Comments on: Flu “emergency” powers can be extensive http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/ Where experience, logic and ideas trump political correctness and the status quo every time Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:28:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: NEPOLYANNA http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6361 NEPOLYANNA Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:33:54 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6361 My county Public Health Officer has asked our board of supervisors to declare a State of Emergency, They will vote tommorrow Tuesday November 3,. I have written to all the supervisors asking them not endorse this measure. They claim there have been 15 deaths here since April due to H1N1. That's no more an emergency than the total of people who have been murdered or have died in car wrecks or have gone missing. The numbers just don't justify calling a State of Emergency. I am not rushing out to line-up for my shot. I will wait to see how others react. I hear the vaccine takes 10 to 13 days to work. It could take years to see all the bad effects from it. I don't know yet who to believe. I know that the makers of the vaccine will get very rich if vaccines become mandatory. The government will get something they want in exchange for this lucrative contract, and our continued health does not seem to be reason enough. My county Public Health Officer has asked our board of supervisors to declare a State of Emergency, They will vote tommorrow Tuesday November
3,. I have written to all the supervisors asking them not endorse this measure. They claim there have been 15 deaths here since April due to H1N1. That’s no more an emergency than the total of people who have been murdered or have died in car wrecks or have gone missing. The numbers just don’t justify calling a State of Emergency. I am not rushing out to line-up for my shot. I will wait to see how others react. I hear the vaccine takes 10 to 13 days to work. It could take years to see all the bad effects from it. I don’t know yet who to believe. I know that the makers of the vaccine will get very rich if vaccines become mandatory. The government will get something they want in exchange for this lucrative contract, and our continued health does not seem to be reason enough.

]]> By: What Me Worry http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6359 What Me Worry Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:59:18 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6359 Our freedoms are not guaranteed and we are in fact less free then we were 25 years ago (ex. you have to have a drug test to get a ditch digging job. This is because the government won't do buisness with any company that doesn't require a drug test). Sure we could stick our heads in the sand and trust big brother or we can research the number of people denied habeas corpus and the charges against them under the Patriot Act. The reason we should be vigilant against government power expansion is not necessarily because of what will happen tomorrow but what will happen 50 years from now. Every government that has existed, exists now or will exist in the future did or will continously seek to expand its powers. BTW Detroit has some of the most restrictive gun laws and the highest number of muders and Massachusetts had 1,155 muders in 07 - Atlanta 1,624 niether is anything to brag about. Our freedoms are not guaranteed and we are in fact less free then we were 25 years ago (ex. you have to have a drug test to get a ditch digging job. This is because the government won’t do buisness with any company that doesn’t require a drug test).

Sure we could stick our heads in the sand and trust big brother or we can research the number of people denied habeas corpus and the charges against them under the Patriot Act. The reason we should be vigilant against government power expansion is not necessarily because of what will happen tomorrow but what will happen 50 years from now. Every government that has existed, exists now or will exist in the future did or will continously seek to expand its powers.

BTW Detroit has some of the most restrictive gun laws and the highest number of muders and Massachusetts had 1,155 muders in 07 – Atlanta 1,624 niether is anything to brag about.

]]> By: Tom http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6331 Tom Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:06:28 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6331 What some people fail to realize (Piso Mojado, this means you) is that the government will never take away your freedoms in one fell swoop. It will do it incrementally. Think frog in the pot of water that is gradually brought to a boil -- the frog won't jump out. By the time you realize you have lost your freedoms and rights it will be too late. People in Great Britain are finding this out after their government made handguns illegal and other types of guns almost impossible to own. The thugs have been preying on the unarmed populace with knives and illegal handguns, When the British government makes it illegal to own knives, the thugs will switch to clubs. It is not the object that is dangerous, but the person using the object. One of my many guns is nothing but a paperweight until I pick it up. What some people fail to realize (Piso Mojado, this means you) is that the government will never take away your freedoms in one fell swoop. It will do it incrementally. Think frog in the pot of water that is gradually brought to a boil — the frog won’t jump out. By the time you realize you have lost your freedoms and rights it will be too late. People in Great Britain are finding this out after their government made handguns illegal and other types of guns almost impossible to own. The thugs have been preying on the unarmed populace with knives and illegal handguns, When the British government makes it illegal to own knives, the thugs will switch to clubs. It is not the object that is dangerous, but the person using the object. One of my many guns is nothing but a paperweight until I pick it up.

]]> By: jamadan http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6285 jamadan Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:32:47 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6285 Declaring a national emergency does makes it legally impossible for people who have had a bad reaction to or died from the vaccine to sue the drug companies who made the vaccine. Just in time for the majority of the vaccines to arrive and be administered. Interesting timing . . . Declaring a national emergency does makes it legally impossible for people who have had a bad reaction to or died from the vaccine to sue the drug companies who made the vaccine. Just in time for the majority of the vaccines to arrive and be administered. Interesting timing . . .

]]> By: Fang1944 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6250 Fang1944 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:09:10 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6250 How did the H1N1 crisis get to be about the police destroying property? How did it get to be about guns? Do libertarians just constantly obsess about this boogerman of the evil government taking away their precious phallic symbols? How did the H1N1 crisis get to be about the police destroying property? How did it get to be about guns? Do libertarians just constantly obsess about this boogerman of the evil government taking away their precious phallic symbols?

]]> By: Chris Broe http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6247 Chris Broe Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:42:13 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6247 Grading Barr: C+ Barr's continues to plague this blog with Draconian obsfucation of Lincolnian Habeas Corpus suspensions. Barr's sense of government responsibility reveals not so much a condemnation of the "Patriot Act" as it is proof of the "Patent Idiot Act". The Mayo Clinic has been warning us for years that there could be an epidemic of the inhalation form of PMS. I wonder what Bob Barr would write then: "Obama must pass the Period Act now! Quarantine these contagious demons now!! And of course take their guns away. An armed PMS patient? Please! I dont want to catch PMS, do you? Where is the government's interference with our stupid bill of rights? What were the founding fathers thinking? HELP!!" HELP!!!!! Jklol Grading Barr: C+

Barr’s continues to plague this blog with Draconian obsfucation of Lincolnian Habeas Corpus suspensions. Barr’s sense of government responsibility reveals not so much a condemnation of the “Patriot Act” as it is proof of the “Patent Idiot Act”.

The Mayo Clinic has been warning us for years that there could be an epidemic of the inhalation form of PMS. I wonder what Bob Barr would write then: “Obama must pass the Period Act now! Quarantine these contagious demons now!! And of course take their guns away. An armed PMS patient? Please! I dont want to catch PMS, do you? Where is the government’s interference with our stupid bill of rights? What were the founding fathers thinking? HELP!!”

HELP!!!!!

Jklol

]]> By: Turd Ferguson http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6246 Turd Ferguson Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:01:40 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6246 There is a fly in the slaw somewhere. There is a fly in the slaw somewhere.

]]> By: Turd Ferguson http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6245 Turd Ferguson Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:59:40 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6245 Something about this swine-flu just doesnt feel right. IMO...the govt breed the virus then spread the virus to create some kindve hysteria, which isnt quite as hysterical as they had hoped. This whole Swine-flu episode reeks of govt initiation and involvement. And it pains me to see these SHEEPLE all lined up like "pigs to the slaughter" to receive their vaccination. There is a fly in the slaw some Something about this swine-flu just doesnt feel right. IMO…the govt breed the virus then spread the virus to create some kindve hysteria, which isnt quite as hysterical as they had hoped.

This whole Swine-flu episode reeks of govt initiation and involvement. And it pains me to see these SHEEPLE all lined up like “pigs to the slaughter” to receive their vaccination.

There is a fly in the slaw some

]]> By: Ayn Rand Was Right http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6244 Ayn Rand Was Right Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:16:15 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6244 Booger - thanks for saying it! This country, built by people who believed in hard work, fair dealings and love of country, has turned into the land of "gimme". Our forefathers may not have been perfect, but they left us with a solid foundation of strong business, national safety and the ability to evolve our viewpoints, legally. In the last 80 years our representatives have used that freedom to take America from self sufficient to self centered and self loathing. If we collectively wake up and start doing for ourselves, our neighbors and our communities soon (via free will not government mandate), we may have a chance to save this great nation. Go read Atlas Shrugged, go see Gran Torino, go inspire yourself in a way that works for you. Realize that regulated fairness is NEVER fair. You are the only one who can save you. Our elected representatives are only interested in personal preservation to avoid becoming a part of the system they created to maintain manufactured power. And for those more interested in my spelling/grammar than the message, I have a message for you...I DON'T CARE, this is a blog not a flippin' English class! Booger – thanks for saying it!

This country, built by people who believed in hard work, fair dealings and love of country, has turned into the land of “gimme”. Our forefathers may not have been perfect, but they left us with a solid foundation of strong business, national safety and the ability to evolve our viewpoints, legally. In the last 80 years our representatives have used that freedom to take America from self sufficient to self centered and self loathing.

If we collectively wake up and start doing for ourselves, our neighbors and our communities soon (via free will not government mandate), we may have a chance to save this great nation. Go read Atlas Shrugged, go see Gran Torino, go inspire yourself in a way that works for you. Realize that regulated fairness is NEVER fair. You are the only one who can save you. Our elected representatives are only interested in personal preservation to avoid becoming a part of the system they created to maintain manufactured power.

And for those more interested in my spelling/grammar than the message, I have a message for you…I DON’T CARE, this is a blog not a flippin’ English class!

]]> By: Jefferson http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/28/flu-emergency-powers-can-be-extensive/comment-page-1/#comment-6240 Jefferson Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:27:01 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/?p=685#comment-6240 If they give a man hell for wearing an earring, he should just hit them with his pocketbook. If they give a man hell for wearing an earring, he should just hit them with his pocketbook.

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