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2013-02-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Left begins justifying tyranny "it's for your own good": A positive review from the elite press

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Posted by gromky 2013-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Begins? When did they stop?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-02-26 03:40|| 2013-02-26 03:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Make the state sole rationer of treatment opens up avenues to monitor and coerce everyone in the country!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-02-26 05:57|| 2013-02-26 05:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting. Cass Sunstein is married to Samantha Power. I didn't know that.

Posted by Unese Gleck9477 2013-02-26 09:07|| 2013-02-26 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 It's good to see the Borg getting involved in politics. Cass Sunstein makes a fine Locutus!

Posted by Secret Master 2013-02-26 12:23|| 2013-02-26 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 They have always loved telling others what to do.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-02-26 13:28|| 2013-02-26 13:28|| Front Page Top

#6 FOAD, Cass. And take wifeie and your minions (and all the rest of you grabby bastards) with you.

(QUESTION: If minions are your cronies below you, what are your cronies above you?)

Posted by Barbara 2013-02-26 14:58|| 2013-02-26 14:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Left begins justifying tyranny "it's for your own good"

Same rationale of the plantation owners, who happen to have a strong corollary with a particular political party.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-02-26 16:54|| 2013-02-26 16:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Cass R. Sunstein is the author. That says enough. Tyranny is never justified; it is the absence of freedom.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-02-26 18:17|| 2013-02-26 18:17|| Front Page Top

#9 The problem is that the left believes their own B.S.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-02-26 18:18|| 2013-02-26 18:18|| Front Page Top

#10 The problem is that the left believes their own B.S. for everybody else, but not themselves.

FTFY, John.

Posted by Barbara 2013-02-26 18:44|| 2013-02-26 18:44|| Front Page Top

#11 The Liberal Christian slant on this has always been "its for the good of others!" Sorry, but we are at a point now when the adults MUST put the mask on first before they help others. The life guard MUST punch the lights out of the drowning man in order to save him.

Posted by Ptah 2013-02-26 21:20|| 2013-02-26 21:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Someone tries to take away everything I have worked and fought for, and tells me it is for my own good will get a .45 through the head. It is for their own good you know.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-02-26 23:49|| 2013-02-26 23:49|| Front Page Top

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