Congress’ swift reaction to the ACORN controversy could wind up having widespread consequences for the military industrial complex. Legislation adopted to strip ACORN of its federal funding was so broadly written that it could apply to any government contractor charged with fraud, breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, or campaign finance laws. That could mean defense giants like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon and many more military contractors could be subject to the same kind of sanctions levied against ACORN, which was caught on video giving advice to conservative activists posing as a pimp and a prostitute.

One of those activists, James O’Keefe, has made it clear that he and Hannah Giles were on a mission to discredit the non-profit organization, which was a visible supporter of Barack Obama during last year’s election campaign. On the blog Big Government, O’Keefe wrote that ACORN behaves in “a revolutionary, socialistic, atheistic world, where all means are justifiable…. It is time for us to be studying and applying their tactics, many of which are ideologically neutral. It is time, as Hannah said as we walked out of the ACORN facility, for conservative activists to “’create chaos for glory.’”
                                                                                                                                                      -Noel Brinkerhoff

Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense Contractors, Others Charged With Fraud (by Ryan Grim, Huffington Post)
Entrapping ACORN (by John Wellington Ennis, Public Record)