Posted on 03/16/2020 7:54:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Kansas and Missouri hold sweeping, authoritarian-like powers to separate from their friends, families and communities anyone who has coronavirus or has been exposed to it.
Health officials can order you to stay in your home or keep you in a secluded location. Neighborhoods and even entire cities can be locked down. You can be prosecuted for non-compliance.
Neither state has invoked these broad powers so far. But measures that just a few weeks ago seemed to be the stuff of dystopian novels and movies are becoming reality in the United States and around the world.
“The public health emergency powers are astonishingly broad,” said Wendy Parmet, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, who specializes in public health law.
“The word I tend to use is they’re awesome, in that more primeval sense of the word.”
Because quarantine and isolation is so rarely used, modern courts have had relatively few chances to assess whether these laws strike the right balance between public protection and civil liberties.
“We are deep into uncharted territory. We’re not at the edge of it,” said Parmet.
Some of these laws pre-date the modern era. Others are the legacy of 9/11 as officials scrambled to prepare for new bioterror threats. A 2005 Kansas law enshrined specific quarantine and isolation powers but also guaranteed due process protections.
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“The public health emergency powers are astonishingly broad,”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Thats true.
My emergency powers are broader out here in rural areas.
If anyone tries to come onto my place of self isolation without a federal court order, they will be confronted with the blast tube of my 12 gauge.
I would not get tested if I lived there.
Just sayin’.
A good way to get people to not get tested and try to hide their symptoms.
Look who’s really panicking.
‘If anyone tries to come onto my place of self isolation without a federal court order, they will be confronted with the blast tube of my 12 gauge.’
so if the cops come out to your place you’re gonna pull a gun on them...? you will lose...
Fredo Cuomo is on TV whining that he wants the federal government to put in the same quarantine rules for all the states so that NY doesn’t lose business to other states that haven’t locked down all commerce as NY has done by his decree. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Texas to comply, Fredo.
Here in Colorado, the assertion is that the State can seieze (commandeer) ANY private property. Despite this being demostrably counter to the Constitution
I block ADs.
What does it say?
Probably not a good idea.
Perhaps they should be applying those awesome powers to the leftist press. It has been done before and would be a fun experiment.
Here in Colorado, the assertion is that the State can seieze (commandeer) ANY private property. Despite this being demostrably counter to the Constitution
If you wish to have bad dreams, imagine if Hillary had won in ‘16 and this crisis would give her the chance to assume near dictatorial powers...
This is ridiculous. It’s a cold and pneumonia. I cannot understand why we are all acting like the sky is falling.
Come and get some.
Dear Gestapo: Show me a warrant or a court order, or git away!
And that’s the authority they will use to start confiscating firearms.
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