The Rubber-Stamping Of Radicals
Posted 06:52 PM ET
Appointments: In a reprise of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy,
President Obama acts like he didn't know his special adviser, Van Jones, was
a radical. But video says otherwise.
The White House let Jones go after conservative Web sites and Fox News
revealed his radical past, including signing a petition circulated by
far-left conspiracists suggesting the government was behind 9/11.
But soon after hiring Jones, top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett celebrated his
appointment, along with his radical activism, before an audience of liberal
Democrats.
"We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House," she
gushed in a C-Span video. "We've been watching him for as long as he's been
active."
Jarrett, a senior White House official and close Chicago friend of the
Obamas, added that they were impressed with "all the creative ideas that he
has."
Those creative ideas include using the green movement as a Trojan horse to
socialize the entire economy.
"The green economy will start off as a small subset" of a "complete
revolution" away from "gray capitalism" and toward "redistribution of all
the wealth," Jones said during a 2008 interview on leftist Uprising Radio in
Los Angeles. "And we are going to push it and push it and push it until it
becomes the engine for transforming the whole society."
"Transforming" society from capitalism to communism, is what he means. In
fact, Jones is a self-avowed "communist," something the Oakland street
agitator confessed to the East Bay Express in 2005. He even named his son
after a Marxist revolutionary leader. This was no secret.
Jones founded a communist group called Standing Together to Organize a
Revolutionary Movement. Storm worked with Bay-area communist Elizabeth
Martinez, who sits on the board of the Movement for a Democratic Society
with Weathermen terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the radical
couple who launched Obama's political career from their Chicago townhouse.
Jones, 40, later folded Storm into the Ella Baker Human Rights Center. The
White House even credited him with co-founding the center in a March press
release announcing his appointment as special adviser to the president. "We
look forward to having him work with departments and agencies to advance the
president's agenda."
Did Jones slip through the cracks of the White House's vetting process, as
defenders say? Not likely. His radicalism was clear just days before his
appointment.
As WorldNetDaily first reported, Jones spoke in February to young green
activists attending Power Shift '09 in Washington, spewing more
revolutionary agitprop: "This movement is deeper than a solar panel! Deeper
than a solar panel! Don't stop there! Don't stop there! No, we're gonna
change the whole system! We're gonna change the whole thing! ... We want a
new system!" |
