Dannel Malloy, the governor of Connecticut, signed an order declaring a public health emergency. The order allows the state health commissioner to require quarantines and isolation for individuals who are infected with Ebola or who are believed to have been exposed to the virus, in an effort to fight the disease even though there are no suspected cases in the state.
“We are taking this action today to ensure that we are prepared, in advance, to deal with any identified cases in which someone has been exposed to the virus or, worst case, infected,” Malloy said “[I]t is essential to be prepared and we need to have the authorities in place that will allow us to move quickly to protect public health, if and when that becomes necessary.”
Most U.S. states and the federal government have laws on the books giving them the authority to detain and quarantine individuals with a communicable disease.
In essence, the Connecticut order amounts to medical marshal law. If there are any signs of respiratory illness or other related symptoms of disease in an individual or group of individuals, they can be forcefully isolated without appeal or due process.
While hardly anyone would disagree with this process to protect against the spread of the deadly disease, the prophetic point is that fear drives the abrogation of liberty and constitutional rights, even in advance of the feared event. While being proactive is politically correct, it is a method that will increasingly be used in other arenas in which constitutional freedoms are suspended.
Jesus said that worry about the future, or fear of things that appear to be coming would cause men’s hearts to fail them. This strongly suggests that leaders of government would take pre-emptive action in anticipation of real or imagined emergencies. Such emergencies usually involved the suspension of rights, rightly or wrongly.
“Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things, which are coming on the earth…” Luke 21:26.
Comments
Bridget Jones
Wednesday October 22nd, 2014 at 08:13 AMAsking God to reveal the hidden agenda of God’s opponent ( Satan) , I was led to Dr. Tenpenny and her in-depth research on vaccinations. She talked about what they use in them and if in-fact they can even help. She talked about the hype of the pandemics, and the farce of the polio pandemic. She talked about the future intent of the Health Care Organization, and their intent in forcing the vaccinations in the near future. Our rights are slowly being repudiated as prophesied, so thank you for this article and your ministry to look behind the scenes…we love you, and God Bless.
Andi Qui
Friday October 31st, 2014 at 05:06 PMHow about Nurse Tracey Hiccock who the Governor of RI has been trying to quarantine, though she’s been Asymptomatic of Ebola? Another example of governmen . Violating people’s rights.
Ron Meinhardt
Sunday November 2nd, 2014 at 02:32 AMQuarantine is actually a viable way to slow the spread of disease: consider the biblical applications of this concept… In Leviticus many diseases were kept at bay through mandatory quarantine (such as leprosy). Therefore, it is not inherently evil in and of itself – although it could indeed be used as an “excuse” to further restrict other freedoms (religious, speech, ect.).