MR. JONES AND ME

First thing, Van Jones is irrelevant. He's one of many radical leftist environmental activists from the streets of California. I'm concerned about what he represents. He was appointed Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on the White House Council on Environmental Quality by President Obama. Van Jones offers a window into the twisted liberal world view of Barack Obama. Examining the Jones appointment is important.


In 1992, After the Rodney King verdict Van Jones joined angry black protesters in San Francisco. He was among those briefly arrested and released during the chaotic protests, Jones claimed this event, “deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization.” After years of collaborating with communists and anarchists, Jones followed the path of his future boss Barack Obama. “I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of the radical ends” Jones said during a 2005 interview. Translation, he went mainstream, posing as an enlightened liberal peacefully advocating social justice in minority communities. He was Barack Obama. Harvard educated Obama was radicalized on the Southside of Chicago and Yale educated Van Jones was radicalized on the Bay Area streets after the King protests. In 1995, the newly radicalized urban revolutionary Van Jones started Bay Area PoliceWatch,which was designed to monitor law enforcement for cases of police brutality. Groups like this operate on the premise that white cops are always wrong in their disputes with blacks. Where have we heard thinking like that before? Community agitators like Barack Obama and Van Jones pray on the racial resentment in poor black neighborhoods, they stir up anger by blaming problems in the black community on whites. Cops make an easy target!

Sometimes even the most carefully rehearsed closet fanatic slips up and reveals his real motives. On March 10, 2009, Van Jones said, “No, we gonna change the whole system! We gonna change the whole thing! We not gonna put a new battery in a broken system, We want a new system!” That's Van Jones passionately calling for a new system of social justice in America. On the left, social justice is code for massive redistribution of wealth. Wait, those sound like Obama's economic goals. The adviser's ideological fruits don't fall far from the President's leftist tree. When Obama appointed Van Jones, his radicalism wasn't a drawback, it was an asset. Jones and Obama are brothers in arms struggling against social injustice in America.

After the Hurricane Katrina, Van Jones joined other black crusaders to exploit the raw misplaced rage among poor uneducated blacks. He helped found the black advocacy group, Color of Change. When conservative commentator Glenn Beck spotlighted President Obama's racial bias, the group lead boycotts against Beck. Then Beck retaliated by exposing Van Jones, under pressure he resigned his White House post. Van Jones was a symptom of Obama's extremism. Americans should be concerned about the president's beliefs, he's been skillful at deceiving the public. When Reverend Jeremiah Wright speaks out or Van Jones comes out, Obama's deception gets clarified. He's every bit as frighteningly fringe as his appointments and associations.