Posted on 09/04/2009 8:15:34 PM PDT by Justaham
Via JWF and Gabe Malor, who have to be wondering whether Barack Obama appointed Van Jones as the Green Jobs Czar as some sort of blogger full-employment program. After being a Communist and a 9/11 Truther, will Jones’ support for cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal even register? Maybe it will at the White House:
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Maybe he thought "Mumia" was Swahili for "brewski"...?
I have a question. Did Van Jones spend 2 years in San Quentin prison? What was he in for?
Early activismIn 1992, while still a law student at Yale, Jones participated as a volunteer legal monitor for a protest of the Rodney King verdict in San Francisco. He and many other participants in the protest were arrested. The district attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. Jones later said that "the incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization."[10] Jones said he was "a rowdy nationalist"[11] before the King verdict was announced. By August of that year, he said, "I was a communist."
Other sources say he and the other protesters only spent a few hours in jail. Oh, the huge manatee of it all! The injustice, the disaffection. He's such a VICTIM! /s
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