On the very next day after the 9/11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, Van Jones attended an "opposition rally" in Snow Park in Oakland, CA. According to an account on the ultra-leftist website IndyBay.org, Jones made the following statement on the microphone to the crowd of approximately 2,000 anti-Israel, Socialist, Free Mumia and pro-Arab activists gathered there:
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"The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City....The US cannot bomb its way out of this one. Safety at home requires justice abroad."
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The statement of direct linkage between the 9/11 attacks and U.S. foreign policy may remind many Americans of the statement of Barack Obama's longtime pastor and mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who said in 2001: "America's chickens are comin' home to roost". Except the person who said the words above is a high-ranking official in the Obama Adminstration responsible for directing $30 billion in taxpayer funds, and a close ally of the President.
At the same "rally" several other participants were quoted. One "Filipino human rights activist" reportedly said:
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"(W)hen we found out what kind of place got hit, we were kind of glad to see the Pentagon burning. But we also know that thousands of Puerto Ricans, Haitians and other workers were in those buildings."
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The "Solidarity Gathering" was organized, according to another website, to "support the Arab American community, which is suffering from a tidal wave of bigotry in the wake of Tuesday's bombings in New York City and Washington, D.C."
Many Americans were outraged when they heard the hateful comments of Rev. Wright in the Spring of 2008. Barack Obama gave a well-hyped speech in Philadelpia where he explained Wright's comments and how his own views differed. Later, after nasty comments by Wright at a Press Club appearance, Obama distanced himself more formally from Wright. But millions of Americans remained concerned that the views of Wright were in reality much closer to Obama's own beliefs, despite the insistence of Obama and Democrats.
Now, in his high-level "Green Jobs" Czar appointment Van Jones, the worst fears of those Americans may have been realized--the anti-American views of Reverend Wright are right at home in the White House.
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