Taking care of our citizens - one organ at a time
When Obama appoints someone as a Czar (and thereby bypassing the vetting process), that person is looked at very carefully.
Van Jones resigned after a few months due to videos he made.
The safe schools Czar is under attack for his associations with the National Man Boy Love organization.
Now, meet Cass Sunstien -- from
World Net Daily:
Sunstein: Take organs from 'helpless patients'
President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.
Cass Sunstein also has strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors.
In his 2008 book, "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness," Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler discussed multiple legal scenarios regarding organ donation. One possibility presented in the book, termed by Sunstein as "routine removal," posits that "the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone's permission."
Emphasis mine -- what fscking elitist gall.
A bit more:
Writes Sunstein: "A policy that can pass libertarian muster by our standards is called presumed consent."
"Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate, and they could do so easily. We want to underline the word easily, because the harder it is to register your unwillingness to participate, the less libertarian the policy becomes."
Sunstein continues: "Although presumed consent is an extremely effective way to increase the supply of organs available for transplant, it may not be an easy sell politically. Some will object to the idea of 'presuming' anything when it comes to such a sensitive matter. We are not sure that these objections are convincing, but this is surely a domain in which forced choosing, or what is referred to in this domain as mandated choice, has considerable appeal."
Sunstein advocates making it mandatory for all citizens to register either as an organ donor or as unwilling to donate their organs.
These people are so removed from normal society that they are operating in a world of their own, passing judgment on how we should live our lives. Guess what you turds -- we elected you and we can unelect you. 2010 and 2012 will be interesting to see...
Posted by DaveH at October 13, 2009 7:27 PM