Elena Kagan and her Socialist 'hero' Cass Sunstein

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

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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
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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

• Was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court by President Obama in May 2010

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

[Diogenesis]

“Western thinking has become conservative:
the world situation should stay as it is at any cost;
there should be no changes. ....
The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support
from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see
communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In
our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero
and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with
empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to
withstand the East.”
[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn at the Commencement, 8 June 1978, Harvard University]

[oust the louse]

“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.”

It’s all happening right in front of our noses...socialists and socialism being jammed down our collective throats by this magic muslim president.

[Travis McGee]

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socialism being jammed down our collective throats by this magic muslim president.

Obama's "religion" is Black Liberation Theology. BLT and other "Liberation" theologies were concocted by communists to advance the revolutionary communist agenda via 'religion'. The Weather Underground, Black Panthers and of course the Black Liberation Army all advocated revolutionary communist "Liberation" through more directly confrontational means rather than through these bogus religions. The Black Liberation Front was formed in Communist Cuba back in the mid-60s.

[9YearLurker]

I’m convinced that Kagan would go down and it’d be a boon to the 2010 elections if Republicans would expose her for what she is. This is another case where the country would rally if the Republicans would get the real message out. But I see no signs they intend to do that at all: they still seem to go along with the Democrat/Obama agenda unless the people push them to do otherwise.

[GOPJ]

"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)."

That socialism doesn't "work" might have something to do with it - but then again countries like Greece, Portugal, Italy, France, and Ireland are doing sooooooooo well. We must become more "European" - so sophisticated - soooooooo "going under". Broke. Bankrupt. Finished... Kaput.

[concerned about politics]

This is another case where the country would rally if the Republicans would get the real message out. But I see no signs they intend to do that at all: they still seem to go along with the Democrat/Obama agenda unless the people push them to do otherwise.

The politicians want us to do all the work for them. That way, they appear squeaky clean at all times. They're cowards.
The Marxists in Washington have to go, so we have to vote them out. Unfortunately, we still have no one to vote FOR. The Republicans are the lesser of two evils.
It would be nice if the Republicans stood up straight and proud of the Constitution as it is written and never backed down, but they won't.

[9YearLurker]

All that, and I’m also not sure how many are fake even in their quasi-conservativism, secretly rooting for the other team’s agenda anyway.

E.g., Charlie Crist smiles and says how much nicer it is now that he can be ‘honest’ and support the likes of Kagan openly.

[Servant of the Cross]

I’m convinced that Kagan would go down ... if Republicans would expose her for what she is.

I wish I had your belief. I'm too cynical. I think that Sotomayor was "exposed for what she is" and it didn't matter. I do believe that Kagan likewise will be "exposed for what she is" at the hearings and it also won't matter. All the Dims need is one of the shameful nine GOPers who voted for Sotomayor.

That said, I guess it is possible that some Dem Senators who are up for election in Nov. 2010 in "red states" may feel big pressure to critically review some of Kagan's more extreme positions and not just rubber stamp (but I won't get my hopes up).

[9YearLurker]

Kagan only goes down if her real extremism is made clear to the populace and the populace forces enough senators to oppose it.

I too doubt it happens, but there’s enough out there on her to make it possible. Again, the Republican party isn’t lifting a single fat-cat paw-toe to make it happen either.

[Mouton]

I not sure we could count on Crist’s straw man in the Senate from Florida, holding the seat till he can try to wrest it from Marco, will vote against her. Crist wants to divide some of the dimmocrate vote here so he can have ride a coalision of RINOs and “moderate” dems to victory where he only needs a plurality. So, the shameful 9 may easily become the shameful 10 quite quickly.

My advice to the GOP, stay clear of the sexual preference gimmick being tossed out there as a lure and dwell on her writings and her few decision, especially the one about the ROTC. If they feel they can get a few dims on board, go for it, stop her and toss the gauntlet down to the zero here. Make this his waterloo moment.

[ravingnutter]

I did some research on Sunstein a couple of days ago in relation to organ donations:

Obama Regulation Czar: Organ Harvesting Without Consent

Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Cass Sunstein, has advocated that laws be changed so that deceased patients’ organs may be harvested for transplant without prior consent from the patient or family.

Sunstein and co-author Richard H. Thaler outlined the policy in their 2008 book, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Many organs that could be used in transplants are lost because patients fail to give their consent before dying, Sunstein and Thaler note, and family members often refuse to donate their loved one’s organs.

This “explicit consent” should be turned into a “presumed consent,” write Sunstein and Thaler, where laws would assume that, unless people explicitly choose not to, they want to donate their organs to science for transplant or other medical uses.

Also see:

The Future's Shadow (Obama's Organ Harvesting Plan)

That man is just evil, the next step is involuntary euthanasia for those not deemed "productive", you can count on it.

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All the Dims need is one of the shameful nine GOPers who voted for Sotomayor.

"remember, court is where policy is made..."

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor caught on tape
saying "Court is Where Policy is Made" (2005)

Link to YouTube video of her making the comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q

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Racism rejected: SCOTUS reverses Sotomayor in firefighters case

By Michelle Malkin
June 29, 2009

Just in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/29/racism-rejected-scotus-reverses-sotomayor-in-firefighters-case/

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Sotomayor's also a sexist.

Sotomayor's 'wise Latina' comment a staple of her speeches

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion [than a white male who hasn’t lived that life]."--Sonia Sotomayor

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/05/sotomayor.speeches/

Also:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/26/hey-claire-mccaskill-meet-clarence-thomas/

[9YearLurker]

Crist has already said he supports her, implying that it is refreshing not to have to pretend to be conservative in any way. I brought this up as an example of how some of our supposedly RINO pols may not have a genuine conservative bone in their bodies.

I too would stay away from her sexuality, as the country would rally against such perceived bigotry. The ROTC situation is one thing, but not nearly enough IMO. I want all of the radicalism, from her college thesis to her blathering over Sunstein brought out and tied to the most extreme comments that Obama himself has said about the SC and the Constitution.

The country has already seen enough of his attempts to hamstring the country, both militarily and through economic socialism. They’re ready for the final argument proving his full radicalism for our country—and Ms. Kagan is absolutely perfect evidence to present to the electorate.

[Servant of the Cross]

I loved Scott Ott's satire at the time with regard to this ....

Sotomayor may sue SCOTUS for overturning New Haven ruling

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"Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Cass Sunstein..."
"The Future's Shadow (Obama's Organ Harvesting Plan)

Thanks. There are so many disturbing things about these people it's difficult to fit it all here.

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In Nov 2008.