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Posted By RedRiverJ 7 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsWASHINGTON – Barack Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has advocated a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period.
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RedRiverJ7 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://www.donttouchmydial.com/
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Obama seems to want to threaten speech on radio, web and print........-
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RedRiverJ7 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view=96...
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Obama's blitzkrieg against the Constitution has broadened to include an assault on talk radio and the Internet to silence radio critics and growing opposition organized on the Internet from the tea party movement. -
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Redneck7 months, 3 weeks ago
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FTA: O'Leary disagrees.
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"It's hard to imagine President Obama nominating a more dangerous candidate for regulatory czar than Cass Sunstein," he says. "Not only is Sunstein an animal-rights radical, but he also seems to have a serious problem with our First Amendment rights. Sunstein has advocated everything from regulating the content of personal e-mail communications, to forcing nonprofit groups to publish information on their websites that is counter to their beliefs and mission. Of course, none of this should be surprising from a man who has said that 'limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.' If it were up to Obama and Sunstein, everything we read online – right down to our personal e-mail communications – would have to be inspected and approved by the federal government." -
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Redneck7 months, 3 weeks ago
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FTA: Sunstein's nomination to the powerful new position will require Senate approval. He is almost certain to face other questions about his well-documented controversial views:
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* In a 2007 speech at Harvard he called for banning hunting in the U.S.
* In his book "Radicals in Robes," he wrote: "[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the Court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms."
* In his 2004 book, "Animal Rights," he wrote: "Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives …"
* In "Animal Rights: A Very Short Primer," he wrote "[T]here should be extensive regulation of the use of animals in entertainment, in scientific experiments, and in agriculture." -
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BB647 months, 3 weeks ago
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Hold on there zippy, we've been at war for the last 8 years. We've heard nothing but hate for President Bush and every GOP member of congress. You've called them Nazis, Fascists, or some other form of freedom restricting dictatorship. Now when your own party is being questioned using the same methods you used to attack us, you're trying to restrict free speech. When you look at the rise of folks like Lenin, Mussolini or Hitler, it remarkably reflects the rise of the "new" DNC under President Obama.
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This is a free speech issue and you will have a fight in the courts for years if you try this. -
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dailyblueberry7 months, 3 weeks ago
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nostalgia7 months, 3 weeks ago
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They can only stay in power if they control the message
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Remember Orwell’s 1984?
Big Brother was able to maintain power and keep the support of the people by making certain the populace is ignorant, and by filling their heads with propaganda.
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stephen-johnson7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Actually, the marketplace is handling the "civility check" issue itself. Active membership on web sites that have abusive members has plummeted over the last five years. Nutscape is a case in point.
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Obama wants to appoint a czar for every aspect of life, it seems. As if life can be run better by central planning. That sounds more like a bolshevik than a czar-
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BB647 months, 3 weeks ago
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Isn't that the truth. He not only has cabinet members for each department, he has his czars. What a joke. This is like the Nazis. You had ministers for each department/ministry but when they took over, they also appointed special members of the party to assist in managing. The same method all over again. Never thought I'd live to see America fall so far. I understand how the average German felt in 1933.
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Wolfie20077 months, 3 weeks ago
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I wonder if Obama and the rat gang even know the difference between a bolshevik and a czar. Liberal progressive don't bother much with history it depresses the poor things just to realize that the history of the 20th century is a litany of failure for Marxists and all it kin.
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Klarissa7 months, 3 weeks ago
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unfortunately the lower echelon employees are deciding issues.
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If an unknown someone can direct air force one and to jets to fly around New York and get away with it, then
Sunstein will have absolute power of television, radio, the internet, telephone conversations, newspapers and magazines.
I hope that we will still be able to read other country's publications. -
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Klarissa7 months, 3 weeks ago
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some quotes:http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guides/Z...
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The imperative of economic equality also generates a striking opposition between "social justice" and its liberal rival. The equality of the latter, we've noted, is the equality of all individuals in the eyes of the law -- the protection of the political rights of each man, irrespective of "class" (or any assigned collective identity, hence the blindfold of Justice personified).
However, this political equality, also noted, spawns the difference in "class" between Smith and Jones. All this echoes Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek's observation that if "we treat them equally [politically], the result must be inequality in their actual [i.e., economic] position."
The irresistable conclusion is that "the only way to place them in an equal [economic] position would be to treat them differently [politically]" -- precisely the conclusion that the advocates of "social justice" themselves have always reached.
stems, "different" political treatment came to subsume the extermination or imprisonment of millions because of their "class" origins.
In our own American "mixed economy," which mixes differing systems of justice as much as economics, "social justice" finds expression in such policies and propositions as progressive taxation and income redistribution; affirmative action and even "reparations," its logical implication; and selective censorship in the name of "substantive equality," i.e., economic equality disingenuously reconfigured as a Fourteenth Amendment right and touted as the moral superior to "formal equality," the equality of political freedom actually guaranteed by the amendment.
This last is the project of a growing number of leftist legal theorists that includes Cass Sunstein and Catherine MacKinnon, the latter opining that the "law of [substantive] equality and the law of freedom of expression [for all] are on a collision course in this country." Interestingly, Hayek had continued, "Equality before the law and material equality are, therefore, not only different, but in conflict with each other" -- a pronouncement that evidently draws no dissent. -
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Klarissa7 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Prosecution of Americans for ordering or implementing torture, as pundits like Ruth Marcus and legal theorists like Cass Sunstein have argued, should be avoided by the new administration. Move on, don't get diverted, don't be "vindictive," they and others say."
my comment - looks like Soros has more power than Sunstein.
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