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If the Van Jones resignation is blamed on his statements about Republicans and 9/11, a great lesson will have been lost. As we argued in a previous column, "It's the communism, stupid." If people don't recognize the dangers of having a communist in the White House, then the nature of the scandal will not have been understood. Blogger Trevor Loudon of New Zealand broke the story (web site) on April 6 and has some thoughts on what happened and where this story is heading.

His main point is that Van Jones and Barack Obama share the same Marxist ideology and background. Obama, however, is more careful and clever.

There's an old saying, "If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter which road you take." As Trevor Loudon argues, Jones and Obama know precisely where they're going. And the Jones resignation doesn't mean that Obama will take a detour from the road that he wants to take the country on. Indeed, as Loudon explains, they are both on the same road.

The development of the scandal, which was seized upon by World Net Daily, Glenn Beck and other media outlets and personalities, began in Loudon's research into the existence of communist networks. Loudon blogs at www.newzeal.blogspot.com (web site) A compilation of his most important articles on Jones can be found here.

Loudon tells me, "I began to investigate Van Jones after seeing several separate pieces of information. I first came across the name in the mid 1990s in a New Zealand socialist publication which had a small clip about Van Jones―a Yale educated lawyer involved in STORM―Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement. The name stuck." 

While researching the far-left think Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which Loudon considers the Obama administration's "ideas bank," Loudon found a piece by IPS staffer Chuck Collins recommending Van Jones for a top government job. A September 26, 2008 article, posted on the IPS website by Chuck Collins, offered 22 names they thought would make suitable appointments for an Obama administration. He included, "Van Jones, of the Ella Baker Center, to direct the Commerce Department's new 'green jobs initiative.'"

Remember that this was before the election. 

"I researched Jones again at that point and found he was a fellow at the Center for American Progress," Loudon says, referring to the George Soros-funded entity. 

Then a few days after the election he found a statement from former Weather Underground terrorist leader Mark Rudd, who was trying to ease fellow leftists' concerns at some of Obama's so-called "moderate" or "conservative" appointments, mostly in the economic realm. Rudd declared: (web site) 

"Obama plays basketball. I'm not much of an athlete, barely know the game, but one thing I do know is that you have to be able to look like you're doing one thing but do another. That's why all these conservative appointments are important: the strategy is feint to the right, move left. Any other strategy invites sure defeat. It would be stupid to do otherwise in this environment.

"Look to the second level appointments. There's a whole govt. in waiting that [John] Podesta has at the Center for American Progress. They're mostly progressives, I'm told (except in military and foreign policy). Cheney was extremely effective at controlling policy by putting his people in at second-level positions."

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