Posted on 09/04/2009 8:35:59 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 09/04/2009 10:12:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Van Jones, Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar, produced a record album entitled "WarTimes: Reports from the Opposition" a few years ago that was narrated by convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal and featured a clip of an interview Jones did where he slammed the United States and Israel and proclaimed his stand with a "global struggle" against the United States.
Jones used his Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to found Freedom Fighter Music, the label WarTimes appeared on. WarTimes is also the name of an anti-war-on-al-Qaeda propaganda newspaper Jones helped organize.
The album was unearthed by the website Verum Serum, which posted a YouTube video with highlights of the album.
About three minutes forty-five seconds in to the highlight video, there is a brief interview with Van Jones at an anti-Israel demonstration where Jones criticizes Israel and calls for Palestinian 'right of return' then unloads on the United States:
"We see violence against poor people and poor people of color within the U.S. border, at the U.S. border, and beyond the U.S. border and you see U.S. tax dollars funding all of it. And so we have this now global struggle against the U.S. led security apparatus and military agenda that impacts people here and impacts people around the world and I think that we need to see our problems as linked."
Mumia closes out the album by describing it as a "small tease of the truth about U.S. imperialism's war on the world."
The time frame of the album is hard to gauge, but Verum Serum writes that Freedom Fighter Music existed from around 2002-2003 to 2005-2006 and produced maybe two or three albums. The album appears to be from late 2002 or early 2003.
Jones mentioned the label in an interview with USA Today's USA Weekend magazine published February 9, 2003 that Verum Serum found:
[I understand you have] developed a record label, Freedom Fighter Music.
Jones: Yes, we've had one for a little more than a year. Our second CD is coming out this year.
Verum Serum gave a link to an MP3 file of the entire album at Indymedia.
These are just grunts, foks.
But I am very happy that at least some of this is coming to light.
There are major forces behind 0bama and many of the people you call Democrats.
Don’t lose focus on 0bama, however. We must tie Van Jones to 0bama and make 0bama pay dearly (politically) for his usurpation and subversion.
0bama is no different that Van Jones—in terms of ideology and intentions for the US they are twins.
We are indeed under attack by communists within—doubt that at your own peril.
Your denial and slow response to the facts is your first clue that their work on you over the decades is bearing fruit for them.
Communists are real people, as real as any Republican. They are not ghosts of long-dead Soviets—they are indeed alive and out to make this country in their image.
There was good reason for previous generations to fear and loathe Communists and there is even more reason for you to do the same.
Yup.
Keep him. The gift that keeps on giving
Than I guess he should go somewhere else to “struggle.” If he hates the U.S. so much he can darn well leave. Russia is nice this time of year...
“Foundations and tax dollars.”
I wonder if $oro$ kicks in a couple of bucks now and then....At one time I would have called it a Kremlin plot, but that monster has been cut up into smaller, more autonomous but still lethal pieces.
So, do Czars have to swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?
The Sarah Palin/RNC ads for the 2012 presidential race just keep being created.
This should save the RNC and Palin 2012, quite a bit of money in ad agency fees.
The gift that keeps on giving.
The folks you speak of also want to claim Obama is the most intelligent president we have ever had.
Now I doubt you can both be intelligent and also unable to pick your friends.
Verum Serum did all the heavy lifting on the story of this album but sadly they didn't quite realize what they had. They included the interview and mentioned it in the article but didn't describe or quote from it at all.
They ended their write up with this equivocating conclusion:
So therefore I think it’s reasonable to hold Jones’ responsible to some degree for the anti-war (and anti-American) views expressed on the album itself. Of course even if Jones personally shared the most extreme of these viewpoints, he was fully entitled to do so. But it’s also completely reasonable to question whether the radical nature of these views – and his involvement in such an effort – should have precluded him from being hired for such a prominent position (or any position) within the federal government. Cindy Sheehan must really be feeling left out at this stage.
At any rate, I'm glad they found the album and gave me a chance to drive one more well deserved nail in Van Jones' political coffin.
Look at most of the uber-wealthy in this Country, everyone from $10 million in net worth and up. By at least a 60-40 margin they are leftists.
And most “old money” families in the Country tend to be on the left wing of the spectrum.
Yes, I agree that we can think Glen Beck for finding out the truth abut Van Jones. I’m sure there are any number of people in the Obama administration who feel the same way Van Jones does and with a track record. So these hits could go on for awhile as these types of people are who Obama likes to hire. I bet Glen has them lined up to shoot them down.
I can’t believe how much stuff you’re finding about jones. It’s getting to be like dry heaves that hurt really bad. The guys obama associates himself with literally make me want to hurl.
Let’s keep this communist thug puke on the front burner. It might be better if he stayed on board with his big thug boss from Chicago. Anything he says would be ridiculed and placed right on the boy king’s lap.
You can put lipstick on a communist, but it is still Soros.
Your tax dollars.
The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble and their ideological issue (children)-cum-Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) wonder what's the big deal? That's what they've been doing for 40 years.
(That ain't name calling. The Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble really have taken over the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party. Under the hail of "neo-con" taunts many Democrats fled the Party.)
IMPEACH OBAMA!!
HE IS AN ANTI AMERICAN COMMUNIST!!
I can’t believe what I just heard!
For sure. Ford, Carnegie, Annenberg, John D. and Catherine T., Heinz, Rockefeller, Soros.
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