Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Why do you think you as an American citizen will lose those rights?

Since it's happening to other American citizens, it could happen to anyone. When a few individuals can decide to incarcerate someone based on limited information and evidence and no accountability, anyone could have this happen to them based on the agenda of a few. You can't arbitrarily take away some people's rights and not jeapardize everyone's rights.

If someone is truly suspected of being a terrorists and has broken a law and evidence has been found to that effect, why not try and convict them? If they don't have conclusive evidence, then what happened to being presumed innocent?

What do you think should happen if Washingotn was blown up in a terrorist attack?

How do you decide what to do?

I'm sure there are provisions for that and that surviving congress members and/or governors would pull together. What does that have to do with my civil rights being violated?

Does public health outweigh individual liberties?

In my view, laws are designed to protect the public as a whole. Individual rights are also to be protected. Sometimes the two are in conflict with each other. In the extreme case of something like ebola, I can understand the need for a quarantine... but not for AIDS or just because you are at a SARS epicenter, unless it's likely you've been specifically exposed.

I would expect also that in these cases medical treatment would be given and diagnosis made. So the corrollary is that in the case of suspected terrorists, legal advice should be available and they should be tried in court.

The corrollary to what is happening is that someone was suspected of being exposed to SARS would be indefinitely quaranteened without medical treatment or diagnosis.