Van Jones Lessons: Large, Larger, Largest

Van Jones’s Truther involvement defenses have shriveled away to virtually nothing. Gateway Pundit (HT Michelle Malkin) has now shown that Jones was involved and apparently even a leader in the movement (what do you call someone who’s on the “organizing committee”?) since its very early stages in January 2002, only four months after the 9/11 attacks. This makes his claim that he was in essence duped into signing a 2004 Truther statement impossible for anyone to believe.

Now we learn that 10 years ago (HT JammieWearingFool) Jones was THE leader of a group of “Free Mumia” disruptors of what was supposed to be a police-community event in San Francisco.

I separately studied the 1981 killing of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in great detail in the late 1990s, and have followed related developments since then.

There is nothing resembling a reasonable doubt that Wesley Cook aka Mumia Abdul-Jamal killed Officer Faulkner; go here for starters to get to that conclusion on your own. But the Obama administration’s so-called green jobs czar (who, by the way, can’t even define a “green job”) subscribed to the idea that Wesley/Mumia is innocent or deserves a new trial a decade ago. There’s no reason to believe he has since changed his mind.

It’s also evident, based on this comment from Obama’s left-hand adviser Valerie Jarrett, that they know what Jones is about, and have known all along. Michelle Malkin noted this quote from Jarrett in mid-August:

So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.

Jarrett’s message is clear: We really know this guy, and we’re okay with him.

Lessons abound:

• The large lesson is that, until shown otherwise in actions, not words, Van Jones is Valerie Jarrett is Barack Obama. By extension, unless specifically shown otherwise, Barack Obama owns the history and beliefs of his czars. For all practical purposes, John Holdren is Barack Obama, Zeke the Bleak Emanuel is Barack Obama. Rinse and repeat 30-something more times.
• The larger lesson is that the president’s accumulation of an unprecedented number of unaccountable czars is dangerous and undemocratic. Who in Congress vetted, let alone confirmed, Van Jones? Obviously, no one. This troubling power consolidation was evident mere days after Obama assumed office; press commentary has been mostly non-existent. Anyone want to guess what would have happened if George W. Bush had accumulated 32 (or is it 37?) czars, instead of its alleged 12 (which was also wayyyyy too many)?
• The largest lesson is that this administration can’t be allowed one iota of its agenda as long as Barack Obama and his czars occupy the White House. Not. One. Iota. Obama’s selection of the czars who surround him disqualifies him from any benefit of the doubt.

If given an inch, what these people would do to our health care system, our supposedly still-capitalist economy, our supposedly free airwaves, our educational system, and so many aspects of this country would leave it in a condition that bears little resemblance to what people are used to, and no resemblance to what they want. We should also be concerned about what these people are doing without the bother of legislation, which is why I expressed the need for an army of Eliot Nesses in my Pajamas Media column yesterday.