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September 9th, 2009
SOME BACKGROUND ON CASS SUNSTEIN, OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND REGULATORY CZAR___YOU DECIDE__
First Amendment
In his book Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech Sunstein says there is a need to reformulate First Amendment law. He thinks that the current formulation, based on Justice Holmes’ conception of free speech as a marketplace “disserves the aspirations of those who wrote America’s founding document.” The purpose of this reformulation would be to “reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation, by ensuring greater attention to public issues and greater diversity of views.” He is concerned by the present “situation in which like-minded people speak or listen mostly to one another, and thinks that in “light of astonishing economic and technological changes, we must doubt whether, as interpreted, the constitutional guarantee of free speech is adequately serving democratic goals.” He proposes a “New Deal for speech [that would draw on Justice Brandeis’ insistence on the role of free speech in promoting political deliberation and citizenship.”
Animal rights
Sunstein has also written often in favor of animal rights. “Every reasonable person believes in animal rights,” he says He also says that human “willingness to subject animals to unjustified suffering will be seen … as a form of unconscionable barbarity… morally akin to slavery and the mass extermination of human beings,” and that we might “conclude that certain practices cannot be defended and should not be allowed to continue, if, in practice, mere regulation will inevitably be insufficient—and if, in practice, mere regulation will ensure that the level of animal suffering will remain very high.” Specifically he thinks that, “we ought to ban hunting.” He also thinks that “we could even grant animals a right to bring suit”[ and that it is possible that “that before long, Congress will grant standing to animals to protect their own rights and interests.” This all stems from his claim that “animals, species as such, and perhaps even natural objects warrant respect for their own sake, and quite apart from their interactions with human beings.”
SOMETIMES YA JUST GOTTA SAY____WTF!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA
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