Obama Signs Executive Order to Detain Americans With ‘Respiratory Illnesses’

Obama Signs Executive Order to Detain Americans With Respiratory Illnesses 010814obPrison Planet – by Paul Joseph Watson

As the Ebola outbreak continues to cause concern, President Barack Obama has signed an amendment to an executive order that would allow him to mandate the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of “respiratory illness.”

The executive order, titled Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases, amends executive order 13295, passed by George W. Bush in April 2003, which allows for the, “apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases.”  

The amendment signed by Obama replaces subsection (b) of the original Bush executive order which referred only to SARS. Obama’s amendment allows for the detention of Americans who display, “Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.”

Although Ebola was listed on the original executive order signed by Bush, Obama’s amendment ensures that Americans who merely show signs of respiratory illness, with the exception of influenza, can be forcibly detained by medical authorities.

Although the quarantining of people suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus seems like a perfectly logical move, the actual preconditions for this to happen aren’t restricted to just those suffering from the disease.

As we highlighted earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has measures in place for dealing with an outbreak of a communicable disease which allow for the quarantine of “well persons” who “do not show symptoms” of the disease.

In addition, under the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, public health authorities and governors would be given expanded police powers to seize control of communications devices, public and private property, as well as a host of other draconian measures in the event of a public health emergency.

When the legislation was introduced, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons warned that it “could turn governors into dictators.”

Yesterday it was reported that Emory University Hospital in Atlanta was set to receive a patient infected with Ebola. A hospital in Germany also accepted an infected patient earlier this week. Some critics have raised concerns about the risk of deliberately importing infected individuals into the west.

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7 thoughts on “Obama Signs Executive Order to Detain Americans With ‘Respiratory Illnesses’

  1. “or other respiratory illness”. Well now, that seems to be a rather vague definition, doesn’t it? Executive orders are already irrelevant but anyone who has the gall to believe they would have the authority to detain or hunt anyone with such a broad stroke is a tyrant. There are solutions to figure heads like this and they have been used effectively many times over throughout history. It wasn’t impeachment or lawsuits, despite what some of the party-siding trolls who have been joining us lately have been implying.

    1. I just sent this article to my daughter, with a warning not to cough in public. Haha. Actually it’s not so funny, I’m asthmatic, as are many members of my family, the medicine taken to keep it under control can cause coughing. This E.O. is out of control.

  2. sure!
    detain Americans but do nothing about the infiltrators walking across our border daily .. sounds just like i would expect from him

  3. And they are flying the EBOLA virus into Atlanta, GA at this exact same time that he signs this. Coincidence? I think not!

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