Obama Administration Dumps Quarantines Rules (voters, Senate, 2014, doctor)

[Spartacus713]

So, to summarize, we are doomed.

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by rikoshaprl

You read things the way you want. Obama's administration thought the measures wouldn't be effective. Some left wing lunatic thought it would be unconstitutional. That doesn't make it right. Bush's people thought it would be both effective and constitutional. Most of the people detained could be foreigners anyway. The Constitution doesn't pertain to them.

The Constitution applies to everyone on US soil, citizen or non-citizen. That is what "any person" means. When it says "citizen", like in reference to voting, then obviously it means only citizens.

“nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, ........"

[T-310]

Originally Posted by thefragile

Off to the bunkers you go! Yes, let's blame a virus on the president, brilliant plan.

Of course I am blaming the idiot in the WH.

By not cancelling the visas held by people in those countries.

[middle-aged mom]

Originally Posted by armory

The true bottom line is they shouldn't be on a vessel towards our shores.

My passport does not show half the countries I have visited. There's no international law that requires all passports be stamped, all the time. Many who travel extensively request their passports not be stamped for all sorts of reasons. Most foreign immigration accommodates. Obvious examples include travel to Cuba or Israel or Russia.

I can fly a US domestic carrier to most places in Europe with a return ticket home in 30 days. In the interim, I can fly or take a train to any another European country or to Liberia and back. Who is going to know where I have been for the past month?

Absolute security is an illusion.

[michiganmoon]

Obama is making a strong argument for one of the worst presidents of all time. At least he is cool though.

[middle-aged mom]

Originally Posted by Spartacus713

So, to summarize, we are doomed.

Well, if we persist in latching onto sensational headlines with no basis, then for sure.

Getting sucked in is a choice. That choice becomes more challenging when the sensational headline agrees with one's perceptions.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by middle-aged mom

That's the current allegation.

The Liberian government has said they intend to prosecute Duncan when he returns home for allegedly lying on his airport departure screening about having contact with an infected person.

Reportedly, Duncan has a child living in the US.

Duncan took that sick girl to the hospital and back and carried her upstairs where she died of ebola.
Anyone that had contact with that girl is now dead themselves.
All his neighbors are DEAD from ebola. Very little "alleged" about that one.

And he has a son and that's where he was in Dallas.

[LuckyGem]

This revised executive order from July 2014 says NOTHING about EBOLA.

Only Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes (SARS)

Zero about hemorrhagic fevers.


Executive Order -- Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases

[TrapperJohn]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

Protecting the nation means not interfering with commerce. Where did you study civics? You are but fodder for the 1%.

Except for bakeries that won't serve people who contradict their religious beliefs - that commerce we can restrict.

[sxrckr]

Originally Posted by middle-aged mom

And here we are today, wigging out because Obama failed to act upon a failed Bush proposal that failed to include Ebola.


Just another day in the Blame the Obama Game.

Yes, so let's blame Bush instead. Maybe there was an Ebola outbreak of this same magnitude while he was president and we just all missed it. Or maybe he's actually still president right now rather than O. Or both. Yes, that's it.