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Scared into submission
You've heard me railing against the government's increasingly "zero tolerance" stance against purchasing prescription drugs over the Canadian border, right? Why, in just the last few months, I reported on the busload of senior citizens detained by jack-booted FDA thugs simply for taking a city-sponsored road trip ? which they've done every month for the last year or more ? into Canada to stock up on prescription meds (many of which they no doubt don't need, but don't get me started on that).
Well, now the Fools on the Hill have figured out a new way to keep the drug profits close to home: Instead of Gestapo tactics like detaining border-crossing seniors at gunpoint, they've shifted gears into good old fashioned scare tactics ? using the terrorist threat as leverage.
According to a recent Associated Press report, the Food and Drug Administration is claiming that terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and others are planning to contaminate the drug supply with Allah-knows-what. But get this: They maintain that only those drugs brought in from Canada and other sources are potentially dangerous?
What a crock! The vast bulk of the prescription drugs sold in this country are produced in factories far from the Land of the Free. In fact, one leading drug company has something like 60 plants in various parts of the world, some of them no doubt not-so-friendly to the Stars and Stripes. If a drug is mass-produced and poisoned in, say, Bangladesh, how is buying it here in the U.S. any safer than buying the identical pills from a Canadian pharmacy?
In fact, if Al Qaeda were really targeting drugs meant for the U.S. market, then wouldn't it be SAFER BY FAR to buy them in another country?
According to the article, the FDA is sounding the alarm about airwave "chatter" that they're claiming indicates a plan to launch such an insidious attack. How they concluded this I don't know, since the last time I checked, the Food and Drug Administration wasn't equipped to be a counter-terrorism unit (who knows what those meddlesome morons are doing, though, right?). Plus, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security ? the folks that actually monitor the "chatter" ? stated that they have NO SPECIFIC INFORMATION about where, when, how, or even IF such an attack might occur.
Don't get me wrong ? a terrible scenario like this could happen, and quite easily.
But the FDA shouldn't be leveraging people's fear just to put a few more bucks in the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies. Shame on them! Next Dose: The FDA looks the other way?
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OUTRAGE!
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http://www.youreletters.com/t/54513/2981710/645689/0/
You've heard me railing against the government's increasingly "zero tolerance" stance against purchasing prescription drugs over the Canadian border, right? Why, in just the last few months, I reported on the busload of senior citizens detained by jack-booted FDA thugs simply for taking a city-sponsored road trip ? which they've done every month for the last year or more ? into Canada to stock up on prescription meds (many of which they no doubt don't need, but don't get me started on that).
Well, now the Fools on the Hill have figured out a new way to keep the drug profits close to home: Instead of Gestapo tactics like detaining border-crossing seniors at gunpoint, they've shifted gears into good old fashioned scare tactics ? using the terrorist threat as leverage.
According to a recent Associated Press report, the Food and Drug Administration is claiming that terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and others are planning to contaminate the drug supply with Allah-knows-what. But get this: They maintain that only those drugs brought in from Canada and other sources are potentially dangerous?
What a crock! The vast bulk of the prescription drugs sold in this country are produced in factories far from the Land of the Free. In fact, one leading drug company has something like 60 plants in various parts of the world, some of them no doubt not-so-friendly to the Stars and Stripes. If a drug is mass-produced and poisoned in, say, Bangladesh, how is buying it here in the U.S. any safer than buying the identical pills from a Canadian pharmacy?
In fact, if Al Qaeda were really targeting drugs meant for the U.S. market, then wouldn't it be SAFER BY FAR to buy them in another country?
According to the article, the FDA is sounding the alarm about airwave "chatter" that they're claiming indicates a plan to launch such an insidious attack. How they concluded this I don't know, since the last time I checked, the Food and Drug Administration wasn't equipped to be a counter-terrorism unit (who knows what those meddlesome morons are doing, though, right?). Plus, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security ? the folks that actually monitor the "chatter" ? stated that they have NO SPECIFIC INFORMATION about where, when, how, or even IF such an attack might occur.
Don't get me wrong ? a terrible scenario like this could happen, and quite easily.
But the FDA shouldn't be leveraging people's fear just to put a few more bucks in the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies. Shame on them! Next Dose: The FDA looks the other way?
**************************************************************
OUTRAGE!
Billion-dollar drug company hides astounding discovery of a natural cancer killer that's 10,000 times stronger than chemo - but without the side effects! Deep within the Amazon grows a tree that could literally revolutionize what you, your doctor, and the rest of the world thinks about cancer treatment and chances of survival. The future has never looked more promising...just visit below to read more:
http://www.youreletters.com/t/54513/2981710/645689/0/
