Amy, ACORN & American Airlines

[Submitted by Amy Gifford]


The difference between American Airlines and ACORN is this: AA has not been accused repeatedly across the country of committing crimes (i.e. fraud, etc.) whereas ACORN has.

On the one hand it can be said that the crimes committed by the nine AA employees are isolated to this particular incident because no other incidents or criminal activity by AA has surfaced or been alleged. On the other, ACORN, based on the fact that it is being investigated and/or has been indicted in nearly half of the United States, appears to be a criminal enterprise.

Whereas the nine employees at AA were working in collusion to the furtherance of the crime, the ACORN employees on video were in different offices, in different states and were most likely not working together to commit these crimes. This means that either:

(i) the undercover journalists got lucky to get the "few bad apples" on tape;

-or-

(ii) the behavior on the videos is indicative of how A LOT of ACORN employees will behave in such circumstances. One wonders if that means that is how the ACORN employees are trained.

I think AA should sue Sheldon Whitehouse for cause for libel by publicly comparing it to a criminal enterprise such as ACORN.