The organization that our Community Organizer in Chief used to provide legal representation for is launching an extortion campaign using irresponsible borrowers as their foot soldiers.

On Feb. 19, ACORN members will launch a new tactic in fighting foreclosures: civil disobedience. Participants in the ACORN Home Savers campaign nationwide will simply refuse to move out of foreclosed homes, or in some cases, will move back in. ACORN homesteaders intend to squat in their homes until a comprehensive, federal solution for people facing foreclosure is put in place.

Isn’t it interesting how those who got us into this mess by borrowing irresponsibly are now demanding things. It’s as if home ownership has become a God-given right.

“What else can you do?” asks Louis Beverly, co-chair of the Baltimore ACORN Foreclosure Fighters.

Ummm, how about PAY YOUR DAMN MORTGAGE? How about packing up your sorry, financially-irresposible butts and moving into an apartment until you improve your financial situation to a point where you can RESPONSIBLY borrow the money needed to buy a house YOU CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD?

“We need foreclosures to stop right now. We need a moratorium to allow time to try to get loans modified so they can stay in their homes. And the economic recovery package has to have enough money for them to refinance their homes.”

Some planning the borrowers should’ve thought of BEFORE taking out a loan they couldn’t afford to pay back.

Remember, ACORN’s former legal counsel did say he’d use them to help shape his administration. One promise he’s apparently decided to actually keep.

I guess this is the first step. Home ownership as an entitlement. What’s next, civil disobedience until the federal government installs a swimming pool in your backyard?

Photo courtesy: Michelle Malkin