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Will I Be Banned for Defending Van Jones?
by pragprogress
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Fri Sep 04, 2009 at 10:20:10 PM PDT

Recently, White House Green Jobs Czar Anthony “Van” Jones has come under fire from Glenn Beck and others for signing a 2004 911Truth.org petition calling for an inquiry into “evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur”.

This raises an obvious question for us here at Daily Kos: can we defend Van Jones without running afoul of the Daily Kos ban on 9/11 CT? Here’s the text of the ban from the FAQ:

DailyKos accepts that the 9/11 attacks were perpetrated by agents of Al-Qaeda. It is forbidden to write diaries that:

refer to claims that American, British, Israeli, or any government assisted in the attacks

refer to claims that the airplanes that crashed into the WTC and Pentagon were not the cause of the damage to those buildings or their subsequent collapse.

Authoring or recommending these diaries may result in banning from Daily Kos.

* pragprogress’s diary :: ::
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Van Jones is IMHO the most exciting Obama Administration appointment so far, in terms of both the person himself, and the position to which he was appointed. He’s a committed and effective progressive activist, a great writer and speaker, and has his finger on the pulse of where things need to go. “Green Jobs” is also the imperative of the day — this is something that can provide hope to the tens of millions of people without jobs right now, address the global warming crisis and lay the foundation for a new economy based on energy efficiency and independence.

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I’m not going to mount a defense for the statement here, but I think it should be at least an open question as to whether that statement is such an unforgivable sin that it can’t even be defended here at Daily Kos.

Can we consider at the least a temporary lifting on the 9/11 CT ban at least for the duration of this controversy? Should we reconsider the ban on CT now that we are keenly aware of just how far the right is willing to go to destroy a Democratic President?

Again, Van Jones is one of our brightest lights, and his position is so key right now — what could be more important than building a new green economy that can bring us good jobs, environmental healing, and energy independence. Shouldn’t we be able to give him a full-throated defense, no?
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Van Jones
Valuable Part of the Obama Administration
47% 25 votes
Under the Bus He Goes . . .
53% 28 votes

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