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Van Jones signed a petition sponsored by the conspiratorial 9/11 Truthers.org in 2004 alleging President [[George W. Bush]] and high-level government officials may have been behind 9/11. <ref>http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633</ref><ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/?feat=home_blogs</ref> As his career prospects improved however, he later claimed he did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to sign his name. <ref>http://twitter.com/jaketapper/statuses/3748611519</ref>
 
Van Jones signed a petition sponsored by the conspiratorial 9/11 Truthers.org in 2004 alleging President [[George W. Bush]] and high-level government officials may have been behind 9/11. <ref>http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633</ref><ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/?feat=home_blogs</ref> As his career prospects improved however, he later claimed he did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to sign his name. <ref>http://twitter.com/jaketapper/statuses/3748611519</ref>
  

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Self-proclaimed communist and Obama administration Green Czar Van Jones

Van Jones is a self-proclaimed radical communist activist who served as the Obama administration's Green Czar.[1] He announced his resignation at midnight, September 6, 2009 after a series of controversies over past inflammatory statements. [2]

Jones previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director.[3]

STORM

Jones was a founder and leader[4] of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). The organization had its roots in a group protesting the first Gulf War. The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM's influences as "third-worldist Marxism (and an often vulgar Maoism)."[5][6] In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a left wing anti-Semitic[7] front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party (WWP).

On the night after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks STORM held a vigil in Oakland, California, "mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world." In a document entitled, Reclaiming Revolution: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), Jones is quotesd as saying,

"Anti-Arab hostility is already reaching a fever pitch as pundits and common people alike rush to judgment that an Arab group is responsible for this tragedy," said Van Jones, founder and national executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. "We fear that an atmosphere is being created that will result in official and street violence against Arab men, women and children."

"Reclaiming Revolution" also blamed the U.S. for 9/11. A passage on page 45 (27 of the PDF file) reads:

"That night, STORM and the other movement leaders expressed sadness and anger at the deaths of innocent working class people. We were angry, first and foremost, with the U.S. government, whose worldwide aggression had engendered such hate across the globe that working class people were not safe at home. We honored those who had lost their lives in the attack -- and those who would surely lose their lives in subsequent U.S. attacks overseas. [8]


Community organizing during a riot

Van Jones first moved to San Francisco in the spring of 1992, while studying law at Yale, when the leftist Lawyers Committee for Human Rights hired several organizers to be on hand for the trial of policemen charged with beating Rodney King. Not guilty verdicts in the officer's case resulted in riots which left 55 dead.[9] Although Jones had been working for the communist front organization STORM for one year, Jones and the truthout.org web site put forward a cover story that made it appear Jones experienced a jailhouse conversion to communism. Like another Obama associate, Bernardine Dohrn, Jones is a lawyer, avowed communist, associated with communist front organizations, and arrested in the aftermath of a deadly riot. The truthout.org site gives this biographical information on Jones:

“ I met all these young radical people of color - I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'...I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.... I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.[10] ”

9/11 Truthers

File:Thebobbsietwins.JPG
Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist (left) with Barack Obama (right). Jones was appointed by Obama to head up the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Van Jones signed a petition sponsored by the conspiratorial 9/11 Truthers.org in 2004 alleging President George W. Bush and high-level government officials may have been behind 9/11. [11][12] As his career prospects improved however, he later claimed he did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to sign his name. [13]

Eco-apartheid

“ I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends....Our question is: Will the green wave lift all boats? That's the moral challenge to the people who are the architects of this new, ecologically sound economy. Will we have eco-equity, or will we have eco-apartheid? Right now we have eco-apartheid. ”

Furthert reading

See also

References

  1. ↑ Will a 'red' help blacks go green?, White House appoints 'radical communist' who sees environment as racial issue, WorldNetDaily.com, April 12, 2009.
  2. ↑ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itKcwMMlf6EtyLvYW9VjF2xcVK7gD9AHJII00
  3. ↑ Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founderVan Jones served on board of activist group where ex-Weatherman serves as top director, By Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily, August 13, 2009.
  4. ↑ Revolutionaries in High Places- Van Jones, by adamfreedom March 23, 2009.
  5. ↑ Obama File 72 Obama Appoints "Former" Communist To White House "Green Job", Trevor Louden, April 06, 2009.
  6. ↑ Machete 48
  7. ↑ ANSWER, Antiwar Rallies and Support for Terror Organizations, Anti-Defamation League, August 22, 2006
  8. ↑ Van Jones and His STORMtroopers Denounced America the Night After 9/11, By Matthew Vadum, AmSpecBlog, 8.29.09.
  9. ↑ 12 Years After the Riots, Rodney King Gets Along, J. Emilio Flores, The New York Times, September 19, 2004.
  10. ↑ Eliza Strickland, The New Face of Environmentalism, November 2005.
  11. ↑ http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633
  12. ↑ http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/?feat=home_blogs
  13. ↑ http://twitter.com/jaketapper/statuses/3748611519
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