At least some of the protesters who looted, rioted, burned
buildings and overturned police cars in Ferguson, Missouri,
last year were promised payment of up to $5,000 per month to
join the protests.
However, when the Missourians Organizing for Reform and
Empowerment (MORE), the successor group to the now-bankrupt
St. Louis branch of ACORN (Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now), stiffed the protesters, they
launched a sit-in protest at the headquarters of MORE and
created a
Twitter page to demand their money,
the Washington Times reports.
Former
U.S. Rep. Allen B. West noted on his
website, "Instead of being thankful for getting off the
unemployment line for a few weeks and having a little fun
protesting, the paid rioters who tore up Ferguson, MO, are
protesting again.
The Kansas City Star estimates that the
Ferguson riots, characterized as a spontaneous eruption of
anger over the shooting of unarmed black criminal Michael
Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, cost the
county $4.2 million.
Millennial Activists United (MAU)
posted a letter on their website stating, "On May 14, 2015
many individuals and organizations of the protest movement
that began in Ferguson, Missouri, organized a sit-in in the
office of Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment
(MORE). The demand was simple: Cut the checks. The
protesters say they are unable to pay their bills after
taking time to travel to Ferguson.
"Questions have been raised as to how the movement is to
sustain when white non-profits are hoarding monies collected
of off (sic) black bodies? When we will (sic) hold the
industry of black suffering accountable? The people of the
community are fed up and the accountability begins here and
now," the letter continues.
"There is an insidious strand of racism and white supremacy
that exists in this movement. This money is typically in the
hands of white people who oversee the types of services that
the non-profit provides, while having select token black
people to spearhead the conversations within and to the
community."
MORE is funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, the
Times notes, through his Open Society Foundations (OSF).
The OSF, the Times states, paid for activists from various
protest groups from to travel to Ferguson and take part in
the demonstrations.
Akiba Solomon of Colorlines stated, "More than 500 of us
have traveled from Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit,
Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Tucson,
Washington, D.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and other
cities to support the people of Ferguson and help turn a
local moment into a national movement," the Times noted.
"There's absolutely no doubt that part of the reason that
Ferguson flared up was because protesters were being paid to
be there. That makes you wonder how many are being paid in
Baltimore? How many more will be paid in the future?"
The Right Scoop asked.
Protesters directed much of their anger against MORE
director Jeff Ordower, former Missouri head of ACORN and
ACORN's Midwest operations,
FrontPage Mag reports.
"The unpaid rent-a-mob operatives complain that MORE stiffed
them the same way ACORN did to hired protesters throughout
its 40 years of radical left-wing rabble-rousing," FrontPage
Mag reports.
© 2015 Newsmax. All rights reserved.