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Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com

Cass Sunstein, who wrote a white paper calling for "conspiracy
theories" to be banned, wants to legally force Americans to "do what's
best for our society" and dilute their own free speech

Disturbing audio has emerged of White House information czar Cass
Sunstein, who in a previous white paper called for banning "conspiracy
theories," demanding that websites be mandated by law to link to
opposing information or that pop ups containing government propaganda
be forcibly included on political blogs.

In an audio excerpt of an interview which was posted on the Breitbart.tv website today,
Sunstein discusses how conservative websites should provide links to
liberal websites and vice versa or even how political blogs should be
made to include pop ups that show "a quick argument for a competing
view".

Sunstein said that if this system couldn't be implemented
voluntarily, "Congress should hold hearings about mandates," which
would legally force people to dilute their own free speech. The Harvard
Professor also said that blogs should be forced to list a random draw
of 25 popular websites, such as CNN.com.

Listen to the clip below.

"The best would be for this to be done voluntarily," said Sunstein, "But the word voluntary is a little complicated and people sometimes don't do what's best for our society," he added (emphasis mine).

"The idea would be to have a legal mandate as the last resort....an
ultimate weapon designed to encourage people to do better," Sunstein
concluded.

As we previously reported,
in a January 2008 white paper entitled "Conspiracy Theories," the
Harvard Professor who is currently President Obama's head of
information technology in the White House called for "conspiracy
theories," that is any political opinion which didn't concur with the
establishment view, to be taxed or even banned outright.

In a set of proposals designed to counter "dangerous" ideas,
Sunstein suggested that the government could, "ban conspiracy
theorizing," or "impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on
those who disseminate such theories".

So-called "conspiracy theories that Sunstein said could be subject to government censorship included beliefs held by the vast majority of Americans, such as the notion that the JFK assassination occurred as part of a wider plot.

In his white paper, Sunstein also cited the belief that "global
warming is a deliberate fraud" as another marginal conspiracy theory to
be countered by government censorship.

Ludicrously, the Harvard Professor even characterized as "false and
dangerous" the idea that exposure to sunlight is healthy, despite the
fact that top medical experts agree prolonged exposure to sunlight reduces the risk of developing certain cancers.

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.

This callous disregard for the First Amendment represents a
fundamental threat the very fabric of the country and is even more
alarming considering the position of Obama's Supreme Court nominee
Elena Kagan with regard to free speech. During the Citizens United vs. FEC case, Kagan's office argued that the government can ban books and political pamphlets. In separate writings, Kagan argued that the government could "disappear" free speech it deemed to be offensive.

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