Liberalism: it will set you free!

Wow, the liberals in charge of Occupy really don’t want to be associated with ACORN. You’d almost think ACORN was polling negatively or something:

Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York — operating as New York Communities for Change — have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers to blame disgruntled ex-employees for leaking information in an effort to explain away a FoxNews.com report last week on the group’s involvement in Occupy Wall Street protests, according to sources.

That FoxNews.com report “on the group’s involvement” apparently included allegations that they were paying protesters to protest. Kind of a funny exchange about that halfway through the story.

But. As embarrassing and politically damaging as that may be, it’s not like it’s illegal. Is it? It hardly seems worth all of this:

NYCC is also monitoring its staff’s behavior, cracking down on phone use and socialization. Officials have ordered all papers — even scraps — to be shredded every night, the source said.

“And all the supplies—everything around the office that said ‘ACORN’ — is now all in storage until this blows over,” the source said. “People literally have to cover up the cameras on the back of their cellphones in the office.”

“Now there’s no texting in the office, no phone calls in the office. They tell us to take our phone calls out into the waiting room where there’s an intercom, and then they turn on the intercom to hear our conversations. They’re installing new cameras and speakers around the building so they can hear everything.

“It’s almost like working at Fort Knox.”

Working at Fort Knox? Or working for Big Brother? And they call us wannabe dictators.

Liberalism: it will set you free!

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