Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: rojawe on January 16, 2009, 04:31:41 PM
Title: We may be under attact from Obama appointment
Post by: rojawe on January 16, 2009, 04:31:41 PM
Why the Obama White House May Go to the Dogs (and the Cows, and the Deer, and the Lab Rats)
Forget about Barack Obama's income tax-challenged Treasury Secretary or the conflict of interest controversy at the State Department. The most outrageous Obama appointee just might be Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law School professor who's flying under everyone's radar and into a job that hardly anyone has ever heard of.
Cass Sunstein is slated to run the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He's going to be America's chief "regulatory czar." And shocking new research from the Center for Consumer Freedom shows that he's a dedicated animal-rights zealot.
Hold on to your sirloin.
The anti-meat nuts at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the anti-hunting lobbyists at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) used to think that putting Dennis Kucinich in the White House would be their best hope of wielding real power in Washington . But even they didn't see Cass Sunstein coming. Sunstein has the legal mind of Chief Justice John Roberts and the animal-rights agenda of PETA president Ingrid Newkirk.
We're not talking about animal welfare---the idea of making sure we don't cause animals unnecessary suffering when we use them for food, clothing, entertainment, or lifesaving medical research. Sunstein believes in animal rights---the notion that people shouldn't "own" or "use" animals at all, for any purpose, no matter what the stakes are for mankind.
Cancer research? Not if lab rats are used against their will.
Hunting? Absolutely forbidden, especially if it's for sport.
Leather jackets? The cows need their skin more that you do.
Seeing-eye dogs? They're nothing more than slaves.
And that T-bone steak? Fuhgeddaboudit! If animals have any "rights" at all, the right to not be your dinner is at the top of the list.
All of this makes perfect sense to Cass Sunstein, who organized the "Chicago Project on Animal Treatment Principles" at the University of Chicago. He will soon have the political authority to push for a radical overhaul of the way the federal government regulates everything Americans do with animals.
How radical? Sunstein supports making sport hunting illegal, and completely phasing out the consumption of meat. And if that's not nutty enough, he's actually in favor of giving animals the legal right to sue people.
Think we're joking? Think again. Here's what Sunstein wrote in his 2004 book, Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions:
"[A]nimals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives ... Any animals that are entitled to bring suit would be represented by (human) counsel, who would owe guardian like obligations and make decisions, subject to those obligations, on their clients' behalf."
Conservative commentators have been openly fretting that Barack Obama may try to turn welfare entitlements and single-payer healthcare into a new Bill of Rights. But Cass Sunstein threatens to expand the whole concept of "rights" to include the rest of the animal kingdom.
That fish wriggling at the end of your hook could soon be a federal offense (if the fish doesn't file a lawsuit first). Don't say we didn't warn you.
Find out more at www.ConsumerFreedom.com.
Title: Re: We may be under attact from Obama appointment
Post by: philw on January 16, 2009, 04:46:40 PM
FFS what a lot of crap
those tofu eating tree hugging, animal Beastiality wankers "animal lovers" really Piss me off
there grip on reality is Sooo Far from normal
dead set they completely nuts
it is me or os Obama putting the Anti Fun, Anti Life, and Anti anything right around him to run the USA ::)
Title: Re: We may be under attact from Obama appointment
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 16, 2009, 05:15:26 PM
That's about it, I hear his surgeon General nominee even wants to make maturation a sex crime. :o
hahaha you are joking
if that is the case, who will they have as Politicians, judges and lawyers, there won't be any left as they would of been locked up for having a wank hahaha
Title: Re: We may be under attact from Obama appointment
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 16, 2009, 05:24:00 PM
if that is the case, who will they have as Politicians, judges and lawyers, there won't be any left as they would of been locked up for having a wank hahaha
Glad you got past my lousy spelling ;D
Title: Re: We may be under attact from Obama appointment
Post by: ericire12 on January 16, 2009, 05:33:21 PM
Carry it on to the next illogical step; Carrot Juice is Murder. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM
They are actually pretty good;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRJCWyNvY7U
Title: Re: We may be under attact from Obama appointment
Post by: jaybet on January 22, 2009, 12:34:36 PM
Heard on the news today that Arlen Spectre has held up the hearing for Atty General for at least a week. At least someone noticed the outcry, although they are mostly worried about Clinton pardons more than anything else.
Title: Re: We may be under attact from Obama appointment
Post by: cooptire on January 22, 2009, 05:25:51 PM
Heard on the news today that Arlen Spectre has held up the hearing for Atty General for at least a week. At least someone noticed the outcry, although they are mostly worried about Clinton pardons more than anything else.
Nevertheless we need to keep up the pressure! Maybe we can have some success.
Title: Re: We may be under attact from Obama appointment
Post by: CurrieS103 on January 22, 2009, 07:00:15 PM
Nevertheless we need to keep up the pressure! Maybe we can have some success.
Let's hope so. I've written my Senators three times already about Holder.
Title: Re: We may be under attact from Obama appointment
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 23, 2009, 02:40:58 AM
I can write again this weekend. I got a nice letter from my states OTHER Senator saying he would keep my opposition in mind during the confirmation hearings, my own Senator, former dem Gov, Jeanne Shaheen has not been available on line.