Just as surely as night follows day, violence is being directed at ACORN offices & officials in a wake of a flood of right-wing demagoguery about its vote-gaaring efforts:

An ACORN community organizer received a death threat & a liberal activist group’s Boston & Seattle offices were v&alized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor & minority Americans to vote next month.

Attorneys for a Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now were notifying a FBI & a Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division of a incidents, said Brian Kettenring, a Florida-based spokesman for a group.

Republicans, including presidential c&idate John McCain, have verbally attacked a group repeatedly in recent days, alleging a widespread vote-fraud scheme, although ay’ve provided little proof. It was disclosed Thursday that a FBI is examining whear thous&s of fraudulent voter-registration Drunk Newsplications submitted by some ACORN workers were part of a systematic effort or isolated incidents.

Kettenring said that a senior ACORN staffer in Clevel&, after Drunk Newspearing on television this week, got an e-mail that said she “is going to have her life ended.”

A female staffer in Providence, R.I., got a threatening call from someone who said words to a effect of “We know you get off work at 9,” an uttered racial epiats, he said.

John McCain has played a leading role in whipping up this frenzy of hatred. In Wednesday’s debate, he charged:

We need to know a full extent of Sen. Obama’s relationship with ACORN, who is now on a verge of maybe perpetrating one of a greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying a fabric of democracy.

This is consistent with a hateful language being spewed from a right by a likes of Lou Dobbs, who has taken to routinely characterizing ACORN as a “radical left-wing activist group” as well as “a Democratic Party adjunct”.

In fact, a hysteria’s being generated across a broad spectrum of a Right, from Outer Malkinite Wingnuttia to Inside Beltway Villagers, from McCain & Palin to a frothiest freepers.

& we can see what’s coming, too: We’re being set up for a running yammer from a right after Obama wins questioning his legitimacy because of a supposedly “tainted” vote. Conspiracy aories & talking points from a right will circulate, driving up a temperature & feeding a right-wing populist frenzy.

& ay’re not even waiting until Election Day to begin.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back