"Sowing the seeds of destruction" ACORN's shady tactics made headlines last week. But their shocking radicalism is nothing new.
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS and TIM PERONE
"Just how nutty is ACORN? Very, say longtime watchers of the extreme leftwing group that sprouted out of a radical 60s anti-government movement.
For decades ACORN has presented itself as a grassroots network dedicated to improving the lives of the poor.
But there's more to ACORN than its do-gooder veneer.
Just ask the banks, corporations and politicians who've been the target of ACORN's shameless shenanigans over the past 40 years.
Here's how the tiny seed of 1960s radicalism blossomed into a well-funded, national organization with political connections reaching all the way to the White House:
"THE BEGINNING
*ACORN is rooted in extreme far-left activism that wants to shut down the US government by overwhelming it with demands for welfare benefits and other forms of assistance.
"They don't like the American system of government, and would love for it to be overthrown," said ACORN expert Matthew Vadum, a senior editor at the conservative Capital Research Center in D.C.
"The whole goal is to transform America into a socialist country, or some form of socialist democracy. This group is dangerous."
*Founder Wade Rathke was a student at Williams College in 1969 and a member of the leftist Students for a New Democracy group when he dropped out to protest the Vietnam War full-time.
*Rathke began working for fiery activist George Wiley, a black radical who started the National Welfare Reform Organization in 1969. NWRO was created to help poor people sign up for more welfare benefits, with the goal of clogging and eventually grinding down US government systems....
Read the rest for a glimpse into the radical group that Obama is sympatico with, and openly invited to help him "transform" America through "change":
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/sowing_the_seeds_of_destruction_rhxjpV4D6z3WEgITKiPxrL/0
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