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resignation came after pressure over his

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Who's Who at WND Then there's Cass Sunstein, the Harvard Law professor named the regulator czar.
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Speakers and Talk Show He's also been on the population control bandwagon, advocated animal rights and
Guests followed the teachings of Peter Singer devoutly. Singer has argued that abortion should
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be allowed because killing unborn babies isn't like homicide.

"Killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants
to go on living."

He also discussed outlawing sport hunting and giving animals the legal right to file
lawsuits.

"Any animals that are entitled to bring suit would be represented by (human) counsel,
who would owe guardian-like obligations and make decisions, subject to those
obligations, on their clients' behalf," he suggested.

Then there's Mark Lloyd, the "diversity czar" who has talked about issues such as a 100
percent tax on broadcast outlets in order to collect money to provide alternative
viewpoints, mandatory diversity in station ownership and the idea of requiring broadcast
businesses to cater to the demands of local activism committees.

Republican Congressman Mike Pence said all such appointees should be reviewed by
Congress like those who take various cabinet positions and must be approved by elected
legislators.

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According to a Fox report, Pence said the czars should be subject to background checks
and a vote.

"I’m suggesting that the administration should suspend immediately any future czar
appointments while both the constitutionality of this practice is examined and while the
background and qualifications of individuals who’ve been appointed as czars is carefully
examined," Pence over the weekend.

While Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin was describing the treatment of Jones as
being "swift-boated," Obama was pushing ahead with the appointment today of Ron
Bloom as manufacturing czar, bringing to nearly three dozen the political appointees
who wield huge influence but effectively answer only to the president.

A blogger at RedState.com, however, addressed the idea that perhaps there was no
breakdown in the vetting process for the candidates with radical ideas out of alignment
with mainstream America.

Perhaps, the commentator suggested, the individuals were chosen because of those
ideas.

"Over at The Corner at NRO, Andy McCarthy has a different take – one that I believe is
quite accurate. McCarthy asserts that Jones was chosen precisely because of his
controversial background," said RedState.com

The blog quoted McCarthey's statements: "The point, of course, is that Obama vetted
Jones just fine. President Obama is not Mr. Magoo – haplessly gravitating to Truther
Van and Ayers and Dohrn and Klonsky and Davis and Wright and the Chicago New Party
and ACORN, etc. Jones is a kindred spirit. Obama knows exactly who he is. Jones was
given a non-confirmation job precisely because that circumvented the vetting process.
This isn't one of those things that just happen.

"The two have the same kinds of backgrounds. They were both community organizers of
some ilk. It only makes sense that Obama would seek someone with the same
background to pursue one of his pet policies – 'green jobs,'" he continued.

The RedState blog pointed out that someone – probably someone very high up – had to
approve Jones personally – or he never would have been given access to the White
House.

"As former Reagan staffer Jeffrey Lord explains at the Spectator, the Secret Service
carefully scrutinizes the background of everyone who works at the White House. With
his background, Van Jones couldn't possibly have gotten into the White House, much
less had physical access to the president, unless the top echelon of the administration
(I'd wager, the very top) overrode any objections," the blogger said.

"The … likelihood is that the Obama staff simply told them to give him a pass."

"Conservatives are no doubt emboldened to go after more of Obama's czars," the

analysis continued, "with the expectation that they, too, are 'under-vetted.' Indeed, there
are several who appear to have questionable backgrounds – from our perspective. But do
they from Obama's perspective?

"This was not a mistake by Obama," he continued. "The appointments of Jones, Mark
Lloyd, and other 'Czars of the Obama Underworld' were quite intentional. … He is a
socialist ideologue who has a mission to transform America into a weath-redistributing,
big-government nanny state – and has built the team (without oversight that would
expose their backgrounds and ideology) that he believes can help him accomplish that
objective."

One of the participants in the RedState forum page expressed the idea of Obama
throwing liberals at a wall to see if they stick.

"If they stick (read: stay) they are free w/o congressional approval/oversight to do the
radical agenda bidding."
At Politico.com, there was agreement with the assessment.

"With the resignation of green jobs adviser Van Jones, the conservative firing squad is
setting its sights on other White House czars," wrote Lisa Lerer. "The resignation of
Jones – who stepped down from his post as the White House green jobs adviser early
Sunday morning, citing a 'vicious smear campaign' waged against him by 'opponents of
reform' – was a win for conservative politicians and pundits who waged a months-long
campaign hammering him for comments he made in his previous post as an
environmental activist for poor and minority communities."

Lerer specifically cited Holdren for his "involuntary fertility control methods like
mandatory abortions, mandating family size and adding sterilants to drinking water…"

Also identified was Sunstein, who "supported taking people's organs 'against their will.'"

Lloyd was mentioned again, too.

It was in April when Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for WND.com, broke the first
major story on Jones who was identified as a self-described radical communist and
"rowdy black nationalist" who said his environmental activism was actually a means to
fight for racial and class "justice."

Succeeding revelations by WND included:

l Jones previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a

founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director.

l Jones was co-founder of a black activist organization that has led a campaign
prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News
Channel program. The revelation followed Beck's reports on WND's story about
Jones' communist background.

l That Jones and other White House appointees may have been screened by an
ACORN associate.

l One day after the 9/11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with
Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S.
imperialism" around the world.

l Just days before his White House appointment, Jones used a forum at a major
youth convention to push for a radical agenda that included spreading the wealth
and "changing the whole system."

l Jones' Maoist manifesto while leading the group Standing Together to Organize a
Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, was scrubbed from the Internet after being
revealed by WND.

l Jones was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged "resistance" against the
U.S. government – a demonstration sponsored by an organization associated with
the Revolutionary Communist Party.

l In a 2005 conference, Jones characterized the U.S. as an "apartheid regime" that

civil rights workers helped turn into a "struggling, fledgling democracy."

l Jones signed a petition calling for nationwide "resistance" against police, accusing
them of using the 9/11 attacks to carry out policies of torture.

While talk radio and some cable television shows such as Glenn Beck picked up WND's
reporting and increased the pressure on the administration to cut Jones loose, there was
no significant press coverage of the scandal by the major U.S. news media until late last
week.

Lawyer and conservative political analyst Phyllis Schlafly notes there are other possible
questions to be raised for members of the czar corps.

"So far, Obama has appointed 34 czars. Just listing them is enough to scare anyone who
believes in constitutional and representative government: Afghanistan czar, AIDS czar,
border czar, car czar, climate czar, copyright czar, cyberspace czar, drug czar, economic
czar, education czar, energy czar, executive pay czar, faith-based czar, Great Lakes czar,
green jobs czar, Guantanamo closure czar, health reform czar, infotech czar,
intelligence czar, Iran czar, Middle East peace czar, non-proliferation czar, Persian
Gulf/Southeast Asia czar, regulatory czar, science czar, stimulus accountability czar,
Sudan czar, TARP czar, terrorism czar, urban czar, war czar, and WMD and terrorism
czar," she wrote.
"At least one Obama pal is functioning in a similar capacity without the awesome
Russian title of czar. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who publicly
withdrew from his appointment as secretary of health and human services because of
non-payment of income taxes, is providing 'outside advice' to the president inside the
Oval Office and to top White House officials, while continuing as a highly paid policy
adviser to hospital and pharmaceutical clients of a law and lobbying firm," she said.

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Van Jones: 'Resist' against police

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Obama czar: U.S. was 'apartheid regime'

White House czar urged 'resistance' against U.S.

Czar's 'communist manifesto' scrubbed from Net

Obama 'czar': 'Spread the wealth! Change the whole system'

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Bob Unruh is a news editor for WorldNetDaily.com.

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