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Freedom of the Press?

Only if you have nothing negative to say about Obama

Well, well, well, isn’t this special.

by Jim Turner

It now seems that our military is in the business of silencing the freedom of speech of anyone who even dares to speak out against their commander in chief, Mr. Obama.

RALEIGH, N.C. – The U.S. Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin’s appearance at Fort Bragg, fearing the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama, officials said Thursday.

… McCollum said the Army did not want the Monday event to become a platform to express political opinions “directed against the commander in chief.”

What I find interesting [sickening] is that our military leaders, the defenders of the free republic, will not allow a patriot, Sarah Palin, to speak out in support of our troops, while their commander in chief is doing everything in his power to not support the troops he is suppose to be commanding.

How is that for an oxymoron?

Even more shocking is that according to Tom McCollum, military officials do not consider Sarah – the patriot – a politician because she is critical of Obama and his policies in regards to our troops who are in dire need of support in Afghanistan.

McCollum said it’s not clear if military officials consider Palin a politician but noted that she has been critical of Obama while promoting the book. She said in an interview with ABC News that Obama should provide more troops to Afghanistan.

“It frustrates me and frightens me — and many Americans — that President Obama is dithering around with the decision in Afghanistan,” she said.

Who exactly are the military protecting; Obama’s elites and their egos, or the brave men and women over in Afghanistan?

Next Issue with Free Speech

Here lies the issue. If our military, congress and the Obama Administration are truly claiming to support the constitution of this nation which includes the freedom of speech for every single citizen, then why would Obama and his defenders of socialism be dead set on silencing those exact freedoms?

Why would a defender like Mark Llyod ( FCC Diversity Czar ) believe in the silencing of the press?

“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

“[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance.”

Why would a member of Obama’s team be infatuated with dictators like Hugo Chavez?

“In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution – a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela.

Let me remind you, this is the same Venezuela where Journalists fear for their lives, where they are shot and murdered for their freedom of speech.

A series of violent attacks, including the killing of a newspaper executive, fueled concern among journalists. On June 3, Pierre Fould Gerges, vice president of the Caracas daily Reporte Diario de la Economía, was shot to death by unidentified gunmen.

Why would yet another defender of freedom such as Mr. McChesney wish to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles?

Why would Obama put himself in alignment with these men like McChesney who believes that Marxism is the only way for a society?

Why?

Could it be that maybe this new administration and the one prior ( Patriot Act ) actually do not want you to have your freedoms any longer as they finally believe that now is the time for a real revolution to take place by revoking your first amendment rights that were once protected under the constitution that seems to be fading into obscurity?

Was this part of the CHANGE that Obama has been speaking of by transforming America?

Is this the CHANGE that he wishes to enforce upon each and every one of us who live in America?

Doesn’t this kind of remind you of June 4, 1989 all over again?

Well folks,

First they silence the politicians,
then the silence the media,
then they silenced you…

Yup CHANGE we can all believe in…

Sources

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What part of “Congress shall make NO LAW”  do these congress critters NOT get?

In Defense of the U.S. Constitution and our God-Given Right to Free Speech.

International Legal Conference

on Freedom of Speech & Religion

October 28, 2009

Congressional Auditorium

U.S. Capitol Visitors Center

Washington, D.C.

Presented by

The International Free Press Society,

The Liberty Legal Project International

&

The Center for Security Policy

________________________________

Co-Sponsored by

The Horowitz Freedom Center,

The Florida Security Council &

The O’Leary Report

Program Chair: Ann Fishman

1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

Libel Tourism & Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)

Moderator: Brooke Goldstein

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld – US

David Harris – Canada

Adam Hasner – US/Florida

Joe Sharkey – US

Dr. Paul Williams – US

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

The only journalist to win three first-prize Keystone Press Awards in three different categories in the same year, and the author of such best-selling books as The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia, Osama’s Revenge: The Next 9/11, and The Day of Islam. His work as an investigative reporter and subsequent testimony before grand juries resulted in the arrest and conviction of organized crime figures.

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld

Director of the American Center for Democracy, author of Funding Evil, Evil Money and Narco-Terrorism, namesake of New York’s Rachel’s Law prohibiting enforcement of libel tourism judgments against New York residents.

Pamela Geller

Founder & publisher of the award winning blog Atlasshrugs.com, contributor to Newsmax and The American Thinker.

No Compromise Media

Freedom of Speech Upheld in Golden State – - But Not from Maine to New Mexico
Will Americans Remain Gagged by the New World Order?

by Michael Travis

The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed a law yesterday that will protect American journalist and broadcasters from British and foreign libel judgments and the court rulings of other.

The new legislation effectively negates the practice of libel tourism.

It represents the growing opposition among Americans to Britain’s libel laws, which are in conflict with the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects freedom of speech.

The law gives California courts the power to block libel judgments from Britain and Canada which, the state’s Senate Rules Committee say, have “become the jurisdictional Mecca and Medina for the rich and famous”.

The Committee adds its new law would “diminish the chilling impact of libel tourism on aggressive reporting about important international issues.”

The California law echoes one enacted by the state of New York in March 2008, called the libel terrorism protection act, which is the direct result of the Rachel Ehrenfeld controversy.

Dr. Ehrenfeld was sued in London by a Saudi Arabian businessman over her 2003 book on terrorist financing, Funding Evil, which alleged that the man and his family had provided financial support to Islamic terrorist groups.

Though her book was not published in Britain, some 20 copies had been purchased through UK-registered websites and several excerpts had been published online.

Dr. Ehrenfeld, who chose not to defend the action, was criticized by British judge, Justice David Eady, who ruled that she must pay £10,000 to each plaintiff plus costs; apologize for her false allegations; and destroy all existing copies of her book.

The decision outraged many American politicians, journalists and lawyers who believe the British courts are inhibiting freedom of expression.

Dr.Ehrenfeld has also turned into a campaigner on the issue. She wrote an article last week in protest against the plight of Paul L. Williams and Canada’s libel laws.

Dr. Williams is being tried in Canada for statements he made concerning jihadi activity at McMaster University. The suit, he contends, has stripped him of his professional career and has left him financially destitute.

Two other states – - Illinois and Florida – - have enacted legislation to shield people from libel judgments made outside America.

There is also a proposal to create a federal US law, the Free Speech Protection Act, to bar American courts from enforcing libel judgments issued in foreign courts against US residents if the speech/editorial content would not be considered libelous under American law.

The Daily Mail (London) in an editorial that appeared yesterday refers to London as “the libel capital of the world”. It concludes: “Doesn’t it shame us that one American state after another… has found it necessary to pass laws protecting its citizens’ freedom of expression from the book-burning rulings of the British courts?”

ThoughtRogue:  Apparently, some people, especially liberals in Canadian Parliament, cannot understand the incredibly vital distinction between the Right to Freedom of Speech, and how a person with that right chooses to exercise it.  The liberally concocted “Hate” obsession has fostered the self-delusion to extraordinary levels.  Government prosecution for “hate”, i.e. deciding to be offended by someone else’s speech, then pretending this has caused them great bodily harm, finally culminating in the reading of people’s minds and then condemning them, not only for the criminal use of Free Speech but also for preventing future crimes that certainly MAY occur (perhaps, maybe.. waaaahh!), does not apparently strike a leftist Canadian as loony – not to mention literally uncivilized and dangerous.

Perhaps, just as a fish will never admit that they are all wet, a liberal, leftist MP will never admit that their own use of “Free Speech” and their self-proclaimed ability and authority to adjudicate it is evermore dangerous than mere hate-speech itself.  These kangaroo commissions of goodness which Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn have recently tangled with is of the same strain of virulent liberal sickness which is now attempting to entrap Dr. Paul L. Williams within its blood-sucking tentacles.  What kind of society would attempt to criminalize opinion – by those who disagree with just that certain opinion, of course (the working definition of “hateful” speech!)?

I watched these vids last night and became somewhat mesmerized by Ezra and Mark’s incisive, cogent smackdown of Canada’s wussy kangaroo commissioners regarding the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission.  I suspect a couple of the parliamentarians on the committee panel understood what “freedom of speech” really means, but most of these loons were clearly blinded by their own wishy-washy political-correctness fantasies.  As an evil opinionated U.S. Citizen myself I must ask, Is it a requirement for a Canadian politician to come across at all times as completely wussified and obtuse while as downright BLAND as possible?  HATE!!  Arrest HIM!!  Call in the Free Speech Mounties!

Steyn and I testify before Parliament

By Ezra Levant

Today, Mark Steyn and I testified before Parliament’s Justice and Human Rights Committee, in support of their investigations into the Canadian Human Rights Commission and their discredited censorship powers.

Later this week I’ll share some of my views about how it went, including my assessment of the questions from the MPs. (In a word, I was quite encouraged.) In the meantime, here are YouTube videos of the whole hour, courtesy of SDA Matt. I’m curious how you thought it went: feel free to leave a comment not only about what Steyn and I said, but what the MPs said, too.

Click here to view the rest of the videos of Ezra and Mark’s testimony.

M.T. Sez: In a country of over 300 million citizens, we find it disturbing that when it comes to Constitutional issues and the preservation of American Freedom, we hear only the voices of the same dozen or so brave commentators. The Islamic world has declared the U.S.A. “A Nation of Cowards”. They may be correct.

NC Reminds:  Please read the press release on this issue

by Robert Spencer

Does the United States Constitution protect the freedom of speech of American citizens, or does it not? In this era of globalization, the answer is becoming increasingly muddled. Thursday, an American citizen, Paul Williams, went on trial in Canada. He is charged with violating Canadian libel laws in charges he made in his book The Dunces of Doomsday about a jihad terror cell at McMaster University in Ontario. Likewise in Brazil, an American business writer, Joseph Sharkey, is on trial for what he wrote about Brazilian air-traffic controllers after he survived an airplane crash in Brazil.

Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of eight books, eleven monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran, is available now from Regnery Publishing.

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And I am listening…

by Jim Turner

Make no joke about it, when Zakaria Botros speaks, he means business.

Mr. Botros speaks from experience as he lives and breathes the tyranny of Islam daily; I mean after all he didn’t get the title, “Public Enemy #1” in the Islamic world for nothing.

Thinking about this, how does one get this title?

Mr. Zakaria Botros Speaks

Muslims Pretend to Be Nice People

Ok, I see, so if you tell the truth about what they believe without fear, without compromise, then I guess that puts you on the most wanted list, especially if others leave Islam for another religion like say Christianity?

Yup, so much for freedom of speech ; luckily we here in the west still live in a country that doesn’t believe in the removal of our freedom of speech or the partnering with an organization – (OIC) – that would wish that type of tyranny on any nation.

Unless, that freedom of speech puts Islam in any kind of negative light; weird how tolerance works for one group of people, but not another. It almost sounds like intolerance towards everything except Islam, but hey what do I know, I am just an ignorant westerner.

On a lighter note, I would like to give a SHOUT out to the Obama House, located near Capitol Hill where they just had the Islamic Day of Prayer.

And while we are speaking of the Islamic Day of Prayer that took place on our nation’s capitol, shall we watch some footage of the days events?

Oh yes, I think we shall…

ACT catches Sheikh Gilani extremist in a series of lies at Muslim Prayer Day Washington, DC

And that my friends is CHANGE you can believe in.

America, are you starting to get it; is it finally starting to sink in? If it isn’t, then we better wake up very quickly and pull our heads from the sands in which they are buried, or Sharia will be knocking at our doors demanding each of us to embrace Islam, or, how can I say this gently, have your, “head cut off“.

Yes, in 2009 people are still being beheaded in Islamic countries for no other reason than being a person of different faith, especially if those people are of the Christian faith. You know the faith that America was founded on, a faith where recently a team of, “Christian Orphanage Workers”, in an Islamic country were executed for simply refusing to accept the peaceful beautiful tolerant ways of Islam .

I know, I can hear you all say; Jim, dude, this is America, and this will never happen here. There isn’t a single person of the Islamic faith that would ever want Sharia Law in this country, or Islam as the only religion in America.

And of course I would have to respond with the elegant words so eloquently spoken by the founder of CAIR, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant,” and, “The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”

Yup, there goes that tolerance again, refreshing isn’t it? My favorite part on tolerance is how the Koran should be the highest authority in America and Islam the only religion on Earth. Unfortunately there might be just one issues with that statement, just thinking out loud here for second of course, is that if the Koran is religious then how could it become the law of the land especially with that little pesky separation of Church and State clause that we have here in America. You know the same clause that will not allow Christmas carols to be sung in school, the same clause that forbids the mention of God or prayer at certain events, yet the Koran as the highest authority in America?

Again only thinking out loud here, but maybe Islam isn’t only just a religion after all, maybe it is both a political system and a religion rolled into one?

Of course not, what was I thinking? For that to be the case, you would need someone elected to office in the branch of the government as some type of community organizer in order to be a political entity.

I mean come on, when have you ever heard of a Special Representative for Christians; remember the separation of Church and State thing?

Source

ACT catches Sheikh Gilani extremist in a series of lies at Muslim Prayer Day Washington, DC, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com

“AMERICA: CHRISTIAN NATION OR ISLAMIC BACKWATER?.”
The Last Crusade, October 5, 2009.
http://thelastcrusade.org

Andrew G. Bostom. “FrontPage Magazine – The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading.”
FrontPage Magazine, May 13, 2004.
FrontPage.com

Art Moore. “Did CAIR founder say Islam to rule America?.”
WorldNetDaily, December 11, 2006.
http://www.wnd.com

Dale Hurd. “Is ‘Islamophobia’ a Worldwide Free Speech Threat?.”
CBN News, September 24, 2009, sec. World News.
http://www.cbn.com

Heather Maher. “U.S. Confirms First Special Representative To Muslim Communities.”
Radio Free Europe, September 16, 2009.
http://www.rferl.org

Jim Turner. “Islam on Capitol Hill, NO, oh YES!.”
The Chronicle Watch, September 20, 2009, sec. News / US / Islam.
http://www.chroniclewatch.com

Joe Berkofsky. “Was Berg targeted as a Jew? | JTA – Jewish & Israel News.”
JTA, November 30, 1999.
http://jta.org/

Muslim Prayer at the Capital, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com

“Muslims Behead Four Christian Orphanage Workers in Somalia.”
AINA, August 11, 2009.
http://www.aina.org

Obama speaks, but are you really listening?, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com

“Organization of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ).” Informational.
Discover The Networks.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org

Raymond Ibrahim. “Islam’s ‘Public Enemy #1’ by Raymond Ibrahim on National Review Online.”
National Review Online, March 25, 2008.
http://article.nationalreview.com

Syed Kamran Mirza. “Killing by Beheading is Islamic!.”
FaithFreedom.org
http://www.faithfreedom.org

The New Freedom Of Speech Czar – Mark LLoyd, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

By Tracy Hood, No Compromise Media

American investigative journalist, and author, Dr. Paul L. Williams, will begin his crusade, October 8, in a Toronto courtroom to answer charges of defamation regarding his explosive investigations into missing radio active material at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Williams become entangled in a legal jam with the Canadian university while discussing his book The Dunces of Doomsday on the nationally syndicated “Coast-to-Coast AM” radio program with George Noory.

According to Williams, “What is unique about my case is that my alleged violation of Canadian law took place in the U.S.A. I wrote my book in America, where it was published, and I spoke to American reporters who called me at my home in Pennsylvania. By all standards, what I said and wrote aboutMcMaster University remains well within the libel and defamation laws of our land. Still and all, I am being sued by a foreign entity and have lost not only my freedom but my life savings.”

The case is significant since it represents the first time in American History an American journalist has been forced to submit to a foreign jurisdiction. Williams speculates that the reason Canada is able to sue him over the border is because of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.

NAFTA was signed into law in 1994 eliminating most trade barriers. However, an unintended consequence of NAFTA was the ability for foreign individuals and entities to sue American journalists and authors on libel and defamation suits much harder to adjudicate in America.

Under Canadian law, once an accusation of libel is made, the respondent must prove they are innocent rather than the plaintiff proving guilt.

“I was asked to sign an apology for remarks I made that came straight from the Congressional Record and testimony by a 9/11 Council, Janice Kephart” Williams stated, “These remarks were verified by several federal investigations and researchers; a host of highly reputable journalists, including Bill Gertz and Scott Wheeler of The Washington Times.”

Foreign citizens or entities suing American journalists in foreign courts for libel and defamation is a growing trend, and as a result Congress is stepping into this issue to fortify free speech protection.

US Citizen, Rachel Ehrenfeld, author, and lecturer was also sued for libel in a British court over her controversial book, Funding Evil. She counter sued stating that under American defamation laws her book was not libelous, but her case was dismissed in a New York court. As a result of her case, theNew York legislature passed a law called Rachel’s Law, protecting New York citizens against libel judgements not recognized under American libel jurisprudence.

Senator Arlen Spector (D-PA), alarmed at the increase of libel suits against the American press, has sponsored The Free Speech Protection Act. Spector stated on the Senate floor: “[T]he Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 address[es] a serious challenge to one of the most basic protections in our Constitution. American journalists and academics must have the freedom to investigate, write, speak, and publish about matters of public importance, limited only by the legal standards laid out in our First Amendment jurisprudence.”

Ehrenfeld says, “We need a federal law which allows respondents to counter sue for damages. This law will protect free speech, and be used as a deterrent against foreign lawsuits.”

The House has a similar bill, HR 1304, which would create a “cause of action to determine whether defamation exists under United States law in cases in which defamation actions have been brought in foreign courts against United States persons.”

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but the question is, Are You Listening?

by Mr. H

As we go back and re-examine the speech Obama delivered to the Islamic community, around the world, from the White House, about Ramadan we will have to listen closely to see what we can learn.

This time, instead of writing, the team here at The Chronicle Watch decided to put words into video in order to help better express the concerns that were raised during Obama’s speech.

While there are many issues found in Obamas speech, we are going to address only a handful at this time.

1. His Faith.
2. Communities
3. Organization of the Islamic Center

Let’s listen

source Obama speaks, but are you listening?

Faith

As discussed earlier in an article titled, Mr. Obama is a Christian, we need to continue to ask a simple question.

Why would a self professed Christian recite the Shahada, the Muslims call to faith in perfect Arabic, when the recital makes one a Muslim according to Islamic teachings?

Communities

As we listen to the words of Mr. Obama we hear him bring up the word community time and time again, and now, all of a sudden, we see that the State Department, for the first time ever, appointed a Special Representative to Muslim Communities within the United States.

The question is, is this really the first time that Mr. Obama tried to have Islam breach the White House?

The answer is NO.

In 2008 Mr. Obama appointed a man by the name of Mazen Asbahi as his emissary to the Muslim Communities in the United States. The issue is that this man, Mazen Asbahi, has ties to the Islamic Society of North America which was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case; the Holy Land Foundation is allegedly a front group for the terror organization Hamas.

After this was found out about, Mr. Asbahi, the new community leader resigned in order to, “avoid distracting from Barack Obama’s message of change.” ^{[ 1 ]}

Organization of the Islamic Conference ( OIC)

Continuing on with the speech he delivered, we heard Mr. Obama express how, “we are moving forward to partner with the OIC”.

The question is, who is the OIC?

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations which has membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world and ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world. ^{[ 2 ]}

It seems that from what is expressed on the OIC website, that they are the second largest organization in the world after the United Nations, and that they are the collective voice of the Muslim world.

The next question we have is, what voice are they interested in expressing?

In 2007, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, widely considered to be a “moderate” Muslim professor from Turkey, used the UN’s “International Day of Tolerance” to assert that freedom of speech was unacceptable if it was used to criticize Islam. ^{[ 3 ]}

Then in 2008 this sentiment was expressed yet again.

“In 2008, the Organization of the Islamic Conference laid out a 10-year plan for suppression of free speech and for the introduction of laws that would prevent criticisms of religions and the reading of Islam…” ^{[ 4 ]}

According to the words expressed on the OIC website they claim to be the collective voice of the Muslim world; a voice according to the Cairo Declaration where rights and freedoms are stipulated under strict Islamic law.

The OIC calls itself the collective voice of the world-wide Muslim “ummah,” or nation. It has its own declaration of human rights, called the Cairo Declaration.

The document states “All rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari’ah,” which is strict Islamic law. ^{[ 5 ]}

Another alarming issue is what they, the OIC, consider terrorism. A act so terrorizing that it is a threat to world peace.

Marshall Sana, an Islamic expert at Barnabas Fund, said the OIC “actually wields an enormous amount of influence.”

“That’s been evident the last few years with perhaps its number one agenda item, which is combating ‘Islamophobia‘ as they call it, or the defamation of religion,” he added.

The OIC calls Islamophobia “the worst form of terrorism” and a threat to world peace. ^{[ 6 ]}

Final Thoughts

As we see alignments like never before being made by this administration the question remains, “how can an American President knowing the views and ties within these organization wish to partner with them”?

Why would a president of any nation align themselves with countries that have never been considered friends of the nation in which they rule?

Maybe the answer is that this President is really after a CHANGE; a change that comes under the guise of Islamic law.

Source

1. CHAREN: A friendship of concern, by Mona Charen
   http://www.washingtontimes.com/
2. Organization of the Islamic Conference
   http://www.oic-oci.org/
3. discoverthenetworks.org
   discoverthenetworks.org
4. Is ‘Islamophobia’ a Worldwide Free Speech Threat?, Dale Hurd
   http://www.cbn.com/
5. Ibid
6. Ibid

By Cliff Kincaid

“Is Glenn Beck finished?” is the headline over an article on a left-wing website, insisting that a campaign against Beck’s Fox News Channel program has cost him 36 advertisers and that his show may be cancelled as a result. The campaign against Beck is being waged by a group called Color of Change, whose co-founder, Van Jones, is now Obama’s green-jobs czar.

Not coincidentally, Beck has repeatedly singled out Van Jones for criticism, citing evidence of his communist past. The source of this evidence is New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon, the same researcher who originally unearthed the fact that Obama’s mysterious mentor “Frank” in Obama’s book Dreams from My Father was Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. We confirmed that identification with a separate source and ran with the story last year, even obtaining the 600-page FBI file on Davis. It also came out that Davis was a sex pervert, doper, and pornographer.

The Obama campaign eventually confirmed Frank’s identity but tried to play down his relationship with Obama. Most media gave the scandal a ho-hum.

Trevor Loudon, who deserves far more credit than he gets for smoking out the communists in and around the Obama Administration, broke the Van Jones story back on April 6 and has run several follow-ups. Among other things, he revealed that Jones was a leading member of a Marxist organization known by the acronym STORM, which means Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement. A 96-page history of the organization mentions how several STORM members had traveled to Cuba in the summer of 1999 as part of the Venceremos Brigade. This is the group that was originally sponsored by the Castro regime and the Weather Underground.

To add to the mystery, it turns out that “Van” Jones is not even his real name. His real first name is Anthony; he says he changed it because “Van” sounded cool. Various accounts say that he has been arrested twice.

Aaron Klein of World Net Daily then wrote a story on Jones, citing Loudon’s work. Since then, Beck and others have seized on it. Now, some more of this fascinating story can be told. I have been engaged for months in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests with the Obama Administration for information about Jones and how he was hired.

It seems clear that Jones has undergone, with powerful sponsors and benefactors, an extreme makeover. Beck, to his credit, is trying to peel away the protective cover. He needs our support to remain on the air and pursue this story. The trail will most certainly lead beyond Jones himself.

Who Wrote His Book?

Whatever his real name, he was praised by actor Leonardo DiCaprio in an April 30, 2009, Time magazine article as someone who is “redefining green.” This is one of several sympathetic stories about him.

His book, The Green Collar Economy, includes only the name of “Van Jones” as the author on the cover. But it appears that the book was largely written by Ariane Conrad, an activist and writer whose name appears on the inside, as in, by “Van Jones, with Ariane Conrad.” The use of “with” is morally obligatory and suggests that she helped out in some way with the actual writing.

She says on her blog that she “helped Van write his first, New York Times-bestselling book” and describes herself as someone who has “specialized in working collaboratively with authors, especially first-timers, to produce non-fiction books.”

However, the Jones book relies on discredited “experts” such as Rachel Carson and Paul Ehrlich, who exaggerated environmental dangers and ushered in stronger government controls and regulations. The book denounces the “Indian-killing Teddy Roosevelt,” nuclear power, and the Iraq War and, sounding like Obama, Jones says that “we will have to fundamentally restructure the U.S. economy.” He urges a new global warming treaty.

Ironically, the book was published by Harper One, an imprint of Harper Collins, a division of the same company, News Corporation, which now employs Glenn Beck. The foreword to the Jones book by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. describes his revolutionary plans for a “brave new world” and proclaims, “Let the revolution begin.”

In addition to being one of Ariane Conrad’s successful “first-timers,” Van Jones’ meteoric rise was assisted by many different liberal-left foundations, including the Open Society Institute of George Soros, which helped finance his “Green for All” organization. His book includes endorsements from Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, TV host Tavis Smiley, former Senator Tom Daschle, Arianna Huffington, and Larry Brilliant of Google.

The Ella Baker Center

I visited one of his organizations in Oakland, California, the Ella Baker Center, and discovered a photograph of Communist Angela Davis on the first floor. Ella Baker worked with Communists such as Anne Braden. This fact is noted on the official Baker bio distributed by the organization named in her honor. They are proud of this fact, although they claim that “she had mixed feelings about communism” and only embraced socialism “as a more humane alternative to capitalism.”

Jones shows up on a list of “veteran activists” attending a conference in the summer of 1998 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the same place where Bill Ayers is now a professor. The purpose was to plot the “Black Liberation Agenda for the 21st Century” under the auspices of the Black Radical Congress. Angela Davis participated and the Communist Party USA helped organize the event.

One of Jones’ sons is named Cabral, in honor of Amilcar Cabral, the African Marxist who spoke to Castro’s Tricontinental Congress in 1966 and concluded with these words: “Our wish is that every national liberation movement represented here may be able to repeat in its own country, arms in hand, in unison with its people, the already legendary cry of Cuba: Patria O Muerte, Venceremos! Death to the Forces of Imperialism! Free, Prosperous and Happy Country for Each of our Peoples! Venceremos!”

Stonewalling

The Obama transition project developed a seven-page questionnaire that included 63 questions about an applicant’s background and qualifications for a federal job. The document was supposedly for “every candidate for Cabinet and other high-ranking positions in the incoming administration,” as CNN put it. But there is no indication at this point that Van Jones ever filled out such a form. At the very least, it can be said that I have not been able to obtain a copy of it—and I have asked for any such document.

I have been engaged for months in a series of communications with the White House Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ), where Jones works, in an attempt to discover who hired Jones and why, and what was known about Jones when he was appointed. I have had to resort to using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on several occasions to attempt to get answers. But the answers have not been satisfactory.

However, there is every reason to believe, in this case, that where there is smoke, there is fire. The still-untold story is where the Van Jones trail leads. It obviously leads to the White House. But to whom?

Definitive answers will require that the media stop running puff pieces about Jones and start investigating his background. Glenn Beck should not carry this load alone.

On Fox News, Glenn Beck has raised the question of who “vetted” Van Jones for a job and whether the FBI was bypassed. This is a legitimate area of inquiry. But if Beck’s show is forced off the air, because of advertiser pressure, Jones and his patrons in the White House will have won. And freedom of information and transparency in government will be the losers.

I haven’t reported the answers to my queries until now. But since Glenn Beck’s show could rise or fall, depending on the outcome of his battle with Jones, I believe what is known, or is not known, should now be put on the record. It is clear that Beck is on the right track and he deserves enormous credit for tackling this important story. It may be as important as the Frank Marshall Davis scandal.

What remains to be determined is what personal relationship, if any, there is between Jones and Obama. If Obama didn’t select him for a post in the administration, who did?

I began this quest, after Trevor Loudon and World Net Daily ran their stories, with telephone calls and emails to Van Jones himself, his assistant and the press representative for the CEQ. None of these calls or emails was returned.

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NC Sez: This woman is such a freakin’ hypocrite!