Czar Wars Profile: Cass Sunstein

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?

© Matt Ross

Originally posted at Conservative Hideout 2.0

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