[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:
…Glen Beck lied about Van Jones’ involvement in the Rodney King riots…
[/quote]Did he now?
"Jones says he became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the now-infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th,” says Jones, “and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.”
In early May 1992, after the L.A. riots had ended, Jones was dispatched by LCCR Executive Director Eva Patterson to serve as a legal monitor at a nonviolent protest (against the Rodney King verdicts) in San Francisco. Local police, fearful that the event would devolve into violence, stopped the proceedings and arrested many of the participants, including all the legal monitors. Jones spent a short time in jail, and all charges against him were subsequently dropped.
Recalling his brief incarceration, Jones says: “I met all these young radical people of color. I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’ I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.”
In Jones’ own words,
"In the wake of the verdicts, Los Angeles exploded in blood and flames.
Also that week, there were disturbances and rebellions in 100 other U.S. cities. One of them was San Francisco (where I was then working as a law student intern).
Recently, I discovered an essay that I wrote at the time. It captures the pain, frustration and aspirations of a much younger person. But I think it speaks well to the thought process of many young activists at that time.
Ironically, days after I wrote this essay, San Francisco police officers illegally arrested me and hundreds of other participants in a peaceful protest march."
BlueCock, I have a feeling this is going to be fun. Thanks for posting that list. Adios a lo que poca credibilidad usted tenia.
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Did you even read what you cut and pasted?
Beck claimed that Van Jones had spent time in prison for being involved in LA riots. Van Jones was in fact briefly detained by the police without being formally charged for his involvement in a peaceful demonstration in San Francisco. Beck was lying, again.
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I know you want Beck to be a liar. You hate his conservative message and dog gone it he must be lying because, because well you don’t like him. But, sorry he wasn’t lying:
“Van Jones first moved to San Francisco in the spring of 1992, while studying law at Yale, when the leftist Lawyers Committee for Human Rights hired several organizers to be on hand for the trial of policemen charged with beating Rodney King. Not guilty verdicts in the officer’s case resulted in riots which left 55 dead.[9] Although Jones had been working for the communist front organization STORM for one year, Jones and the truthout.org web site put forward a cover story that made it appear Jones experienced a jailhouse conversion to communism. Like another Obama associate, Bernardine Dohrn, Jones is a lawyer, avowed communist, associated with communist front organizations, and arrested in the aftermath of a deadly riot. The truthout.org site gives this biographical information on Jones”
I like talking about Van Jones, it’s a no lose topic for conservatives. Let’s see where shall we begin?
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Jones was a founder and leader[4] of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). The organization had its roots in a group protesting the first Gulf War.
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On the night after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks STORM held a vigil in Oakland, California, "mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world.
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What did he say after the 9-11 attack? "“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.”
Oh that Van Jones what a guy worried about the possible violence against arab people AFTER 9-11 the mans heart is really in the right place (gag).
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Those stormers were upste though: “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.”
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“I met all these young radical people of color - I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’…I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary… I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.”
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“Van Jones signed a petition sponsored by the conspiratorial 9/11 Truthers.org in 2004 alleging President George W. Bush and high-level government officials may have been behind 9/11. [11][12] As his career prospects improved however, he later claimed he did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to sign his name”.
Oh wait, he didn’t know what he was signing, he was only a lawyer at that point and didn’t understand all the big words.
- “'m willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends…Our question is: Will the green wave lift all boats? That’s the moral challenge to the people who are the architects of this new, ecologically sound economy. Will we have eco-equity, or will we have eco-apartheid? Right now we have eco-apartheid”.
God forbid, not (GASP) eco-apartheid! (Organ music)
(eye roll)
Okay, okay I have to go help my wife and kids decorate the tree. OH NO! WHY DID I SAY THAT? I killed a (sniff, sniff) tree. But wait, it’s just to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ…OOPS! Oh no, now I’m in big, big trouble I BELIEVE IN GOD, many on the far left hate God and want everyone to hate him too. I better just sign off before I send these liberals up a tree, one that hasn’t been cut down of course.
Anyway, Beck went light on Van Jones, no lies just the facts. The funny part is that the facts are so bad that many on the far left think Becks lying. Van Jones is a total left wing loon and for Obama to bring him into his administration with open arms should send a chill up the spine of every man woman and child in the US.
Fortunately we have guys like Beck who at least try to expose this administration for what it is.
God help us over these next 3 years.
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I have far less of an issue with his right wing message (a lot of which I agree with) than his presentation style.