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To: TigersEye
Thanks. But are you aware that the piece you posted is from the far left "TruthOut" website? Not saying they're not correct about the arrest situation, but they did apparently lie about Van Jones before...

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From Conservapedia, with linked sources at the website:

"Van Jones first moved to San Francisco in the spring of 1992, while studying law at Yale, when the leftist Lawyers Committee for Human Rights hired several organizers to be on hand for the trial of policemen charged with beating Rodney King. Not guilty verdicts in the officer's case resulted in riots which left 55 dead.[9]

Although Jones had been working for the communist front organization STORM for one year, Jones and the truthout.org web site put forward a cover story that made it appear Jones experienced a jailhouse conversion to communism.

Like another Obama associate, Bernardine Dohrn, Jones is a lawyer, avowed communist, associated with communist front organizations, and arrested in the aftermath of a deadly riot. The truthout.org site gives this biographical information on Jones:

“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.'...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.... I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.[10]"

http://www.conservapedia.com/Van_Jones

21 posted on 02/23/2010 9:00:23 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
Interesting list of linked sources.

Your sources are pretty heavy on the far-left side too. I don't know who contributed the specific quote you used above. I don't know who Adam and Trevor are.

26 posted on 02/23/2010 9:22:39 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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