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 United States
seems to have embraced a confused and pernicious form of individualism. This approach endorses
rights of private property and freedom of contract, and respects political
liberty, but claims to distrust “government intervention” and insists that
people must fend for themselves. This form of so-called individualism is incoherent,
a tangle of confusions.
* 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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