Posted on 01/17/2010 1:52:32 PM PST by neverdem
Carry on!.
Next time you try to screw with me you might remember that I don't take crap without a return volley.
Yeah, you did.
That was some very insightful analysis of Suntein’s BS and I, for one, look forward to reading your future posts.
Carry on.
RD
Read it?
Sunstein probably studied it!
"This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, posters, leaflets, films, sound tracks, cartoons, photographs -- to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. day by day and almost minute by Minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place. The largest section of the Records Department, for larger than the one in which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction." (George Orwell's 1984)
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!
STE=Q
Obama Trolls? Say it isn’t so... LOL we will definately flush them out...
I got interested in Sunstein from two radio interviews about his book "Republic.com."
He advocated government forcing people (conservatives) to consider opposing views. And he did mean forcing.
One interviewer asked him if liberals should also be forced to considerate opposing views -- he had to think a bit about it and then said something like, "Yes, I suppose they should, I never considered that." At least that's what it sounded like and that's how I remember it.
At the risk of being Freep baited..."...for him..."
Thanks for your comments and the links.
I knew this Cass person was insanely evil - but did not know the details of all he has said in his lectures.....
So, rats that are killed mercilessly by homeowners should be able to sue the homeowner? And he was not talking about DemoRATS but about the kind that chew on baby’s toes and carry bubonic plague??? (though some Demonrats probably do that too...)
Save these Youtube videos.....my bet is they will be removed in the near future if Zero stays in office....which is not a sure thing at this point.
By this “Information and Regulatory Czar” of course.
Fascinating.
Suppose we “force” Sunstein to consider Communism, or Capitalism, or Atheism, or Agnosticism, or Catholicism? (Just so happens my particular “brand” of faith.)
How on earth would THAT pass Constitutional muster?
Stalin would be proud.
Interesting article and fascinating update IV. Greenwald nails Paul Krugman to the wall with his reply.
HOORAY Glenn Greenwald!
Thanks for the ping!
"Credible independent experts" like, say, Cass Sunstein and his friends.
Bambi's in more trouble than I thought.
These social architects view the Constitution as a hindrance and they believe the over time the basic premises of the document which they see as severely outdated, will be buried under a mountain of legal interpretations and some amendments.
They got most of the amendments during the post WWII period using the depravity of war and the resurgence of the American economy as cover. They git a lot of the interpretations like "one man one vote", "separation of church and state" and similar distortions of truth. Now they plan to use a depression or at best a severe recession to do more.
The idea is to form the perfect society, with them at the top of the food chain of course. The quasi-intellectual poop that they espouse and share between them sustains them as they wait for this perfection.
I don't know how you defeat them because they will blend into the surroundings during times of strife or conservative control. They teach our kids, run our social services and populate the droves of people who write our text books.
They are so prolific now that they don't bother to hide, but one day......one day that will change. It must, or we, the American Republic, the great experiment, will be lost to European style socialism.
The only way youre going to “out” clever libs like the one you describe is looking them straight in the eye and asking them point blank their positions on immigration, UN, and “pro-choice” movements. Then you can clean house.
I took "Philosophy of Hegel" in college..epistemology no? And something about the historical flow of philosophical metaphysics and..er..never mind. :) I think the gist of it was that history repeats itself. At least thats how I remember it. One of the hardest courses I had taken.
“This is in Salon?
Bambi’s in more trouble than I thought.”
My thoughts exactly!
Isn’t Sunstein the one who wants to give animals the right to get lawyers and sue in US Courts?
John Sutherland Productions. Creative Commons license: Public Domain. This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism.
In this case, we couldn't do that. It is kinda difficult to look at them in the eye when we're on FR. She was asked straight out for her positions on a number of items. She ignored the questions. So, it took patience and watching her build her history before she was finally banned. She was mostly neutralized though when she was called a troll by some of us when we encountered her. I didn't go looking for her, but when she popped up on threads I was reading, I outted her. I'm expecting her to come back with a different IP and screen name, but so far, I haven't seen her MO.
I'll confess to ignorance. Will you explain it to me in simple English?
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