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To: Brumar89 who wrote (323362)	9/9/2009 7:34:39 AM
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"By August, I was a Communist." Van Jones ....But in jail, he said, "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.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "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." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist." In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. eastbayexpress.com Communism has killed 100 million people in the last century. And thats just some of the victims. Its brought mass suffering, mass poverty, and an end to freedom to over a billion people. It was a failure everywhere it was tried. This man, Van Jones, embraced this evil philosophy (seriously embraced - people who have study groups on Marx and Lenin mean it) in the 1990's when all educated people knew or should have known about communisms history. Its shocking someone who would want this should be elevated to high office in our government. But then it fits right in with Obama's ties to another would-be American Stalin, Bill Ayers, who said he thought 25 million Americans or so would need to be liquidated to establish communism here. People like Van Jones and Ayers aren't noble, admirable or well-meaning (nor are their admirers, like Valerie Jarrett or Nancy Pelosi) - they're evil bastards with sick twisted and dangerous ideas. Communists are no nobler than Nazis.