Laura Ingraham on Communist Truther Van Jones

Common Sense 2020 ^ | 2009-09-03 | LukeAmerica2020

[ConservativeCitizen2020]

Sitting in for Bill O’Reilly tonight (September 3rd), Laura Ingraham discussed the (communist racist truther) Green Jobs Czar Van Jones with author Bakari Kitwana and republican strategist Angela McGlowan.

Jones is signatory #46 on the official 911 Truth Statement. Just in case this web page is scrubbed as others have been lately, here’s a PDF document of the page.

Video: Laura Ingraham on Communist Truther Van Jones

[AmericanInTokyo]

Funny. He was an absolute idiot but with some measure of decorum and composure. She (on the right, from the GOP) had all the points but was a blathering bundle of nerves that needed a chill pill.

[ETL]

From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: VAN JONES

• Became a Communist in the aftermath of the 1992 "Rodney King riots" in Los Angeles
• Founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996
• Was active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER
• Served as a board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Free Press
• In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar."

Born in 1968 in rural West Tennessee, Van Jones earned a B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin and then attended Yale Law School. During his years at Yale, Jones served as an intern with the San Francisco-based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR), which views the United States as an irredeemably racist nation and "champions the legal rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, with a special commitment to African-Americans."

Jones says that he first became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th," says Jones, who is black, "and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."

Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, "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."

After earning his Juris Doctorate from Yale in 1993, Jones relocated to San Francisco, where he helped establish Bay Area PoliceWatch, a hotline and lawyer-referral service that began as a project of LCCR. In 1996 he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which, claiming that the American criminal-justice system is infested with racism, seeks to promote alternatives to incarceration. According to the Baker Center:

"Decades of disinvestment in our cities have led to despair and hopelessness. For poor communities and communities of color it's even worse, as excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration have left people even further behind."

By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a now-defunct Bay Area Marxist-Maoist collective that was staffed by members of various local nonprofits, a number of whom had ties to the Ella Baker Center.

In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. STORM also had ties to the South African Communist Party and it revered Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader (of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands) who lauded Lenin as "the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples." (In 2006 Van Jones would name his own newborn son "Cabral" -- in Amilcar Cabral's honor.)

During his tenure with STORM, Jones collaborated on numerous projects (including antiwar demonstrations) with local activist Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, who served as a "mentor" for members of the Ella Baker Center. Martinez was a longtime Maoist who went on to join the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), a Communist Party USA splinter group, in the early 1990s. To this day, Martinez continues to sit on the CCDS advisory board alongside such luminaries as Angela Davis, Timuel Black (who served on Barack Obama's 2004 Senate campaign committee), and musician Pete Seeger. Martinez is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, the parent organization of Progressives for Obama. Martinez and Van Jones together attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop which advanced the theme that "all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration" with blacks.

In 2005 Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration, a project that eventually would evolve into the Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign -- "a job-training and employment pipeline providing 'green pathways out of poverty' for low-income adults in Oakland."

Soon after attending the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Jones launched "Green For All," a non-governmental organization "dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty … advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy - especially for people from disadvantaged communities."

In 2008 Jones published his first book, The Green Collar Economy, which focused on environmental and economic issues. The book received favorable reviews from such notables as Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Laurie David, Winona LaDuke, environmentalist Paul Hawken, and NAACP President/CEO Ben Jealous.

Jones has served as a board member of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the Rainforest Action Network; Free Press; Bioneers (which accepts the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Report's warning that "[h]uman activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted"); the National Apollo Alliance (which seeks "to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs"); the Social Venture Network (which aims "to build a just economy and sustainable planet"); and Julia Butterfly Hill's "Circle of Life" environmental foundation.

Jones was also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar." Jones' formal title is "Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation" for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

In a July 2009 interview with Newsweek magazine, Jones said he could not explain exactly what a "green job" is:

"Well, we still don't have a unified definition, and that's not unusual in a democracy. It takes a while for all the states and the federal government to come to some agreement. But the Department of Labor is working on it very diligently. Fundamentally, it's getting there, but we haven't crossed the finish line yet."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406

[GregoryFul]

Hey, watch Kitwana $hit all over himself!

[budwiesest]

He was an absolute idiot but with some measure of decorum and composure.

You were fooled by the granny glasses. Brother Whats-his-name had no answer to the direct question about having a self-avowed communist serving as Green Job Czar, or being anywhere near this administration. His answer couldn't suck enough.

He did a lousy job covering up the fact that Obama has surrounded himself with socialists and worse, communists. He wouldn't have earned the Boy Scout "covering the trail" badge.

Face it, we're in a real dangerous place when people like Danny Glover and Sean Penn kiss the ring on Hugo Chavez's finger, not to mention the other idiots extolling the virtues of Cuban medical care.

Like it or not, there is a virulent portion of America that wants change, but they ain't sayin' what kind of change. I'm reading the signals, some subtle, some not so, but we'd better not underestimate what's going on behind the 'curtain'.

Next time you see this guy or Van Jones on the screen, imagine either in a beard you could wrap around your fist. That's the 'change' I'm talking about.

[Poincare]

Did you catch that Kitwana said “Jew York Times”? He got away with it.

[Soothesayer9]

Dont think Ive ever quite seen a blathering fool go on and on and on about absolutely nothing to do with the question asked (oh..Clinton, thats right). My bet: Obama is impeached/removed by the House and Senate long before the next presidential election. From what I have seen thus far, I will just take my chances with the idiot Biden rather than the Obamanation straight out of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Obama will never be impeached. The Republicans have not balls for it. Obama will be a one-term wonder, though. First because the ecnomy will still suck, and second because he is over-reaching with his socialist agenda. Incrementalism was working wonders until he began to wake the sheeple by trying to get too much too soon.

That said, Obama will infest the federal government at every level, with a new wave of communist loving employees, and the Republicans will be “too nice” to remove them when they next take power. So creeping communism will continue to be the order of the day.

The next Republican President should fire every high ranking federal bureaucrat and put in ALL of his own people, right down to the law offices. Purge the ACLU and SEIU from the federal system. This will never happen. The Democrats are able street-fighters. The Republicans keep losing their “gentlemen’s quarrel” to these street gangs. The dirty fighters win and that is why the Democrats will win.

[GregoryFul]

Perhaps nobody knows whether he meant it or that it was just another malaprop, like the ubiquitous “axed a question” owned by these blathering ignoramuses.

[kabumpo]

The creeping communism has been ocurring since FDR, if not before. We’re at the point now where most of the people I know think I’m nuts to be be bothered by Jones. The Republicans (except for Tom Delay) don’t have the balls they were born with — we will never get rid of this.

[Soothesayer9]

“The Democrats are able street-fighters. The Republicans keep losing their “gentlemen’s quarrel” to these street gangs.”

Correct, of course. I was watching Rockford Files the other night..Jim fights some black belt in a bar restroom (same guy who fought alongside Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon). Jim disarms him rather quickly and says “You know, all the martial arts stuff is rather nice..but one thing you idiots always count on..and thats the other guy playing fair!”

And therein is the problem..no Reagans among them.

[Liberty Valance]

da rulz

[Liberty Valance]

da rulz

[Liberty Valance]

twice. ;o)

[AmericanInTokyo]

You obviously did not read what I had written, did you?

[AmericanInTokyo]

You obviously did not read what I had written, did you?

I observed that he was an idiot, and she had all the points.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I can’t disagree with you.

[kabumpo]

thanks for writing. If I didn’ log on here every morning I would think I was the crazy one, instead of everyone I have to deal with in NY.

[budwiesest]

I observed that he was an idiot, and she had all the points.

Yes, you did. I guess it was the compliments given to the liar who couldn't answer a question from Laura that threw me. My bad;^) I doubt I could restrain myself in a debate with someone who continued to dodge a question only to offer pablum instead.

ps. I hope Bill retires and Laura gets the slot. Keeping the foxy chics around is mandatory ('cause it's a "show") but having Laura there adds significantly to the 'fine looking women with brains' Factor.