Good Riddance Van Jones

The Obama Administration is tripping all over itself to put the right spin on the “retirement” of Obama’s Green Czar Van Jones. Currently the talking points are that Jones, in a move of absolute integrity, decided that the furor over some of his past comments would hurt the chances of Obama getting his “reforms” passed.

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Liberal rags such as the Washington Post and the New York Times are rushing to press columns extolling the radical communist as a visionary. They insist that it is the smear campaign by the right that shoe-horned Jones out of his cushy White House job. Well, I am happy to take the credit, except this was pretty much Van Jones and his mouth. Remember, it was Jones who started the fight when he put together the Color of Change group to pressure advertisers to boycott Glen Beck. It was Jones who stated that the US Government had a central roll in the 9-11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Prior to his joining the Obama administration Jones referred to Republicans using a favorite epithet, which he called "a technical, political science term." He tended to pepper his speeches with language unfit for family audiences. Yes, that is exactly what an administration needs as a point man. Jones regularly accused corporations, especially those owned by whites, of poisoning “communities of color”.

Black reparation movement

Jones also readily agreed with the black reparation movement. This is a trait that Obama seems to favor in those he chooses for administrative posts. That movement believes that all blacks in the US should be given money taken from the other races, especially the Caucasians, to make up for slavery. They don’t answer when asked if any of the slaves and slave owners is still living. Neither do they reply when the issue of punishing the innocent for someone else’s’ crimes comes up. Some also say that Jones tends to agree with those who assert that the Bush Administration blew up the levies in New Orleans to exterminate the blacks of that city. Yes, I can see our past President sending out the Seal Teams in dinghies during a level 4 hurricane. That makes about as much sense as Louis Farrakhan’s flying saucer, but sense doesn’t matter when you are a vicious, power mad, bigoted, foul-mouthed socialistic idiot. But, I’m being kind. When asked by an audience member at one of his pro communist/green movement speeches if he was a Marxist, Jones replied,” How’s that capitalism workin’ for ya?” If he bothered to look, there is a state in the union fully intent on playing out Obama’s economic experiment; California. That state has done so well in adopting socialism as its philosophy that Governor Arnold had to ask for not one but two massive stimulus handouts. A small town in the far northwest of California has gone even further than the rest of the state. I went to high school and college there. Good old Arcata, California. When I graduated in 1969, Arcata was a blue collar town with several prosperous limber mills, a pulp mill turning out high quality paper and a growing small business community. Now it is something else entirely. New business is unheard of. Don’t even try to find your typical discount store there. Its city council is known for its Green Party domination and has an "anti-corporation" ordinance. As far as I can tell, the Humboldt Bay area, altogether far too strongly leaning toward greenie domination, hasn’t produced its own wealth for the past 25 years. I went back there last week for my 40th high school reunion. Sitting in a table that gave me a decent view of Arcata’s central plaza, I watched in utter fascination as the locals flocked to a farmers market held there. The predominate fashion consisted of no soap or shampoo, tie dye, dreadlocks and a total lack of underwear. If some producer ever wants to find extras for yet another Woodstock reunion film all he has to do is visit Arcata. All in all, what goes on up there is somewhat amusing. That anti-corporation ordinance deal however is something else entirely. To the mind of the greenie, corporations are:

”creations of state law and possess no legitimate civil or political rights.”

Van Jones’ buddies in Arcata have cobbled together a county ordinance that would prohibit any non-local corporation from contributing to any local political campaign. Since any corporation even slightly conservative leaning has been driven out of the area, this seems to be more of a power consolidation move than anything remotely altruistic. The ordinance is called the "Humboldt County Ordinance to Protect Our Right to Fair Elections & Local Democracy." You can look it up. I will not post a link to that sort of tripe. Wikipedia has a good in-depth article about the ordinance and I think the constitution question they raise is better than valid. But, as we all know, liberals consider a fundamental interpretation of the Constitution to be an inconvenience at best. Here is the link:http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/California_county's_corporate_anti-electioneering_measure_abandoned “Despite it qualifying for the ballot, many individuals campaigned against it. They argued that it was unconstitutional. Opponents pointed out that in order for a corporation to be considered local, everything about it must be based in Humboldt County. However, unions, which tend to be corporations, only needed one member in the County. Opponents drew upon the 1st and 14th Amendments to support their contentions, arguing that since corporations have been held as persons, the measure infringes on free speech, and that since the measure gives preference to some corporations and not others, it violates the Equal Rights provisions of the 14th Amendment.” I wonder what would happen if a corporation had the guts to challenge Arcata’s ordinance in court? Harry Reid, my own illustrious senator, expressed sorrow at Jones’ departure in a brief blurb in the Las Vegas Review Journal, but an online search of the archives brings nothing up. The spin is accelerating, too bad about all those You Tube and Facebook postings. Is it any wonder Jones and the Apollo Alliance wanted to take over the internet? Check out the vast majority of the articles concerning the resignation. Almost all of them curse the conservative upstarts who use that tool to reveal news the Mainstream Media won’t report. I tend to believe that Obama took a hard look at his rapidly falling numbers and considered just how much a drag Van Jones was on his ship of state. Believe me, Jones was sacked. No bones about it. A personality like that does not resign…ever, and, you know what? Good riddance.