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The Trouble with Cass Sunstein


An animal rights fanatic is on track to become President Obama’s regulatory “czar.” That individual is the radical legal theorist Cass Sunstein who has argued that:

your money doesn’t really belong to you because the government laid the foundations for your success;

Internet censorship is a good idea;

animals should be allowed to sue people;

the names of carbon dioxide emitters should be compiled as part of a “greenhouse gas inventory” and publicized to shame those emitters into changing their behavior; and

Americans’ support for property rights and freedom of contract is an “incoherent” form “of so-called individualism.”

Recently on his TV program Glenn Beck noted that Sunstein co-wrote Nudge, a paternalistic book in which he argued that people need to be encouraged to make the right choices in their personal lives.

On the show David Martosko of the Center for Consumer Freedom described Sunstein as a close friend of President Obama’s who happens to be a “raving animal rights nut.”

“He is a philosopher in the mold of Peter Singer,” explained Martosko. Singer, an animal rights fanatic who embraces infanticide, recently wrote in a New York Times op-ed that healthcare rationing (for people) is both moral and good public policy.

Martosko said Sunstein, whom the president has nominated to be administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Budget and Management, believes “government has to lead you by the nose in every facet of life.” Sunstein believes that all of your rights exist only because the federal government allows you to have them, he said.

Matthew Vadum

The author of Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011), Vadum, former senior vice president at CRC, writes and speaks widely…
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