Rubber-Stamping Of Radicals ( How many more to go?)

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Appointments: In a reprise of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, President Obama acts like he didn't know his special adviser, Van Jones, was radical. But video says otherwise.


The White House let Jones go after conservative Web sites and Fox News revealed his radical past, including signing a petition circulated by far-left conspiracists suggesting the government was behind 9/11.

But soon after hiring Jones, top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett celebrated his appointment, along with his radical activism, before an audience of liberal Democrats.

"We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House," she gushed in a C-Span video. "We've been watching him for as long as he's been active."

Jarrett, a senior White House official and close Chicago friend of the Obamas, added that they were impressed with "all the creative ideas that he has."

Those creative ideas include using the green movement as a Trojan horse to socialize the entire economy.

"The green economy will start off as a small subset" of a "complete revolution" away from "gray capitalism" and toward "redistribution of all the wealth," Jones said during a 2008 interview on leftist Uprising Radio in Los Angeles. "And we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society."
"Transforming" society from capitalism to communism, is what he means. In fact, Jones is a self-avowed "communist," something the Oakland street agitator confessed to the East Bay Express in 2005. He even named his son after a Marxist revolutionary leader. This was no secret.

Jones founded a communist group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement. Storm worked with Bay-area communist Elizabeth Martinez, who sits on the board of the Movement for a Democratic Society with Weathermen terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the radical couple who launched Obama's political career from their Chicago townhouse.

Jones, 40, later folded Storm into the Ella Baker Human Rights Center. The White House even credited him with co-founding the center in a March press release announcing his appointment as special adviser to the president. "We look forward to having him work with departments and agencies to advance the president's agenda."

Did Jones slip through the cracks of the White House's vetting process, as defenders say? Not likely. His radicalism was clear just days before his appointment.

As WorldNetDaily first reported, Jones spoke in February to young green activists attending Power Shift '09 in Washington, spewing more revolutionary agitprop: "This movement is deeper than a solar panel! Deeper than a solar panel! Don't stop there! Don't stop there! No, we're gonna change the whole system! We're gonna change the whole thing! . . . We want a new system!"

Jones' anti-police activism and advocacy on behalf of cop killer and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal were also well known.

His idea to use government funding to build "a pipeline from the prison economy to the green economy" — including hiring parolees to weatherize homes and offices — dovetails with Obama's proposal, cited in his 2006 memoir, to create government-subsidized green jobs "to hire and train ex-felons on projects" such as "insulating homes and offices to make them energy-efficient."

Both Jones and Obama claim the justice system is biased, due to the disproportionate share of blacks in prisons.

In 2006, as head of the same Ella Baker Center praised by the White House, Jones argued that Marxists must seek ways to emancipate black criminals from prison.

"Two million locked up, one million black, most of them young men, smoking the same dope you smoke, doing the same drugs that white folks do, but treated like animals and brutalized. It's the right deed for this movement to take now: to stand in solidarity with those people living on the slave ships on dry land called prisons," Jones wrote in the leftist Tikkun magazine.

"The powerful are trafficking in human flesh today," he continued. "They're trafficking in human bodies. The correctional corporations of America are traded on the stock exchange, turning the Dow Jones into a high-tech slave auction in American (sic) today. Let my people go."

"We need a new theology of resistance," he went on. "We need a new theology of liberation."

All this leads us to wonder: How many more people of such radical ideology now have jobs in the White House?

How many of the unvetted cadre of White House czars — who don't have to be approved by the Senate, yet in some cases may have sweeping powers — likewise hate the very system they're supposed to serve?
Jones was an extremist. Unfortunately, rather than being an aberration in this White House, he just might be the tip of a very large iceberg.

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It's a scarey day when it becomes clear we have communists or at least communist sympathizers running the white house. We who still love capitalism need to stand up and speak up, before we loose the right to.