John Adams is not celebrated on this day for hailing the arrival of General Gage's Redcoat reinforcements with "I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords." Nor did our nation's other Founders write:
It begot this National Academy Sciences report:
The "new guidance" of Executive Order 13707 applies to every departments of government, and requires the Department of Defense to report back to the newly institutionalized White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team at regular intervals, as to how the armed forces are being remodeled in accord with the executive guidance of that order, which is, after all, one signed by the Commander In Chief.
Thus far no contemporary advocates of The Precautionary Principle at the National Academies -- and there are many , have stepped forward to tell us why it ought not to apply to the warning given the Philadelphia Convention by Yale Professor Roger Sherman of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence:
avoid the necessity of those overgrown... establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form diverse Efforts to change social Norms and establish Opportunities and Strategies to promote Behavior Change ...
Yet such were the concepts the Presidential Science Advisor Holdren articulated last summer, in an oration worthy of Brave New World or Coneheads , delivered to a White House auditorium full of young Federal bureaucrats looking for new turf to conquer, and citizens to subjugate to their every rule:"As President Obama noted in his Executive Order 13707, behavioral science insights can support a wide range of national priorities including ... accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy.
That Executive Order, 13707, directs Federal agencies to apply behavioral science insights to their policies and programs, and it institutionalizes the Social and Behavioral Science Team...The adminstration is releasing new guidance to agencies that supports continued implementation of
The Behavioral Science Insights Executive Order. "
It begot this National Academy Sciences report:
The "new guidance" of Executive Order 13707 applies to every departments of government, and requires the Department of Defense to report back to the newly institutionalized White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team at regular intervals, as to how the armed forces are being remodeled in accord with the executive guidance of that order, which is, after all, one signed by the Commander In Chief.
Thus far no contemporary advocates of The Precautionary Principle at the National Academies -- and there are many , have stepped forward to tell us why it ought not to apply to the warning given the Philadelphia Convention by Yale Professor Roger Sherman of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence:
It is a fear General Washington astutely echoed in his farewell to his officers after the American Revolutions end, when he warned the nation to:“If the Executive can model the army, he may set up an absolute government.”
avoid the necessity of those overgrown... establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty.
