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Stealth Propaganda

by Kafir ( 230 Comments › )
Filed under Guest Post, Politics, Progressives at January 20th, 2010 - 12:30 pm

Blogmocracy in Action!

Guest post by: Et Norsk Troll


There must be some WGC (Weapons Grade Craziness) going on in the halls of power for such an idea as this to be floated around among the elite in Washington:

“…we suggest a distinctive tactic for breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories: cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, whereby government agents or their allies … will undermine the crippled epistemology of those who subscribe to such theories”

That was Cass Sunstein (he’s a good friend of the President) musing about what government can do to combat “conspiracy” theories.

What??!? Whatever happened to Government of the people, for the people and by the people? What is it going to take before America wakes up to the insidious nature of this Administration? Perhaps I’ve spoken too soon: based upon early poll returns that I’ve heard, it may already be dawn(ing) in America.

Heh.

From John Stossel:

That’s right. Obama’s Regulation Czar is so concerned about citizens thinking the wrong way that he proposed sending government agents to “infiltrate” these groups and manipulate them. This reads like an Onion article: Powerful government official proposes to combat paranoid conspiracy groups that believe the government is out to get them…by proving that they really are out to get them. Did nothing of what Sunstein was writing strike him as…I don’t know…crazy? “Cognitive infiltration” of extremist groups by government agents? “Stylized facts”? Was “truthiness” too pedantic?

I wonder if CJ would have approved of such tactics as these? I would like to think not…

Go read the rest here.

~Norsk Troll

Czar Wars: Obama’s Unelected Regulatory Chief Pushes New ‘Bill of Rights’ by 2020

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 157 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Democratic Party, Liberal Fascism, Multiculturalism, Progressives, Socialism at September 12th, 2009 - 8:40 am

This commie crap is almost right out of Mao’s “Little Red Book”. But who’s shocked? Most of realize who is running our government (for now)- Radical elected and unelected marxists like Obama, Sunstein and Browner.
They and their lackeys in the state-controlled mainstream media claim those of us who think this way are way off base, and even crazy, but when you read, in THEIR OWN WORDS, what some of these radical leftists appointed by The Zero™ actually want to do to America, how can any sane person think otherwise?

Cass Sunstein part of effort to change interpretation of Constitution by 2020

NEW YORK – A government that is constitutionally required to offer each citizen a “useful” job in the farms or industries of the nation.

A country whose leadership intercedes to ensure every farmer can sell his product for a good return.

A nation that has the power to act against “unfair competition” and monopolies in business.

This is not a description of Cuba, communist China or the old USSR. It’s the vision of the future of the U.S, as mandated by a radical new “bill of rights” drawn up and pushed by President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein. Until now, Sunstein’s proposal has received little scrutiny.In 2004, Sunstein penned a book, “The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’S Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever,” in which he advanced the radical notion that welfare rights, including some controversial inceptions, be granted by the state. His inspiration for a new bill of rights came from President Roosevelt’s 1944 proposal of a different, new set of bill of rights.

WND has learned that in April 2005, Sunstein opened up a conference at Yale Law School entitled “The Constitution in 2020,” which sought to change the nature and interpretation of the Constitution by that year.

Sunstein has been a main participant in the movement, which openly seeks to create a “progressive” consensus as to what the U.S. Constitution should provide for by the year 2020. It also suggests strategy for how liberal lawyers and judges might bring such a constitutional regime into being.

Just before his appearance at the conference, Sunstein wrote a blog entry in which he explained he “will be urging that it is important to resist, on democratic grounds, the idea that the document should be interpreted to reflect the view of the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party.”

In his book, Sunstein laid out what he wants to become the new bill of rights, which he calls the Second Bill of Rights:

Among his mandates are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.

Read the rest here