Absolutely Ridiculous
Ok, I'm officially damn sick and tired of the ACLU
From the Associated Press:
ACLU says Maricopa County violated TB patient’s rights
05.31.2007
PHOENIX - The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit claiming Maricopa County officials have violated the rights of a quarantined tuberculosis patient for months by treating him like a criminal.
The U.S. District Court complaint filed Wednesday on behalf of Robert Daniels alleges that health officials and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office have violated numerous constitutional rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The suit seeks what it calls appropriate accommodations for Daniels, rather than severe and “inhumane” jail conditions…Daniels, 27, is under a court order and has been isolated in a jail ward at Maricopa Medical Center for 10 months.
Daniels moved to Arizona in January 2006 after contracting extreme multi-drug-resistant TB. Daniels, who spent his teen years in Scottsdale, said he returned to the U.S. from Russia in search of work and a college education.
Months later, after he became severely ill, Daniels was placed in a county sanitarium for indigent TB patients.
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Ok so now the ACLU says we have to treat people that have made bad life choices, are indigent, with dangerous communicable diseases with high quality housing at the expense of the state or local government.
What a load of excrement.
Comments
The patient is an attorney, which probably why a suit was filed.
Posted by: Jim | May 31, 2007 09:09 PM
Hmmmm, so the "numerous constitutional rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act" must include some clause that protects the right of a passenger who has a contagious, virulent, life threatening disease to infect airline (or other public transportation ) passengers?
Hey, if this suit is successful it may pave the way for terrorists to spread diseases. I can see it now, legions of Islamo-fascist "Suicide Diseasers" being defended by the ACLU.
One has to wonder why the despicable Robert Daniels has not been charged with reckless endangerment if not attempted murder.
Posted by: David Walton | June 1, 2007 07:27 PM
At least he's getting so-called free medical treatment in comfortable place. Some lesser nations might just have him disappear one day never to be seen again or perhaps might be sent to solitary jail cell from which he would not emerge until he miraculously cured himself or died.
Speaking of a jail cell, now that is something I wouldn't mind seeing the ACLU collectively occupy until they get their priorities straight.
Posted by: Jack | June 2, 2007 03:41 PM