Ban flights from Ebola-stricken nations [Ted Cruz Op-Ed]

TribTalk ^ | Oct. 15, 2014 | Ted Cruz

[SoConPubbie]

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[SoConPubbie]

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[P-Marlowe]

If this gets out of hand, as it appears to be doing, you are soon going to have African countries (and every other place on the planet) banning flights from the US.

[NorthMountain]

Ted Cruz for President!

[joshua c]

60% of Americans want the ban. How about not flying? That would get the airlines attention and ultimately Obama’s.

I know alot of people have to fly for business and cannot do this without jeopardizing their job but how about leisure flyers? Postpone trips until a ban is installed.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Enthusiastic Ted Cruz bump.

America needs to protect America’s people. Now.

[ataDude]

There are NO direct flights from any of the countries, IMHO. The ban needs to be on persons holding passports from those countries... OR... persons who have traveled to/from those countries. Easy to do by looking at passports.

[joshua c]

How long was Duncan on that plane? Could he have become contagious while in flight?

Who is to say that may not happen yet?

[Conscience of a Conservative]

With all due respect to Sen. Cruz, the focus cannot simply be on banning flights from the affected countries, since there are no direct flights from the affected regions to the US. The focus must be on banning travellers from the affected countries (or who have visited the affected countries within the 21 day incubation period.

[Right Brother]

Even if a ban is enacted in the next several weeks, it’s too late. Should have been done many weeks ago when the disease was exploding in West Africa. Duncan would never have arrived.

[DoodleDawg]

Banning flights from the afflicted countries is a prudent, common-sense step until the epidemic is brought under control.

And since we don't have any flights between the U.S. and the afflicted countries, totally useless.

[all the best]

“60% of Americans want the ban.”

And the rest are suicidal and/or totally deranged and should therefore be ignored. Or maybe just plain childish and, of course, children have no say I adult matters.

[BlatherNaut]

The ban needs to be on persons holding passports from those countries... OR... persons who have traveled to/from those countries. Easy to do by looking at passports.

Exactly.

Obama should be impeached. He is a traitor who cares more about the economy of Liberia than the lives of Americans.

[tet68]

hope is not a strategy.

God bless Sen. Cruz for giving us the campaign slogan
for 2016.

How’s that hopey changy working out for YOU?

[b4its2late]

Banning flights passport holders from the afflicted countries is a prudent, common-sense step until the epidemic is brought under control.

There, fixed it.

[DoodleDawg]

There, fixed it.

Don't fix it for me because I'm not the one who said it in the first place.

[b4its2late]

I’m not fixing it for you. I simply responded to your post.

[grumpygresh]

0bama et al are clearly allowing and helping Ebola to spread.
If we have a real outbreak, as we have now in West Africa, 0bama and his government MUST be deposed immediately by all and any means.

If people are dying in the streets, we will be long past a civil political solution and adherence to constitutional procedure. I suppose we could have Ebola infected patients march on DC if they have the energy . The military had better start thinking about a coup.

The elitists, globalists and eugenicists have gone too far. As Sun Tzu would probably agree, the people will soon be fighting on desperate ground.

[Reno89519]

Talk is cheap. Where is some action? SENATOR Cruz should be in Washington with his SENATE and HOUSE colleagues doing something. They could craft a bill banning direct and indirect traffic from Africa, close the border, etc. Nope, they like to talk, not act. If Senator Cruz thinks he might someday want to be president (despite questions about his citizenship, fair-is-fair, many of us challenged Obama’s, Cruz has issues), anyway, if he wants to be president, here is the perfect opportunity to step up and show some action, to move beyond cheap talk.

[MrNJ]

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