There's multiple things going on, beyond the medical privacy thing. If someone comes in and 4 years from now drives in to a grocery store, then it turns out they had 'mental illness' from 10 years ago, heads will roll. Beyond privacy, this seems very much like an overzealous "no tolerance" reading of "mentally ill people can't come in the country" (because, of course we don't have any here already, right?).
But... come on. She is a paraplegic - this is not someone who is a threat to the safety of others. Or... to the extent she's a threat, she's s a threat whether she's on US soil or not (ability to organize violent/terrorism from abroad via the internet).
The fluff takes your mind off the twisting of laws and violations of human rights...
If it's not the fluff that does the distracting, it's the threat of some looming enemy like Al Quaeda or Iran or Syria...
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There's multiple things going on, beyond the medical privacy thing. If someone comes in and 4 years from now drives in to a grocery store, then it turns out they had 'mental illness' from 10 years ago, heads will roll. Beyond privacy, this seems very much like an overzealous "no tolerance" reading of "mentally ill people can't come in the country" (because, of course we don't have any here already, right?).
But... come on. She is a paraplegic - this is not someone who is a threat to the safety of others. Or... to the extent she's a threat, she's s a threat whether she's on US soil or not (ability to organize violent/terrorism from abroad via the internet).
What heads roll? At most someone at the top will "take responsibility" and ride out the controversy until the public is distracted by the next
Oooh! The Kardashians did something again!
Exactly what seems to be happening.
The fluff takes your mind off the twisting of laws and violations of human rights... If it's not the fluff that does the distracting, it's the threat of some looming enemy like Al Quaeda or Iran or Syria...
I know. Realistically little would happen, but people would make a lot of noise for a while, thinking that something is happening.