Posted on 01/14/2010 3:25:56 AM PST by Man50D
In a lengthy academic paper , President Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban "conspiracy theorizing."
Among the beliefs Sunstein would ban is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.
Sunstein also recommended the government send agents to infiltrate "extremists who supply conspiracy theories" to disrupt the efforts of the "extremists" to propagate their theories.
In a 2008 Harvard law paper, "Conspiracy Theories," Sunstein and co-author Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard law professor, ask, "What can government do about conspiracy theories?"
"We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories."
In the 30-page paper – obtained and reviewed by WND – Sunstein argues the best government response to "conspiracy theories" is "cognitive infiltration of extremist groups."
Continued Sunstein: "We suggest a distinctive tactic for breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories: cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of believers by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups, thereby introducing beneficial cognitive diversity ."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I smell a conspiracy here...
Peeeee Uuuuuuu!!!
The password is.....(thoughtcrime).
What the heck is a “stylized fact,” anyway? Mr. Sunstein is a bag of something, that’s for sure.
He can shove it where the sun don’t stein.
But alas, I must therefore be a conspiracy theorist myself; one to be discovered and banned (banished) by an all powerful government authority! Heaven help us.
I suppose that the irony that their study would be high octane fuel for “conspiracy theories” isn’t lost on them either...
Typical commie thought. Can’t debate the ideas so outlaw them.
What a bunch of filthy scum.
And it just gets worse and worse...
This is just another attempt to silence us by intimidation!
If they weren't a bunch of lowlife commie scum they wouldn't have to worry about what is said about them!
Nazi redux.
I smell me an ADA lawsuit right there.
We ought to all ban together and storm the gates and rid ourselves of this ass clown.
Glenn Beck has been saying for months that this idiot is “the most dangerous man in America”.
Yet another example of just how right he was and is.
And we can thank the Repub retards in the Senate for voting for this fascist.
This is satire? A joke? This isn’t serious is it? If this is serious, things are even worse than I had imagined! Stunning...breathtaking
Would this same standard apply to the SEIU, ACORN, CODE PINK and 9/11 (inside job) groups as well?
Didn’t think so. Those are not conspiricies. They are right out in the open with strict levels of government/media propaganda/funding promoting them.
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