A 30-some minute 2006 documentary, “Quiet Revolution,” by the progressive Alliance for Justice, hosted by actor Bradley Whitford, decried the supposed Constitutional abuse by the Bush administration. It was screened at the 2007 “Take Back America” conference, where the session description humorously notes an interview with a little known, apparently Irish, Senator “Barack O’bama.”
Remarkably, Cass Sunstein, now the regulatory czar a President O’bama, officially known as the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, said the Bush administration and its like-minded justices on the Supreme Court (specifically Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia) are undermining the right to privacy. By my count, that’s 2 on a court of nine justices.
Yes, the man that wants to “tax conspiracy theories,” put government-sponsored pop-ups on political blogs, and other Big Brothery things at one point was apparently concerned about the right to privacy. Shows what a little power will do for you, I guess. As Paul Joseph Watson wrote:
Essentially, Sunstein wants it to be written into law that the government can dictate the very nature of reality to Americans and that their opinions can only be voiced at best when accompanied by mandatory federal propaganda or at worst that Americans can be silenced entirely by federal decree.
All in the defense of the Constitution and the right to free speech, naturally. And this man had the gall to criticize the Bush administration?
The Alliance for Justice documentary exposes Obama and Sunstein for the Constitutional hypocrites that they are. They used such artful language to appear to be defenders of the Constitution. They even decried the usurpation of power by the executive branch and warned of the irrelevance of the Congress. I guess that’s not so much of a problem these days since they call the shots there, too.
The documentary, which clearly was intended to be a hit piece on the Bush administration and its nominations to the Supreme Court, is laughable given the people interviewed are now the ones in charge. It’s worth a watch to fully appreciate their scariness and hypocrisy.
[Note to Alliance for Justice, Media Matters, Center for American Progress and other Obama zealots: No need to pull the YouTube video. I’ll be happy to repost it as I saved it, anticipating your predictable reaction. Besides, you have nothing to be ashamed of, do you?]