Posted on 09/04/2009 3:39:05 PM PDT by tobyhill
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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More like Watermelon Commie-Czar.
There is no need to ask “Who vetted this guy”?. He is where he is because zero WANTED him there, and yes sadly, birds of a feather.
Anyone who espouses the nothing, or even hold to the notion, that he wasn’t vetted or that zero couldn’t have know and now must throw him under the bus, is dreaming. Time to wake up, he is where he is because as Jarrett said, they have followed him for years, since his days in CA, and that, my friends, is why he is a czar! Just as those in “power, knew and know who zero is.
The entire 37 Tsars must be fired....for starters.
......The entire 37 Tsars must be fired....for starters.........
The entire Congress and Administration should be fired for finishers!!!
Jones didn’t do such a good job of getting sponsors to stop advertising on the Glen Beck show. I was watching it this afternoon and saw that FEMA ran an ad during the show about flood insurance. Go tell Bama that even some in gov’t know where to go to reach an audience.
Weren’t takin’ no more WHAT?
Free rides at Yale Law School?
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