Obama's Czar Cass Sunstein Wants Your Organs Used Without Consent

CNSNEWS/the lid ^ | 9/4/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Cass Sunstein is another of member of President Obama's administration. His nomination to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has been stuck in committee since June because of his extreme ideas. Sunstein is an advocate of something called libertarian paternalism, which means give people the choice to make their own decisions, but instead of just laying out the facts, control the number of choices, then use knowledge of behavioral sciences (like psychology) to guide them to do what you want. In other words treat the voters the way you treat young children.

Sunsteins most famous "different" position is his suggestion that Animals (or their representatives) should be able to sue humans. So fido can sue you for not buying the correct rawhide bone, and take that T-bone of the grill, the cow hired the ACLU:

[R]epresentatives of animals should be able tTo 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.

The latest "interesting" Sunstein's stance is his opinion on donating organs. Today, they only way doctors can harvest your organs is there is an indication that you (or your family after death) want them used to save other lives. Sunstein wants to make it an "opt-out decision," meaning if you don't say anything doctors should be able to use your organs whether its what you wanted or not:

[muawiyah]

Stupid Sunstein, I don't want him touching my organs ~ I prefer to sell them myself, and if I can get away with it, sell his too while they are in pretty good shape.

He has no idea about what's going to go on if that door is opened, nor will we let him find out ~ provided he doesn't have Hep-C or AIDs.

[tcrlaf]

I keep seeing this phrase “Behavioral Sciences” coming up, with regard to selling Obama and the whacko socialist programs...

An article on KOS described how the Administration needed to bring in Behavioral Sciences people to develop the “Policy-Speak” for selling Obamacare to the sheep, just last week.

We’ve got a bunch of Socialist academes in the White House, that have been discussing policy in the UNIVERSITY for 30 years, but have no idea how things work in the real world.

And if BUSH had even nthought about trying something like this, the media would be screaming “HITLER!!!! GOEBELLS!”

[Dixie Yooper]

Using our organs for transplants is one thing, what does he have in mind for the rest of our body? Soilent Green?

[bgill]

Visions of waking up in a hotel bathtub and missing a kidney.

[leilani]

And the leftists who have been shreiking for the past four decades that politicians & government bureaucrats can keep their dirty fascistic hands off our bodies will rise up to denounce Sunstein & his boss in five...four...three...

[GeronL]

They won’t do it.

They need people to die on those waiting lists for organs because the cost would be prohibitive otherwise. If they really wanted more organs available they’d make them worth something to the family of the deceased. Enough to buy a cheap funeral or something.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Whoa.

Cass Sunstein (And what’s his real name? Cassandra?) is assuming that the Government OWNS our bodies “when we die.” The problem is that if the Government OWNS our dead bodies, it’s just a “breath” away from owning our bodies while we’re still breathing.

And this goes back to DENYING us the Unalienable Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

But then the US Constitution hasn’t been the law of the land since 1913.

(BTW, I just purchased the FIVE book History of the American People by Woodrow Wilson for $15. Check the Amazon prices and you will see what a GREAT deal I got.) (I collect history books and textbooks.)

[Sparko]

“Sunstein wants to make it an “opt-out decision,” whereby your organs would be taken after death whether it’s what you wanted or not, unless you specifically opt-out.”

This is used to be the way those book of the month clubs worked. They’d send you books unless you said NO NO NO.

Come to think of it, perhaps Sunstein will have an Organ of the Month Club.

There’d be two types of Organ Clubs:

• one for the Sinners - as in you and me - in which our organs are harvested at any time w/o prior consent or, in the case of gadgets you can do without, perhaps a kidney, a lung, or a spleen here or there.

• one for Leftist recipients who would receive monthly lists of available body parts from which they could choose.

[leilani]

This is used to be the way those book of the month clubs worked. They’d send you books unless you said NO NO NO.

Come to think of it, perhaps Sunstein will have an Organ of the Month Club.

LOL! Perfect.

And what is it with this adminsistration's gorily obsessive fixation on involuntary amputation anyway. Either they're bitching that MD's are running around the country lopping off limbs for fun & profit without their patients' permission, or they're threatening to carve out unsuspecting citizens' kidneys via presidential fiat themselves.

Goodness, it seems like everybody on the O Team is falling all over themselves auditioning for a part (Rahm:"Did somebody say body parts?") in the next installment of the Freddy Krueger series or something.

LOL!

[Sparko]

There's a cartoon or dark movie scene in what you describe with the White House's ghoulish obsession organ harvesting and death:

the dark side of Lurch-Rahm lookalike rubbing hands, the bushy eyebrows of Axelrod bobbing up and down doing an evil Groucho imitation, all under direction of Dr. "Frankenstein" Obama watching the dying health care monster being cranked* upwards towards the crackling lightning bolts in a last gasp attempt to resuscitate it.

* Bob "Igor" Gibbs doing the cranking.

[ctdonath2]

One question is: when are you dead?
If you reach a point where everyone agrees you’re dead, then your organs are dead - and thus useless. Organ transplants only work because the organ is still alive ... which means part of you is alive ... which begs the question of whether you’re actually dead.

Some time back I took a CPR course where the instructor was adamant that if your heart stops beating then you are dead, period. I poised various questions challenging this notion, but he stuck to it: heart stops, you’re dead.
Thing is, that’s not a definition of dead I’m comfortable with. Last year I had open-heart surgery, wherein my heart was stopped - ergo, I’ve been dead. The fact that I have undergone what some may call “death” is juxtaposed with the fact that I’m sitting here typing this sentence. Thus you may understand that I am uncomfortable with any politician/bureaucrat deciding what to do with my organs upon my death, as I may differ with them over what constitutes “dead”.