+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now%22
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Oh my Lord. This woman paid cash for a home then mortgaged it to the gills .... and then some, and ACORN feels she has a right to be put back in the home?
They better find a better poster child or they are all going to be doing hard time. Hard to gin up support and sympathy for someone like this.
KC
you're overlooking a key factor her. She's part of a protected victim group - two actually - being both black and a woman. Had she been responsible and lived within her means - she'd still have the house. But she was obviously expecting the value of the house to shoot up - was prolly planning to flip the house - and that bit her in the ass and now . . . . the guy who bought the house is evil??? Please president!
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See the brains behind Acorn .... http://www.foxbusiness.com/video-search/m/21910345/non-profit-pickets-for-foreclosure-victims.htm#q=OR+ACORN+OR+%22Association+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now%22
the home owners??? They don't own the home! They have mortgages!! The BANK owns the home! Dumbasses!
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the home owners??? They don't own the home! They have mortgages!! The BANK owns the home! Dumbasses!
But but they are paying the bills* they have a right.
* The bills mentioned may have no connection to the house whatsoever. :mental:
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See the brains behind Acorn .... http://www.foxbusiness.com/video-search/m/21910345/non-profit-pickets-for-foreclosure-victims.htm#q=OR+ACORN+OR+%22Association+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now%22
Not a lot of "mental" in the "fundamental" movement....
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But but they are paying the bills* they have a right.
* The bills mentioned may have no connection to the house whatsoever. :mental:
apparently they think being 6 months late paying = paying the bills. :rotf:
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Somebody's been busted.
Arrest Made in Home Foreclosure Civil Disobedience Program
Monday, February 23, 2009
By Joshua Rhett Miller
Print Police in Baltimore today made what is believed to be the first arrest in a civil disobedience program aimed at supporting homeowners who refuse to vacate their foreclosed homes.
An activist with ACORN — the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now — faces criminal charges after breaking into a home in southeast Baltimore on Thursday to protest the foreclosure crisis sweeping the country.
"This is our house now," ACORN member Louis Beverly reportedly said after cutting a lock with bolt cutters at the home.
Beverly will be charged with fourth-degree burglary, according to Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Baltimore Police. Attempts to reach his attorney, Justin Brown, were not immediately successful.
Donna Hanks, who owned the home since 2001, lost it in September when she couldn't make her $1,995 mortgage payments. It was not immediately clear whether Hanks re-entered her home last week, but she was not expected to be arrested, Guglielmi said.
Other police departments contacted by FOXNews.com said arrests would be made if an individual is determined to be residing at a foreclosed home illegally.
The link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,498669,00.html
Probably a "sacrificial lamb" for the critics.
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Hanks, who works in hotel catering, refinanced the house several times since buying it to pay for renovations. She also had to pay medical bills, because she is uninsured. The last time around, in 2005, she responded to a flyer in the mail, and got a loan of nearly 250-thousand dollars. Wells Fargo, she says, subsequently bought the loan.
"When it came to a problem with work schedule, in the winter season dropped down for two months, I had to try to make an understanding with Wells Fargo, that that was the problem why I couldn't keep up the payments, and they didn't want to hear it. They wanted their money ASAP, regardless of what was going on."
Ok, so tell me, is the row house actually worth that much??? DUMMY :hammer:
Ummm, NO SHIT???
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911 operator: What is the nature of your emergency?
Caller: I just shot a bunch of ACORNS.
911 operator: Sir. That is not an emergency.
Caller: Well not anymore maybe but......
911 operator: Sir. You need to get off this line or I'll report you to the police.
Caller: I've already called the police.
911 operator: And what did the police tell you to do?
Caller: The police told me to call the garbage department, yard waste unit.
911 operator: And did you call them sir?
Caller: Yes.....but they don't pick up trash again until Friday.
911 operator: Well sir. I guess you'll just have to wait until Friday then.
Caller: I can't wait until Friday.
911 operator: And why not sir?
Caller: Because they'll be stinking to high heaven by then.
911 operator: Sir. ACORN's don't stink.
Caller: Well, these do.
911 operator: Well sir I guess you'll just have to put up with the smell until Friday. Just put them out by the sidewalk where the sanitation dept, yard waste division can get to them.
Caller: ...uh....uh....well that's why the police told me you would be the ones to call about getting them off my front porch.
911 operator: Sir, the ACORN's are on your front porch?
Caller: That's what I been trying to tell you all the time.
911 operator: Sir. What were you doing shooting ACORN's on your front porch?
Caller: They were trying to break into my house.
911 operator: Sir. ACORNS don't try to break into homes.
Caller: Like hell they don't.....but I dropped 'em in there tracks.
911 operator: Well sir just roll them out by the street and wait until Friday.
Caller: OK then. ....but that big fat one is going to be trouble. She must wiegh 400 pounds if an ounce. I might have to drag her out to the street with my pickup truck.
911 operator: Sir. ACORN's aren't big and they don't come in sexes. They are seeds. You plant them in the ground and.......
Caller: Yeah, yeah, yeah....I know that. But I don't want to plant anymore here......I'm running out of room to plant 'em.
911 operator: Sir. Maybe I should call the men in white coats for you?
Caller: I don't care who you call as long as they'll get them ACORN's off my front porch.......you think they can be here before Friday.
911 operator: Sir. They are on there way now. They should be there in just a few minutes.
Caller: Thank you Ma'am. You've been very helpful. I'll go make sure they've all quit twitching.....bye now.
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http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/23/document-drop-the-truth-about-acorns-foreclosure-poster-child/
Here is what the MSM won’t be telling you about the so-called “victim†in that case, ACORN worker Donna Hanks — all based on public records and court documents.
According to real property data search information, Hanks bought the two-story home in the summer of 2001 for $87,000. At some point in the next five years, she re-financed the original home loan for $270,000.
Question: Where did all that money go?
The house initially went into foreclosure proceedings in the spring of 2006. In July 2006, Hanks filed for bankruptcy and agreed to a Chapter 13 plan which was served to the following creditors: Americas Servicing Co, Bank Of America, Chase, Covahey, Boozer, Devan & Dore, and Discover. She agreed to repay $10,500 in arrears, which resulted in a halt to the 2006 foreclosure.
Michelle even has the documents. :) Go Michelle :)
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Caller: Thank you Ma'am. You've been very helpful. I'll go make sure they've all quit twitching.....bye now.
H5! I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there!