In case you haven't heard, the White House has hired a man with some very dangerous philosophies and put him in charge of government regulations. His name is Cass Sunstein. He has now called for the censorship of conservatives who criticize the president. In his latest book he argues for changing the law to make suing them easier.
Websites should be obliged to remove “false rumors” while libel laws should be altered to make it easier to sue for spreading such “rumors,” argued Cass Sunstein, Obama’s regulatory czar.
In his recently released book, “On Rumors,” Sunstein specifically cited as a primary example of “absurd” and “hateful” remarks, reports by “right-wing websites” alleging an association between President Obama and Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers.
He also singled out radio talker Sean Hannity for “attacking” Obama regarding the president’s “alleged associations.” [Gateway Pundit via FoxNation]
Here are a few more of Sunstein's quotes which should give you some idea of how dangerous he could be with the power he holds:
* Consider the view
that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to own guns. The view is
respectable, but it may be wrong, and prominent specialists reject it on
various grounds.
* “[A]lmost all
gun control legislation is constitutionally fine.
* "We ought
to ban hunting"
* In short, the law should impose
further regulation on hunting, scientific experiments, entertainment, and
(above all) farming to ensure against unnecessary animal suffering.
* If we understand
"rights" to be legal protection against harm, then many animals already
do have rights, and the idea of animal rights is not terribly controversial
* “We could even
grant animals a right to bring suit without insisting that animals are
persons, or that
they are not property.
* To the extent that they weaken
the power of the general interest intermediaries and increase people’s ability to wall themselves
off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, emerging
technologies, including the Internet, create serious dangers.
* A legislative effort to
regulate broadcasting in the interest of democratic principles should not be
seen as an abridgment of the free speech guarantee.
* I have argued in
favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law.
* A system of
limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not
necessarily in
the interest of citizenship and self-government.
* “In what sense is the money in
our pockets and bank accounts fully ‘ours’? Without taxes there would be no liberty. Without
taxes there would be no property. There is no liberty without dependency. That
is why we should celebrate tax day.
* Much of the time, the
* No institution in the executive branch, moreover, is currently responsible for long-range research and thinking about regulatory problems. It would be highly desirable to create such an office under the President, particularly for exploring problems whose solutions require extensive planning, Some entity within the executive branch, building on the ombudsman device, should be entrusted with the job of guarding against failure to implement regulatory programs. Such an entity would be especially desirable in overcoming the collective action and related problems that tend to defeat enforcement. [Sunstein Quotes]
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“If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your cable company does it,”---Obama administration deputy chief technology officer Andrew McLaughlin
Comcast Censoring Conservative Voices?
The American Public and the FCC need to keep an eye on ISPs. Comcast has been censoring conservative message board posters in my opinion. Because dominant ISP Comcast is a gateway to the internet, they control many eyeballs. Comcast's systematic censoring of conservative opinions on their News & Current Events message boards needs to cease and desist. If Comcast gets tax breaks from local government, then they have a civic, ethical, moral and perhaps legal obligation to provide fair and balanced moderation of their message boards. This type of social engineering is an outrage. Please get involved. Silence is consent. Post a conservative response to a News or Current Events thread here and see for yourself.
http://community.comcast.net/comcastportal/board?board.id=news
This is America...Not CHINA
Posted by: Tom McCabe | November 30, 2009 at 11:05 PM