ACLU says Maricopa County violated TB patient's rights (by quarantining him in jail)

Arizona Star ^ | May 31, 2007

[Rodney King]

If an individual is determined to expose innocents to a deadly, communicable disease, then the authorities are duty bound to quarantine him.

Fair enough, but at least let there be some sort of court order so that the guy has the ability to challenge it. We are talking about the government here. Are you really confident that if you were quarantined that the government would make a point of letting you out as soon as possible? That you would be treated properly while detained, etc? I am not objecting to his being quarantined. I am objecting to the government having the power to detain you indefinitely on the whim of a bureaucrat.

[Rodney King]

And screw the ACLU. This rotten organization is so darn anti-American they should be rode on a rail out of the US.

Yes because the government should be allowed to detain citizens on the whim of a bureaucrat.

[gracesdad]

“ACLU - just defending the civil rights of all persons who fit their anti-American agenda.”

So you believe it’s American to put a sick person who hasn’t been convicted of a crime in jail?

From what I’ve read the ACLU isn’t trying to get the guy released, just moved to something like a hospital isolation ward.

[upchuck]

Maybe Daniels could go live with that ACLU pornographer in Virginia.

[goldstategop]

Stupid liberal idiots - I'd like to lock them up with someone with a deadly communicable disease and then have them tell me afterwards if they think exposing it to the rest of us is advancing "civil rights."

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Col Sanders]

I am not objecting to his being quarantined. I am objecting to the government having the power to detain you indefinitely on the whim of a bureaucrat.

Why does there always have to be one loser in the crowd who throws reason into the mix?

Don't you know better than to interrupt the building of a lynch mob with thoughts and facts?

Go away now, we're busy - This guy needs 'a hangin...

Col Sanders

[Logical me]

What in the heck are you talking about?

[Smokin' Joe]

Just trying to give extreme drug-resistant TB the same “rights” as AIDS.

In a South African outbreak, samey-same. 80% of the XDR-TB patients were also HIV/AIDS positive. Over 50 of 53 died, so I guess it is self limiting if they can be quarrantined...