Posted on 01/15/2009 5:47:16 AM PST by markomalley
Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 15, 2009 -- The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom said today that Cass Sunstein, the Harvard University Law School professor tapped by President-elect Obama to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has a secret aim to push a radical animal-rights agenda in the White House. Sunstein supports outlawing sport hunting, giving animals the legal right to file lawsuits, and using government regulations to phase out meat consumption.
In a 2007 speech at Harvard University, Sunstein argued in favor of entirely "eliminating current practices such as … meat eating." He also proposed: "We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now."
Sunstein wrote in his 2004 book "Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions" that "animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives … Any animals that are entitled to bring suit would be represented by (human) counsel, who would owe guardian-like obligations and make decisions, subject to those obligations, on their clients' behalf."
The Center for Consumer Freedom's Director of Research, David Martosko, is available to discuss Cass Sunstein's likely impact on typical elements of American life that involve the use of animals. Sunstein's work could spell the end of animal agriculture, retail sales of meat and dairy foods, hunting and fishing, biomedical research, pet ownership, zoos and aquariums, traveling circuses, and countless other things Americans take for granted.
Mr. Martosko said: "Cass Sunstein owes Americans an honest appraisal of his animal rights agenda as America's top regulator. Americans don't realize that the next four years could be full of bizarre initiatives plucked from the wildest dreams of the animal-rights fringe. Think about every outrageous idea PETA and the Humane Society of the United States have ever had, and imagine them all having the force of federal law. This doesn't look good for hunters, ranchers, restaurateurs, biomedical researchers, or ordinary pet owners."
For an interview with Mr. Martosko about how Cass Sunstein's appointment will serve the radical animal rights movement's agenda in the White House, or for more information, contact Sarah Kapenstein at 202-463-7112.
Cass belongs in a padded cell, not leading the ORIA.
And I suppose next they'll be allowed to vote, file for welfare benefits, and receive food stamps.
Are these people aware just how nutty they sound?
g’night.
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Posted on 01/15/2009 6:13:17 PM PST by RushingWater
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History suggests quite the opposite, which is why limiting the number of enforceable rights is as important to liberty as is constituting them as such.
When government gains the power to confer rights to any constituency, it acquires the means to confer power upon itself as an enforcing agent. There is then no limit to the power to dilute the rights of citizens. Civic respect for unalienable rights of citizens then exists not at all.
What the hell does that mean? It's ok to shoot animals for sport.....like safari's and ok to shoot for meat, like hunting.....but everything else is not OK. Like running over cats while driving down the road? I don't understand.
It won’t end until we make it end.
I asked a doctor once about vegetarians. He said to me: “have you ever seen an 80 year old vegetarian?”
ROFL!!!!
“giving animals the legal right to file lawsuits”
> ROFL!!!!
Hey, didn’t this happen somewhere in Europe already???
Like WTF, where is sane thinking...?
It won’t end until we make it end.
Or get the hell out of here while we can
Freakin’ Gerbils are tying up the courts.
“Hope and Change” turns to “Desperation and Insanity”.
I hope there is something left of this country in 4 years. These lunatics are going to start a revolution.
“Is there anyone in his cabinet that doesn’t have a radical leftest agenda?”
As I have said before, Barry was just a vessel to get these lunatics in control of government. A “gum wrapper” if you will.
So true!! LOL!
I wonder how much money she and her organiztions used to bribe Obama?
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