We mentioned this bill in an earlier story today, but it really deserves its own focus and attention.
It’s quite surprising that it hasn’t gotten more attention considering what it’s actually advocating.
The bill A416, obviously meant to deal with the Wuhan virus, allows for the detention of any carrier of a disease (or contacts that person has had) to be detained in a medical facility or “other apporpriate facility or premises designated by the governor.” The governor or his designee can simply have anyone locked up under this if he puts out the order. Talk about troubling and dangerous. Read this.
This is a bill up for consideration in New York State in regards to COVID-19.
Read every word of this and tell me what you think of it: pic.twitter.com/mCkwgwPemJ
— Dr. David Samadi, MD (@drdavidsamadi) January 2, 2021
The language is so ambiguous it can give license to lock up anyone, even those without illness, if they just had “contact” with someone who might have been ill and “cases” could mean anything including asymptomatic people.
This isn’t even close to being constitutional and violates almost everything you can imagine.
This is straight up detention camp stuff in NY! A Bill giving @NYGovCuomo, Health Commissioner or any “designated” official full “power” to remove any person/group of people from their home if deemed contagious. It’s horrifying. Wake up NY & Fight! A416 https://t.co/mU2cWDm1oD
— Liz Joy (@LizLemeryJoy) January 2, 2021
The governor can determine, on his own opinion, if you get locked up. And the governor in New York right now is someone who has already proved we should be quite concerned about.
How do they decide, by the way, who is a threat to public health. By “THE OPINION OF THE GOVERNOR.”
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) January 3, 2021
NY’s proposed “law” would not be a law at all. It flagrantly, blatantly & explicitly violates the Fourth Amendment rights of ALL American citizens. This is arrest without due process rights. It is the kind of Intolerable Act our Founders went to war over.https://t.co/KAb3MZccTj
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 2, 2021
Commissioner? What happened to a judge? And charges?
Now remember this is just from a virus for which we now have multiple vaccines as well as multiple treatments and is over 99% survivable.
This is what happened in Canada but it could quickly be coming to us, if we let things like the New York bill get through into law.
This is what will be happening in NEW YORK if a newly proposed bill becomes (unconstitutional) “law.”
This is apparently what Gov. Cuomo & other blue state governors want to see in America. Resist!🔻https://t.co/zh4i05p5eU
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 2, 2021
Oh, and in case you think they’re just talking about the virus or even just medical illnesses, maybe not just viruses.
Btw, it would only be a little crazy to remember that “racism” is now a public health crisis too under medicine based in Critical Race Theory. We might see the goalposts move and people could possibly be detained for wrongthink under NY’s new concentration camp bill. pic.twitter.com/fC9NYVbaL8
— James Lindsay, New Year, New Me (@ConceptualJames) January 3, 2021
This is one of the many reasons why when people ask me lately if I think we’re headed toward horrible tyranny, instead of just saying “yes,” I tell them to watch Canada. It’s gleefully taking up the role of canary in the totalitarian coal mine.
— James Lindsay, New Year, New Me (@ConceptualJames) January 2, 2021
It’s why people are sensitive to mask rules, give government an inch and they take far more than a mile. They will take whatever they think they can get away with. That’s how you get to the point of a bill like this.
Hopefully, the folks in New York have the sense to stand against this. But there’s a lot of liberal pathology going on in New York, so I wouldn’t bet on it.
HT: Twitchy
