LETTER TO THE EDITOR | The outraged were once silent

To the editor:

I have noticed there seems to be a hue and cry from some people about ACORN.

I have decided that there are some people who, no matter what, are going to try and demonize an organization that does what they can to help poor people on a grass-roots level stay in their homes and get registered to vote in our once-great democracy.

Yes, some of these ACORN employees are dishonest and should be fired or prosecuted, but on the whole the organization does some good work.

What I find to be outrageous are the people crying foul, who more often than not are the same people that stood by silently while America was lied to and led into a war. The same people stood by silently while human beings were being brutally tortured in their name. The same people watched a past vice president commit treason by ordering the outing of a covert CIA agent as an act of political revenge. These same people watch Karl Rove, who should be in prison, on television as a news commentator, and continuing the same lies.

Unfortunately, more often than not, these are the same people who have the audacity to speak out in the name of “family values issues.”

As a thinking human being, the “values” that are espoused by some of these people scare me to death. Silence in the face of these kinds of “values” is the voice of complicity.

Dan Freeman

Clinton