At 01:13 PM 10/30/2001 -0800, Khoder bin Hakkin wrote:

Drafted at the behest of the Department of Health and Human Services (news - web sites) and with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites), the new law proposes ways to legally quarantine people, confiscate hospitals and get quick information to doctors in case of a bioterror attack.

Oh, it goes far beyond that - it creates a system where, upon a governor's declaration of a public health emergency, the public health authorities get control of all food, guns, medicine, fuel, clothing, medical facilities, doctors, and human beings within the affected area - they're entitled to immediate possession of whatever useful private property they want, which can be redistributed, held, or destroyed as they see fit - and they're empowered to use public safety agencies to force doctors perform examinations, tests or vaccinate/immunize similarly uncooperative individuals, and to create quarantine or exclusion areas as they consider useful. It's pretty much a police state implementation act. -- Greg Broiles -- gbroiles@parrhesia.com -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961 5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy. 1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National disgrace.