Posted on 05/31/2007 6:45:51 AM PDT by Zakeet
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit claiming Maricopa County officials have violated the rights of a quarantined tuberculosis patient for months by treating him like a criminal.
The U.S. District Court complaint filed Wednesday on behalf of Robert Daniels alleges that health officials and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office have violated numerous constitutional rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The suit seeks what it calls appropriate accommodations for Daniels, rather than severe and "inhumane" jail conditions.
"It's good news for me," Daniels said Wednesday evening. "I finally have a chance to get out of this black hole."
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Daniels moved to Arizona in January 2006 after contracting extreme multi-drug-resistant TB. Daniels, who spent his teen years in Scottsdale, said he returned to the U.S. from Russia in search of work and a college education.
Months later, after he became severely ill, Daniels was placed in a county sanitarium for indigent TB patients. Dr. Maricela Moffitt, a county physician, has testified that Daniels failed to take his medications and that decreased the likelihood that last-chance drugs would cure his deadly disease.
Moffitt claims Daniels endangered others by going out in public and entertaining visitors without wearing a mask.
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In his defense, Daniels has insisted that he did not understand the contagiousness or gravity of his condition.
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Send him to their office.
Doesn't common sense dictate that a person who has a highly communicable disease and refuses to even attempt to control it is, in fact, a criminal who needs to be detained?
Just trying to give extreme drug-resistant TB the same “rights” as AIDS.
No kidding. This guy claims he didn’t understand that a drug-resistant, deadly disease might make him dangerous? He didn’t understand that taking long airline flights in close proximity to others with his drug-resistant, deadly disease might make him dangerous to others? Idiot.
They stick their nose into everything. One of these days they are going to stick it into the wrong place.
You beat me to my suggestion. Make sure he doesn’t wear a mask either, so the ACLU tards get the full “benefit”.
He doesn’t have a disability, he has a virulent, contagious, resistant disease. They are different. His existence is a threat to others; a crippled person, on the other hand, merely by breathing the same air others do, jeopardizes no one.
They’re just too stupid to understand that a nation full of dead and dying people have no use for the ACLU...
I agree that this is more of the same from the ACLU, but there might also be just a touch of wanting to take a shot at Joe Arpaio, the famous Maricopa County sheriff that they hate so much.
Heard on FoxNews last night that Daniels does`nt understand why he`s being treated so badly. Being quarantined.
If some Iranian were to show up in NYC, covered in smallpox sores, walking up to people at the airport and coughing at them, the ACLU would defend his right to do so.
This is insane. Ban the ACLU.
Fix it by charging the guy with criminal endangerment. Or criminal stupidity. Both fit.
Excellent idea!
Ban them? Hell, you and I get to pay for them, as well as the other anti-American groups like PBS, NPR, etc. Your tax dollars hard at work.
If he did not understand, then he needs to be involuntarily committed to a sanatarium and held there until he is cured, both for the sake of his health and the health of everyone else.
“In his defense, Daniels has insisted that he did not understand the contagiousness or gravity of his condition.”
That explains why he was in such a hurry (he was afraid he was going to die) to get back to the US to get top notch treatment. He did`nt understand the grvity of his condition. Uh, huh.
gezzzzzzzzzz...the ACLU has to be dumber than dirt!
I predicted yesterday that they would get involved.
But I liken that to predicting nightfall.
I doubt that anyone is at all surprised.
IMHO, this shouldn’t even be news.
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