I just read this piece from American Thinker about New York greenlighting quarantine camps, and I'm absolutely livid:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/new_york_greenlights_quarantine_camps.html
Are you kidding me? After everything we've been through, the highest court in New York—the Court of Appeals—has basically said, "Yeah, sure, go ahead and lock people up whenever you feel like it." This is a slap in the face to every single person who values freedom, due process, or just basic human decency.
The author, Bobbie Anne Flower Cox, has been fighting this for three years—three years to stop Governor Hochul and her Department of Health from turning New York into some dystopian hellscape where unelected bureaucrats can rip you out of your home, no questions asked, and throw you into a quarantine camp. No proof you're sick, no notice, no lawyer until after they've already locked you up. They could've taken your kids, your grandparents, anyone, and for how long? Days? Months? Forever? It's insane! And the courts just shrugged and said, "Eh, sounds fine to us."
This all started back in 2020 when Cuomo got handed illegal powers to play dictator, and then he passed that baton to the Department of Health like it's some kind of twisted relay race. They cooked up this "Quarantine Camp" regulation—something that wasn't even a law, just a rule scribbled by faceless suits who don't answer to anyone. It spits in the face of a real quarantine law from 1953 that actually had protections built in. Separation of Powers? Out the window. Due process? Who needs it? Guilty until proven innocent—that's the New York way now, apparently.
Cox sued, and she won at first—thank God—because the trial court saw this for the unconstitutional garbage it was. The judge even pointed out how involuntary detention is a "severe deprivation of liberty," way worse than mask mandates or any of that nonsense. But then Hochul and Letitia James appealed it! They wanted this power to lock people up! What kind of power-hungry monsters are running this state? Hundreds of people showed up to the appellate court to fight this, and what did the judges do? They flipped the ruling and dismissed the case on some flimsy "standing" excuse. The plaintiffs werelegislators, and they still got told they can't challenge this? It's a joke!
Then the Court of Appeals doubled down, refusing to hear the appeal because—get this—it supposedly doesn't involve constitutional issues. Are they blind? This is about the government shredding the Constitution, overriding laws, and treating citizens like prisoners in their own state! And now, because of this gutless decision, the Department of Health can just bring back this nightmare regulation whenever they want. They've got the green light to unleash tyranny, and there's nothing stopping them. Except, we, the people.
I'm furious. This isn't just a legal loss, it's a betrayal of everything we're supposed to stand for. Hochul's sitting there with a 30 percent approval rating, and yet she's still got the courts backing her play to turn New York into a police state. We're not safe here anymore, not when they can knock on your door at dinner and drag you away without a shred of evidence. This is outrageous, and every New Yorker should be screaming about it. But most are blissfully unaware and comfortably numb.
This is not just about New Yorkers, but the same measures could be taken in Australian totalitarian states like Victoria as well, so Aussies beware!
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/new_york_greenlights_quarantine_camps.html
"Though somewhat hard to imagine in 2025 with COVID-mania in our rear-view mirrors, the truth of the matter is that the highest court in New York, the Court of Appeals, has unbelievably opened the door for quarantine camps to become a reality. I have fought the governor in court for the past three years to prevent quarantine camps from taking hold, and I was successful to some extent (the Department of Health cannot currently throw you into a quarantine facility), but ultimately the State has been given the green light by our courts. An unimaginable travesty of justice!
When COVID-19 hit back in March of 2020, the NYS Legislature (illegally, I might add) gave then-governor Andrew Cuomo the power to make "directives" (read "laws"). Continuing with the illegal trend, Cuomo then passed that power on to the Department of Health (DoH). The DoH then created the "Isolation and Quarantine Procedures" regulation, which the public rightly dubbed the "Quarantine Camp" reg. The regulation was not a law, as it did not come from the NYS Legislature. Instead, it was a reg written by unelected bureaucrats who answer to nobody but the bureaucrat or politician who hired them. The reg actually conflicted with our long-standing (full-of-due-process-protections) quarantine law that was passed by the Legislature in 1953. Regs cannot conflict with laws! That is a violent breach of Separation of Powers, which is the cornerstone of our free society.
Details on the atrocities of this reg can be found in a previous article. But in sum, the Quarantine Camp regulation gave the unelecteds in the DoH the power to pick and choose which New Yorkers they could lock up or lock down, indefinitely, and at any location of their choosing -- you had no say. They could have locked you down in your home, or they could have removed you from your home, with the force of police, and stuck you in a quarantine facility for days, weeks, months, etc. No notice was required, so they could have knocked on your door during family dinner and removed you from your home without any warning whatsoever. You did not have the right to an attorney until after you were locked up or locked down. There was no age restriction, so they could have done this to you, or your child, or grandchild, or elderly parent… And the most shocking part of this reg was that they did not even have to prove you were sick! Guilty until proven innocent -- the very antithesis of the principle upon which our nation's judicial system is based.
So, when I became aware of this dystopian nightmare of a reg a few years ago, after realizing that none of the so-called traditional "civil rights" organizations would touch it, I sued Governor Kathy Hochul and her DoH on behalf of a group of NYS Legislators and a citizens' group, Uniting NYS.
After months of battling it out in the trial court, on July 8, 2022, the court ruled that the "Isolation and Quarantine Procedures" regulation was unconstitutional and "violative of New York State law as promulgated and enacted, and therefore null, void and unenforceable as a matter of law." The judge also made note that, "[i]nvoluntary detention is a severe deprivation of individual liberty, far more egregious than other health safety measures, such as requiring mask wearing at certain venues. Involuntary quarantine may have far-reaching consequences such as loss of income (or employment) and isolation from family."
Stunningly, Governor Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James appealed the decision. Yes, that's right… the governor and AG, both unabashedly support insanely unconstitutional quarantine camps!
On September 13, 2023, over 400 showed up at the appellate courthouse to witness the battle first hand. It was indeed historic -- never do people take a day off of work, flock by the hundreds, and cram into a courthouse to hear a couple of lawyers go at it in a courtroom devoid of witnesses, TV cameras, and all of the other pomp and circumstance that, for example, a high-profile criminal trial might have. It was a true testament to freedom-loving citizens of a state that is wrought with corruption and greedy politicians on both sides of the aisle.
In November 2023, the panel of five appointed judges disgracefully reversed my trial court victory, and then dismissed the case! They dismissed, not because we were wrong in our arguments… No, instead the court copped out and used an age-old dodge, ruling that my plaintiffs lack standing! With the majority of my plaintiffs being NYS legislators, it was absurd for the court to claim these lawmakers had no standing to fight against a regulation that usurped their lawmaking power.
The decision not only lacked logic, it lacked integrity, and it flew in the face of longstanding, binding case law from our highest court.
Not wanting to back down, in January 2024, I filed my appeal with the Court of Appeals which is our highest State court. In May, that Court denied my appeal, saying there was no automatic right to be heard because the case, get this, had no constitutional issues. Unbelievable! A lawsuit about a regulation that breaches Separation of Powers and violates our Constitution doesn't have a constitutional issue in question? Another terrible decision.
My last hope was to file another motion with the Court, this time asking them to hear the case on their own volition, you know, because it's good for humanity and the integrity of this Court not to allow an agency to override our laws and throw people into camps without due process, etc. Sounds rather noble, doesn't it? Well, not to an unnoble court, for a few weeks ago they issued their decision… The Court refused to hear the appeal. Period. Case closed.
Unreal.
And so, my three-year-long battle against the elitist Governor of New York (whose approval rating now hovers around 30%) and her lawless Department of Health, is over. The silver lining is that my victory of eliminating their heinous "Isolation and Quarantine Procedures" reg back in 2022 still stands today, despite the appellate court's ruling. Here's why: The reg was an "emergency" reg that the DoH was working to make permanent. Since I successfully got it struck down before they could make it a permanent reg, the regulation does not exist today. Amen.
However, thanks to the Court of Appeals allowing the appellate court's decision to stand, the DoH is now free to reissue their dystopian reg. "Fire at will," is what these courts have metaphorically told the Administrative State. There is nothing stopping the tyranny of the Executive Branch and its unconstitutional DoH now. "
It is the next level of lawfare against we, the people.