[Riddick]

This is truely unbelievable. Is this what it's coming to? Anybody who actually agrees with this ought to be the first ones rounded up.

I can't believe he actually said this during a live press conference. Let the goose-stepping begin.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051004/ap_ ... _avian_flu

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Riddick', 'T')his is truely unbelievable. Is this what it's coming to? Anybody who actually agrees with this ought to be the first ones rounded up.

I can't believe he actually said this during a live press conference. Let the goose-stepping begin.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051004/ap_ ... _avian_flu

[k_semler]

Yep. The facade of a constitutional republic has finally crumbled. I wonder how many people are going to completly agree with Shrub on this. Quarintine I can understand, but using the millitary to do so is just an excuse to establish control zones. And I bet that once the Avian Flu does pass, the control zones won't dissapear. If they just wanted to quarintine infected paitents, then that is what hospitals are for.

[rogerhb]

Is there any class of problem for which the military are not the solution in Mr Pea-Brain's mind?

[dissimulo]

Looks to me like he is only doing what the sheep demanded following the hurricanes.

As far as the bird flu goes, if we did have breakouts in the US, what would you suggest we do? Without quarantine, it would probably spread. Without enforcement, there is no quarantine.

I hate the idea of a quarantine, but is there a better approach?

[0mar]

I think you all are forgetting that Kerry would have done the exact same thing. He just would have sold it to you more eloquently.

[Riddick]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('0mar', 'I') think you all are forgetting that Kerry would have done the exact same thing. He just would have sold it to you more eloquently.

[0mar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissimulo', 'L')ooks to me like he is only doing what the sheep demanded following the hurricanes.

As far as the bird flu goes, if we did have breakouts in the US, what would you suggest we do? Without quarantine, it would probably spread. Without enforcement, there is no quarantine.

I hate the idea of a quarantine, but is there a better approach?

[seldom_seen]

I find the whole thing weird, especially in the context of stories like this:

Bird flu not so dire, WHO says

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')HO’s flu spokesman at the agency’s Geneva headquarters did not say the 150 million prediction was wrong, he emphasized Friday that 7.4 million deaths is a more realistic estimate.

[Riddick]

I'll tell you what. Anyone looking to start a revolution will have to look no further than this. Any corporate-owned Blackwater rent-a-cop trying to put me on lockdown is going to get both barrels.


Here's another question for y'all: Will the government impose manditory inaculations if it gets "too bad"?

[Eli]

we are not talking about a quarantine that encompass a hospital we are talking about quarantining whole states and regions. This thing right now is more lethal than the Spanish flu, the bodys could pile up in the street.

Multiple road blocks on every road would be needed local law enforcement could not do it and the national guard can't do it since they are all in Iraq. Anyway I want the cops close at hand when things get bad not standing on some road stopping trucks.

What do think would happen if all the criminals heard there weren't any cops around?

I am with Omar on this Kerry and big mother Clinton would do the exact same thing except it would not be so painful to here them talk.

[dissimulo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('0mar', 'Q')uarantine is fine. Using marshal law to do so is absolutely draconian and unnecessary. The thing is, that most doomers here have said that marshal law will happen.

[k_semler]

@Riddick:

Yes. They did it to eradicate smallpox from the planet.

[Riddick]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissimulo', '
')Bush won't have to slip increased military powers past us - we will demand it.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissimulo', 'L')ooks to me like he is only doing what the sheep demanded following the hurricanes.

[Riddick]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('k_semler', '@')Riddick:

Yes. They did it to eradicate smallpox from the planet.

[Riddick]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '
')The sheep? I’d wager that it is exactly what most who’ll post to this thread called for on this very board – remember the outrage about those looters?

They need the active duty Army in there!

I’ve posted on the whole Posse deal as well but loosen those tin hatbands a little folks – this IS what it is written for.

[dissimulo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'G')iven the choice between my grandkids dying or giving up my last bullet to get them into a field hospital I suppose I’d take the hospital.

[Riddick]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissimulo', ' ')Once you give up rights and protections, it's hard to get them back.

[k_semler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Riddick', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('k_semler', '@')Riddick:

Yes. They did it to eradicate smallpox from the planet.