the war on quickimart

Donovan Rebbechi said:

This reads like a Simpsons episode. Free Apu!

The war on things that potentially might become drugs ... ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/national/04meth.html

ROME, Ga., July 29 - When they charged 49 convenience store clerks and owners
in rural northwest Georgia with selling materials used to make
methamphetamine, federal prosecutors declared that they had conclusive
evidence ... Forty-four of the defendants are Indian immigrants - 32, mostly
unrelated, are named Patel - and many spoke little more than the kind of
transactional English mocked in sitcoms. ... One recording captures an
informant who walked into the Tobacco and Beverage Mart in Trenton, Ga., and
asked for Pseudo 60, a particularly potent brand of cold medicine, which
contains pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient of methamphetamine. The clerk,
Mangesh Patel, 55, said the store no longer carried it. "Police guy came here
said don't sell," Mr. Patel said. "Misuse. Public misuse."

The informant replied: "I know what they're doing with it, because that's what
I'm going to do with it."

"Yah," Mr. Patel replied, "public misuse."

When the informant found another bottle of pills that he said might work, Mr.
Patel told him he could sell only two, under orders from "the police guy." The
informant asked if his friend could come in and buy two more. "Yeah," Mr.
Patel replied, "But I cannot sell two to one guy."

Any great victory in The Government's WAR ON DRUGS.

Sigh...

David

Donovan Rebbechi said:

This reads like a Simpsons episode. Free Apu!

The war on things that potentially might become drugs ... ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/national/04meth.html

I am feeling safer by the minute. I'd feel safer still if 90% of the
federal government disbanded.