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Conservative Compass Blog
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Written by Bob Sordahl
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 |
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My mother always told me that hanging with the wrong people could get me into trouble. What she said made sense. Many times I saw kids who were generally good and decent, end up in trouble with the law or expelled from school because they had let bad kids negatively influence their behavior. It's true, we may all be judged by the company we keep. This brings me to the issue of some people who were recently hired to work in the Federal Government.
Van Jones is the new Green Jobs Czar. Mr. Jones has a history of not choosing his associates carefully. In 1993 he was arrested at the riots following the acquittal of police officers involved in the Rodney King beating. In 1994, while a member of STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), he was arrested again in a confrontation with police. Displaying a continuing pattern of bad decision making, he
was arrested again in the 1999 Seattle WTO riots. By his own admission, he progressed from a revolutionary to a rowdy nationalist to a communist. And now, an advisor at the highest level of Government. A strange trip indeed.
John Holdren is the Science Czar. Being an educated man of science, Mr. Holdren is fully aware that any country has finite resources, and therefore a finite ability to provide for its citizens. That would include food, shelter and access to health care. He does however support novel methods of population control. In his own words: "In the United States individuals have a constitutional right to privacy, at least to the extent that a woman has a right to choose not to have children. But that right's not unlimited. Where the society has a compelling subordinating interest in regulating population size, the right of the individual may be curtailed." I guess in his world, rights are only rights if they don't run afoul of "compelling subordinating interests".
Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein certainly has some interesting ideas. He is concerned about the open freedom of the Internet and at one time proposed a Government requirement for political websites to display links to opposing ideas. If that's not screwy enough, he thinks animals should be able to engage counsel and be able to bring suit against humans when they've been poorly treated. I wonder if putting ketchup on a good steak would qualify. He also wants to ban hunting in this Country. Apparently gotta watch out for the animals, but when it comes to involuntary human sterilization or organ donation, well that's another story. I don't know about you, but a Regulatory Czar with such off the wall ideas doesn't make me feel real warm and fuzzy.
So to get back to my mother's advice, these three Government appointees have exhibited strange behavior and even stranger ideas. Could it be because they have been negatively influenced by the company they keep? Have they had their heads turned around by all the people they have associated with in the past. Probably not, since I am sure they were all thoroughly vetted before being brought into the White House. Could it be that there is some more recent contact who has had a powerful effect on them? What one person do they all have in common? What one person has assembled them for purposes we can't know. Could it be...that guy named Barack?
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