Posted on 10/03/2014 11:07:16 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
David Quammen, an author of multiple books on science and diseases, including “Ebola,” and "Spillover," argued against a ban on flights to Liberia by stating the US has a “responsibility” to the nation “given the fact that this is a country that was founded in the 1820s, 1830s because of American slavery” on Thursday’s “AC360” on CNN.
Quammen first argued that such a ban would not be feasible because “it’s impossible to track them [people flying from Liberia],” and “you can't isolate neighborhoods, you can’t isolate nations. It doesn't work.”
He then said, “people talk about ‘well, we should not allow any flights in from Liberia.’ I mean, we in America, how dare we turn our backs on Liberia given the fact that this is a country that was founded in the 1820s, 1830s because of American slavery? We have a responsibility to stay connected with them, and help them see this through.”
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The loony left in action.
If everything is about slavery, then blacks are nothing but former slaves. They have no other meaning in life.
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Where is common sense these days? People are acting like their IQ is in single digits.
So the “babysitting” of Liberia will continue,ad infinitum.
Terrific.
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I’m really not sure what to say here. On the other hand the U.S. does not and should not have a ‘suicide pact’ with Liberia. And Ebola, Marburg, etc. are diseases that justify quarantine until they are burned out.
Living in Africa.
Just wait, perhaps they’ll try to become a territory and then move for statehood...
We gave them the road map for establishing a free country in Africa. We owe them nothing more.
Throw that idiot on the next flight to Liberia then.
The Constitution isn’t a suicide pact, sorry Dave, especially under exigent circumstances.
But thanks for playing, like so many other lefty Obamanation tools urging us to remain clam.
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact” is a phrase in American political and legal discourse. The phrase expresses the belief that constitutional restrictions on governmental power must be balanced against the need for survival of the state and its people.
It is most often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, as a response to charges that he was violating the United States Constitution by suspending habeas corpus during the American Civil War. Although the phrase echoes statements made by Lincoln, and although versions of the sentiment have been advanced at various times in American history, the precise phrase “suicide pact” was first used by Justice Robert H. Jackson in his dissenting opinion in Terminiello v. Chicago, a 1949 free speech case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The phrase also appears in the same context in Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision written by Justice Arthur Goldberg. (wickedpedia)
And the Civil War plus Welfare and Affirmative Action give me the right to tell these people to go to Hell. Or Liberia.
My thoughts, exactly :)
So he is saying that Blacks remain slaves and therefore we need to care for them, feed them, and treat them as the as the incompetents they really are?
Let me see if I’ve got this straight: Because slavery was legal in the United States 150+ years ago (WAY before anyone alive now was even born), we are NOW obligated to permit the country’s destruction via a highly contagious disease.
Did you study logic in an insane asylum, Mr. Quammen?
Why don’t the pilots strike?
The left is finally showing its’ true colors instead of cloaking them. They must feel comfortable.
Acting?
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