Lee Dunn's List: WHEN JEWS ATTACK

• Christianity and the crash
• posted by  The Editors
• More than a year into one of the worst economic downturns in American history, many minds are still at work connecting the factors that contributed, in one way or another, to the current crisis.
• In the December 2009 issue of The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin added to the debate over the causes of the crash by casting light on the role played by the prosperity gospel—a strain of Christian teaching tens of millions of believers strong, which proclaims that an unfaltering faith in God will lead to monetary and other material blessings in this lifetime.
• In the article, Rosin exposes concrete examples of banks teaming up with prosperity preachers to convert believers into subprime loan customers and examines the underlying structures and themes that maintain the prosperity gospel as a plausible theology for many Americans.
• In light of the questions raised and conclusions put forth in Rosin’s article, we asked several esteemed scholars and journalists: What can we say about the relationship between contemporary Christianity and Americans’ economic attitudes, behaviors, and notions of responsibility?
• We are pleased to offer their responses below.

• Our respondents are:

   

  Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Pennsylvania

   

  John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology

   

  William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

   

  Harvey Cox, Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

   

  Michele Dillon, Professor of Sociology, University of New Hampshire

   

  Michael S. Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, Westminster Seminary California

   

  D. Stephen Long, Professor of Systematic Theology, Marquette University

   

  Rachel McCleary, Senior Research Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

   

  Sarah Posner, Associate Editor, Religion Dispatches

   

  James K.A. Smith, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College

   

  Mark C. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion, Columbia Universiy

   

  Jonathan L. Walton, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of California – Riverside

   

  Diane Winston, Knight Chair in Media and Religion, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California

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  Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Pennsylvania
• First, I take issue with “contemporary Christianity” or Christianity being labeled the cause of the Crash.

  • I agree Ms Butler..These friggers from the Left/Liberal have their own "witch hunts" and the imagined "witch" is by and large the Christian or Christian community. Most of these Gas Bags wouldn't know a real Christian if one slapped them between the eyes. I particularly resent someone with the sir name "Rosen" witchhunting Christianity..i.e. a "Jew." And I am not anti-semitic! In fact I am a supporter of Israel by and large. However, criticize Israel or any Jewish community and you are immediately labeled "Anti-Semitic." It is time for the Jews to apply their own rules to every other group. Jews go after Christians; Christians have the right to go after Jews.
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• What is lost in this conversation is Christianity—at least the last time I read the New Testament, it was, in part, about caring for the poor, or “the least of them.”
• This particular “hybrid,” the “prosperity gospel,” is a strand of religious capitalism that has its roots in 19th century thinkers like E.W. Kenyon and 20th century purveyors like Norman Vincent Peale, and Oral Roberts.
• Placing fiscal responsibility in “prooftexting” of biblical scriptures is par for the course for most Americans who consider themselves biblically literate.
• Of course, that depends on what the definition of literacy is for the individual, and that is usually measured against the pastor’s teachings, as Rosin’s article shows.
• Her assertion that “Roberts’s fame had faded by the late 1980s, and prosperity preaching briefly imploded soon after” is just wrong.
• Rosin’s article is flawed at points.
• On the contrary, Prosperity preaching maintained a certain presence. What were Frederick K.C.Price, John Osteen (Joel Osteen’s dad) Kenneth Hagin, and Kenneth and Gloria Copeland doing in the last half of the 1980’s? Twiddling their thumbs?
• Much like the foreclosure crisis, the elements of this so called “implosion” have continued to be active within churches in America and around the globe. A useful exercise is to show how the financial market’s optimism and pyramid schemes had their counterparts in these types of churches on a global level.
• Prosperity is not merely an “American issue” but a global one.
• The upshot is that whatever American beliefs about responsibility, economics, and fiscal behaviors are, they are trumped by the belief that God is in the business of blessing, not cursing, and praying in the name of Jesus will get you a hundredfold return if you just give 10% or more.

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  John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology
• The Biblical tradition is a two-edged sword.
• There is much in the Bible that connects the right relation with God to prosperity, long life, and many descendants.
• The idea that virtue pays is not a monopoly of the biblical tradition, but it certainly gets support there, and participants in the tradition can exploit such “good news” and have done so.
• This has paid off for the exploiters especially well in the context of American capitalism.
• The general idea, so prevalent in our society, that our system rewards intelligence, discipline, and hard work, has been religiously transformed and amplified by the prosperity gospel. No doubt this contributes to the consumerism that in turn makes living beyond one’s means acceptable.
• There is another tradition in the Bible that the “prophetic” one, that condemns this idea. In this tradition the reason for faith in God is not that this will lead to personal prosperity but that God loves us despite our unworthiness and calls us to love God and, therefore, the whole of creation.
• We serve our neighbors not because this is good policy but because our neighbors, and that is everyone, are beloved of God. This message is not popular, and some of the prophets were killed for their pains.
• Jesus stood in this tradition and died on a cross. He condemned the quest for wealth in no uncertain terms.
• Some Christians who condemn the quest for prosperity in this life have emphasized otherworldly rewards for virtue. But Jesus taught that the basileia theou (the “Kingdom,” or “Commonwealth,” of God on earth) is worth our sacrifice whatever happens to us here or beyond).
• Jesus’s true followers are those who out of love seek the common good here and now.
• Many of them do find joy and personal fulfillment in such a life, but they seek first the Commonwealth of God.

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  William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
• An evangelical-neoliberal machine created the recent economic crisis.
• Launched as early as 1981, upon the election of Reagan and publication of George Gilder’s Wealth and Poverty, this complex set the United States on a destructive and predatory course.
• The link between the right edge of neoliberalism and a large swath of evangelicals is twofold.
• The first link is through complementary beliefs. The right edge of neoliberalism presents the market as a self-balancing mechanism that retains its beauty as long as the state is limited to regulating the money supply, providing defense, punishing crime, and obstructing labor unions and consumer movements.
• And does evangelicalism? Gilder and other religious marketeers identify more volatility and chanciness in the market than neoliberals do, but they maintain the belief that it is subtended by divine providence.
• These two sets of beliefs, taken together, license investment adventurism and consumption excess, just as they oppose state efforts to tame both.

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  Harvey Cox, Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

• I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.

   

  Jesus, Gospel of John 10:10

   

  Thus the Lord blessed the end of Job’s life more than the beginning: he had fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and as many she donkeys.

   

  Job 42:12
• A bountiful life on earth in addition to eternal salvation has always been integral to the Good News. It is inequality that the Bible condemns, the denial of distributive justice.
• Biblical faith has nothing against either prosperity or abundance.
• The reason it is hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God is not that he enjoys worldly goods, but that he enjoys them at the expense of the poor.
• To the man who had two coats, the exhortation to give one to the poor might move him to share, but to the person who has no coat it states a claim he can legitimately make on someone who has a closetful.
• In the Bible, prosperity trumps poverty. The voluntary poverty of St. Francis or of Vincent de Paul was admirable. And it no doubt helped them to understand the bereft people they sought to serve.
• But both knew quite well that involuntary poverty is ugly and degrading. When it is voluntary, poverty is a choice; but when it is not, it feels like a curse.
• Can anyone expect a hungry mother of three in a fetid slum of Recife or Lagos to respond to a message about the spiritual benefits of poverty?

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  Michele Dillon, Professor of Sociology, University of New Hampshire
• I personally recoil at the term “prosperity gospel.”
• Of the many varied ways Christian scripture has been used throughout history to give sacred legitimacy to particular interests and political agendas, the notion that God will reward the faith-filled with material riches has always struck me as particularly pernicious pseudo-theology.
• The Bible is certainly a document open to many diverse interpretations and there is ambiguity in several of its passages. Yet there is little equivocation in its core message that the good life is not one defined by material acquisition and ostentatious consumption but by purposeful acts motivated by generosity and concern for others.
• The Sermon on the Mount is supposed to make Christians focus on loving their neighbor, not their Mercedes Benz.
• I appreciate, nonetheless, the hold of the prosperity gospel in contemporary American society. Hanna Rosin notes that prosperity gospel churches flourish in Sun Belt states with high levels of home foreclosures.
• It may be more relevant to note that these states (e.g., Florida and Arizona) also have high levels of migration and population instability. These factors make it harder for individuals to find protective buffers against the many persuasive get-rich-quick sales agents and schemes in contemporary society.
• In unsettled times, unsettled people are vulnerable to siren calls, however well veiled by prosperity pastors, loan officers, hedge fund managers, or reality television producers.
• I don’t think we should see the prosperity gospel as a cause of the recent recession, but one among several elements in our entrepreneurial culture promising salvation through short-term investments and wishful thinking that defer the debts of accountability and responsibility toward others.

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• Is "The Riddle of Anti Semitism" a "Hate Message"?
• March 17, 2009
• The Canadian Jewish Congress & the Canadian Human Rights Commission want this Sept. 2004 article (and others like it) removed from my website on the grounds that it exposes Jews to "hatred and contempt." This ridiculous ploy is designed to enforce Zionist control over discourse, demonize their opponents and prevent Jews from asking questions. Their action confirms the very thing they deny.
• ORIGIN OF ANTI SEMITISM
• It should come as no surprise that the people who own and control the world have put their interests before the greater good of humanity. Obviously many of these are not Jewish.
• For at least 400 years, Christian civilization has been under covert attack by a diabolical multi-generational program now called the "New World Order", "globalization" or "world government."
• Essentially globalization represents the consolidation of absolute economic, political and cultural power in the hands of a cabal of super rich dynastic families (bankers and their vast corporate networks) headquartered in the City of London.
• The UN, IMF and World Bank are some of their instruments.
• These families include the Rothschilds, Warburgs and other so-called Jews who have intermarried with Anglo American and European aristocracy.
• Non-Jewish dynastic families include the Russell's, the Cecils and the Churchill's.
• This mirrors the collaboration between the moneylenders and kings in the Middle Ages when the Jew shared the proceeds from his lucrative business with the king in return for protection.
• The New World Order will resurrect the feudal relationship between a wealthy aristocracy and a large impoverished serfdom with a small intermediary class of soldiers/police and technocrats.
• These dynastic families have embraced Freemasonry, an occult secret society that worships Lucifer. The top rank of this cabal is called the "Illuminati."
• Jews figure prominently in Illuminati sponsored movements such as Communism, Zionism, Socialism, Nazism, Liberalism, Feminism, and Neo Conservatism.
• The Illuminati uses anti-Semitism to manipulate Jews and others.
• Most of these Jews are opportunists or idealistic dupes who think they are building a secular utopia based on reason and not a world police state straight out of George Orwell's "1984".
• For example they set up Communism to attract opponents of private property. They set up Nazism for people who champion nation and race, and hate "Jewish" hegemony.
• The Illuminati strategy is divide-and-rule, i.e. get their enemies to destroy each other.
• Then they attacked and destroyed each other.
• For example, this recently appeared in a book review on Amazon.
• As long as Jews play a disproportionate role in the New World Order, some opposition will be expressed in terms of Anti-Semitism.
• "It isn't Jews dying in Iraq. Our boys are dying for their war on their enemies. Americans are just hostages. Our government and media is hostage to Israel First Americans. "
• DEFENSE MECHANISM
• Anti-Semitism is not an irrational hatred or sickness in the Gentile soul, as Jews imagine.
• It is a healthy defense mechanism of mainly Christian and Moslem nations, cultures, races and religions that are threatened by a gradual and insidious process of extinction (i.e. world government.)
• Most "anti Semitic" books I've seen are remarkably free of hatred and rancor. They do not advocate violence against Jews but present measures to retain national and racial character similar to those practiced by Jews in Israel today.
• They tend to be reasonable and portray the Gentile as a feckless victim of superior Jewish intelligence. Leon de Poncins would even accept Jewish leadership if it were benign.
• "The Jew championed reason against the mythical world of the spirit," de Poncins relates. "He was the doctor of unbelief; all who were mentally in revolt came to him..."(Judaism and the Vatican, p. 116)
• Competition between "Christian" and "Jewish" worldviews is perhaps the central factor in the development of the western world.
• As early as 1879, a German writer lamented that it cannot be discussed honestly.
• "The Jewish Question" has been a major issue for hundreds of years.
• "Since 1848 if we Germans so much as criticized any little thing Jewish, it was enough to have us entirely outlawed from the press," wrote Wilhelm Marr.
• "While a sense of delicacy is wholly absent among the Jews [when satirizing Germans], it is demanded of us that we handle them like fine glassware or extremely sensitive plants."
• (Anti-Semitism in the Modern World: An Anthology 1991, p.85)
• THEODOR FRITSCH (1852-1934)
• Called "the most influential German anti-Semite before Hitler," Fritsch's most influential book Handbuch der Judenfrage 1896 (Handbook of the Jewish Question) went through dozens of printings, and was taught in German schools during the Nazi era. Most copies were destroyed after World War Two.
• It is extremely rare; original copies cost as much as $1000.
• "Handbook" was translated into English in 1927 and titled "The Riddle of the Jew's Success" by F. Roderich-Stoltheim, a pen name.
• Fritsch does not fit the image of hate monger foaming at the mouth. His book impresses me as the work a civilized man with considerable spiritual discernment.
• His central point is that Judaism does not deserve credit for monotheism because the Jewish God is not universal.
• "It is a fatal mistake of our theologians to regard the Jewish God as identical with the Christian. On a closer examination, Jehovah is found to be the exclusive God of Jew-dom and not, at the same time, that of other men."
• He cites many passages from the Old Testament to demonstrate that the Covenant between Jews and their God "bears a hostile meaning for all non- Jewish people."
• For example, "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the world for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron..." (Psalms 2.8.9) Or "Thou wilt devour all nations which the Lord thy God will give thee. Thou shalt have no mercy on them...(Moses 5.7.16) (p.55)
• As a consequence, the Talmud (the Jewish code of law) distinguishes one system of morality for Jews and another for Gentiles who are regarded as cattle or swine.
• Fritsch cites many references to show it is permitted to lie, cheat or steal from a Gentile. (pp. 57-65)
• Fritsch concludes that anti-Semitism is a natural reaction to these hostile attitudes which he claims are actually practised by many Jews.
• Since these beliefs are kept secret from non-Jews, he says Judaism is a conspiracy against non-Jews. Its aim is to fulfill the Covenant, and gain dominion over mankind by controlling wealth.
• He claims that all Jews are part of this scheme and none can be excepted. I respect the right of Germans to a national homeland but I think he is wrong to judge all Jews by one racist standard.
• Jews are individuals and should be judged by their individual actions. The vast majority are alienated from Judaism and would find the Biblical passages cited above repugnant.
• How would he like to be condemned for what other Germans (e.g. Nazis) did or said?
• CONCLUSION
• I cannot overstate the significance of the Jewish rejection of Christ.
• Jews need to re-examine their relationship with Judaism.
• Christ represented a universal God and a universal morality. His teaching represented the natural next stage, which Jews should have embraced, while retaining their racial integrity.
• By rejecting Christ's teaching, the Pharisees placed the Jewish people in perpetual opposition to the best interests of humanity, to the ultimate and inevitable path of human spiritual evolution.
• They have placed Jews in a state of permanent metaphysical revolt which on a personal level leads to alienation and dysfunction.
• Love thy neighbor. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. By giving of ourselves we find our true selves.
• Christ taught that God is Love. Love is the Master Plan. Love is Light.

• What fault could Pharisees have with a gospel that preaches human brotherhood and putting others before yourself? Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you?

    

  It denies their special claim, as God's "chosen people" which in practice means self-made Gods.
• Growing up means recognizing that other people are special in God's eyes too.
• Think of a child that doesn't want to grow up. One who thinks he can do anything he wants. Who doesn't have to consider others. Who is never wrong and so never admits it.
• Who thinks any opposition must be motivated by irrational hatred i.e. "anti-Semitism" and not his own behavior.
• Think arrested development. Think Canadian Jewish Congress. Think New World Order.
• Comments for "Is "The Riddle of Anti Semitism" a "Hate Message"?"
• David said (March 19, 2009):
• I couldn’t help but see the line in your last editorial where you wrote “What fault could Pharisees have with a gospel that preaches human brotherhood and putting others before yourself? Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you?”
• I suspect that you already know the answer, but nonetheless it is worth stating.
• Judaistic Pharisaism has nothing to do with the worship of the true God of Abraham, but is all about money, manipulation, and control for an “inside crowd” who saw themselves as “illuminated” and above the common herd by virtue of their breeding and education.
• These were the same people who were cornering the market for the pure silver half shekel that was used exclusively for temple taxes in biblical times, gouging those who had tithes & offerings to enrich themselves.
• There was once a man who attempted to drive them out of the temple and he was subsequently crucified.
• Nothing has changed today. These Pharisaic peers of Jesus Christ are the same spiritual ancestors of the current cartel of central bank owners who subscribe to the same selfish creed which at its core is the Talmudic Kabbalah.
• As you know, the Kabbalah is what some have called the “blood and bone” of Talmudic Judaism, which is Babylonian Pharisaism, and its Gentile cousin, Freemasonry.
• To clarify these links, we recall that a chief Rabbi of Great Britain, J. H. Hertz, wrote in the Forward to the first English translation of the Babylonian Talmud:
• “The beginnings of Talmudic literature date back to the time of the Babylonian exile in the Sixth pre-Christian Century.”
• Rabbi Louis Finklestein, former head of Jewish Theological Seminary of America, wrote of the “The Pharisees”:
• “Pharisaism became Talmudism…But the spirit of the ancient Pharisee survives unaltered.”
• “The Jewish religion as it is today traces its decent, without a break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees...The Talmud…is essential for any real understanding of Pharisaism.”
• We also note that the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia of 1943 states:
• Just as a side note, Jesus Christ himself called Pharisaism the “Synagogue of Satan” (Rev 2:9, 3:9). I believe that probably makes him the first "Anti Semite" along with the likes of Armadinejad if you consider the modern definition of the term.
• If you consider this claim curious then read on. He might not have been getting all worked up when he said it...
• In linking Pharisaism with Freemasonry, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a major figure and pioneer of Reform Judaism in America, stated in 1855: “Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end.”
• The Jewish Tribune stated in 1927, “Freemasonry is based on Judaism. Eliminate the teachings of Judaism from the Masonic ritual and what is left?”
• “It is, in fact, the Cabalistic elements in Freemasonry that act as the main driving force in the envenomed and aggressive opposition of the later to Christianity, and its never-flagging efforts for the undermining and destruction of the Christian organization of society.”
• Also, Albert Pike, a Freemasonic Luminary of the 19th Century stated in his Morals and Dogma,
• “The Kabbalah is the key of all Masonry and the occult sciences…”
• “The Kabbalah teaches magic or the art of intercourse with spirits and supernatural beings”
• Further, Edith Starr Miller wrote in Occult Theocrasy,
• Elizabeth Dilling wrote in The Jewish Religion:
• Its Influence Today, “Kabbalah, means ‘tradition,’ and it is the tradition of the paganisms of Babylon, Egypt, and the pagan philosophers, enshrined in the Jewish religion.” “The Jewish Cabala is a library of literature, all on magic and spiritism, and based on sheer pantheism.”
• “The Hasidist branch of Judaism specializes in the Cabala.”
• So here we find the linkage between Judaistic Pharisaism, the occult, witchcraft, & freemasonry whose common mortar are the paganistic traditions of the Kabbalah.
• As you know, these all are at their highest levels nothing short of Luciferianism.
• As you have quoted on your site, Harold Wallace Rosenthal in a 1976 interview stated that "Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer...and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much alive."
• It goes without saying that it would be possible to link most of the significant people that run this world, its media, and its finances to either Freemasonry or societies with like beliefs and practices.
• Despite their heinous beliefs and practices I should note that from amongst their ranks in biblical times came one of the most well known Christian converts, the Apostle Paul, so there is hope for perhaps some of them.
• I see nothing has changed whatsoever in regard to the age old conflict between the luciferic interests amongst Kabbalistic Jews, their occult gentile friends, and the true Israel (that which is in Christ Jesus). I see this conflict reaching a climax in world affairs within my lifetime.
• I cannot help but see however the parallels of today’s situation to that of biblical times.
• Ralph said (March 19, 2009):
• Of course, that generalization does not fit all Jews. Even the Askenazi faction have embraced the worst elements of the Talmud.
• The same power that Jesus invoked to throw back the cosmic powers are promised to his followers if it is in the context of the Father's will and modus operadi. How many are willing to do this? It is something that cannot be faked. Since we cannot (or should not) deal with the occult using their tactics, it remains that we must use the tools and tactics that were demonstrated by Jesus.
• By wanting to control the world by any means, mostly foul, the Jews and their willing Zionist Christian counterparts and even radical Islamists are serving the cosmic principalities and powers that have the same mindset.

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• Top Obama czar: Infiltrate all 'conspiracy theorists'
• Presidential adviser wrote about crackdown on expressing opinions
• Posted: January 14, 2010
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• In a lengthy academic paper, President Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban "conspiracy theorizing."

  • Yes..especially since "Conspiracy Theory" has an uncanny way of turning into "Conspiracy Fact"; you bald headed, limp dick, Son of'a bitch!
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• Among the beliefs Sunstein would ban is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.
• Sunstein also recommended the government send agents to infiltrate "extremists who supply conspiracy theories" to disrupt the efforts of the "extremists" to propagate their theories.
• In a 2008 Harvard law paper, "Conspiracy Theories," Sunstein and co-author Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard law professor, ask, "What can government do about conspiracy theories?"
• "We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories."
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   Cass Sunstein
• In the 30-page paper – obtained and reviewed by WND – Sunstein argues the best government response to "conspiracy theories" is "cognitive infiltration of extremist groups."
• Continued Sunstein:
• "We suggest a distinctive tactic for breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories: cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of believers by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups, thereby introducing beneficial cognitive diversity."
• Sunstein said government agents "might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action."
• Sunstein defined a conspiracy theory as "an effort to explain some event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role."
• Some "conspiracy theories" recommended for ban by Sunstein include:
• • "The theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud."  
    
    
  • "The view that the Central Intelligence Agency was responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."  
    
    
  • "The 1996 crash of TWA flight 800 was caused by a U.S. military missile."  
    
    
  • "The Trilateral Commission is responsible for important movements of the international economy."  
    
    
  • "That Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by federal agents."  
    
    
  • "The moon landing was staged and never actually occurred."
• Sunstein allowed that "some conspiracy theories, under our definition, have turned out to be true."
• He continued: "The Watergate hotel room used by Democratic National Committee was, in fact, bugged by Republican officials, operating at the behest of the White House. In the 1950s, the CIA did, in fact, administer LSD and related drugs under Project MKULTRA, in an effort to investigate the possibility of 'mind control.'”
• Sunstein's paper advocating against the belief that global warming is a deliberate fraud was written before November's climate scandal in which e-mails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University in the U.K. indicate top climate researchers conspired to rig data and keep researchers with dissenting views from publishing in leading scientific journals.
• Sunstein: Ban 'right wing' rumors
• Sunstein's paper is not the first time he has advocated banning the free flow of information.

  • He is anti-free speech; anti-Constitution; anti-Bill of Rights. In essence: Sustein is an enemy of the people.
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• WND reported that in a recently released book, "On Rumors," Sunstein argued websites should be obliged to remove "false rumors" while libel laws should be altered to make it easier to sue for spreading such "rumors."
• In the 2009 book, Sunstein cited as a primary example of "absurd" and "hateful" remarks, reports by "right-wing websites" alleging an association between President Obama and Weatherman terrorist William Ayers.
• He also singled out radio talker Sean Hannity for "attacking" Obama regarding the president's "alleged associations."
• Ayers became a name in the 2008 presidential campaign when it was disclosed he worked closely with Obama for years. Obama also was said to have launched his political career at a 1995 fundraiser in Ayers' apartment.
• 'New Deal Fairness Doctrine'
• WND also previously reported Sunstein drew up a "First Amendment New Deal" – a new "Fairness Doctrine" that would include the establishment of a panel of "nonpartisan experts" to ensure "diversity of view" on the airwaves.
• Sunstein compared the need for the government to regulate broadcasting to the moral obligation the U.S. had to impose new rules that outlawed segregation.
• Sunstein's radical proposal, set forth in his 1993 book "The Partial Constitution," received no news media attention and scant scrutiny until the WND report.
• In the book, Sunstein outwardly favors and promotes the "Fairness Doctrine," the abolished FCC policy that required holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance in a manner the government deemed "equitable and balanced."
• Sunstein introduces what he terms his "First Amendment New Deal" to regulate broadcasting in the U.S.
• His proposal, which focuses largely on television, includes a government requirement that "purely commercial stations provide financial subsidies to public television or to commercial stations that agree to provide less profitable but high-quality programming."
• Sunstein wrote it is "worthwhile to consider more dramatic approaches as well."
• He proposes "compulsory public-affairs programming, right of reply, content review by nonpartisan experts or guidelines to encourage attention to public issues and diversity of view."
• The Obama czar argues his regulation proposals for broadcasting are actually presented within the spirit of the Constitution.
• "It seems quite possible that a law that contained regulatory remedies would promote rather than undermine the 'freedom of speech,'" he writes.
• Writes Sunstein: "The idea that government should be neutral among all forms of speech seems right in the abstract, but as frequently applied it is no more plausible than the idea that it should be neutral between the associational interests of blacks and those of whites under conditions of segregation."
• Sunstein contends the landmark case that brought about the Fairness Doctrine, Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission, "stresses not the autonomy of broadcasters (made possible only by current ownership rights), but instead the need to promote democratic self-government by ensuring that people are presented with a broad range of views about public issues."
• He continues: "In a market system, this goal may be compromised. It is hardly clear that 'the freedom of speech' is promoted by a regime in which people are permitted to speak only if other people are willing to pay enough to allow them to be heard."

• In his book, Sunstein slams the U.S. courts' unwillingness to "require something like a Fairness Doctrine" to be a result of "the judiciary's lack of democratic pedigree, lack of fact-finding powers and limited remedial authority."   

  He clarifies he is not arguing the government should be free to regulate broadcasting however it chooses.   

  "Regulation designed to eliminate a particular viewpoint would of course be out of bounds. All viewpoint discrimination would be banned," Sunstein writes.   
• But, he says, "at the very least, regulative 'fairness doctrines' would raise no real doubts" constitutionally.

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