Know Your Czars: Cass Sunstein, Obama's Regulatory Czar

[rambone]

Cass Sunstein, Obama's Regulatory Czar

Cass R. Sunstein

Official Title: Director of the White House OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA).

Regulatory Czar Job Description

"He is the gatekeeper between the president and the secretaries," he said, noting that "as a regulatory czar, he won't be a judge or a legislator, so he cannot make laws. ... What he can do is nudge the departments in the direction of his philosophy," which is very much in line with "hard core animal rights zealots."

Taught alongside Obama at the University of Chicago Law School
Radical Leftist Professor
Supports civil rights for animals
Supports a ban on meat eating or a high tax on meat
Supports a ban on hunting
Supports organ harvesting of every citizen
Supports regulation of internet content
Supports Government monitoring/regulation of email content
Supports the reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine
Supports a new bill of rights
Supports heavy gun control
Supports regulatory taxes on guns and ammo
Looks like a creep in his picture

Obama Regulation Czar Advocated Removing Peoples Organs Without Explicit Consent

(CNSNews.com) – Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken.

Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done.​

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Like fellow czar John Holdren, Cass Sunstein promotes the idea that non-humans should have the ability and right to sue in a court of law.

Cass Sunstein on Animal Rights

[R]epresentatives of animals should be able to bring private suits to ensure that anticruelty and related laws are actually enforced. Of course, any animals would be represented by human beings, just like any other litigant who lacks ordinary (human) competence; for example, the interests of children are protected by prosecutors, and also by trustees and guardians in private litigation brought on children's behalf. … If getting rid of the idea that animals are property is helpful in reducing suffering, then we should get rid of the idea that animals are property. -Cass Sunstein

Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein Wants to Regulate Livestock Farming

We should focus attention not only on the “enforcement gap,” but on the areas where current law offers little or no protection. In short, the law should impose further regulation on hunting, scientific experiments, entertainment, and (above all) farming to ensure against unnecessary animal suffering. It is easy to imagine a set of initiatives that would do a great deal here, and indeed European nations have moved in just this direction.

If we focus on suffering, as I believe that we should, it is not necessarily impermissible to kill animals and use them for food; but it is entirely impermissible to be indifferent to their interests while they are alive. So too for other animals in farms, even or perhaps especially if they are being used for the benefit of human beings. If sheep are going to be used to create clothing, their conditions must be conducive to their welfare. We might ban hunting altogether, at least if its sole purpose is human recreation. (Should animals be hunted and killed simply because people enjoy hunting and killing them? The issue might be different if hunting and killing could be justified as having important functions, such as control of populations or protection of human beings against animal violence.) -Cass Sunstein

"Sen. Cornyn finds numerous aspects of Mr. Sunstein's record troubling, specifically the fact that he wants to establish legal 'rights' for livestock, wildlife and pets, which would enable animals to file lawsuits in American courts," the Republican's spokesman, Kevin McLaughlin, said in a statement to FOXNews.com.

In a 2007 speech at Harvard, Sunstein also advocated restricting animal testing for cosmetics, banning hunting and encouraging the general public to eat less meat.

Regulatory Czar Seeks Hunting Ban

“We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn’t a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It’s time now.”
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Sunstein also argued in favor of “eliminating current practices such as greyhound racing, cosmetic testing, and meat eating, most controversially.”

He wants to bring on heavy internet regulation, as well as the "Fairness Doctrine."

Regulatory Czar seeks Internet Regulation

"A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government," he wrote. "Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected in freedom's name."

Sunstein first proposed the notion of imposing mandatory "electronic sidewalks" for the Net. These "sidewalks" would display links to opposing viewpoints. Adam Thierer, senior fellow and director of the Center for Digital Media Freedom at the Progress and Freedom Center, has characterized the proposal as "The Fairness Doctrine for the Internet."

"Apparently in Sunstein's world, people have many rights, but one of them, it seems, is not the right to be left alone or seek out the opinions one desires," Thierer wrote.

Later, Sunstein rethought his proposal, explaining that it would be "too difficult to regulate [the Internet] in a way that would respond to those concerns." He also acknowledged that it was "almost certainly unconstitutional."

"We hardly need to imagine a world, however, in which people and institutions are being harmed by the rapid spread of damaging falsehoods via the Internet. We live in that world. What might be done to reduce the harm?" -Cass Sunstein
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He wrote a book about how he would regulate content of personal emails:

U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants a "Civility Check" for personal emails

"The modern world suffers from insufficient civility," they wrote. "Every hour of every day, people send angry e-mails they soon regret, cursing people they barely know (or even worse, their friends and loved ones). A few of us have learned a simple rule: don't send an angry e-mail in the heat of the moment. File it, and wait a day before you send it. (In fact, the next day you may have calmed down so much that you forget even to look at it. So much the better.) But many people either haven't learned the rule or don’t always follow it. Technology could easily help. In fact, we have no doubt that technologically savvy types could design a helpful program by next month."

That's where the "Civility Check" comes in.

"We propose a Civility Check that can accurately tell whether the e-mail you're about to send is angry and caution you, 'warning: this appears to be an uncivil e-mail. do you really and truly want to send it?'" they wrote. "(Software already exists to detect foul language. What we are proposing is more subtle, because it is easy to send a really awful e-mail message that does not contain any four-letter words.) A stronger version, which people could choose or which might be the default, would say, 'warning: this appears to be an uncivil e-mail. this will not be sent unless you ask to resend in 24 hours.' With the stronger version, you might be able to bypass the delay with some work (by inputting, say, your Social Security Number and your grandfather’s birth date, or maybe by solving some irritating math problem!)."

Supports gun control and higher gun taxes.

Radical Regulatory Czar Could Pose Problems for Gun Owners

As the Regulatory Czar, Sunstein will provide the final touches on new federal regulations. No firearm or ammunition needs to be banned outright -- that would be too transparent. As the coauthor of Nudge (2008), Sunstein has already laid out how “choice architects” should carefully guide (or nudge) Americans into making better choices.

So with a little regulation here … a little regulation there … Sunstein can strengthen the iron fist of the federal gun police (otherwise known as the BATFE). Or, he can implement additional federal requirements which will result in firearm and ammunition manufacturers paying more for their merchandise.

Of course, these costs will be passed on to the consumer as new “taxes” that will “nudge” Americans away from purchasing firearms or engaging in the shooting sports.

YouTube - Cass Sunstein On The Right To Bear Arms

Cass Sunstein supports FDR socialism and advocates a "New Bill of Rights" in one of his books.

Obama's regulatory chief pushes new 'bill of rights'

Among his mandates are:

• The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

• The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

• The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

• The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

• The right of every family to a decent home;

• The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

• The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

• The right to a good education.

On one page in his book, Sunstein claims he is "not seriously arguing" his bill of rights be "encompassed by anything in the Constitution," but on the next page he states that "if the nation becomes committed to certain rights, they may migrate into the Constitution itself."

Later in the book, Sunstein argues that "at a minimum, the second bill should be seen as part and parcel of America's constitutive commitments."

Need I say more?
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[JetGirl]

How many are there now? 30? 40? More than?
Maybe a sticky in the politics forum of who they all are (along with their track record) would give us a good spring board into picking them off like Van Jones.
I don't know all of them. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

 

[rambone]

How many are there now? 30? 40? More than?
Maybe a sticky in the politics forum of who they all are (along with their track record) would give us a good spring board into picking them off like Van Jones.
I don't know all of them. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Here is a list from Glenn Beck that listed 32 of them. Unfortunately even after one month the list has changed. I have heard there are as many as 42 czars.

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - List of Obama's Czars


I am also tagging articles on the czars here on INGO.

INGunOwners - Threads Tagged with czar

 

[rambone]

Sunstein was one of the few czars whose position required a vote from congress.
I can't believe the traitors let him through.

 

[IndianasFinest]

Well I'm sure he dosn't have any problems fitting in !!

 

[rambone]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhgvJfPRkG8]YouTube - Glenn Beck on Barack Obama's Controversial Regulation Czar Choice Cass Sunstein [FOX News][/ame]

 

[Boilers]

unbelievable dirtbag

 

[TopDog]

This guy will probably get the Noble Peace Prize next year and [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Michelle Obama the year after that. We have entered a new dark ages...
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[JetGirl]

We have entered a new dark ages...

Racist.

 

[Leadeye]

He is the typical product of east coast wealth and power, isolated in thier academic world from everyday life. Free to argue the meaningless details of legal trivia. To them ordinary Americans are problems to be managed as they just don't have the intelligence to manage themselves. He will fit right in over at DC. His abstract legal theories can now be given power.

How do your government officials elected or otherwise see you? Are you somebody they represent or a "problem" requiring management.