Teens for Liberty

This is the second installation of a three part series regarding the officials that President Obama has endorsed during his Presidency. In today’s article, we will take a look at van Jones, who recently resigned from his position as President Obama’s “green czar”, after an attack by conservatives questioning his extremely radical positions on key issues.

Some of the controversy included some of Jones’  less than decent comments at an environmental conference concerning President Bush and Republicans. I also found this video on newsmax.com, where Jones said that only “suburban white kids” shoot up schools.

Those who campaigned for his resignation pointed out that his name has shown up on a petition for the 9/11 Truth movement, an organization that questions the mainstream interpretation of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and calls for a new investigation into the attacks. Many adherents of the 9/11 truth movement suggest that there is evidence that the United States government could either have been responsible for, or knowably complicit in the September Eleventh attacks on the World Trade Center.

Most controversial was Jones’ role as a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization: Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). On the night following the attacks on the World Trade Center, STORM released a document on their website entitled: Reclaiming Revolution: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)
In this document, Jones is quoted as saying:

“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, founder and 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.

After his resignation, Glenn Beck, who is credited by many with playing the leading role in pushing Van Jones to resign his office, said this following the resignation:

“The American people stood up and demanded answers, Instead of providing them, the Administration had Jones resign under cover of darkness. I continue to be amazed by the power of everyday Americans to initiate change in our government through honest questioning, and judging by the other radicals in the administration, I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future.”

following his resignation from office, which occurred without advance notice by the White House in an e-mail minutes into Sunday on a holiday weekend, the mainstream media, as we would all expect, largely ignored the topic.

Calvin

Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Glenn Beck, September 11 attacks, United States, Van Jones, Warfare and Conflict, White House