NEW YORK -- A nurse who was quarantined against her will inside a plastic tent in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa filed a civil rights lawsuit against Governor Chris Christie on Thursday, her lawyer said.
Kaci Hickox is claiming in her lawsuit that Christie, now a Republican presidential candidate, unconstitutionally and unreasonably detained, isolated and quarantined her in October last year without a valid legal or medical reason.
"This case is about liberty and freedom," said Norman Siegel, Hickox's attorney. "It's also about accountability, holding even governors accountable for their violations of citizens' constitutional rights."
Your liberty and freedom may be curtailed when there's a realistic chance that you're harboring a fatal, communicable disease for which there is no cure. That's called "public health", and the state has always had an interest in preserving it.
Hickox, who became known in the media as the "Ebola nurse," is seeking compensatory and punitive damages of at least $250,000, Siegel said.
After sharply criticizing Christie over her forced isolation for nearly 80 hours, Hickox was driven to her boyfriend's home in Fort Kent, Maine, where Governor Paul LePage ordered her quarantined, even though she had tested negative for the virus.
Because, as we've since learned, testing negative doesn't mean that you're truly negative.
She publicly defied the order, drawing national attention to the battle between states seeking to impose strict restrictions on healthcare workers returning after treating Ebola patients and the civil liberties of those individuals.
A handful of states imposed mandatory quarantines on health workers returning from three Ebola-ravaged West African countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The federal government has been wary of the efforts, seen as potentially discouraging medical volunteers.
I appreciate every person who volunteers. Those volunteers need to have the same compassion for the folks back home as they do for the people they're helping.
Late last year, Maine settled a lawsuit brought by Hickox over the quarantine.
Christie has defended his decision to impose a mandatory quarantine, saying that counting on a voluntary system may not work and that protecting health and safety is the government's job.
Precisely.
His office was not immediately available for comment on Thursday.
Hickox, who has since married her boyfriend and moved to Oregon, filed the lawsuit partly to draw attention to herself national public health policy issues surrounding Ebola that she says make no sense, her lawyer said.
"She became a public voice for public health issues" when she was quarantined, Siegel said. "She continues to be that voice."
She is not a voice for public health, she's just another social justice wanker.
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And what would the MSM be saying about Christie if he'd caved and a few (or a few thousand) people ended up dead?
The nurse suffered a temporary inconvenience. Boo frickin' Hoo.
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I suspect the real problem is that Ebola hasn't reached 'civil rights' status like HIV.
Yes, we know isolating carriers reduces infections (TB et al from my generation), but somehow HIV got a pass. Hundreds of thousands died because historical protocols weren't followed. So today we get the argument -
"This case is about liberty and freedom," said Norman Siegel, Hickox's attorney. "It's also about accountability, holding even governors accountable for their violations of citizens' constitutional rights."
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If she succeeds in her lawsuit I can see a rush of people claiming they were in Ebola land and then griping about being quarantined when their claims are believed. Precedent & lots of unemployed lawyers...
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Back when Ebola Kaci was enjoying her 15 minutes of fame and quarantine, trained medical personal were coming down with Ebola - people who knew and were following the anti-infection protocols. My suspicion is Ebola Kaci is either a self-absorbed grandstanding idiot, or she was filling some sort of admin role and not in close contact with patients. Or both.
At the time, people were waving around numbers about fever and incubation periods like they were magic amulets. This is biology, people. Not manufacturing. Hell, even in manufacturing, "identical" parts will vary within certain tolerances. An African doctor who kept careful records found that about 12% of his patients who died showed NO signs of fever at all. A very interesting bit of data.
Recently, we've seen reports of the Ebola virus lingering in the body months after the patient had recovered. Like the guy in Jurassic Park said, "Life will find a way".
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She should have been shot the moment she broke quarantine.
And unless she gets an idiot judge, she'll find that case law on quarantine is well-established.
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This article says Ebola Kaci is suing Christie and other state officials as individuals in order to get around any immunity issues. Voice for public health, me arse. Sounds like Ebola Kaci is just a grandstanding idiot looking for a payday.
[Reflexive control] relies, above all, on Russia's ability to take advantage of pre-existing dispositions among its enemies to choose its preferred courses of action. The primary objective of the reflexive control techniques Moscow has employed in the Ukraine situation has been to persuade the West to do something its leaders mostly wanted to do in the first place, namely, remain on the sidelines as Russia dismantled Ukraine. These techniques would not have succeeded in the face of Western leaders determined to stop Russian aggression and punish or reverse Russian violations of international law. That is, they rely on Obama being a pussy.
The key elements of Russia's reflexive control techniques in Ukraine have been:
Denial and deception operations to conceal or obfuscate the presence of Russian forces in Ukraine, including sending in "little green men" in uniforms without insignia;
Concealing Moscow's goals and objectives in the conflict, which sows fear in some and allows others to persuade themselves that the Kremlin's aims are limited and ultimately acceptable;
Retaining superficially plausible legality for Russia's actions by denying Moscow's involvement in the conflict, requiring the international community to recognize Russia as an interested power rather than a party to the conflict, and pointing to supposedly-equivalent Western actions such as the unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo in the 1990s and the invasion of Iraq in 2003;
Simultaneously threatening the West with military power in the form of overflights of NATO and non-NATO countries' airspace, threats of using Russia's nuclear weapons, and exaggerated claims of Russia's military prowess and success;
The deployment of a vast and complex global effort to shape the narrative about the Ukraine conflict through formal and social media.
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Again, as an Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama is doing things INTENTIONALLY, as Russia + China + Iran, Etal. are desired to be the Principal or Leading Powers in their various Regional + Continental OWG "Unions".
PUT ANOTHER WAY, RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, ETAL. CAN'T BE "US-STYLE, US-PAR CO-SUPERPOWER TO THE US IFF THE US PER SE IS STILL A "SOLE" SUPERPOWER, NOW CAN THEY???
And thus, Little Virginia, we have the Pert, MSM-verified, so-called "Weak/Declining USA".
THE PROB FOR THE GLOBIES IS ROUGHLY HOW CAN THE TIP-OF-THE-OWG-NWO-SPEAR, SAIDSAME
"WEAK/DECLINING USA" SET UP ANTI-US OWG-NWO INCLUD US-GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED BY IT + GLOBALISTS' OWN CREATIONS + VARIOUS ASSORTED "GREAT POWER" WANNABES, EITHER NATION-STATES ANDOR NGOS E.G. ISIS/ISIL + AL-QAEDA BOYZ, ALA THE NEVER-ENDING "GREAT GAME".
As for MAMA RUSSIA ...
* ASSOCIATED PRESS > RUSSIA TO PUT ITS MILITARY OPREATIONS, GLOBAL POWER ON DISPLAY IN SYRIA [ + ME].
YEEEUUUP, + THE BAMMER + GLOBIES WILL ABSOLUTELY POSTIVELT CATEGORICALLY UNDENIABLY ...@ETC. OPPOSE HIM - YOU KNOW, SSSSHHHH ... CCCCCC LET PUTIN DO IT [+ ditto China + Iran, Other].
Again, DITO AS PER RISING CHINA + RISING IRAN, OTHER?.
VERSUS
* TOPIX > [Christian Science Monitor] IFF KREMLIN DOESN'T FIGHT ISLAMISTS OVER IN SYRIA, WILL IT HAVE TO IN RUSSIA?
Oh, I dunno, lets ask Nation Of Islam El Supremo LOUIS FARRAKHAN about US Muslims' support for Amerikan-Muslim led Jihad in Amerika, shall we???
* FREEREPUBLIC > PRESIDENT OBAMA DEFENDS HAWAIIAN SEPARATISM IN FEDERAL COURT.
D *** NGED LUCKY HAWAIIANS - OUT HERE IN WESTPAC OBAMA COULD JUST HAND GUAM OVER TO CHINA TO AVOID NUCWAR AGZ CHINA OVER THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, EAST CHINA SEA [Japan], + TAIWAN.
Hawaii gets all the "Safe" Legalism = Paperwork while GUAM-WESTPAC gets militarily invaded andor Nuked.
Meanwhile, over in CHINA-DESIRED/THREATENED, CHINA-SAYS-PAY-YOUR-ISLAND'S-DEBTS PUERTO RICO ..
* REUTERS > PUERTO RICO FACES HUMANITARIAN CRISIS WIDOUT FEDERAL ACTION: TREASURY.
US TreSec Antonio Weiss.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Asia Times] SOUTH CHINA SEA SHOWDOWN: ANXIOUS HOURS [+ Week] IN PIVOTLAND.
ARTIC = POTUS Obama moving very laggardly = slowly in sending a USN Warship(s) to near the 12-mile limit of China-claimed disputed islands in the SCS.
* TOPIX > [North Virginia Daily] PETER BROOKES: TEAM OBAMA IN A [Self-inflicted?, Very] TOUGH SPOT, vee China IN SCS + Elsewhere.
Once again, whether GUAM + KEY PACIFIC ISLANDS = USN BB USS "OKLAHOMA" stays stalwartly upright or "capsizes" depends how the USoAmerika handles its most dangerous OWG Co-Superpower "Sibling" = Rival in East Asia-Pacific, AS ALSO PER US-LED GLOBAL GOVERNANCE + US-SPECIFIC EXISTENTIAL SECURITY.
OWG GLOBALIST AMERIKA IS MORE A DANGER TO ITSELF THAN FROM ANY TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROID.
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OOOPPPS, forgot WORLD MILITARY FORUM > US MEDIAS: US REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS CRITICIZE OBAMA FOR NOT SERIOUSLY CHALLENGING CHINA'S ACTIONS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS, i.e. since POTUS Obama was re-elected back in 2012, thus allowing matters between China + US regional Allies to come to a head = possible US-China military showdown + military conflcit.
FEAR NOTTETH WAR, AMERIKA, THIS IS MIGHTY "RED LINE" DEFENDER POTUS OBAMA WE'RE TALKING ABOUT!
See the video at the link
[rebel.media] The organizers behind the "Vote Together" campaign that brought the split left vote together in conservative swing ridings was partially funded by foreign cash.
I know that because I follow Vivian Krause@FairQuestions on Twitter. She does the often complex work of tracking foreign money that funds many anti-oil and gas campaigns in Canada.
Under section 358 of the Canada Elections Act, it's illegal for third parties to use foreign cash to campaign.
Through Vivian's efforts, I now know that the U.S. based Tides Foundation funded Leadnow.ca -- and Leadnow.ca coordinated strategic voting efforts across the country through their more visible "Vote Together" campaign.
Did the foreign funded "Vote Together" initiative push Justin Trudeau to a majority government?
Was this costly, well organized effort only about getting rid of Stephen Harper -- or is there another motivation that is as well hidden as the foreign funders?
In less than 10 sec., every point on the face of the Earth is imaged by the U.S. Air Force's newest infrared (IR) missile warning satellite system. The message from the operators of the new Space-Based Infrared System (Sbirs) at the 460th Space Wing at Buckley AFB, Colorado, is that missile or space launches cannot happen anywhere on Earth‐or over it‐without their knowing. With Sbirs, they can detect a launch faster than ever, more accurately identify the missile type. Russia wants to fire a cruise missile? We have the launch location and time.
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Sounds like the first step in Ronnie's old Star wars missile defense. With the flying lasers, we almost have the whole thing.
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Compare wid DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Popular Mechanics = Repost/Old] CHINA'S NEW AIRSHIP HUNTS FOR [US?] AIRCRAFT CARRIERS FROM THE EDGE OF SPACE.
ABM-BMD to Anti-Naval.
I say again the US should convert Guam-CNMI-Bonins [Palau?] into a staging area for ABM-BMD Airships, preferably before the Bammer + Anti-US Globalists hand us + 1/2 of the Pacific over to China or Nuclear Islam, espec China.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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NEW YORK -- A nurse who was quarantined against her will inside a plastic tent in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa filed a civil rights lawsuit against Governor Chris Christie on Thursday, her lawyer said.
[Reflexive control] relies, above all, on Russia's ability to take advantage of pre-existing dispositions among its enemies to choose its preferred courses of action. The primary objective of the reflexive control techniques Moscow has employed in the Ukraine situation has been to persuade the West to do something its leaders mostly wanted to do in the first place, namely, remain on the sidelines as Russia dismantled Ukraine. These techniques would not have succeeded in the face of Western leaders determined to stop Russian aggression and punish or reverse Russian violations of international law. 
In less than 10 sec., every point on the face of the Earth is imaged by the U.S. Air Force's newest infrared (IR) missile warning satellite system. The message from the operators of the new Space-Based Infrared System (Sbirs) at the 460th Space Wing at Buckley AFB, Colorado, is that missile or space launches cannot happen anywhere on Earth‐or over it‐without their knowing. With Sbirs, they can detect a launch faster than ever, more accurately identify the missile type.
