Van "The Man" Jones, Barack Obama's "Green Jobs czar,"  resigned just after midnight Sunday morning, saying he had to quit because "opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me."  This vicious smear campaign consisted of quoting outrageous statements he'd made in the past, including posting videos to You Tube showing him actually making those statements.  As a matter of fact, I saw several sites refer to Jones as "the One-Man You Tube Channel" for all the videos concerned citizens posted there recording him uttering his left-wing extremist rantings.

I thought it might amuse my readers to reprint some of his lunatic ravings, so here's a sampling from the Fox News website:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,546602,00.html.  For some reason, I was unable to find any of these transcripts on any of the mainstream media websites.  I wonder why?

"The white polluters and the white environmentalists [italics are mine] are essentially steering poison into the people of color's communities because they don't have a racial justice frame."  It doesn't sound to me like this fellow's colorblind, as his President claims we should be.

"Right now we're saying we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to some kind of eco-capitalism where, you know, at least we're not - you know - fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet.  Will that be enough? No, it won't be enough. We want to go beyond excess and exploitation and oppression altogether, but that's a process."  This is a recurring theme with Jones:  pollution is oppression that is especially directed at minorities.

Jones also made at least one derogatory comment about Republicans and compared President Bush to a "crack addict" in some of his more controversial rants, and it turns out he also signed a petition calling for an investigation into the Bush administration for orchestrating the 9/11 attacks.  In the lexicon of the far left, this is known as Bush "MIHOP" (Made It Happen On Purpose) (as opposed to LIHOP - Let It Happen On Purpose), and it marks Jones as a far left "truther" - short for someone who "wants to get the truth out" about what happened on 9/11/01.  Jones may be the first conspiracy theorist White House special assistant ever.

So Jones is gone and, predictably, many on the left are upset.  Says one Ben Mangan, a greenie writing a guest column in the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, "I was sad, but unsurprised to read the news that Van Jones decided to resign his post..."  Perhaps more surprisingly, though, I'm sad, too.  "Why?," you ask.  It's simple, really.  This guy was a poster boy for the excesses of the left.  Hearing and seeing what he has to say, one can easily picture conservatism as a barrier against the nutty leftists who are coming out of the woodwork as part of the Obama Administration's attempt to reshape our great country as a socialist "paradise."  That would be worth a lot of votes to our side.  Let's face it; Jones' misstep here wasn't his leftist rants.  His mistake was being too honest about what he, on behalf of the Obama Administration, was going to try to accomplish.

You see, environmentalism isn't about protecting the environment. It started out that way, as the air in many large cities and the rivers near them were polluted to the extent that they presented a health hazard to many of their inhabitants.  40 years later, those threats are largely eliminated, and with everyone's awareness raised, efforts to prevent a re-occurrence are ongoing.  But the real goal of environmentalism was and is to engineer a government takeover of the means of production.  The left intended to accomplish this goal using the American public's fear of possible "eco-disasters" to get them to vote for legislators and government executives who would pass laws giving the federal government what amounted to regulatory veto power over how private corporations operated.  Combine these restrictive environmental regulations with pro-union laws mandating a union presence in every company and affirmative action laws and you have enabled the government to dictate how they do business, the essence of both socialism and fascism.  

Enabling a government takeover of the private sector was viewed as a good thing by the left, because it would enable them to have "enlightened" government agencies dictate their do-gooder, "caring" policies to corporations, relieving their stockholders and board of that burden.  Unfortunately, with government able to dictate such policies at will, there wasn't likely to be much concern with such trifles as cost-effectiveness and customer service; such things tend to be the province of a company's stockholders and customers.  And ignoring these concerns would, ultimately, make America a much poorer place overall, with leftist interest groups and not efficiency driving the economy.  Fortunately, most Americans know enough about economics to understand the truth of this, and they drew the line at voting for candidates known to favor inefficient "green" policies such as over-engineering the fuel economy of American-made automobiles.

However, the left wasn't done, not by a long shot.  Their next attempt at eco-fearmongering came in the late 1970s, when leftist climatologists began to raise an alarm over the impending onset of "nuclear winter," which they were predicting based on the supposed rapid decline of the average global temperature.  The alleged cause of this cooling was particulate matter produced by autos and industries burning fossil fuels.  This soot was supposedly blocking sunlight and causing global cooling.  By the mid 1980s, it was obvious that average temperatures were actually rising, so the new climate crisis du jour became "global warming," again supposedly caused by autos and industries burning fossil fuels, but this time carbon dioxide and not soot was the culprit.  Carbon dioxide, you see, is a "greenhouse gas" which if present in the atmosphere allows ultraviolet radiation from the sun to penetrate down to the ground.  Once the Earth absorbs that radiation, however, it's re-radiated as infrared back into the atmosphere, and since carbon dioxide traps IR radiation, the Earth will warm up.  One can see this effect on Venus, where atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the surface temperature to approach 900 degrees Fahrenheit, but on the other hand, the Venusian atmosphere is over 99% carbon dioxide.  Here on Earth, it's currently about .0036%, up from .0027% about a century ago.  While it's believable that this increase is due to industrial and automotive activity, it's not believable that such a minute rise in carbon dioxide level is causing some kind of major warming phenomenon, at least not to sane observers.  Furthermore, there's no empirical, laboratory evidence that this could be the cause of any significant warming to counter this common-sense conclusion.

Now, though, average temperatures are down slightly over the last 10 years, making it one of the coolest decades in the last century, which would also tend to make one believe that the slight rise in carbon dioxide levels over the last 150 years or so aren't having much, if any, impact.  But the liberals, who can't give up if they hope to achieve their socialist goals, have tacked once again and again renamed the crisis, this time as "global climate change."  Finally, they've reached a point where they're safe from contradiction, because of course the Earth's climate is changing.  We know it is because it's always changing and always has been, whether or not man has been present.  Therefore, no sane person believes that people have enough impact to affect it much one way or the other.  Liberals, most of whom actually are sane, in spite of appearances, don't believe it either, but they slyly hope to get us to buy into this myth to achieve their goal of giving government domination of the private sector.

Barack Obama, as a typical left-wing liberal, shares this agenda.  That's why he appointed Van Jones as his Green Jobs czar - to help advance it.  Unfortunately, Jones isn't quite the politician Obama and his liberal pals in Congress are.  They understand the need for incrementalism and "compromise" when usurping our freedom; Jones was naive and deluded enough to think most Americans will see the "wisdom" of his positions.  But they don't, and that was his mistake.  Van the Man told the truth about what Obama Administration officials and liberal members of Congress say only in private, and for that, unfortunately, he had to go.  I say "unfortunate" because he would have served as a warning to the average American of the dangers liberal Democrats pose to our freedom.  But don't expect that the libbies have given up.  They'll never give up, which is why the next "Green Jobs czar" appointee will be someone with the exact same point of view.  The only way to change things is to vote against liberalism and eco-terrorism in 2010 and 2012.