Van Jones is Gone!

Posted by Larry Miller on September 6, 2009 under How, Why | Be the First to Comment

Ding dong the czar is gone,
The wicked czar,
The mean old czar,
Ding dong the green jobs czar is gone!

With apologies to the Wizard of Oz, this is the reaction by many to the news that Van Jones, the Green Jobs Czar had resigned from his position. This departure was several weeks in the making as the digital age has given us a massive archive of most anything a public figure says or does… and people were searching this database to learn about Jones real character.

Being a card carrying member of the left… communist even, Jones reaction was that he was victim of lies and distortions. But, how can there be lies about his quotes when they are available on YouTube for all the world to see? He was accused of being a communist/ He was accused of wanting to expand the “green” movement to achieve the Marxist version of justice he has espoused for some time/ He was accused of being a “truther”. The electronic evidence showed these to be facts beyond a shadow of a doubt… yet he was a victim of character assassination we were told.

Van Jones was clearly out of step with the American people, but apparently not out of step with the Obama administration. When Jones came on board, Valerie Jarrett rhapsodized about how happy they were to have him as part of the team… that they had been watching him for years, and loved what they saw. It’s not as if Jones is the only member of the administration to find disfavor after their team membership was announced. Steven Rattner, the car czar is gone. Tom Daschle didn’t make it through the confirmation process, and the list goes on.

It seems that Van Jones was the “victim” of Saul Alinsky’s rule number eleven which says, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.” Glenn Beck, among others, saw something fishy about Jones and tenaciously pursued the man, finding all sorts of irrefutable evidence that his beliefs and morality made him unsuited for this office or pretty much any office. It was not a general objection to the government program, but it was a specific to a man in a position of power, and it worked! FoxNews and the blogosphere pushed this story… the rest of the main stream media ignored it. Yet, word got through to the world and justice was served – poetically as well, since an application of Saul Alinsky’s teaching got the job done on another community organizer. It’s amazing and encouraging how the media power structure is shifting.

This should give us hope, that even when we see most of the media pushing the statist agenda, people are turning from them to alternate news sources. Word is getting out, but the administration is fighting back with the likes of Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd. We may need different strategies as we move forward, with some of the changes being discussed at the FCC. However if we persist, we can keep up the pressure – Alinsky’s rule number eight – as we continue to throw them off their game, until we achieve our victory. We cannot give up or let up!

With Jones gone, what can we expect? First thing we will see is the depth of the Obama bench. We will see who be next in line and how aggressive they will be in pursuing the marginally-legitimate green portion of the job and the big-government inspired expanded economic intrusion into everyone’s life. Jones will be gone, but will his spirit remain… much as Tom Daschle’s influence is still felt in the area of health care even though he was denied the official position.

So we can and should celebrate a victory. Never before have the peoples wishes been so thoroughly and systematically ignored by our supposed leaders. We removed one of Obama’s minions by public pressure and exposure to light of truth. Who will be next, Mark Lloyd?