What's really behind the Van Jones firing -- excuse me, I meant "resignation"
One of the worst results of the "meme wars" going on in Washington, D.C. and across this country is how environmentalism is being demonized. I just finished watching Glenn Beck, and his shameless idiocy about DDT "being good for you" was transparent enough not to obscure the real truth behind the Van Jones firing. David Sirota pointed out out this morning on Huffington Post that the logic of the hacks in the Obama White House will backfire: "resigning" (like "suiciding") Jones will only embolden the radicals who call themselves "conservatives". In fact, the Jones story is an opening salvo in a new war by so-called "conservatives" against the entire program of building a more sustainable society.
In fact, the story of Mr. Jones, before he was savagely attacked and left to die by the Obama White House, is a story of a man, who struggled to find a means to contribute to an American system that has deep and pervasive failures. The story of Mr. Jones is not that of a closet Marxist, but instead of someone who asked, how can we encourage the deeply flawed capitalist system of the United States to create jobs that will lead to a flourishing economy that also has improves our environment? The cynical and shameless attack on him is about far more than simply his support of a petition that questions the official narrative on 9/11. As I describe below, the "conservative" movements in this country are gripped by a directive to attack all resolution of the artificial war between "economy" and "ecology" as "Communist". Who is issuing this directive? A clue might consist in examining the news that in recent weeks, the U.S. Chambers of Commerce announced at the Business Roundtable that they were devoting substantial resources to fighting both health care reform and climate-change legislation. Look there for the marching orders that filter through the actions of men driven by cynical passion such as Phil Kerpen, one of the authors of the script for Mr. Jone's expulsion from public service.
A few minutes ago, on Fox News, Phil Kerpen just revealed to a broader public the exact modus operandi and proschemata (Thucydides, in War of the History of the Peloponnesian War, who identified fear, honor and interest as three primary reasons why wars are waged, while proschemata are the often false pretexts for conflict -- see 'casus belli') of the attack on Van Jones. Emboldened by a theory that many "conservatives" have that there is a "red-green" or "watermelon" agenda to the environmental movement, Mr. Kerpen spent two weeks researching everything he could on Mr. Jones. In touch with one of the producers of Mr. Beck's show, Mr. Kerpen reveals that his real target is the "Apollo Alliance...the national umbrella organization for coordinating between the environmentalists, the labor unions, and the social justice street organizers that Jones has served as a board member and a primary national spokesman for...." Gleefully, Mr. Kerpen outlines here http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/06/phil-kerpen-van-jones-resign/ how he has identified the "real agenda" behind the creation of green jobs: " (quote from FOXnews above)
In fact, the story of Mr. Jones, before he was savagely attacked and left to die by the Obama White House, is a story of a man, who struggled to find a means to contribute to an American system that has deep and pervasive failures. The story of Mr. Jones is not that of a closet Marxist, but instead of someone who asked, how can we encourage the deeply flawed capitalist system of the United States to create jobs that will lead to a flourishing economy that also has improves our environment? The cynical and shameless attack on him is about far more than simply his support of a petition that questions the official narrative on 9/11. As I describe below, the "conservative" movements in this country are gripped by a directive to attack all resolution of the artificial war between "economy" and "ecology" as "Communist". Who is issuing this directive? A clue might consist in examining the news that in recent weeks, the U.S. Chambers of Commerce announced at the Business Roundtable that they were devoting substantial resources to fighting both health care reform and climate-change legislation. Look there for the marching orders that filter through the actions of men driven by cynical passion such as Phil Kerpen, one of the authors of the script for Mr. Jone's expulsion from public service.
A few minutes ago, on Fox News, Phil Kerpen just revealed to a broader public the exact modus operandi and proschemata (Thucydides, in War of the History of the Peloponnesian War, who identified fear, honor and interest as three primary reasons why wars are waged, while proschemata are the often false pretexts for conflict -- see 'casus belli') of the attack on Van Jones. Emboldened by a theory that many "conservatives" have that there is a "red-green" or "watermelon" agenda to the environmental movement, Mr. Kerpen spent two weeks researching everything he could on Mr. Jones. In touch with one of the producers of Mr. Beck's show, Mr. Kerpen reveals that his real target is the "Apollo Alliance...the national umbrella organization for coordinating between the environmentalists, the labor unions, and the social justice street organizers that Jones has served as a board member and a primary national spokesman for...." Gleefully, Mr. Kerpen outlines here http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/06/phil-kerpen-van-jones-resign/ how he has identified the "real agenda" behind the creation of green jobs: " (quote from FOXnews above)
This is political war, folks. We live in absurd times, where the worst are 'slouching towards Bethlehem' and 'the center does not hold'. Instead, the fringe is funded and amplified to become the mainstream, and anyone who exemplifies the process of mature political evolution from radicalism toward true public service, such as Mr. Jones, is attacked and blacklisted. The "anti-communist" meme code, buried like a meningitis virus deep in the spinal cord of American politics, has been activated, and it will not rest until either: it has exhausted its virulent devastation of people's energy and emotion, or, like the Army attorney, Mr. Welch, who finally opposed Joe McCarthy in April 1954: ""Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?""
"the push for "green jobs" has everything to do with funding the far-left political activities that Van Jones so adamantly believed in. Green jobs are not economic jobs but political jobs, designed to funnel vast sums of taxpayer money to left-wing labor unions, environmental groups, and social justice community organizers."
