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Cass Sunstein

Should Bambi Be Able to Sue Hunters?
Czar Nominee Sunstein Says Yes

SPRINGFIELD, Va. -- The U.S. Senate will vote this week on whether radical animal-rights advocate Cass Sunstein will become the nation's new 'Regulatory Czar,' and the Gun Owners of America group is mounting an email effort to get the nomination scuttled.

The 'Regulatory Czar' is the nickname for the person heading the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the White House. As the Regulatory Czar, he could bring about changes in the regulations that affect hunting, gun control and farming.

The GOA said, "… Sunstein holds some of the kookiest views you will ever hear."

According to GOA, Sunstein believes in regulating hunting out of existence. He told a Harvard audience in 2007 that "we ought to ban hunting."

And in The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer (2002), he said:

"I think we should go further ... 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."

The GOA item goes on to say, "Then you look at why he wants to restrict hunting, this is where he goes beyond extreme. In Sunstein's world, animals should have just as many rights as people ... and they should be able to sue humans in court!"

GOA then cites what Sunstein said on page 11 of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (2004): "We could even grant animals a right to bring suit without insisting that animals are persons, or that they are not property."

GOA also says that Sunstein is a huge supporter of gun control.

In Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America (2005), Sunstein says: "Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine.... [I]n the Constitution's text, fundamentalists [gun rights supporters] should not be so confident in their enthusiasm for invalidating gun control legislation."

Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) objected to his nomination several weeks ago, preventing him from being unanimously confirmed.

Reader Comments

In the year 1909, big game hunting in the United States was nearly extinct, along with the game. Deer were very scarce, and the vast majority of hunters throughout the US hunted the entire season without so much as spotting an eligible buck. Market hunting, subsistence hunting, and poaching had reduced the populations of all species of game animals, from ducks to deer, to an all-time low.

Today, game is so plentiful that in some areas it's an outright hazard. There are some populated areas of the country, in Pennsylvania, for example, where the deer kill more motorists than hunters kill deer. Bear, elk, turkey, deer, javalina, mountain sheep, mountain goat, and other species are thriving, and all because of one man: The American Hunter. With over 75 years of wise management, hunter and land-owner education, and habitat acquisition and improvement, all financed by hunters and shooter through excise taxes on firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment, all of these animals have been brought back from the brink of near-fatal hunting pressure.

Gaviota

Comment by: Lee W | September 8, 2009

Enter Cass Sunstein. With a stroke of his pen, Cass intends to set the enormous progress of the United States game-management system back 100 years. He intends to destroy thousand of years of human tradition, common law, agricultural and natural science, and an entire sector of the American economy. AND FOR WHAT? For a nebulous, amorphous (for those of you in Yellville/Summit, that means half-baked) idea that human beings are not part of 'nature' and are using the land and it's animals in 'unfair' and 'unjust' ways, in violation of the loving spirit of Gaia. As a result, he will accomplish the exact same results that the Soviet Union did in the 1920's thru the 70's. Farms will fail for lack of farmers, crops will not be planted in adequate quantity to feed America, game animals will disappear in a tidal wave of subsistence poaching, and anyone who is accosted by a 'farm cop' or game warden will commence to shoot his way out, because he'll have nothing to lose. An utter disaster, if it's allowed to happen here, as it has happened in so many other countries in the past.

Hunger has many causes, but famine is ALWAYS political.

Gaviota

Comment by: Lee W | September 8, 2009

Is there a Czar that Obama has picked that isn't a radical? Every single Czar or cabinet member is as far left as you can get. Maybe at some point the American people will wake up and realize the mistake they made last November.

Comment by: Robert J | September 9, 2009

What a freaking tool! I just want to see if my comment survives.

Comment by: Robert J | September 10, 2009

Pa-cman, we already have a czar for that, it's the head of Homeland Security remember. The one that put all of us veterans on the watch list. Rock on with your bad self Pa-cman, tell the world!

Comment by: Robert J | September 10, 2009

Well, that tears it. Obama appointed another looney tune. Unbelievable!

Comment by: 1015811414 | September 10, 2009

He's had too much deer droppings in his Special K to think rationally . He HAS to be an attorney by profession before he turned to radicalism.Banning hunting?. What's next, banning sex? How does the government expect to manage wildlife when they can't even manage to keep our guns out of Mexico? It's starting to sound like George Orwell and 1984 are seeping into Obama's subconscious. "Dreams of my Father? ??? Sure.........

Comment by: Sharps | September 10, 2009

I see Pa-cman's comments were removed.

Comment by: Robert J | September 11, 2009

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Comment by: TCole | September 11, 2009

I suggest we all write/e-mail our senators now. That's how our system works. Dan

Comment by: dan b | September 11, 2009

I dunno, Dan. That's how our system should work. I don't believe it still does. I'm afraid it's gotten to the point that it's a rigged game anymore, and the vast population of apathetic, self-indulgent, thoughtless American citizens keeps it that way. Maybe it'll change soon, but I suspect that as the population grows, and the money, land, food, and energy costs grow higher, the frictions will become greater, and the whole shebang is gonna go off like a rocket. Sociological Conflict Perspective and all that. Nothing we can do except prepare, stock up, and hope for the best.

Gaviota

Comment by: Lee W | September 11, 2009

Animal rights people don't get off the side walk for any longer than it takes to get in or out of their car, they never see any of the suffering, animals go through in the dead of winter when there are too many of them in a winter habitat to be able to survive. They never get out to help feed starving deer or elk when the snow is to deep for them to get to where they can find something to eat. they get bans on hunting predators just long enough for the predators to gain in numbers that require more killing of game to survive, then when the game numbers are down, they blame the hunters. The AR people never see the damage they do but they make sure the hunters get the blame, the next time it happens, there won't be any hunters to blame, then what?

Comment by: Vernon R | September 12, 2009