Quarantines, hospital seizures: Powergrab 2001

[Declan McCullagh]

It would be interesting to compare the provisions you describe in this
bill (I have not yet read it) with existing powers that federal and
state authorities have when an "emergency" is declared. Seems to me
that much if this authority is already on the books.

-Declan


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:56:10PM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote:
> 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 at parrhesia.com -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961
> 5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy.
> 1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National 
> disgrace.