Third World Northern Neighbor?

In yet another shameless effort to give taxpayer money to Big Medicine , the FDA has announced that drugs imported from Canada may be targeted by terrorists. As usual, they don't have any specific evidence or information-just another 'bad vibe'. Why did they announce this today?
Maybe because the state of Vermont is suing the FDA for the right to import affordable drugs from Canada? Nah. The good people at BushCo would't use terror alerts as part of a political smoke-screen, would they? You bet your ass they would.
First, they attempted to convince us that imported and re-imported medicine from Canada would be unsafe, adulterated or just plain counterfiet. Say what? They paint a picture of devilish Canadians hastily converting trailer-park meth-labs into clandestine factories for producing cyanide-laced Viagra and Prozac capsules full of laundry detergent.
That arguement doesn't hold up. If the Canadian pharmaceutical industry was really churning out these toxic tablets, the Canooks would be coming to America to buy prescriptions, not the other way around. In case you are unfamiliar with Canada, it's a fully modern, industrialized nation with a carefully regulated pharmaceutical industry. Think of it as America without the Dalkon shield. Oh, yeah, there's also the fact that many of these pills are made in the U.S. in the first place. That's why it's called 're-importing'. This spurious leap of logic has been thoroughly discredited.

So BushCo does what they always do when required to defend the indefensible or obfuscate the obvious: they invoke terrorism. Without a shred of evidence or documentation they've determined that Al-Queda plans on poisoning shipments of U.S.-bound Canadian drugs. Come again? Think about that a minute. Those people like to blow shit up. They like the big explosions. Tampering with pills is not their style-that's a homegrown wack-job endeavor. Remember the cyanide-laced Tylenol in Chicago? Why would Al-Queda go to Canada to poison pills? They are crazy, no doubt, but they aren't stupid. Why not just poison shit that's already in the U.S.?

Like food. How hard is it to slip ricin into a salad bar? Or get a job at McDonalds and poison a thousand Big Macs before getting caught. These fuckers blow themselves up without blinking-I think they could handle working at Burger King for long enough to make a lot of people very sick. There's about a zillion better ways to spread poison than messing with Canadian drug imports.

This latest 'threat' is just another steaming truck-load of fresh horseshit. The truth is, BushCo owes a lot of favors to the drug lobby and they damn sure plan on honoring those debts, even if it means 'Grandma Millie' might have to cut a few corners or shave a few years off her life.