As time wears on, we find out more and more about Obama’s Czars. First, there was Van Jones being a “truther.” And, who can forget John “De-Development & Forced Abortion” Holdren? Then, there was Kevin “Make sure you use a condom with your rapist” Jennings. For today’s post, we’ll go back to Cass Sunstein, the Regulatory Czar. We’ve taken a look at Mr. Sunstein before, here and here. But like most of the Czars, the more one looks, the more one finds.
Apparently, Mr. Sunstein believes that organs should be harvested from terminally ill or the recently deceased, without their consent.
In his 2008 book, “Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness,” Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler discussed multiple legal scenarios regarding organ donation. One possibility presented in the book, termed by Sunstein as “routine removal,” posits that “the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone’s permission.”
“Though it may sound grotesque, routine removal is not impossible to defend,” wrote Sunstein. “In theory, it would save lives, and it would do so without intruding on anyone who has any prospect for life.”
So, when the state deems it convenient for them, they can claim right over your body. Ironically, this is the same state that believes that the right for a woman to have control of her body (to kill a baby) is sacred. Your right to keep your internal organs? Well…not so much.
This also is reminiscent of the cold and brutal pragmatism of the Nazi T4 program, which was sold to the German public in a similar manner. The program was seen as a way to free up funding that could be used for other purposes, such as housing. Mentally ill or retarded individuals would be “liberated from a life not worth living,” and the funds freed by these acts of “mercy” were supposed to be funneled into public programs. More than likely, they bought tanks and planes with it.
I think it’s easy to project that if organ transplantation would have existed at that time, it would have been another selling point of the program.
Source: WND
There is more however, Sunstein also seems to think that the current economic crisis is a great way to work towards a socialist state.
In his 2004 book “The Second Bill of Rights,” Sunstein used the precedent of the Great Depression to point out that historic economic crises “provided the most promising conditions for the emergence of socialism in the U.S.”
“With a little nudge or a slight change in emphasis, our culture could have gone, and could still go, in many different directions,” wrote Sunstein in his book, which was reviewed by WND.
Considering that many on the left have been trying to find a way to drag the US into socialism for years, it isn’t surprising that the Cloward/Piven strategy has been used to create the current economic crisis. Nor is it at all shocking that the left intends on using Cap and Trade and Single Payer to finish what the CRA started. As usual, when you compare what those on the left say (in candid moments), and then look at what they do, as well as the results, the patterns become clear.
There’s more:
“During the Cold War, the debate about [social welfare] guarantees took the form of pervasive disagreement between the United States and its communist adversaries. Americans emphasized the importance of civil and political liberties, above all free speech and freedom of religion, while communist nations stressed the right to a job, health care and a social minimum.”
Continued Sunstein: “I think this debate was unhelpful; it is most plausible to see the two sets of rights as mutually reinforcing, not antagonistic.”
Sunstein is correct. That debate wasn’t at all helpful…to the left. The Communist states stressed universal health care (as inferior as it is), the right to a job (whenever or wherever the state decides), and a social minimum (poverty and scarcity), because they do NOT allow civil liberties or freedom. It was a PR dodge. “We have free health care and full employment, just ignore the purges and gulags…Mmkay?” The two positions are not only antagonistic; they are mutually exclusive. How can one be under the government’s control concerning health care, jobs, education, housing, transportation, energy, wages, or even your own body, and have ANY civil or political liberty?
Source: WND
Well, there you have it. More words from one of the czars. Of course, to point out what these unelected officials actually SAY is racist, terroristic, and (insert liberal insult du jour here).
The POTUS has asked us to judge him by the company he keeps. That says a lot, doesn’t it?
NOTE: Mr. Sunstein, as well as Mr. Jennings, will be added to the Useful Idiot of the Month competition. They are both worth candidates.
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Sunstein is actually covered in Mark Levin’s book, Liberty & Tyranny. Levin believes that Sunstein, and old friend from college of Obama’s will be a SCOTUS nominee. THAT is scary enough!
Also, I wrote a piece about FDR’s so-called Second Bill of Rights.
http://presentdiscontent.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/it-is-our-right-or-is-it/
Sunstein is also the Czar that said, “Well, in terms of judicial developments, ah…it is striking and noteworthy that well over two centuries since the founding, uh, the, no…the Supreme Court has never suggested the second amendment protects the individual right to have guns. Not once.”
But that is not the scary part. He continues, “It would be amazing, though…given that fact, though, uh, though…don’t be surprised if the first time it happens is in the next three or four years.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zfex10v08c
The above comments start at the 2:05 minute mark.
Evidently he believes that the second amendment only applied to the right of a citizenry to bear arms to defend against foreign invaders.
This guy is a communist, pure and simple. The scary thing is that this guy is also a brilliant mind. That’s a bad combination.
He is probably the most dangerous of all the Czars, Mark Lloyd runs a close second. I hope you do more Czar Profiles, this was an excellent article.
Welcome back Liberty Pen! I’ll have to dig up some stuff on some of the others. I’ve talked about Lloyd, Jennings, and Holdren in other articles.
If these folks like socialism so much, why don’t they just march on over to China, North Korea, Russia, etc. and see how they like it over there. It never ceases to amaze me that someone growing up in America can be so much against our way of life. Where do they come up with some of this stuff?
“the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone’s permission.”
This sounds like something straight out of the book “Coma” by Robin Cook. Remember, there was a movie made from it? Maybe, he just watched too much T.V. as a kid. lol
Socialist have little respect for the worth of the individual. They don’t see the individual, but rather the state. The individual exist only for the good of the state and when he ceases to be of value then he is expendable. These guys haven’t changed in the last hundred years and they will not change even though the great socialist experiment in the old USSR failed.
@ LD, welcome, and thanks for commenting. Apparently, they don’t want us escaping the “utopia.”
@ Jackie, thanks for the comment, and I’m adding you to my blogroll. I like your site. I actually read that book when I was a teenager. Honestly, I had forgotten all about it.
@ Ron, man you nailed it. As for the good old USSR, they likely failed because we evil capitalists outproduced it. It could not have possibly had anything to do with the failures of the communist system. As long as there is one conservative on the planet, they will be blamed for every ill of the world.
The deeper we dig, the worse it gets, huh, Matt?
Unfortunately yes, Karen.
I’m doing a little profile paragraph on all of the czars in my own twisted way, so now I have the perfect piece to link to for Sunstein.
It never stops.
Beck’s exposing some other Barry apparatchik today for her open idolization of Mao Tse-tung. I’ll never tire of saying it, but it’s our biggest failure, and the Left’s greatest success, that people have grown up in the democracies thinking that it’s just ace to venerate bloodthirsty tyrants from the past and present.