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By Oliver Willis -April 21, 2020 2:26 PM
As Donald Trump pushes for an end to stay-at-home orders, his attorney general says such safety measures are 'disturbingly close to house arrest.'
From the April 21 edition of "The Hugh Hewitt Show":
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR: I think, you know, one of the key things that I think is being missed in this whole debate that's going on now is that we adopted these very strong measures these are unprecedented burdens on civil liberties right now.
And the idea that you have to stay in your house is disturbingly close to house arrest. I'm not saying it wasn't justified, I'm not saying in some places it might be still justified, but it's very onerous, as is shutting down your livelihood.
So, these are very, very burdensome infringements on civil liberties and we adopted them you have to remember for the limited purpose of slowing down the spread, that is bending the curve. We didn't adopt them as a comprehensive way of dealing with this disease. And we are now seeing that these are bending the curve, and now we have to come up with more targeted approaches.
To me this is a little bit like fighting a cancer, which is sometimes cancer is spreading and one of the treatments you can use is chemotherapy to drive it back and localize it and make it more susceptible to surgery or a more targeted thing like radiation or even immunotherapy, but your first thing is to drive it back to a more manageable state.
And that's what we're doing and have done and the question is: You can't just keep on feeding the patient chemotherapy and say, "Well, we're killing the cancer." Because we're getting to the point where we're killing the patient. And now is the time that we have to start looking ahead and checking for a more targeted therapy.
https://americanindependent.com/william-barr-corronavirus-cancer-house-arrest-civil-liberties-attorney-general-covid-19/
Now he's playing doctor to justify his bs............house arrest.............
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)But then he wants us to die of coronavirus ... sicker than the Big Con..
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)From a true master of idiotic utterances.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"You don't know what you're talking about."
Hekate
(90,788 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)on my most evil list. The man behind the curtain.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)Yeah. Wow.
spooky3
(34,472 posts)gordianot
(15,243 posts)It is good to know that he is still in the shit show game.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)MadLinguist
(790 posts)for testing corona virus spread. So your stupid analogy fails *Doctor Barr.
How are all these fuqquers suddenly imagining they are some kind of epidemiologists?
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Having Barr poking out of General Trump's tremendous, tangerine jowls is more like cancer of the country and it is metastasizing rapidly, by the likes of that ridiculous statement.
However, one notices this strong psychological need for these GOP and Trump acolytes to project what they are outwards in some way as if revealing the shadow. It is also a useful strategy of course. Just blame the "other side" or accuse them of what you are doing and repeat it over and over to the point that they are defending themselves rather than calling you out. It still works, darn it.
So, if you have a bad case of Barr's Dojanoma, do you use radiation or chemo? I think maybe euthanasia therapy might be implicated here. This one is at the critical corruption stage in defense of a huge, orange tumor.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)ZZenith
(4,126 posts)That statement makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, coming from a creature like William Pelham Barr.
struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)and his current boss is the best argument against taking him seriously that can be made to date
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I really do. I really hate him.
ooky
(8,928 posts)I hate that traitor's guts.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Since the goal is to get Liberals to spend an hour refuting a like it took him 10 seconds commit, he's really quite good at it.
As is McConnell.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,190 posts)Guess Dr. Barr doesn't understand how nasty chemotherapy is.