The Cass Sunstein Depreciation Thread

Deleted member 472633 · Jun 6, 2013

http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunstein_2/

Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama's closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for â€œoverseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs.â€ In 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-â€independentâ€ advocates to â€œcognitively infiltrateâ€ online groups and websites - as well as other activist groups - which advocate views that Sunstein deems â€œfalse conspiracy theoriesâ€ about the Government. This would be designed to increase citizens' faith in government officials and undermine the credibility of conspiracists. The paper's abstract can be read, and the full paper downloaded, here.
Sunstein advocates that the Government's stealth infiltration should be accomplished by sending covert agents into â€œchat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups.â€ He also proposes that the Government make secret payments to so-called â€œindependentâ€ credible voices to bolster the Government's messaging (on the ground that those who don't believe government sources will be more inclined to listen to those who appear independent while secretly acting on behalf of the Government). This program would target those advocating false â€œconspiracy theories,â€ which they define to mean: â€œan attempt to explain an event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role.â€ Sunstein's 2008 paper was flagged by this blogger, and then amplified in an excellent report by Raw Storyâ€˜s Daniel Tencer.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/01/13/obama-staffer-infiltration-911-groups/

n the past, we have seen Barack Obama and his supporters attempt to chill any sort of scrutiny or criticism of him. Many of his records - whether they are transcripts from Occidental or Columbia - have not been released. He lost his senior thesis (on Soviet nuclear disarmament) from Columbia University (how likely was that to happen, given that he felt his own life was important enough to write an autobiography in his young 20s), and his records from his time in the Illinois state senate were "lost".

Having records "disappeared" (as well as ditching embarrassing people from his past under the bus) was just one aspect of attempts to avoid scrutiny. Another manifestation of this dynamic, was the constant use during the campaign of the "race card" to brand any critics as racists or smear artists (even Sean Wilent of the liberal The New Republic noticed this strategy).

One more manifestation of this phenomenon was his campaign's use of supporters to bombard radio hosts with calls to jam lines when critics of Barack Obama appeared on radio call in shows. The "authoritarian tactics being employed by the Obama campaign to stifle and intimidate its critics" were on full display. Of course, the specter of the Fairness Doctrine being passed by Congress is also another card in the deck meant to chill criticism of Barack Obama and his fellow travelers.

Now comes a more insidious form of thought control a la 1984, courtesy of long-time friend and probable new regulatory czar Cass Sunstein (who recently married another long-time confidant of Barack Obama's, foreign policy guru Samantha Power). Kyle Smith writes in the New York Postabout one aspect of Sunstein's ideology:
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https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Cass_sunstein_conspiracies.pdf

From the Abstract:
"Many millions of people hold conspiracy theories...Those who subscribe to conspiracy theories may create serious risks, including risks of violence, and the existence of such theories raises significant challenges for policy and law. The first challenge is to understand the mechanisms by which conspiracy theories prosper; the second challenge is to understand how such theories might be undermined. Such theories typically spread as a result of identifiable cognitive blunders, operating in conjunction with informational and reputational influences. A distinctive feature of conspiracy theories is their self-sealing quality. Conspiracy theorists are not likely to be persuaded by an attempt to dispel their theories; they may even characterize that very attempt as further proof of the conspiracy. Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a â€œcrippled epistemology,â€ in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration..."
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-czar-wants-mandatory-government-propaganda-on-political-websites.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/cass_sunsteins_despicable_idea.html
You guys may of wondered which of Obama's advisors comes up with all the bad ideas well look no further:

Stare Into the face of evil.

And he is the Czar Obama put in charge of regulating the motherfucking internet. Honestly I can' see anyone of any political persuasion supporting this man. He is the most statist you can get.

JohnnyWeedSeed · Jun 6, 2013

I think we might have a few of his internet moles right here in GC

TheDankery · Jun 6, 2013

It so happens that Sustein's wife, Samantha Power, was nominated to be the new US ambassador to the UN yesterday.

She's described as a "liberal interventionist". That term is highly unsettling to me.

Power's area of expertise was the subject of genocide. She was a leading voice calling for intervention in Libya to take out Gaddafi. I wonder if this signifies a increased possibility of deeper US involvement in Syria.

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