[markomalley]

"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."

Glad Øbama is appointing such a "centrist" cabinet. /s

[kitkat]

*** 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.***

Hmmm...no meat, no fish, no milk. NO HEALTHY BONES for Americans.

[IrishCatholic]

Wow, another wack job takes office.
I hope the country's happy. Hope and Change can translate to Stupid and Insane.

[Ditter]

hhummmmm I guess Mr. Ditter won't be able to raise anymore rodeo bucking bulls. Wonder what he will have to do with the ones he has?

[yobid]

Is there anyone in his cabinet that doesn't have a radical leftest agenda?

[kindred]

[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 … ]

The communist democrats and foolish liberal republicrats of America have lost their collective mind. This is the type of government the majority of people voted for (stupid is as stupid does) and they themselves will someday learn that they were so wrong.
Until then, may the Lord Jesus Christ defend us from all the enemies of His righteousness and His government.
Come quickly Lord Jesus.

P.S. Another sign of the latter days prophecy's is being fulfilled ( they will refuse to eat meat which God has given to be received with thanksgiving, as well as refusing to marry and other latter day prophecies which are being fulfilled before our very eyes).Fascinating.

[Le Chien Rouge]

History Reapeating itself:

There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany[1] and the Nazis took several measures to ensure protection of animals.[2] Many Nazi leaders including

Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring were supporters of animal protection. Several Nazis were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime.[3] Heinrich Himmler made efforts to ban the hunting of animals.[4] Göring was an animal lover and conservationist.[5] The current animal welfare laws in Germany are more or less modification of the laws introduced by the Nazis.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany

...and people think IT CANNOT happen here in the USA...

[oust the louse]

“Sunstein supports outlawing sport hunting, giving animals the legal right to file lawsuits,...”

Please Lord, let this insanity end...

[midwyf]

I have absolutely no problem with animals filing lawsuits as long as no human is involved in the process, especially the process of banking donations and court monetary awards for “expenses”.

[SumProVita]

I’d be willing to bet that the pro-animal guy is also pro-unborn baby killing.

[MrPiper]

Hell, why keep it secret, no Obombanite cares one whit. I expect him to grab a few murders and rapist out of prison to “balance” his cabinet.

[girlangler]

Ping.

[blau993]

Would that it was a cabinet appointee. Then he would have to be confirmed, and this lunacy would probably doom the appointment. As it is, I don't think the position to which he is being appointed requires Senate confirmation.

I am thinking of bringing a class action lawsuit by my two Labradors (acting on behalf of all dogs) against Sunstein over his proposed ban of meat eating. The theory would be that my dogs are serious carnivores, but the process of domestication has left them unable to hunt for meat on their own. If their people are prohibited from buying meat to feed them, it would violate their constitutional right (which Sunstein apparently claims they have) to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

[mike-zed]

“Hope & Change” = nightmare.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...biomedical researchers...”

This, I disagree with. ‘Animal Rights’ freaks don’t care HOW many embryonic humans are killed in research. They just don’t want us to put any makeup on dose cute widdow bunnie wabbits!

For the sake of the animals we must begin testing all new products on toddlers! *SMIRK*

[jazusamo]

Sunstein supports outlawing sport hunting, giving animals the legal right to file lawsuits, and using government regulations to phase out meat consumption.

Cass belongs in a padded cell, not leading the ORIA.

[SunkenCiv]

g’night.

Obama Skipped Bush Goodbye?
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Posted on 01/15/2009 6:13:17 PM PST by RushingWater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165472/posts

[Carry_Okie]

Sunstein supports outlawing sport hunting, giving animals the legal right to file lawsuits, and using government regulations to phase out meat consumption.

When activists of any stripe demand rights for animals, rocks, or plants, what they are really doing is demanding disproportionate representation of their interests as the self-appointed advocates representing those constituents. Unfortunately, to enforce a right requires the police power of government, the only agent so capable. Government acquires this role because it is assumed a disinterested arbiter of competing claims.

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.

[jarofants]

That's crazy! An airplane went down today because of some ducks. If you don't keep the deer population down you will probably end up hitting one and maybe hurting your family in the accident.

[ScreamingFist]

"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."

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.

[KoRn]

"giving animals the legal right to file lawsuits"

ROFL!!!!