Forget steaks, hamburgers, hotdogs, lamb chops, pork, chicken, quail, venison. Wipe out the Oklahoma cattle industry, the pig industry, the poultry industry, the hunting industry. Eliminate horse racing. Radical thoughts, you ask? Not so to this Barack Obama confidant, whose animal rights views would overturn all of human history and destroy the world economy.

His name is Cass Sunstein and he is President Obama's nominee to become the nation's regulatory czar, the most important government position most Americans know nothing about. He's about to become the most dangerous man in America.

The Most Dangerous Man In America

Opinion By Mike McCarville

[Note: This first appeared on March 5th and is reposted following requests that we do so.]

Sunstein, 54, has been appointed as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The post, often referred to as the “regulatory czar,” is charged with coordinating the alphabet soup of federal agencies, including the EPA, Energy Department, and OSHA.

Among top officials, this is the most important position that Americans know nothing about. All major regulations—from rules on clean air to airline safety to the administration of public lands—will pass Sunstein's desk. He will become, in essence, the nation's Bureaucrat-in-Chief.

Sunstein is a Harvard Law School Professor with long ties to Obama through the University of Chicago Law School. He's a radical animal rights extremist who would overturn all of human history to ban the eating of meat and hunting. He would grant legal rights to animals and allow attorneys for them to file lawsuits.

Sunstein would ban the eating of meat, hunting, and the private ownership of firearms. He would grant legal rights to animinals and allow attorneys for them to file lawsuits. Read more about him at http://www.politicalbase.com/people/cass-sunstein/31081/.

The Center For Consumer Freedom examined Sunstein's record and asks of Sunstein's radical animal rights agenda: "Don’t believe us? Sunstein has made no secret of his devotion to the cause of establishing legal 'rights' for livestock, wildlife, and pets.

'[T]here should be extensive regulation of the use of animals in entertainment, scientific experiments, and agriculture,' Sunstein wrote in a 2002 working paper while at the University of Chicago Law school.

“Extensive regulation of the use of animals. That's PETA-speak for using government to get everything PETA and the Humane Society of the United States can't get through gentle pressure or not-so-gentle coercion. Not exactly the kind of thing American ranchers, restaurateurs, hunters, and biomedical researchers (to say nothing of ordinary consumers) would like to hear from their next 'regulatory czar.'

"A version of the same paper also appeared as the introduction to Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, a 2004 book that Sunstein co-edited with then-girlfriend Martha Nussbaum (he's shown above at Obama's inaugural with his new friend, also an Obama confidant). In that book, Sunstein set out an ambitious plan to give animals the legal 'right' to file lawsuits.

"Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law...."

"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.'

"It doesn't end there. Sunstein delivered a keynote speech at Harvard University’s 2007 “Facing Animals” conference. (Click here to watch the video; his speech starts around 39:00.) Keep in mind that as OIRA Administrator, Sunstein will have the political authority to implement a massive federal government overhaul."

"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."

Consider this Sunstein tidbit: “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 also argued in favor of “eliminating current practices such as greyhound racing, cosmetic testing, and meat eating, most controversially.”

He concluded his Harvard speech by expressing his “more ambitious animating concern” that the current treatment of livestock and other animals should be considered “a form of unconscionable barbarity not the same as, but in many ways morally akin to, slavery and mass extermination of human beings.”

Concluded The Center's report: "As the individual about to assume 'the most important position that Americans know nothing about,' Sunstein owes the public an honest appraisal of his animal rights goals before taking office. Will the next four years be a dream-come-true for anti-meat, anti-hunting, and anti-everything-else radicals? Time will tell. For now, meat lovers might want to stock their freezers."

[Originally posted on March 5th. Thanks to the numerous local and national blogs that have linked to this commentary, including The Liberty Sphere, Cocked And Loaded, Fair And Biased, Southwest Radio Ministries, BatesLine, Every Blade of Grass, Red S Tater, the Oklahoma Rifle Association, The War On Guns, Leverguns, Snow Flakes In Hell, Crotchey Geek, Under The Tree, FeedBurner, Full Of Sound And Fury, Alabama River Fishing, Joke, Talk Weather, Other Dark Sides, The Mental Militia, Reason, Prison Planet Forum, Facebook, Ramblings Of Oz and others.)

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ALG Opposes Cass Sunstein Nomination

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a letter to farm bureau chiefs nationwide called for them to actively oppose the nomination of Cass Sunstein (left, with wife) to be the White House's "Regulatory Czar" in order to prevent a "litigation nightmare."

"What concerns me and I am sure will concern you is Mr. Sunstein's extreme positions on animal rights," Wilson wrote in his letter to the agricultural sector. "If put into law or regulation, these radical stands will destroy agriculture and threaten America's ability to feed itself much less do any exporting of agricultural products."

"A vote for Sunstein is a vote against agriculture," Wilson said in a statement. "If Cass Sunstein had his way, the entire cattle industry could be plunged into a litigation nightmare for years to come."

On April 20, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Cass Sunstein to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House Office of Management and Budget. This post is also known as the "Regulatory Czar," since all major regulatory actions by the federal government are subject to review by this office.

Earlier this month, Senate Republicans blocked a unanimous consent resolution to approve Sunstein without any roll call that had been attempted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Now, it will require 60 votes to invoke cloture on the nominee.

Sunstein favors granting legal rights to animals. In 2002 he wrote in "The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer," "We could even grant animals a right to bring suit without insisting that animals are persons, or that they are not property."

Sunstein also supported "further regulation" against hunting, animal testing and farming. "We should focus attention not only on the 'enforcement gap,' but on the areas where current law offers little or no protection. In short, the law should impose further regulation on hunting, scientific experiments, entertainment, and (above all) farming to ensure against unnecessary animal suffering."

"This is just the beginning," Wilson said in a statement. "Cass Sunstein is a litigation menace, and putting him as the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs would give him a position to inflict patently absurd regulations through the entire federal bureaucracy.

"That means his bizarre worldview would most certainly find its way into countless thousands of regulations," Wilson added.

"Animal testing, which every knows is a critical practice to testing the safety—for humans—of everything from drugs to make up to space exploration has saved countless millions of human lives, but Sunstein would do away with it entirely," Wilson said.

Wilson also called upon the U.S. Senate to block his nomination, "Every senator voting for Sunstein must necessarily associate him or herself with his extremist designs."

"Every American who wants to have the right to choose what to eat and purchase at the grocery store or at the farm stand should be greatly alarmed by Barack Obama's radical appointment of Cass Sunstein," Wilson concluded.

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Concerns Mount Over President Obama's Cass Sunstein, 'The Most Dangerous Man In America'

From News Sources ~ President Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar," the man described by The McCarville Report Online as "the most dangerous man in America," has hit a new snag in his Senate confirmation process, a "hold" by Texas Senator John Cornyn, who's says he's not convinced that Harvard professor Cass Sunstein won't push a radical animal rights agenda, including new restrictions on agriculture and even hunting.

Sunstein's push to institute legal rights for animals and to ban firearms ownership raised eyebrows when Obama nominated him.

Senators are permitted "holds" to prevent a vote on a nominee from coming to the floor. They are often secretive and for very specific reasons.

"Sen. Cornyn finds numerous aspects of Mr. Sunstein's record troubling, specifically the fact that he wants to establish legal 'rights' for livestock, wildlife and pets, which would enable animals to file lawsuits in American courts," the Republican's spokesman, Kevin McLaughlin, said in a statement to FOXNews.com.

Cornyn's hold on Sunstein comes just as Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., last week lifted his own hold on the nominee, whom Obama tapped in April to become the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Budget and Management.

Chambliss said he was dropping his hold because Sunstein had convinced him that he "would not take any steps to promote litigation on behalf of animals," and that he believes the "Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess guns for purposes of both hunting and self defense."

Both statements were included in a letter Sunstein sent to Chambliss on July 14.
Chambliss added in a Senate floor speech last Wednesday that "Professor Sunstein comes highly recommended by a number of folks from the conservative side of the philosophical divide in this country."

One of Sunstein's top jobs would be to review and provide guidance for draft federal regulations at different federal agencies. It is a wide-ranging and largely unrestrained position in the executive branch.

That's a large part of the reason Sunstein's positions on animal rights have become worrisome to his critics. Despite his assurances to the contrary, Sunstein has spoken stridently in favor of allowing people the right to bring suit on behalf of animals in animal cruelty cases and to restrict what he calls the more horrific practices associated with industrial breeding and processing of animals for food.

In a 2007 speech at Harvard, Sunstein also advocated restricting animal testing for cosmetics, banning hunting and encouraging the general public to eat less meat.

Read "The Most Dangerous Man In America" at http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2009/03/opinion-most-dangerous-man-in-america.html.

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Obama's Anti-Gun Slinger: Arne Duncan

He's a product of Chicago's liberal environment, a former professional basketball player known for his one-on-ones with rising Illinois politician Barack Obama.

Commentary By Mike McCarville

Now, at 44, former Chicago Schools Superintendent Arne Duncan is President Obama's choice as Secretary of Education and to that post, he brings a long-standing hostility toward gun ownership by law-abiding citizens and a stated desire to remove firearms from every home in America.

Duncan is viewed by some as part of Obama's stealth campaign to eliminate gun ownership in America. Teamed with Obama's new bureaucrat-in-chief, anti-gunner and wacko animal rights activist Cass Sunstein, Duncan is poised to ramrod an anti-gun agenda in the nation's educational system.

The NRA's flagship magazine, America's 1st Freedom, recently profiled Duncan in an article by well-known 2nd Amendment expert Dave Kopel.

Kopel notes that last October, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (aka the Illinois Council Against Guns) gave Duncan its "Man Of The Year" award. He refused to accept it, saying his fight to ban guns isn't over: "We'll keep fighting the NRA, the gun makers, the gun dealers, the gangbangers aned everyone else who refuses to accept the undeniable fact that guns and kids don't mix."

His statement is an attack on the high school Scholastic Clays Target Program, "gun clubs with small-bore shooting teams for teenagers, and parents who take their children hunting," Kopel writes.

Duncan goes further: "We'll fight them in Springfield, in the courts, in the community and even in the home."

In the home. Duncan wants to bring his radical opposition to firearms ownership and the 2nd Amendment into our homes.

Writes Kopel: "You may ask yourself, 'What can the secretary of education do to prohibit the rights of law-abiding gun owners?' To begin with, he can incessantly and hysterically use his bully pulpit to promote repressive gun control as an absolute necessity 'for the children.' That's what he did as superintendent of Chicago public schools."

Duncan believes in his radical approach: "This is a public health epidemic. We are struggling to find the cure for AIDS, we are struggling to find the cure for cancer; we know the cure for this public health epidemic: getting rid of guns."

Among Duncan's running mates are the extremist Catholic priest Michael Pfleger, whose statement that a Chicago gun dealer should be "snuffed out" brought censorship from his bishop; Mayor Richard Daley, who presides over a city with stringent gun control and one of the worse crime rates in the nation; and notorious gun-grabber Jesse Jackson.

Concludes Kopel: "There is every reason to be concerned that Duncan will turn the Department of Education into a tool to promote a gun-ban agenda in America's public schools. And we can fully expect that the 'mainstream' media, which was so viciously hostile to the Bush administration, will fawn over Duncan's public demands to repress the Second Amendment 'for the children.'"

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