It’s very important to understand why those in power (it's not just Obama, unfortunately) are opposed to stopping arrivals of passenger aircraft from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
On October 1, 2014, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an opinion paper co-authored by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Rahm’s brother and an important Obama adviser in his own right. It was titled “Why Should High-Income Countries Help Fight Ebola”, and it contained the following language:
“…there are obligations of global justice to combat Ebola and strengthen health systems and infrastructure in affected countries in the longer term. Advocates of so-called cosmopolitanism – a key position in the philosophical debate about global justice – argue that national borders have no significance and that all people, regardless of where they live, are entitled to the same education, health care services, and other social resources…”
The people in power have been creating a borderless world for at least sixty years. They have achieved functional borderlessness in the U.S.A., using the covert revolutionary tactic “think of it always, speak of it never.” Most Americans still believe we have the ability to close our borders on short notice, when clearly we do not.
In any event, Obama, his Health and Human Services secretary, his Labor secretary, his acting Surgeon General, his Centers for Disease Control Director – all of them would DIE before they agreed to stop the flights, because doing it would affirm our borders as actual physical objects and demonstrate that it could be done, and they are mortally opposed to both of those things.
“…there are obligations of global justice to combat Ebola and strengthen health systems and infrastructure in affected countries in the longer term. Advocates of so-called cosmopolitanism – a key position in the philosophical debate about global justice – argue that national borders have no significance and that all people, regardless of where they live, are entitled to the same education, health care services, and other social resources…”
Thank you for that. It really deserves its own thread.
“argue that national borders have no significance and that all people, regardless of where they live, are entitled to the same education, health care services, and other social resources…””
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I think most of us feel that way, BUT,there is an old saying that if you don’t take care of yourself first you can’t take care of anyone else.
We have been extending aid to the less fortunate for years BECAUSE we take care of ourselves.
Ezekiel is an ass.
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I think the fact Obama opposes the travel ban goes well beyond any science issues.
If he signals that it is ok to keep certain people out of the US, he’s now created a precedent regarding his open borders policy. If we can make an exception today to keep people (primarily black) out for Ebola, even if temporary, then tomorrow the sheeple will want to keep the Mexicans, Haitians, etc out. It makes his reported goal of declaring amnesty right after the Nov. 4th elections more problematic.
An Ebola travel ban is a slippery slope for him and an existential threat to his immigration policy.