Sipsey Street Irregulars: Keeping Up With "Killer Tomato" Cass Sunstein

Monday, February 18, 2013

Keeping Up With "Killer Tomato" Cass Sunstein

"Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. . . I aim to misbehave." -- CPT Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity, 2005.

Long-time readers may recall my earlier posts on "Killer Tomato" Cass Sunstein. Now that he is out of the Obama administration, he is writing tyranny-justifying book reviews for the New York Times: It’s For Your Own Good!

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Anonymous said...: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/18/26-year-old-with-down-syndrome-asphyxiated-while-resisting-police-over-movie-ticket/

This is truly some sorry-ass shit.; February 18, 2013 at 5:55 PM
Anonymous said...: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/us/politics/lawmakers-look-at-ban-on-high-capacity-gun-magazines.html?_r=0

Love the title.; February 18, 2013 at 6:54 PM
Anonymous said...: The title of the NY Times article referenced above was originally: "Lawmakers look at ban on high capacity bullet cartridges".

They caught their screw up and changed it before MV posted the link.; February 18, 2013 at 7:58 PM
Anonymous said...: Perhaps Mr. Sunstein should STFU... after all, it's for his own good.; February 18, 2013 at 8:16 PM
Anonymous said...: Can you say "projectile vomiting", Boys and Girls? I knew you could!; February 18, 2013 at 8:42 PM
Anonymous said...: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)

An interesting read.
With only a change in the name of the actors, this could easily describe the coming troubles.
He who fails to learn from history...; February 18, 2013 at 10:02 PM
Paul X said...: While Sunstein may be a red, the Obama admin is fundamentally not red, but Keynesian:

http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1263.html; February 18, 2013 at 10:56 PM
Anonymous said...: Soylant Green is people!!!!!!!!!!; February 19, 2013 at 7:17 AM
Anonymous said...: "While Sunstein may be a red, the Obama admin is fundamentally not red, but Keynesian:"

Well that's utter bullshit because you have to fine tooth comb the administration to find a "liberal". They're all so far left it looks like a soviet may day parade over there!

Who are you trying to kid, over?; February 19, 2013 at 10:05 AM
Anonymous said...: Unfortunately 'Malcolm Reynolds' is a fictional character. The 'actor' that played him is NOT our friend - or so his comments would lead us to believe.
The concept of 'misbehavin' is still a valid one though. Perhaps we ought to embrace the philosophy espoused by the 'Browncoats' - they were certainly not willing to acquiesce to a totalitarian government and neither should we.; February 19, 2013 at 1:39 PM
Anonymous said...: "Mister Rogers drops acid":

"Hello, there, poison girls! Can you say 'Lysergic acid diethylamide?'

I didn't think so . . ."; February 20, 2013 at 4:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Now the article is titled "Pro-Gun Lawmakers Are Open to Limits on Size of Magazines".

Welcome to 1984, where Oceania has ALWAYS been at war/peace with Eurasia.; February 20, 2013 at 4:11 AM
Liberty or Death said...: "I aim to misbehave". Hmmm... time for another window war on a much larger scale? I think so. Time to get my wrist rocket and cast some .45 round balls.; February 20, 2013 at 6:17 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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