U.S. Regulatory Czar Nominee Wanted Net 'Fairness Doctrine'

There are those who hang their First Amendment hats on President Barack Obama's statement that he isn't for reinstating the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine. These people are ignoring ever mounting examples of the censorious intent of this Administration on all things information.

They are playing the Ostrich Defense despite the fact that nearly every Obama appointee to anything that has anything to do with regulating anything is a strident Leftist whose first impulse is to loathe the American people exercising the freedoms the Constitution affords them.

Now we have Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar." Who has written:

"A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government."

That warms the free speech cockles, does it not? Sunstein has in the past proffered a whole host of anti-liberty and often bizarre notions. [I.e., another radical appointment.]

President Obama, in introducing Sunstein as his nominee, again demonstrates he's reflexively opposed to the practice of freedom by a free people. This is certainly an Administration that has repeatedly brought to the fore people radically opposed to the freedoms afforded us in the First Amendment.

Which is why Obama's narrow pledge on the "Fairness" Doctrine leaves us - unsated. And most likely unprotected from a regulatory assault on conservative and Christian talk radio.

P.S.: The good news is his is an appointment that requires Senate confirmation, so he can be stopped. FSA member the American Conservative Union has created a website called Stop Sunstein through which you can submit petition signatures to do exactly that.

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"We ought to ban hunting"

- Cass Sunstein, in a 2007 speech at Harvard University

"Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives …"

- Cass Sunstein, “The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer,” August 2002.

"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 (page 137).

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