>> suggests that government ought to gently force people to be better human beings.
Hmmm... “Government ought to”, huh.
My parents taught me to read the Bible and worship God, at least partly for that purpose.
Obviously, the people's views are that they think he is anything but a gentleman, a leader and an ethical person. They point out that he hasn't met a lie that he didn't love, or a marxist that he didn't want a picture and autograph of.
As far as him having a hot bod?!! You have to be kidding... he's at the bottom of the rung... with family close behind.
And, the baby boomers were born 1944-50 or so, WE DID NOT PUT HIM INTO OFFICE. The liberal voters who were born in the late 60’s to crazy parents who began the “There is no God” stuff, while doing dope..... these people and their children put this LYING IMPOSTER in office... Not us!!! And it really began when the atheists were able to have their way.... Madalyn O'hare (sp) and the TV and movies became bringing "do it your way" and drink, dance and be merry for tomorrow we die!! idiots......
the last bastion of free speech in order to the complete the transformation from a Republic to a Marxist state with obozo & his minions staying in power to rule over us.
He needs to roast slowly!
We're about to be Czarred and fettered!
“Gently force”
A person I know professionally (well respected in technology, MIT graduate, east European immigrant) has used that term regarding women. Specifically, “things” should be put in place to “gently force” women to have fewer children. This guy escaped from communism but he’s swallowed environmentalism hook, line and sinker.
Sunstein calls for a "notice and take down" law that would require bloggers and service providers to "take down falsehoods upon notice," even those made by commenters - but without apparent penalty.Something like a DMCA notice to take down "copyright infringing" items, with the originator of the notice not needing to give proof, but only make the assertion.
How many "notice and take down" letters from lawyers would FreeRepublic's Internet Service Provider need to get before they decided that it wasn't worth the risk to host FR?
Certainly a Free Republic killer position...
Pick yer blog, and ZOT!!! Whats left will be a wisp of vapor...
Is it just me, or is this yet another signal???
I feel like I am waiting for some code phrase, to activate me and my group or something...
(That last statement may very well garner me some sort of visit or knock on my door...Oh, wait a sec, BRB)
Shall we assume Sunstein believes in tenure for professors - so THEY can say whatever they want? Sounds like Sunstein is KING OF THE DOUBLE STANDARD - a dubious honor.
For 8 long years the left fantasized that Big Bad W was out to get their library cards... or some such nonsense.
But when it comes to actual curtailment of actual speech, where is the left? Where is the ACLU? Where are the inheritors of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement?
Completely silent and in the tank with the suppressors, with the Dictator, that’s where.
What “rumours” are untrue? Like the “rumour” that “global warming” is nonsense?
Are we supposed to be afraid of this? (No.) Isn’t the Obama administration over-reaching in so many areas, that its hold mindshare is already at risk? (Yes.)
This is just another attempt to distract us from focusing on battles we can win.
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It is NOT the responsibility of the government to teach us to be better human beings. This is the height of arrogance on the part of Statists. Every tyrant since the beginning of time has tried to make better human beings. Hitler believed that was what he was doing when he exterminated a large number of Jews and other inferior beings. Stalin did it with his purge in the Soviet Union to about 40 million Russians. A good human being, in the Statist’s view, is one that supports the state without question. All others are bad human beings.
You must learn to love Big Brother, Winston. There is no room for haters.
“Sunstein was appointed, no doubt, off the success of “Nudge,” his previous book, which suggests that government ought to gently force people to be better human beings.”
It’s easy to criticize. I think we should offer some helpful suggestions such as perhaps the government should place some words on government buildings to enourage people to be better humans.
For example:
“Thou shall not murder.” or
“Thou shall not steal.”
I wonder if we could come up with, oh, maybe, another eight of those?
The solution he suggested at the time was that every political website be required by legislation to supply links to opposing viewpoints, which were to be prominently displayed on the website's home page. The idea was laughed out of tech circles and went nowhere.
Sunstein is definitely a dangerous fellow, a government regulator par excellence and an enemy of freedom.
If Kyle Smith isn’t blowing things out of proportion, this is truly frightening. Just imagine anyone critical of anthropogenic global warming theory. The debate truly would be over because any critics would be declared “wrong.”
OTOH, if Obama overreaches this much, the TEA parties will seem like, well, tea parties compared to the wave of anger that will wash over this nation.
Despite the “mess” and the lack of a system, Sunstein says, “I do tend to know where things are.” He qualifies: “I know where everything important is, and I don’t usually lose things. But I have lost checks, made out to me, and I also find coffee cups and Coke cans in surprising places.” He does reorganize on occasion: “When it gets completely disgraceful, I improve it a bit. Usually I clean up a bit in the summer. Right now it’s gotten completely disgraceful, I guess.”
Very few items-ties and KitKat wrappers notwithstanding-in Sunstein’s office on the fourth floor of the Laird Bell Quadrangle are unrelated to his work. The “most unusual” set of items in the room, he says, “may be my CD collection, which features Inter Alia, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Liz Phair, Bruce Springsteen, and Shawn Colvin. Eminem can also be found here.”
And while his office may be disgraceful, his home, Sunstein declares, “is actually very neat. No mess at all. I keep it that way, partly for my 11-year-old daughter.”