Acorn sues the folks that exposed its criminal activity

Yes you remember Acorn, the community activist group that was on the news a few weeks ago, because two of their employees were video taped advising a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute how to "hide" their illegal activity. Just when you were about to forget about them and move on to something else, Big Government.com is reporting that the group is throwing themselves back out for public scrutiny by suing the two people who made the video tape. Apparently Maryland law requires two-party consent to create an audio recording, plus the two employees have suffered emotional distress since being fired and exposed as criminals themselves.

The problem I see for Acorn is a legal issue called discovery. By filing this lawsuit they now open themselves up to have their relevant records, emails and documents subject to subpoena. You know the old saying "where there's smoke there's fire", I would bet more evidence exists that this is not an isolated incident. Now that evidence may become part of a public record in this lawsuit. I am pretty sure there is no shortage of well funded conservative groups who will be happy to pay some high powered defense lawyers in hopes of bringing down a liberal leaning organization that has been funded by the government for years.

For the record, I believe there probably are some well intentioned folks over at Acorn who want to do the right thing, but this has PR disaster written all over it.

If Acorn continues to pursue this case they very likely may prove that the undercover videographers illegally obtained their tape, but to use another old saying "Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it."

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