| I told all you guys about the dangers of electing Democrats and socialists. Most of the Democrat power elite are members of an organization called, "Democrat Socialists of America". They are far more powerful than the "Blue Dog" Democrats (conservatives) and pretty much run the Democrat party. If this guy gets in, everyone pays, but most of all, your dogs.. We are now just beginning a Democrat administration which has taken over the automobile industry, banking industry, and wants to take over health care. Taking over animal industries with über-regulatory tactics will be a walk in the park for them! Of course, I was wrong, wasn't I???? That's what a lot of people thought.. What now? Impeachment? That's a long, hard road, and these Democrats were working 24/7 to get these things lined up in the three months between election and inauguration. They really hit the ground running, didn't they?
--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Janice Bartmess <webmaster@tailwag.com> wrote:
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Subject: Fw: Senate Can Vote On Animal Rights Fanatic
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Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 12:08 PM
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> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 11:21 AM
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> Radical Animal
> Rights Attorney Cleared
> To Become Obama’s
> Regulatory Czar
>
> Dog Owners,
> Hunters, Farmers Urged To Ask
> Their Senators To
> Stop Sunstein Nomination
>
> by JOHN YATES
> American Sporting Dog
> Alliance
> http://www.americansportingdogalliance.org
> asda@csonline.net
>
> This report is archived at http://eaglerock814.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=52
>
> WASHINGTON (July 21, 2009) – Sen.
> Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has lifted his “hold” blocking
> the nomination of Harvard Law School scholar and animal
> rights legal strategist Cass Sunstein for the post of
> regulatory czar in the Administration of his close personal
> friend, President Barack Obama.
>
> Sen. Chambliss had blocked the
> nomination based on concerns of farm groups because of
> Sunstein’s strong animal rights beliefs, including support
> of stringent regulation of people who raise animals and a
> ban on hunting. Last week, however, Chambliss met with
> Sunstein and announced on the Senate floor that he had
> lifted the hold on the nomination. The Senator added that
> the way is now clear for the U.S. Senate to confirm Sunstein
> before its August recess.
>
> The American Sporting Dog Alliance is
> urging all dog owners, hunters, firearms rights advocates,
> farmers and civil libertarians to take immediate action by
> urging the U.S. Senate to reject the Sunstein nomination to
> head the powerful Office of Information and Regulatory
> Affairs (OIRA) in the White House. Taking action now is of
> the utmost urgency.
>
> Sunstein has the strong
> support of the Humane Society of the United States, which is
> the political arm of the radical animal rights movement,
> according to a July 15 statement by HSUS Vice President and
> Chief Operating Officer Michael Markarian in The
> Huffington Post. Referring to the regulations to
> implement the federal Animal Welfare Act, and new rules
> about animal fighting and importing dogs, Markarian wrote:
> “These kinds of legal changes are
> precisely why Americans need a regulatory czar like Cass
> Sunstein in charge of OIRA -- to make sure the federal
> agencies properly implement regulations to enforce these new
> laws.”
>
> The Office of Information and
> Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) “reviews and alters regulations
> created by federal agencies,” according to Congress
> Daily.
>
> Sunstein, who has published 15 books,
> would have broad powers to review, recommend changes and
> possibly engineer changes in all federal regulations,
> including those about dog ownership, farming, hunting on
> federal lands, and enforcement of gun control
> laws.
>
> In his published writings and
> speeches, Sunstein has advocated:
>
>
> Giving animal rights groups the power
> to file lawsuits on the behalf of animals against their
> owners.
>
>
> Very strict regulations about animal
> ownership, farming and hunting.
>
>
> The elimination of
> hunting.
>
>
> The elimination of the individual
> right to keep and bear arms.
>
>
> Moving toward a vegan vegetarian
> society.
>
>
> Rewriting the Constitution and Bill
> of Rights.
>
>
> And restrictions on free
> speech.
>
> Each of those assertions will be
> documented later in this report by direct quotations from
> Sunstein’s published books and speeches.
>
> The American Sporting Dog Alliance
> believes Sunstein would have a severely negative impact on
> dog owners, farmers, hunters, gun owners and civil
> libertarians – Indeed, to all Americans!
>
> This is underscored by Sunstein’s
> status as a close personal friend and advisor to President
> Obama since they met in 1992, when Sunstein taught law at
> the University of Chicago. This will give Sunstein
> unprecedented influence and access to the
> President.
>
> It is further underscored by numerous
> mainstream reports that Sunstein is slated to be President
> Obama’s next nominee to fill a vacancy on the Supreme
> Court. This adds to the urgency of convincing the Senate
> that Sunstein’s beliefs are un-American and in direct
> contradiction to the basic principles outlined in the
> Constitution and Bill of Rights.
>
> Although Sunstein’s nomination had
> been blocked by Sen. Chambliss until last week,
> Government Executive reported that he actually has
> been working at the job in the White House on a daily
> basis.
> Sunstein’s potential use of power – and potential
> abuse of power – has been increased because President
> Obama redefined the role of OIRA shortly after taking
> office. The Wall Street Journal reported July 6:
> “In a significant,
> but little noticed, memo written 10 days after taking
> office, Mr. Obama ordered up a rewrite of how OIRA goes
> about its work, the first such revision since 1993. ‘Far
> more is now known about regulation -- not only when it is
> justified, but also what works and what does not,’ the
> president wrote. A regulatory review would make use of new
> tools and would ‘clarify the role of the behavioral
> sciences in formulating regulatory policy.’
> "
>
> The Wall Street Journal called
> the OIRA “obscure but powerful.”
>
> The American Sporting Dog Alliance believes that
> Sunstein will use this position to influence President
> Obama’s directives to all federal agencies on how to
> write, interpret and enforce all federal regulations. This
> includes regulations about agriculture, raising animals,
> hunting on public lands, and gun law enforcement and
> procedures. This is a dangerous power to be held by someone
> of Sunstein’s clearly radical and unconstitutional
> beliefs.
>
> Thus, we are urging every American to immediately
> contact both of his or her U.S, senators, and as many other
> senators as possible, to urge them to vote against the
> Sunstein nomination.
>
> This link will provide a search engine to locate each
> state’s senators, and an alphabetical list of the senators
> to link to contact information: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm. Each state has two U.S. Senators
> who represent all of the citizens of that state.
>
> We recommend at least two forms of contact: Send an
> email as a first step, plus also send a letter or fax,
> and/or make a phone call. Please do this immediately, as a
> Senate confirmation vote could come at any
> moment.
>
> In addition, please send this report to all of your
> friends and contacts and ask them to help, and post it on
> any message boards that you use. Also, please write a letter
> to the editor of your local newspaper and any other papers
> you read.
>
> Here are some direct quotes from Sunstein to
> illustrate our concern:
>
> 1. "We ought to ban
> hunting"
> -
> Cass Sunstein, in a 2007 speech at Harvard
> University
>
> 2. “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. It is easy to
> imagine a set of initiatives that would do a great deal
> here, and indeed European nations have moved in just this
> direction. There are many possibilities.”
> --Cass R. Sunstein, “The Rights of
> Animals: A Very Short Primer,” John M. Olin
> Law & Economics Working Paper No.
> 157, The Law School, The University of
> Chicago
>
> 3. “…(R)epresentatives of
> animals should be able to bring private suits to ensure
> that
> anticruelty and related laws are
> actually enforced. If, for example, a farm is
> treating
> horses cruelly and in violation of
> legal requirements, a suit could be brought, on behalf of
> those animals, to bring about compliance with the
> law.”
> --Cass R. Sunstein, “The Rights of
> Animals: A Very Short Primer,” John M. Olin
> Law & Economics Working Paper No.
> 157, The Law School, The University of Chicago
>
> 4. “But if, as a
> practical matter, animals used for food are almost
> inevitably going to endure terrible suffering, then there is
> a good argument that people should not eat meat to the
> extent that a refusal to eat meat will reduce that
> suffering. Of course a legal ban on meat-eating would be
> extremely radical, and like prohibition, it would
> undoubtedly create black markets and have a set of bad, and
> huge, side-effects. But the principle seems clear: People
> should be much less inclined to eat meat if their refusal to
> do so would prevent significant
> suffering.”
> --Cass R. Sunstein, “The Rights of
> Animals: A Very Short Primer,” John M. Olin
> Law & Economics Working Paper No.
> 157, The Law School, The University of
> Chicago
>
> 5. “Less modestly, anticruelty
> laws should be extended to areas that are now exempt
> from
> them, including scientific
> experiments and farming. There is no good reason to permit
> the
> level of suffering that is now being
> experienced by millions, even billions of
> living
> creatures.”
> --Cass R. Sunstein, “The Rights of
> Animals: A Very Short Primer,” John M. Olin
> Law & Economics Working Paper No.
> 157, The Law School, The University of
> Chicago
>
> 6. “Everything depends on
> whether and to what extent the animal in question is capable
> of suffering. If rats are able to suffer, then their
> interests are relevant to the question of how, and perhaps
> even whether, they can be expelled from
> houses.”
> --Cass R. Sunstein, Martha C.
> Nussbaum. Animal Rights: Current Debates and
> New Directions. (Oxford University
> Press, USA, 2004). P. 12
>
> 7. “A system of limitless
> individual choices, with respect to communications, is
> not
> necessarily in the interest of
> citizenship and self-government.”
> --Cass Sunstein, arguing for a
> Fairness Doctrine for the Internet in his book,
> Republic.com 2.0 (Princeton
> University Press, 2007), p.137
>
> 8. “In what sense is the money
> in our pockets and bank accounts fully ‘ours’? Did we
> earn it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have
> inherited it without the assistance of probate courts? Do we
> save it without the support of bank regulators? Could we
> spend it if there were no public officials to coordinate the
> efforts and pool the resources of the
> community in which we live?...
> Without taxes there would be no liberty. Without
> taxes
> there would be no property. Without
> taxes, few of us would have any assets worth
> defending. [It is] a dim fiction that
> some people enjoy and exercise their rights
> without
> placing any burden
> whatsoever on the public … There is no liberty without
> dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day
> …”
> -- Cass R. Sunstein, “Why We Should
> Celebrate Paying Taxes,” The Chicago
> Tribune, April 14,
> 1999
>
> 9. “Much of the time, the United
> States seems to have embraced a confused and pernicious form
> of individualism. This approach endorses rights of private
> property and freedom of contract, and respects political
> liberty, but claims to distrust ‘government
> intervention’ and insists that people must fend for
> themselves. This form of so-called individualism is
> incoherent, a tangle of confusions.”
> -- Cass R. Sunstein, The Second
> Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution
> and
> Why We Need it More Than Ever,
> Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 3
>
> 10. “[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.”
> -
> Cass Sunstein, writing in his book, “Radicals in
> Robes”
>
> 11. “…[T]he Second Amendment
> seems to specify its own purpose, which is to protect
> the"well regulated Militia." If that is the
> purpose of the Second Amendment (as Burger
> believed), then we
> might speculate that it safeguards not individual rights but
> federalism.”
> -- Cass R. Sunstein, “The Most
> Mysterious Right,” National Review,
> November
> 12, 2007
>
> 12. In his
> 2004 book The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished
> Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever, Sunstein
> claims that “citizens’ rights exist only to the extent
> that they are granted by the
> government.”
> Those views are why the American
> Sporting Dog Alliance adamantly opposes the Sunstein
> nomination. His track record is frighteningly
> consistent.
>
> Thank you for helping.
>
> The American Sporting Dog Alliance
> represents owners, breeders and professionals who work with
> breeds of dogs that are used for hunting. We also welcome
> people who work with other breeds, as legislative issues
> affect all of us. We are a grassroots movement working to
> protect the rights of dog owners, and to assure that the
> traditional relationships between dogs and humans maintains
> its rightful place in American society and life. The American Sporting Dog Alliance also
> needs your help so that we can continue to work to protect
> the rights of dog owners. Your membership, participation and
> support are truly essential to the success of our mission.
> We are funded solely by your donations in order to maintain
> strict independence.
> Please visit us on the web at
> http://www.americansportingdogalliance.org . Our email is asda@csonline.net .
>
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