Exposed: The Animal Rights Agenda Of America’s Next Regulatory Czar

[PoliCon]

Barack Obama’s pick for “regulatory czar,” Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein, may be the incoming president’s most popular appointment so far. Judging from his resume -- best-selling author, “pre-eminent legal scholar of our time,” and an endorsement from The Wall Street Journal -- we can almost understand why. Almost. Because as we’re telling the media today, there’s one troubling portion of the new Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator’s C.V. that has seems to have flown under everyone’s radar: Cass Sunstein is a radical animal rights activist.

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In that book, Sunstein set out an ambitious plan to give animals the legal “right” to file lawsuits. We're not joking:

“[A]nimals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law … 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.”

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/3807

Is there anyone Barry is bringing in who is NOT a nut job in one way or another?:(

[FlaGator]

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/3807

Is there anyone Barry is bringing in who is NOT a nut job in one way or another?:(

But can they animals afford the lawyers and legal fees? Also, if they are represented by humans and not other animals then the potential for more legal suits claiming a conflict of interest by their attorneys is possible when they lose law suits.

[djones520]

Why do we keep calling these people Czar's? That annoys the hell out of me.

[Bubba Dawg]

Why do we keep calling these people Czar's? That annoys the hell out of me.

Yeah, I'm kinda weary of that myself.

Chieftan? Kaiser? Grand Poobah? :D

[djones520]

Yeah, I'm kinda weary of that myself.

Chieftan? Kaiser? Grand Poobah? :D

Why not just call them what they are? Whatever the hell their position is.

[Mythic]

Why do we keep calling these people Czar's? That annoys the hell out of me.
Obama wants to be more like Russia.

[d_va]

Consumer Freedom's the source....lol....they're corporate front shills for the meat, alcohol and all the other great American profits industries.

Last I dealt with their trash talk was when they called Mother Against Drunk Driving....soccer moms by day, terrorists by night.

In this case, the "animal rights extremist" in question simply wanted to regulate humane treatment of food animals. Nothing wrong with that. But CF is paid to protect their clients' profits. Nothing personal, just business :rolleyes:

[noonwitch]

Is that what he truly believes, or was he writing a legal opinion for an animal rights organization who paid him to do so?


You know how lawyers can be-they believe in nothing, except the right of people to pay them to come up with ridiculous ideas.


addendum: I did read the article after I posted, and he really does believe it. Okay.
I don't like the idea of torturing animals for unnecessary experiments, like for cosmetics or such. Or the monkey experiment the WMU psych program did, where they put electrodes on their brains to see how much pain they could take before they died. I had to watch a movie about it in my first psych class, with a "personal friend of BF Skinner".

But new medicines? Well, we can't exactly use prisoners, at least not until it's proven not to cause harm to mammals.