Obama’s Authoritarian Adviser Sunstein Steps Down

[Peter Lemkin]

So, this fascist goes back to teach students his rotten theses and a new fascist with the same ideas replaces him.....this is how American government works....faces change, the seats are shuffled; nothing really changes. Why is he leaving, I wonder....certainly no one in power objected to his ideas...perhaps he was just too 'honest' and 'open' about them...who knows...we likely will never. Obama's advisors and 'crew' are a really sickening lot, who could have [and some did] work for W just as easily. One Party State....like the FSU

From Ed Jewett's article #1:

Boris Bershteyn, the budget office's general counsel, will replace Sunstein as acting director. Bershteyn is a natural choice. He was born in the Soviet Union, earned his law chops at Yale, and was selected as a "fellow" by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Paul Soros is the elder brother of the notorious globalist and darling of the financial class, George Soros.

I wonder if there had been some effort on the part of Obama to 'arrange' this early departure of Sunstein so that he could appoint a different permanent director after he's re-elected to the presidency. Sunstein didn't win too many friends, even though it is said that he made some government agencies more effective by eliminating archaic rules and making other changes. His efforts to control 'conspiracy' ideas were anti-First Amendment....

In optimism still,

Adele

Ah, an optimist - a rare species these days for sure! Well, I do believe the President still retains some authority over his staff [within limits]; and he may well have decided to send Sunstein packing back to academia [to try to poison minds of budding students to fit into the corporate machine]....but the replacement has the Soros taint and while we don't know much about him [I don't], I don't have any high hopes. Yes, his efforts to control 'conspiracy' and neutralize [if not criminalize] those who speak of it ARE anti-First Amendment, anti-intellectual, anti-logical, and just plain authoritarian containment. While some 'conspiracy theories' are nutty, many others are the suppressed truth - desperately in need of some sunshine! Even the nutty ones need not be suppressed, as they will fall on their faces on their own accord. The man is a fascist propagandist and shame on Obama for letting him stay ONE day after his pronouncement about fighting 'conspiracy' [he should have been fired with a clear pronouncement as to WHY!]. Adele, I'm afraid I don't share you optimism, EVEN if it is Obama who is making this move. Even if his replacement is benign on this matter, great damage has been done...the seeds have been sown and no doubt many 'agencies' are busy at work on Sunsteinian countermeasures [the software especially designed to aid in this has been mentioned several times on this Forum]. I hope I'm wrong and your optimism has some basis in fact....but that is more of a tribute to you, than my belief in my President and government. While there are enormous pressures on this and any President to do the bidding of the Elites, I can't convince myself that were the pressure less or his fortitude greater, that this President has it in him to make any substantial positive change [as his campaign theme endlessly pronounced]. I believe he was carefully vetted, selected and trained for his position and positions - and then further put in the vice that all Presidents are, to stay in line...or else. While we'll never know what is in his heart of hearts, I had 'hope' only for a few weeks into his campaign, then lost it all when I saw who he had surrounded himself with [or been forced to be surrounded by - the usual criminals from Wall Street to J Street and Pentagon/Langley]. In the end it is not a person - even a President [we haven't had a real one since they murdered JFK, IMHO - even though he wasn't perfect - he was good enough for the slime that runs American to want to and succeed in murdering him!], but the SYSTEM that needs replacement. I no longer believe it can be reformed - it is like asking a cancerous tumor to go back to being benign. Radical political and ethical surgery is needed or the 'patient' will die, IMO. That must be bottom-up. It will never change within this system top-down. Superficial changes will only pacify temporarily the restless Public. Sunstein may go, but I fear his policies will continue. The damage has been done and is not about to be undone. When Obama announces that what he proposed was wrong, not the policy of his Administration and punishable, I'll become a believer he has a tad of the fighter for our freedoms in him. He's a nice guy; an intelligent guy; a good speaker; but he is following the polices that have been in place since JFKs assassination and even before. Sadly. One would hope an African-American President might 'get it'. Sadly, like Clarance Thomas, I fear he doesn't, or is so controlled by forces around him, he can't express them. I have moved quickly from the second position, to the first. He just doesn't get it. He is a Constitutional lawyer who is helping dismantle and castrate/eviscerate/negate the Constitution...not uphold it and reinforce it. While I hold my nose and hope Obama wins over Romney, it is a false choice we are forced to make between bad and worse. I'd like to see a Green or a Democratic Socialist or some other Progressive party run and win and not have their candidate assassinated before or after the election. Now, that is impossible. For this form of government I have no hope anymore, I still have a modicum for the People, if [and only if] they will awake SOON and act together to forge a new one. It has happened over and over again in history and this country is desperately in need of such now. It really won't disturb as much as some fear, only the Elites will suffer - as well they should - as they built this onerous unethical, unequal, unlawful, untruthful, neo-fascist, imperialist, and murderous - often genocidal mess. Rant over. Again, may your optimism prevail over my cynicism - nearly complete at this stage.