Posted on 10/02/2014 5:27:39 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Politico initially reported in August of 2009 that the Obama administration examined Bush administration 2005 quarantine regulations, which were criticized by civil liberty advocates.
In April 2010, Politico reported the administration “quietly dumped quarantine rules that would have required air passengers to submit more information to airlines and strengthened the government's authority to detain travelers suspected of carrying disease.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
So Barry dumped the Quarantine rules, but still let the TSA stick their gloved hands (and proven they sometimes use the same gloves on more than one person) up god knows what nooks and crannies on toddlers and grannies alike st the airport, but hey let’s just wave the people comming from outbreak countries right on by......?????
AND some members of my family STILL think I am crazy for thinking Barry wants to destroy this country????
The commie ‘RATS’ political correctness is going to kill us all.
It will be fun watching the Administration explain this... Well that’s if anyone in the controlled media has guts to ask..... Which I doubt.
Yep
There is so much irony here...
In the past, I have had arguments with FReepers who claimed that government has no right to quarantine anyone, while I insisted that the government has a duty to protect citizens from disease and that individual liberty does not trump people’s right to not be needlessly exposed to infectious disease.
And now, I see people complain that not enough is being done to quarantine people who *might* have an infectious disease.
I swear, as a group, FReepers are all over the place.
Here is a link to a blog about executive orders regarding quarantine, which is obviously written by someone who thinks that putting people in quarantine is akin to throwing them in concentration camps: http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/executive-order-quarantine-list/
The disease lists are about halfway down the page. It seems that several presidents have updated the list of diseases subject to quarantine over the years. Ronald Reagan was the first to add viral hemorrhagic diseases (Ebola and several others).
I suspect that once this Ebola outbreak is over, people will forget about it and go back to insisting that even the threat of quarantine is an unsupportable infringement of civil rights...
I swear all of this has been planned long in advance. There is an evil power behind this. Keeps your lamps trimmed and burning, for no man knows the hour.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Note that the word "quarantine" shows up in a very interesting place with respect to arguments that Obamacare Democratcare is constitutionally indefensible.
More specifically, as evidenced by the excerpts below, when Justice Barbour, I believe, borrowed language from Gibbons v. Ogden to emphasize that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate healthcare, he expanded the idea of prohibited federal healthcare laws by referencing quarantine laws of all things.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
And speaking of prohibited federal laws, the Supreme Court had also clarified in general that powers not delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution, quarantine laws in this example, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So federal quarantine laws which address intrastate issues are based on wrongly usurped 10th Amendment-protected state powers like many other federal laws.
btt
Obama regime incompetence bump for later...
it will be bush’s fault.
You don't understand, comrade. The illusion of a Workers' Paradise is more easy to maintain if all that remains in the smoking ruins are the 535 glorious workers of the State in that one domed edifice.
Smooth move, Barry!
My reading of the article is that the Obama Admin didn’t actually dump them. That they pulled the revisions back when they were still at OMB and kept the old rules. The article strongly infers that there was widespread pushback against dumping the rules, and the Obama Admin caved.
Anyone else read it that way?
Politico reported Aug 2009 that the Obama admin examined Bush administration 2005 quarantine regulations (to protect Americans), which were criticized by civil liberty advocates.
In April 2010, Politico reported the Obama admin “quietly dumped quarantine rules that would have required air passengers to submit more information to airlines and strengthened the government's authority to detain travelers suspected of carrying disease.” (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Hillary said it takes a village. But it took only one doofus--- Obama---to expose the lib/prog's "humanitarian" elitism that is endangering us.
These brain-dead, feel-good types believe “singling out” backward nations or antediluvian cultures which pose deadly threats to the public health or safety of Americans “stigmatizes” those nations or cultures, it “shames” them, it makes them "feel" unequal.
It’s (horrors) "judgmental."
We can never, Ever suggest that America prefers already existing tax-paying, law-abiding citizens to foreigners w/ big plans for our heads.
Dumbo Dummycrats are the reasons for the deluge of Central American refugees, the reason why illegals never feel the sting of US justice, the reason we remain unable to strip jihadists of US citizenship, the reason that a year after two Chechen refugees bombed the Boston Marathon, America is preparing to expand resettlement of Syrian refugees.
Dear Liz,
Quarantine rules are always a good thing, because they protect the rest of us Americans, who have been living in a ‘bug-free’ nation, s opposed to all the sleazy motherlovers that haved invaded our nation.
I believe that the American populace, since ‘dah gov’mint ain’ta gonna do it’, should declare open season, ‘for the common good and survivability of the nation’.
a) Weakens America/AmericansI have yet to have anyone raise a single substantive counter example in several years of posting this.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
The game of Ebola Roulette continues...
*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
We’re gonna need 
a bigger cart!
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...
Either way, he’s failed miserably on this.
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