Posted by Tina
UPDATE: Jones resigns and not a minute too soon. See the video on YouTube posted on Breitbart where Jones compares GWB to a crackhead. (HT:pal, a new friend on Post Scripts)
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The President’s controversial Green Czar, Van Jones, can apologize for vulgar remarks, which he has done, but he cannot change the stain left by the radical views he’s held as recently as 2006. Powerline blows the lid off the “controversy” surrounding Van Jones:
Van Jones has a past as a record producer. That’s right; his “civil rights” group, the Ella Baker Center, produced a handful of CDs between 2002 and 2006. One of them, which appears to have been made around 2002, “starred” convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal, who presumably recorded his portions of the album in prison. (album cover at left- scroll down on the Powerline blog to hear audio from the album).
Jones has been under heavy scrutiny lately because of derogatory statements he made prior to his appointment by the President. One of the more egregious examples was revealed in The American Spectator:
Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), the revolutionary group formed by self-described “communist” and “rowdy black nationalist” Van Jones, held a vigil in Oakland, California, “mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world” on the night after Sept. 11, 2001. ** Jones also founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which joined in the vigil according to an Ella Baker Center press release from 2001. The press release contained this passage that quoted Jones: “Anti-Arab hostility is already reaching a fever pitch as pundits and common people alike rush to judgment that an Arab group is responsible for this tragedy,” said Van Jones, national executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. “We fear that an atmosphere is being created that will result in official and street violence against Arab men, women and children.” ** “Reclaiming Revolution” also blamed the U.S. for 9/11. A passage on page 45 (27 of the PDF file) reads: That night, STORM and the other movement leaders expressed sadness and anger at the deaths of innocent working class people. We were angry, first and foremost, with the U.S. government, whose worldwide aggression had engendered such hate across the globe that working class people were not safe at home. We honored those who had lost their lives in the attack — and those who would surely lose their lives in subsequent U.S. attacks overseas.
“Coops Corner” on ABC News reported more of the offensive remark made by Mr. Jones:
In the video (follow the link to see the video) which made the rounds yesterday, Jones is seen responding to a question why Congressional Democrats were not as successful as Republicans in pushing through their legislative agenda. ** He said: “Well, the answer to that is, they’re a**holes,” Jones said. “And Barack Obama is not an a**hole. Now, I will say this: I can be an a**hole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama, are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity [to get things done].”
Glenn Beck of FOX News featured remarks that show prejudice against white people and an extremely angry attitude:
VAN JONES: This movement is deeper than a solar panel! Deeper than a solar panel! Don’t stop there! Don’t stop there! We’re gonna change the whole system! We’re gonna change the whole thing. We’re not gonna put a new battery in a broken system. We want a new system. We want a new system! ** JONES: If all we do is take out the dirty power system, the dirty power generation in a system, and just replace it with some clean stuff, put a solar panel on top of this system. When we don’t deal with how we are consuming water. We don’t deal with how we’re treating our other sister and brother species. We don’t deal with toxins. We don’t deal with the way we treat each other. If that’s not a part of this movement, let me tell you what you’ll have: You’ll have solar-powered bulldozers, solar-powered buzz saws, and biofuel bombers, and we’ll be fighting wars over lithium for the batteries instead of oil for the engines and we’ll still have a dead planet. This movement is deeper than a solar panel! Deeper than a solar panel! Don’t stop there! Don’t stop there! We’re gonna change the whole system! We’re gonna change the whole thing! ** JONES: And our Native American sisters and brothers who were pushed and bullied and mistreated and shoved into all the land we didn’t want, where it was all hot and windy. Well, guess what? Renewable energy? Guess what, solar industry? Guess what wind industry? They now own and control 80 percent of the renewable energy resources. No more broken treaties. No more broken treaties. Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth! Give them the dignity. Give them the respect that they deserve. No justice on stolen land. We owe them a debt. ** JONES: What about our immigrant sisters and brothers? What about our immigrant sisters and brothers? What about people who come here from all around the world who we’re willing to have out in the field, with poison being sprayed on them, poison being sprayed on them because we have the wrong agricultural system. And we’re willing to poison them and poison the earth to put food on our table, but we don’t want to give them rights and we don’t want to give them dignity and we don’t want to give them respect? ** JONES: We’re really entering a third wave of environmentalism in the United States. The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities.