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Doc Zero knocks the cover off the Van Jones ball

Here's the money quote from Doc Zero's essay on Van Jones at, "The Green Room"; where he hits the hanging Van Jones curve ball right outta da park!

Fascism is a particularly ugly form of collectivist economics because it retains the illusion of private industry, which is dominated by the state. Private industry does not like to be dominated; it resists. This gives the fascist an early, and urgent, need for domestic enemies he can rally the public against. Van Jones signed a document alleging that Obama’s predecessors, in collusion with a huge number of military and civilian government personnel, conspired to murder thousands of American citizens for financial gain. Obama wanted to put him in charge of an agency that would use its lavish funding to assert that uncooperative businesses are conspiring to destroy the planet for financial gain. It would disburse taxpayer subsidies to politically connected businesses that support the President’s environmental agenda, which is marketed as a mystical religious faith, with dissension treated as heresy. Does any of that sound designed to bring Americans closer together?

The media is trying to ignore the Van Jones outrage. Don’t let them. This is not a “mistake.” A mistake is a matter of chance, a momentary failure of reason and wisdom. This is part of a pattern. Are we supposed to believe Obama knew nothing about any of his appointees? Are we expected to believe his White House staff is utterly incapable of matching the research a bunch of bloggers managed in less than twenty-four hours? Would President John McCain have been indulged if he’d appointed a “white nationalist” who signed a petition calling for the investigation of Bill Clinton in the murder of Vince Foster? The paper Van Jones signed says that every soldier who fell in Iraq died to cover up an act of mass murder, joining thousands of willing accomplices. That’s not an “indiscretion.” It’s an insult to everyone who died on September 11, everyone who mourns them, everyone who comforted the mourners, and everyone who fought to bring justice to the murderers.

[emphasis mine]

Do yourself a favor, read the whole thing; it's insightful and thought provoking

Rocketman