We may only have steel animals to shoot at......

[Bob259]

Friday, January 16, 2009

Why the Obama White House May Go to the Dogs
(and the Cows, and the Deer, and the Lab Rats)
Forget about Barack Obama's income tax-challenged Treasury Secretary or the conflict of interest controversy at the State Department. The most outrageous Obama appointee just might be Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law School professor who's flying under everyone's radar and into a job that hardly anyone has ever heard of.
Cass Sunstein is slated to run the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He's going to be America's chief "regulatory czar." And shocking new research from the Center for Consumer Freedom shows that he's a dedicated animal-rights zealot.


Hold on to your sirloin.
The anti-meat nuts at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the anti-hunting lobbyists at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) used to think that putting Dennis Kucinich in the White House would be their best hope of wielding real power in Washington . But even they didn't see Cass Sunstein coming. Sunstein has the legal mind of Chief Justice John Roberts and the animal-rights agenda ofPETA president Ingrid Newkirk.
We're not talking about animal welfare---the idea of making sure we don't cause animals unnecessary suffering when we use them for food, clothing, entertainment, or lifesaving medical research. Sunstein believes in animal rights---the notion that people shouldn't "own" or "use" animals at all, for any purpose, no matter what the stakes are for mankind.
Cancer research? Not if lab rats are used against their will.
Hunting? Absolutely forbidden, especially if it's for sport.
Leather jackets? The cows need their skin more that you do.
Seeing-eye dogs? They're nothing more than slaves.
And that T-bone steak? Fuhgeddaboudit! If animals have any "rights" at all, the right to not be your dinner is at the top of the list.
All of this makes perfect sense to Cass Sunstein, who organized the "Chicago Project on Animal Treatment Principles" at the University of Chicago. He will soon have the political authority to push for a radical overhaul of the way the federal government regulates everything Americans do with animals.
How radical? Sunstein supports making sport hunting illegal, and completely phasing out the consumption of meat. And if that's not nutty enough, he's actually in favor of givinganimals the legal right to sue people.
Think we're joking? Think again. Here's what Sunstein wrote in his 2004 book, Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions:
"[A]nimals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives ... 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."
Conservative commentators have been openly fretting that Barack Obama may try to turn welfare entitlements and single-payer healthcare into a new Bill of Rights. But Cass Sunstein threatens to expand the whole concept of "rights" to include the rest of the animal kingdom.
That fish wriggling at the end of your hook could soon be a federal offense (if the fish doesn't file a lawsuit first). Don't say we didn't warn you.

Find out more at ConsumerFreedom.com.

[malinois]

1984............

[glen ring]

Bob
Hunting for me is almost a religious experience.
Maybe we should start some kind of religion that REQUIRES us to harvest and eat wild game , that harvesting and eating wild game is the only way that we can "make it to the afterlife". What would we call this new religion> PRETA people's religion eating tasty animals...

You know as well as I do that after five days without food those peta folks would devoure a good steak.

[Bob259]

Bob
Hunting for me is almost a religious experience.
Maybe we should start some kind of religion that REQUIRES us to harvest and eat wild game , that harvesting and eating wild game is the only way that we can "make it to the afterlife". What would we call this new religion> PRETA people's religion eating tasty animals...

You know as well as I do that after five days without food those peta folks would devoure a good steak.

Maybe free range and no limits on politicians added to that and it would catch on quickly

[BlauBear]

I thought the "Sea Kittens" comment was a joke until reading about it elsewhere. Something's wrong with these people.

[glen ring]

I was part of a workout group and got to know a girl that was an animal rights person, but way cool! She didn't eat any meat but loved eggs. She worked at an animal control center and was the person that put the animals down. She didn't mind anyone eating meat in front of her, she understood hunting and beleived that Cats and dogs should be "put down" if they couldn't be placed in a home. Better dead than abndoned. Most are not as open minded as she was.

[BlauBear]

I was part of a workout group and got to know a girl that was an animal rights person, but way cool! She didn't eat any meat but loved eggs. She worked at an animal control center and was the person that put the animals down. She didn't mind anyone eating meat in front of her, she understood hunting and beleived that Cats and dogs should be "put down" if they couldn't be placed in a home. Better dead than abndoned. Most are not as open minded as she was.

Hats off to her! That's a tough job for an animal lover, and a lot of them pretend it doesn't exist. Humane treatment isn't always pretty.

[unkmike7]

I can see it now -- A new organization being formed to prevent the cruelty
of Lab & Tree Rats...(And, don't forget - Don't Swat The Mosquitos)!!

[deadeyeky]

1984............

+1, im gettin scared.... anybody in california get the CRPA's firing line Magazine?

[lone ringer]

+1, im gettin scared.... anybody in california get the CRPA's firing line Magazine?

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