Obama Picks Cass Sunstein, America’s Joseph Goebbels, To Serve On NSA Oversight Panel

Zerohedge ^ | 08/25/2013 | Tyler Durden

[sten]

nice recall

and yes... once again, GBeck waaaaaay ahead of the curve

(of course, it helps when you have people spying for you in the administration)

[gattaca]

I keep thinking of the German movie, The Lives of Others, about East German wiretapping.

[cripplecreek]

“Why should we be governed by people long dead? … In any case, the group that ratified the Constitution included just a small subset of the society; it excluded all women, the vast majority of African Americans, many of those without property, and numerous others who were not permitted to vote.”
-Cass Sunstein

“In what sense in the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully ‘ours’? Did we earn it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have inherited it without the assistance of probate courts? Do we save it without the support of bank regulators? Could we spend it if there were no public officials to coordinate the efforts and pool the resources of the community in which we live?… Without taxes there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public fisc. … There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day …”
-Cass Sunstein

“Much of the time, the United States seems to have embraced a confused and pernicious form of individualism. This approach endorses rights of private property and freedom of contract, and respects political liberty, but claims to distrust “government intervention” and insists that people must fend for themselves. This form of so-called individualism is incoherent, a tangle of confusions.”
-Cass Sunstein

And just think, his wife is our ambassador to the UN.

[cripplecreek]

Let's play "Spot the Cognitive Infiltrator"

I've been on that hunt for a few years now and I've learned a few things.

First of all they often write from a script and a search of suspicious phrases often shows the exact same phrases posted all over the internet on that particular subject.

They don't need to be recent sign ups at FR. I noticed about a half dozen who have been at FR for years but are silent outside of primary season politics. They claim to love conservative candidates but are greatly "concerned" about things like Michele Bachmann's headaches or Herman Cain's rumored marital infidelity. They post dozens of threads about the things that concern them and when all other candidates are destroyed, they grudgingly give in immediately and announce that we should all get behind the winner no matter how bad he is and then they disappear for another 2 to 4 years.

Single issue posters who go against the flow but only for our own good. This is a tricky one because we have legitimate disagreements among ourselves but combine a little phrase searching with a look at their posting history and it narrows it down. As an example see who can spot the troll on this thread (and virtually every other thread about the national popular vote)

Spot the NPV troll

Avoid witch hunting. Better a good clean troll kill than friendly fire accidents.

[autumnraine]

It is getting hard to get on here anymore. I feel helpless and like there is no one to protect us.

[OrioleFan]

Can Cass Sunstein even get a clearance? This is equicalent to Tip O’Neil installing Ron Dellums as head of the House Intelligence Committee to PO Ronald Reagun and the Intelligence Community.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping. Thanks to all posters. Thanks for quotes ‘teen & ‘creek from the TOTALITARIAN POS.

FUBO
FUCS
FUSP
FUCONgress
FUUSSC

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM/TOTALITARIANISM

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

live - free - republic

[PGalt]

HOORAY Glenn Beck! Glenn Beck is OUTSTANDING!

[Rusty0604]

Thanks for posting these quotes (I think). I think Beck was right, he is the most dangerous man in America.

[bgill]

Can Cass Sunstein even get a clearance?

The Kenyan and his MB buds did.

[Rusty0604]

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[Rusty0604]

He was administrator of Obama’s “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs”.

[Silentgypsy]

Just when you think you’re rid of one of these clowns, back they bounce.

[B4Ranch]

Don’t you recognize your own storyline? This is what you forecast would happen.

[Travis McGee]

Exactly. We’re up to about the red book now, heading to blue.

[madison10]

It is getting hard to get on here anymore. I feel helpless and like there is no one to protect us.

Exactly my sentiments. We are getting to the point where there will be only One to trust. Maybe that's what He wants.

I've been turning the news off on the radio, too, cannot take that either. Any of my favorite conservative radio hosts are getting hard to listen to, not their faults, it's just all that is going on.

[Nifster]

now that picture really is worth a thousand words......

[Pagey]

bttt

[little jeremiah]

BTTT for an article that really needs to be read by everyone who visits FR.