The loony left in action.
If everything is about slavery, then blacks are nothing but former slaves. They have no other meaning in life.
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So the “babysitting” of Liberia will continue,ad infinitum.
Terrific.
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I’m really not sure what to say here. On the other hand the U.S. does not and should not have a ‘suicide pact’ with Liberia. And Ebola, Marburg, etc. are diseases that justify quarantine until they are burned out.
Living in Africa.
The Constitution isn’t a suicide pact, sorry Dave, especially under exigent circumstances.
But thanks for playing, like so many other lefty Obamanation tools urging us to remain clam.
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact” is a phrase in American political and legal discourse. The phrase expresses the belief that constitutional restrictions on governmental power must be balanced against the need for survival of the state and its people.
It is most often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, as a response to charges that he was violating the United States Constitution by suspending habeas corpus during the American Civil War. Although the phrase echoes statements made by Lincoln, and although versions of the sentiment have been advanced at various times in American history, the precise phrase “suicide pact” was first used by Justice Robert H. Jackson in his dissenting opinion in Terminiello v. Chicago, a 1949 free speech case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The phrase also appears in the same context in Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision written by Justice Arthur Goldberg. (wickedpedia)
And the Civil War plus Welfare and Affirmative Action give me the right to tell these people to go to Hell. Or Liberia.
So he is saying that Blacks remain slaves and therefore we need to care for them, feed them, and treat them as the as the incompetents they really are?
Let me see if I’ve got this straight: Because slavery was legal in the United States 150+ years ago (WAY before anyone alive now was even born), we are NOW obligated to permit the country’s destruction via a highly contagious disease.
Did you study logic in an insane asylum, Mr. Quammen?
Why don’t the pilots strike?
The left is finally showing its’ true colors instead of cloaking them. They must feel comfortable.
Fk em.
they wanted to be free and now they are...
One more question for Mr. Quammen: If the United States is wiped out by Ebola, who will pay to support Liberia?
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Obama (and the political class) do not want to shut down travel from West Africa for the same reason abortion extremists insist that it's okay to perform post-birth abortions.Because giving an inch on the extreme case -- even giving an inch on the most indefensible part of your agenda -- is thought to create some momentum against the more defensible parts of your agenda.
They don't want to give an inch on partial-birth abortions because they don't want to give an inch on non-partial-birth abortions.
In the case of a West Africa travel ban, this could create some small amount of political momentum, as Krikorian suggests, towards controlling our borders in other cases -- for example, controlling illegal immigration at our southern border.
Which, by the way, is at least suspected of being the pathway for the enterovirus which is now leaving American kids paralyzed. (Hm, I don't hear any loud calls for an investigation to discover how enterovirus entered the United States.)
So, because Obama (and other members of the political class) can't risk the slightest nod in the direction of controlling our border -- they have too many political chips riding on that bet -- we're all just going to have run the risk of a little ebola.
We're just gonna have to hope.
Yes, becuase the US was one of the first countries to outlaw slavery and because they tried to make amends and repatriate freed slaves, they MUST be punished by taking their chances with deadly infectious diseases.
This guy needs to up the voltage on his home electroshock therapy, preferably to 4160.
A sad commentary on our society is that these statements are made, and taken seriously, instead of as fodder for standup comedians.
Wasn’t Liberia the place that freed slaves were to go to if they chose?
It was a freaking US colony, specifically for Freed slaves. It seems we’ve already paid the dues.
All I can say, as a God-fearing woman who doesn’t swear in the normal course of things, is F this moron.