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Posted by Bigfoot on September 2nd, 2009
Taxachusetts is getting prepared for the swine flu – by crafting a bill that if passed, would give state and local agencies a broad set of powers, in the event of an emergency. Some of these would would be:
to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry into and investigation of the premises;
to close, direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated any building or facility, and to allow the reopening of the building or facility when the danger has ended;
to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated, or to destroy any material;
to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons
The state would also be able to require citizens to be vaccinated or undergo “preventative procedure”, and able to isolate or quarantine those who are unwilling or unable to submit to the vaccination or procedure, if they are determined to be infected or exposed. Anyone knowing violating a quarantine or isolation order may be fined $1,000 per day while the violation continues.
On the other hand, if law enforcement or medical personel cause any harm (from Section 12 of the bill),
No law enforcement authority or medical personnel shall be held criminally or civilly liable as a result of an act or omission carried out in good faith in reliance on said order
Read the bill here. It’s 28 pages, pretty modest as far as legislation goes these days.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
So, what they’re trying to do is usurp the Freedom of Assembly clause? For any reason, if it is determined to be “an emergency”? Good luck with that one. With the donks in power that could turn out to be a town hall meeting where two people show up with anti-Obama/Kennedy health takeover signs.
The sleazebuckets will try anything to dominate and subjugate people, won’t they? It’s sounding more and more like 1960s Russia all the time.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:05 am
I wonder how many lives would have been saved if they had taken the same actions with HIV – AIDS?
I guess it’s ok for one group of protectd people to spread disease knowingly but not for regular citizens to spread the flu knowingly or unknowingly. Strange logic and strange country we live in nowadays.
September 5th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Yeah, but the problem with it is that, at least at the beginning of this whole thing in the United States, it was a protected class that was spreading the disease, criminal aliens.
Of course, now that it’s spread to the population as a whole and isn’t confined to just criminal aliens I guess it’s time the health officials clamp down. At least on whites.
Like you say, LomaAlta, when it was aids/HIV it didn’t matter. Neither has it with tuberculosis from Latin America.
Ya gotta wonder just how many of the unelected public officials really do hate our country as it had been for nearly 200 years?
September 5th, 2009 at 10:22 am
I would fight. With bare hands and a gun.