STOP OBAMA
Posted on 10/19/2014 11:28:52 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
"When the Going Gets Weird, The Weird Go Pro"--Hunter S. Thompson
Has America passed the point of no return, where dying cultures arrive when their internal logic and external conversations descends into illiteracy, and then madness? Perhaps. For example, how is it possible that persons fresh from the site of outbreak of one of the world’s worst viruses, simply walk off airplanes into American cities? Or, consider the dangerous, utterly indefensible policy of allowing the border to stay open, and illegal entries to cross, allowed to stay, even when criminal convictions for violent crimes are proved.
Again, the US victoriously leaving Iraq, only forced to return a few years later, in the midst of a horrific uprising of bloodthirsty Muslim radicals, merely proves the most obvious point—that America lacks leadership at the highest levels. But the Ebola crisis brings bad policy to the new threshold of indefensible self-harm. The policy is so bad, tenable reasons against travel bans can’t even be articulated.
The violence of this disease was such that the sick communicated it to the healthy who came near them, just as a fire catches anything dry or oily near it. And it even went further. To speak to or go near the sick brought infection and a common death to the living; and moreover, to touch the clothes or anything else the sick had touched or worn gave the disease to the person touching.—The Decameron—Giovanni Boccaccio
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Candy Crowley’s facial expression while Ted Cruz dismembered her parroting the administration line told it all. Yet even he didn’t make the simple declarative statements, “ Thomas Duncan would not have brought Ebola to the U.S. if there had been a travel ban. There would be no Ebola in the U.S. to this date.”
This is so very correct in its entirety.
The paucity of comments here though indicates weariness and contrition to the whole affair. We appear to have given up in defeat.
Yes, even Ted Cruz can’t utter the obvious. We are on the ropes and rope a dope from the endless pillory of insanity.
It takes almost no effort to be an arsonist. He easily outpaces the fire fighters. Destruction is easy. Destruction is what we have been and continue to be battered by.
I feel like the wireless tapping out the last code from the now dead and deserted world depicted in “On the Beach”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)
“From Australia, survivors detect an incomprehensible Morse code signal from San Diego in the United States. The last American nuclear submarine, USS Sawfish, under Royal Australian Navy command, is ordered to sail north to try to make contact with the signal sender. The sub is commanded by Captain Dwight Towers, who must leave his good friend, the alcoholic Moira Davidson.”
It is a pretty bright fall day here and it seems all wrong.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
Perhaps but what would you have? Early and proper reaction and strict quarantine, mass deaths in advance of “draconian measures”?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I was shocked by Mark Steyn’s statement the other day - I think I heard it on Rush, that...
“You cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture.”
My heart sank, my hopes dimmed. I fear that he is right.
I am going to change my tagline. We, like our politicians, are afraid to confront liberal ideology when we encounter it amongst our friends, neighbors, and co-workers. We are not willing to fight for what we believe in, for we all want to go along to get along, and we are just as guilty.
Thanks for the ping!
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