Posted on 09/04/2009 11:12:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
The Radicalization of Obama's 'Green Czar' Van Jones was arrested in San Francisco in 1992 for participating in a demonstration following the acquittal of four LA police officers accused of beating Rodney King.
FOXNews.com
Friday, September 04, 2009
The political radicalization of Van Jones, President Obama's "green jobs" adviser, dates back to 1992, when he and hundreds of others took their anger to the streets of San Francisco in the infamous Rodney King protests.
Jones, a Yale Law School student who was working in the Bay Area as an intern, was part of a mob that stormed the city following the acquittal in Los Angeles of four white police officers who had been charged with beating King, who is black, after a car chase.
In an essay he wrote soon after the rioting and republished in The Huffington Post in May 2007, Jones said he "just marched around and chanted slogans" as other protesters set trash cans afire, smashed car windows and threw rocks at passing motorists. But he clearly reveled in the protest.
"Our moment had finally come! We were righteous, fired up, weren't takin' no more!" Jones wrote. "We were one thousand strong on Market Street, with the Bay Bridge shut down in rush hour traffic and the grounds around the state building swarming with angry mobs! Our rallying cry was for justice; our demand was that the System be changed!"
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His Background: A Yale law grad.
* Rose from the Oakland, Calif., grassroots organizing scene to become a leader in the national movement to spur the green economy.
* Started his career as a prison-reform advocate in Oakland lobbying for reform of the juvenile justice system and youth-violence prevention programs.
* Co-founded a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, in 1994, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. The group protested police brutality.
* Co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996 and Color of Change in 2005, which includes Bay Area Police Watch, a group devoted to “protect(ing) the community from police misconduct.”
* Founded Green For All, an organization focused on creating green jobs in impoverished areas.
* Published New York Times bestseller, “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems,” in October 2008.
* Has law degree from Yale University.
* Worked on the Green Jobs Act in 2007 with then-Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., who co-sponsored the bill in the House.
* Was arrested in San Francisco in 1992 after a protest march that followed the acquittal of police officers in the Rodney King beating. Jones was working with the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco.
* Was arrested in the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization
The main question I have about him is who financed all these groups? I would really like to know where the money came from.
You can bet your boots that the money came from the U.S. taxpayer probably through ACORN or one of their strawmen.
Will he release his LSAT scores, or like Obama, is that a state secret? (Gotta believe here are two guys who could’nt get near Ivy League admission sans special pleading).
They do know that 'socialist utopia' is an oxymoron, don't they? They need only look to the 'utopia' reigning right now in North Korea and Cuba and the budding one in Venezuela, or the formerly socialist utopias in Russia and Eastern Europe. I guess they were going to 'perfect' it this time...
“They do know that ‘socialist utopia’ is an oxymoron, don’t they?”
No
Next question.
Exactly. And they don’t want to hear it.
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