A Czar Too Far - #7
Published in July 28th, 2009 Posted by TMH in 2nd Amendment, American Revolution, Authors, Constitution, Financial, Founding Fathers, Illegal Immigration, Military, Pandemics, Politics, Religion, Survival, Taxation, Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, TerrorismBy: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Regulatory Czar - Cass Sunstein
Meet your future Regulatory Czar - Mr. Cass Sunstein. He is a so-called American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law and behavioral economics. For 27 years, Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago Law School where he continues to teach as the Harry Kalven Visiting Professor. Sunstein is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Sunstein will head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration if confirmed - in other words, he will be the new Regulatory Czar.
Sunstein is a proponent of the ‘nudge’ philosophy - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness:
By a nudge we mean anything that influences our choices. A school cafeteria might try to nudge kids toward good diets by putting the healthiest foods at front. We think that it’s time for institutions, including government, to become much more user-friendly by enlisting the science of choice to make life easier for people and by gentling nudging them in directions that will make their lives better.
In other words, you institute change by constantly tweaking the law, etc. until it becomes what you want it to be. Fascist baby steps if you will. From Wikipedia:
Sunstein (along with his coauthor Richard Thaler) has elaborated the theory of libertarian paternalism. In arguing for this theory, he counsels thinkers/academics/politicians to embrace the findings of behavioral economics as applied to law, maintaining freedom of choice while also steering people’s decisions in directions that will make their lives go better. With Thaler, he coined the term “choice architect.”
He also has views on a ‘New Deal’ for speech and he seeks to tweak the Constitution so to speak (actually, more like rewriting it) in this area as well as others…
1st Amendment
In his book Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech Sunstein says there is a need to reformulate First Amendment law. He thinks that the current formulation, based on Justice Holmes’ conception of free speech as a marketplace “disserves the aspirations of those who wrote America’s founding document.” The purpose of this reformulation would be to “reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation, by ensuring greater attention to public issues and greater diversity of views.” He is concerned by the present “situation in which like-minded people speak or listen mostly to one another,” and thinks that in “light of astonishing economic and technological changes, we must doubt whether, as interpreted, the constitutional guarantee of free speech is adequately serving democratic goals.” He proposes a “New Deal for speech [that] would draw on Justice Brandeis’ insistence on the role of free speech in promoting political deliberation and citizenship.”
Justice Brandeis was a big supporter of President Wilson. Read more on him here…
Animal Rights
Sunstein has also written often in favor of animal rights. “Every reasonable person believes in animal rights,” he says. He also says that human “willingness to subject animals to unjustified suffering will be seen … as a form of unconscionable barbarity… morally akin to slavery and the mass extermination of human beings,” and that we might “conclude that certain practices cannot be defended and should not be allowed to continue, if, in practice, mere regulation will inevitably be insufficient—and if, in practice, mere regulation will ensure that the level of animal suffering will remain very high.” Specifically he thinks that, “we ought to ban hunting.” He also thinks that “we could even grant animals a right to bring suit” and that it is possible that “that before long, Congress will grant standing to animals to protect their own rights and interests.” This all stems from his claim that “animals, species as such, and perhaps even natural objects warrant respect for their own sake, and quite apart from their interactions with human beings.”
Giving "animals a right to bring suit" really means giving liberals more rights to sue claiming to be acting on behalf of animals.
Sunstein is a devout disciple of Peter Singer who is a bio-ethicist. He is rabidly anti-second amendment - no more hunting would be allowed under his watch. He believes that animals should have attorneys and be able to be represented in court. Here are some of his views quoted on the Glenn Beck show - from WorldNetDaily:
Can't wait for antelope to sue lions. Seals to sue polar bears and orcas. Ants to sue anteaters.
Martosko told Beck, “When you embrace this whole utilitarian idea, guess what else comes in the back door? Some animals, according to Singer, are worth more than some humans. A smart border collie, he says, is worth more, inherently, than a retarded child. … Cass Sunstein has embraced the whole enchilada. … He believes that animals should have some of the same rights as humans, in fact, greater rights than some people – including the right to follow lawsuits.”
Sunstein is a raving animal rights nut who believes that certain animals have more intrinsic worth than humans.
This guy is a Constitutional nightmare on steroids:
As WND reported, Sunstein has also been an outspoken proponent of tough restriction on gun sales and ownership and what has been characterized as a “Fairness Doctrine” for the Internet. Revelations about Cass Sunstein’s views on the “Fairness Doctrine” come in a book by Brad O’Leary, ” Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech.” Sunstein also has argued in his prolific literary works that the Internet is anti-democratic because of the way users can filter out information of their own choosing.
Taxes
Sunstein has argued that “we should celebrate tax day.” He appears to claim that the very concepts of property and society are based on government and taxes:
In what sense is the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully ‘ours’? Did we earn it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have inherited it without the assistance of probate courts? Do we save it without the support of bank regulators? Could we spend it if there were no public officials to coordinate the efforts and pool the resources of the community in which we live?… Without taxes there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public fisc. … There is no liberty without dependency.
“There is no liberty without dependency.” Wow, words fail me… That is a stunningly fascist statement. I sincerely doubt the majority of Americans share this viewpoint on taxes and government, unless of course you are the majority of Obama’s Czars that is…
And the hits just keep on coming - eugenics anyone:
He has embraced a controversial “senior death discount” that calculates the lives of younger people as having a greater value than those of the elderly.
This is what Sunstein will be doing:
Obama hired the Harvard law professor to run the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the administration’s central approver of rules that has say over environmental policy, workplace safety issues and federal health care policies. All major agencies’ rules will pass across Sunstein’s desk, giving him great influence in the new administration.
Feeling warm and fuzzy on this? More like ice cold… But that’s okay, he also advised constitution writers in Poland, South Africa and Russia. All better now - we can be just like Russia. Wait a sec…
Just another Czar for Obama who believes in radical ideals, eugenics, uber-control by the government, over-taxation with no representation, the declination of American rights, rewriting the Constitution… and the list goes on and on and on ad nauseum…
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