In their losing battle to stem the tide of cheap imported prescription drugs from Canada, the FDA played the Al Qaeda card this week. Claiming that the importation of prescription drugs could be used by terrorists to poison Americans, FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford is using fear to protect the lucrative domestic markets of wealthy Republican donors in the pharmaceutical industry.
Look for more of these chicken little tactics to instill fear of terrorists whenever one of the Administration’s talking points looks like it is going to be defeated. When a position cannot be supported by logic or common sense, Republicans can always be depended on to trot out the Al Qaeda boogeyman to scare the populace back into the barn and away from the sweet grass of freedom.
I can count on this administration, every single day, sometimes several times a day, to do something scummy and outrageous. I can also count on the media giving them a nudge-wink pass, and rightists rationalizing the latest outrage.
LMAO. the FDA lost tons of credibility and showed itself to be a shill to the pharma industry when this drug importation issue started.
FDA: “The drugs may not be safe”
Reporter: “What if the FDA just checks out a few pharmacies to make sure the drugs imported are safe”
FDA: “Some excuse I can’t remember. I think it was 'we would have to check too many”
Reporter: “No you wouldn’t, you just need to check a few”
I thought it was illegal aliens. Democrats need illegal alien votes to make up for all the aborted Democrat fetuses. (Vernon Robinson actually said that. Thank god he was defeated.)
I actually heard a Harvard medical researcher roundly debunk the FDA on this earlier in an interview on NPR. He basically said that the US allows the drug companies to get away with murder in terms of drug prices, that we’re the last industrialized country to do so, and that we pay 40-100% more for the same drugs made in the same plants by the same companies as Canada, France, etc. do.
Essentially, we’re getting repeatedly bent over the community barrel.
The pharmacuetical industry has a long standing tradition of support for American principles and the essential Christian values of entrepreneurship and fiscal prudence. As concerned corporate citizens, their support naturally gravitates to the candidate Al Queda most fears, for his candor, leadership, and love of freedom (Praise the Leader!)
Attacking the imported drug supply would enhance the position of the pharm industry, thus channeling more funds to Al Queda’s most feared enemy.
I have heard rumors to the effect that they were planning a subversive assault on our nation’s youth, seeking to sap thier moral vigor by flooding our streets with primo Afghani hashish, thus corrupting America down to the level of the depraved Dutch.
Be assured, fellow Dopers, that I remain vigilantly alert for any such developments.
All I’m saying is that democrats can be greedy fucks in business too. They, too, may benefit spreading money around to elected officials who could aid them.
I was always glad that i didn’t have to grow up during the feverish early days of the Cold War, when people were kept in fear by misleading and excessive government warnings, and when everyone who didn’t toe the line was automatically some sort of “commie” or “revolutionary.”
Don’t forget that “radio chatter” suggests that al’Qaeda is sneaking anthrax into the country on the backs of same-sex marriage licenses issued in Massachusettes.
