Elena Kagan and her Socialist 'hero' Cass Sunstein ("most dangerous man in America"-Glenn Beck)

David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org (several links included)

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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: ELENA KAGAN

When it was announced in 2008 that Cass Sunstein would be joining the Harvard Law School faculty, Kagan said:

"Cass Sunstein is the preeminent legal scholar of our time -- the most wide-ranging, the most prolific, the most cited, and the most influential. His work in any one of the fields he pursues -- administrative law and policy, constitutional law and theory, behavioral economics and law, environmental law, to name a non-exhaustive few -- would put him in the very front ranks of legal scholars; the combination is singular and breathtaking."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2398
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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: CASS SUNSTEIN

• Contributing editor to The New Republic and The American Prospect
• Played an active role in opposing the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998
• Served as an advisor for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008
• Was appointed (by Barack Obama) to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in 2009

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  [Cass Sunstein on Socialism and "wealth redistribution"]:
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  Sunstein has argued in favor of bringing socialism (in the form of expanded wefare benefits and wealth redistribution) to the United States, but contends that the country's "white majority" opposes such a development because of deep-seated racism:

  "The absence of a European-style social welfare state is certainly connected with the widespread perception among the white majority that the relevant programs would disproportionately benefit African Americans (and more recently Hispanics)."

  Sunstein depicts socialist nations as being more committed than their capitalist counterparts to the welfare of their own citizens:

  "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."

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  [Cass Sunstein on "Climate Change" and "distributive justice"]:
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  In 2007 Sunstein co-authored (with fellow attorney Eric A. Posner) a 39-page University of Chicago Law School paper titled "Climate Change Justice," which held that it was "desirable" for America to pay "justice" to poorer nations by entering into a compensation agreement that would result in a financial loss for the United States. The paper refers several times to "distributive justice."

  Sunstein and Posner further speculate about the possibility of achieving this redistribution by means other than direct payments:

  • "It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid."
  • "We agree that if the United States does spend a great deal on emissions reductions as part of an international agreement, and if the agreement does give particular help to disadvantaged people, considerations of distributive justice support its action, even if better redistributive mechanisms are imaginable."
  • "If the United States agrees to participate in a climate change agreement on terms that are not in the nation's interest, but that help the world as a whole, there would be no reason for complaint, certainly if such participation is more helpful to poor nations than conventional foreign-aid alternatives."
  • "If we care about social welfare, we should approve of a situation in which a wealthy nation is willing to engage in a degree of self-sacrifice when the world benefits more than that nation loses."

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    [Cass Sunstein on the "Fairness Doctrine" (restricting opposing political views)]:
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    Also in The Partial Constitution, Sunstein promotes the notion of a "First Amendment New Deal" in the form of a new "Fairness Doctrine" that would authorize a panel of "nonpartisan experts" to ensure that a "diversity of view[s]" is presented on the airwaves.

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    [Cass Sunstein on federally-funded abortions]:
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    With regard to citizens who object to having their tax dollars finance abortions, Sunstein writes:

    "There would be no tension with the establishment clause if people with religious or other objections were forced to pay for that procedure (abortion). Indeed, taxpayers are often forced to pay for things - national defense, welfare, certain forms of art, and others - to which they have powerful moral and even religious objections."

    Lots more on Cass Sunstein here:
    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2422

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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: ELENA KAGAN

• Served as President Bill Clinton's Associate White House Counsel
• Former dean of Harvard Law School
• Sought to overturn the Solomon Amendment, a law that denies federal funding to any university that bars military recruiters from its campus
• Believes that the military should open its ranks and barracks to homosexuals, without restriction

• Was appointed U.S. Solicitor General by President Barack Obama in January 2009

As an undergraduate at Princeton, Kagan wrote a senior thesis titled

"To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933."

In the "Acknowledgments" section of her work, she specifically thanked her brother Marc, “whose involvement in radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas.” In the body of the thesis, Kagan wrote:

"In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?...

"Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope."

Lots more on Kagan here:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2398
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Link to Kagan's complete thesis here (pdf file):
http://www.redstate.com/erick/files/2010/05/kaganthesis.pdf

[freekitty]

All I have to know is this guy helped keep a rapist(Clinton)free.

[Mmogamer]

Well I’ve read that no investigation into jobs for dropping out scandal, no hearing for the commie justice in waiting here.

[Servant of the Cross]

Unfortunately, 0bama only needs one GOP Senator and Snowe praises Kagan's qualifications (barf alert) ...

[Loud Mime]

ping

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Forgot to mention, Glenn Beck on FoxNews is talking about Cass Sunstein on his show right now (check your local listings for show times). That is what prompted me to post this profile on him again.

[Bob Eimiller]

bump

[The Comedian]

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[autumnraine]

Everyday I realize that America has suffered a coup. This isn’t just Dem/Repub differences, this is the successful taking America to communism.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Crass Sunstein has warm feelings for us here at Free Republic, kinda.

Here's how President Obama's pick to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and author of "Repulblic.com," Cass Sunstein, describes FreeRepublic.com as "group polarization," where people segregate themselves so effectively online with other like-minded thinkers that they create an echo chamber where the group's worst and most malevolent opinions get reinforced and strengthened. "We might want to consider," Sunstein startlingly told the Times recently, "the possibility of ways of requiring or encouraging sites to link to opposing viewpoints."

We're a danger to democracy, fellow Freepers.

[ETL]

Yet, as clear as it is to most of us here, most on the outside would probably laugh at the suggestion that Obama and his team are communists. Even many police and military people I run into in the street seem to know next to nothing about these things. I would have liked to believed info would have circulated among them and most would be aware by now. Rather sad and disappointing, actually.

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Thanks for that. I didn’t know that traitorous left-wing, lying b*st*rd was monitoring this site.

Here’s to you, Cass!

[STARWISE]

God help us .. Kagan and Sunstein, fellow travelers

Listen to the lies she tells

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWV6YTrWthE&feature=PlayList&p=439FB61128702941&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1

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Mark Levin - Who is Elena Kagan Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JQ5J_IHys

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Mark Levin - Who is Elena Kagan Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMVj-f8ieUM

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Mark Levin - Who is Elena Kagan Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grIqhRPlYOU

[seekthetruth]

Thanks for the ping!

[April Lexington]

If the GOP allows the Kegan nomination to pass, they are hopeless and spineless enemies of the American People. The GOP is on life support with its former enthusiastic supporters and members as it is. This will be the last straw. The Wise Latina was the earlier straw...