are available at the original URL.

Done.
Signed the petition here.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/support-van-jones

Actually, I have been ignoring all the Van Jones controversy, because the media has tremendous focus on finding his faults.
However, "9/11 Truther" is in the news. I stand with that issue and I focus on that issue.
Example--> "9/11 Truther on Fox" http://community2.myfoxdfw.com/_911-TRUTHER-on-FOX-/blog/636306/78592.html

Not address the questions in the statement, or the 50+ family members that endorsed it at the time, or why not cover the reasons why something as "newsworthy" as the statement was not covered by media at the time?

........so we should stay out of it. We are about shattering the false left/right paradigm, not bolstering it. The pols and the press would love to spin this out of control and put an end to our noisy ways. Don't give them what they want, If he disavows us, then we have no choice but to distance ourselves. No worries. The press we've received is already huge. The reason it's filled with such vitriol is because the mere fact that he signed the petition has lent credibility to our cause. We don't need to do anything else.

If my recollection serves me, I remember when Cindy Sheehan signed a petition only later to claim she was deceived. And now she stands rank and file at many of our events. We should move forward in faith that "once a truther, always a truther" will prevail. Let politics twist and turn as it may. It doesn't deter us from our ultimate goal. Maybe this is the beginning of 911 truth being a hot button issue -- like gay rights, abortion, etc. If that is the case, then pat yourself on the back for helping bring 911 truth up from #600 to the top three hot issues.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for black leaders and green policies, but the paradigms of the past that endeavor to advance or deter progressive thinking are the same paradigms that inhibit America from dealing face to face with the 9/11 crisis. I have no choice but to distance myself from it all.

Although I'm in deep resonance with many of Mr. Jones' visions and ideas for a green economy- ask me about my ideas for "Permaculturalizing the Pentagon-", I cannot support him in his playing deceptive politics with truth and justice. I didn't sign up for that. And this is not because I'm a puritanical idealist who thinks that the "truth" is an ultimate good in a moral universe. For example, if blackjackboots are at the door asking whether Muslims, Jews, Arabs, Christians, patriots, 9/11 "truthers", etc. are in the house, the moral answer is "no," or "none of your business" backed up by some implied force. However, I don't think this is that situation. Though, I guess you could posit that the stormtroopers are knocking on the door of the White House asking if they are housing any radical, militant, black 9/11 "truthers;" except the fact that Obama continues and is amplifying the orders that end up in the homicide of more innocent brown people in the insistent name of preventing those who attacked us on 9/11 from doing it again flies right in the face of that position.

In terms of informational reach and the sparking of discussion and debate, this is likely going to play in the favor of truth and justice. Everytime the mainstream media puts up 911truth.org on the top of their corporatist-sponsored screens, another concrete layer of the dam holding back the nourishing waters of truth and justice is worn away. As long as there is no violent action involved in the matter, which would be impossible anyways since all the 9/11 truth groups seek change through satyagraha, the non-violence of truthforce or soulpower, the media play surrounding getting the fact of the contention of the issue out serves the truth in the long run.

This was part of the strategic thinking behind interrupting Bill Maher's show. Yes, they can paint us as nuts, and we want to do our best to not play into their hands, but ultimately if the discussion begins to be had, no matter how contentious and vile the media feeding frenzy is, if people see "9/11truth.org" or WTC 7 being demolished, those with just a little curiosity will be lead into thinking it out for themselves. And that is really the basis, I think, for the political foundation of those that advovate for seeking and exposing the truth of 9/11- a people who think for themselves in dialogue with each other and the facts as they lay.

9/11 truth, as we all know in our hearts and from experience, is one of the most politically contentious discussions of our age. It also has some of the most wide-ranging political implications of any discussion. However, it is not a shallow or myopic politics that is implied by grappling with the truth of 9/11. It serves to inform the basis for any society that is to have a politics that is life-affirming. If political and policy concerns-, no matter how impactful on human lives, such as health care, ecological/economical sustainability and abundance, war and peace are- trump reality, i.e. that which actually happened or is happening, for the sake of short-term political convenience, you will inevitably end up at some sort of colective spiritual gulag.

Mr. Jones, if you really want to create policies, and moreover, a politics of ecological and economic liberty and abundance, it's time to stand on the necessary foundation of truth and justice that must underlie the (White)housing of those policies and politics. You are not so special an organizer that the quite compelling ideas you have set forth won't continue to percolate into the future, while seeding the present with possibility, if you were to be hung out to dry for your convictions (not your views or your opinions). The world and multitudes of the unique human beings that inhabit it continue to be burned alive, fueled by the racist, vicious lies you have just cowed to and, in many ways, cozied up to.

It's time to truth on up homey!

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.” –Plato

"We must speak the truth about terror." --George W. Bush

It is my personal speculation that the smear campaign against Jones was designed to hit the news just prior to September 11th in order to denegrate 9/11 Truth. The "black ops media" wanted to throw a first punch, just like the National Geographic first strike.

My view is to ignore the Van Jones issue. But continue to push the 9/11 Truth issue; to continue to encourage people to view and look and observe what is being censored about 9/11.