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The TSA Violates our Health and 4th Amendment Rights for THIS???
http://gizmodo.com/5712481/fool-the-tsas-scanners-with-pancakesThese dangerous backscatter machines apparently don't even work.
Pain be Damned
For those who didn't know, I suffer from Gout, a terribly painful attack where crystals form as needles in your joints. For most people Gout forms usually in the big toe and, while intensely painful is generally a localized problem. Gout for me is a much more widespread issue. It affects my entire foot, ankles, knees and sometimes occurs in both feet at the same time. When an attack is left untreated, the pain can persist for several weeks and during that time, I am unable to walk for a good portion of that time. There are only a few medicines that can actually treat a Gout attack, and specifically for me, there is only one combination of two medicines (Colchicine and Indomethacin) that reliably works. And guess what... The US government is taking away my pain relief and damning me to be bed ridden for weeks at a time.Even though there have been generic forms Colchicine on the market for decades, the FDA has ordered a halt to all companies selling generics in order to give the exclusive right to sell to a single company (URL Pharma). That company, once granted the exclusivity, raised the price of a bottle from $9 to $485. As such, my insurance company now refuses to pay for the medicine. Do you wonder, much as I did, how the FDA gets away with granting exclusivity over a drug to a company, even one who did not discover the medicine? Apparently a Bush era law permits the FDA to sell exclusive rights for a drug to the highest bidder in order to pay for further testing on that drug. I hope I never have another Gout attack... or better yet, I hope the generics are still available in Belize!-- A special thanks goes out to G.W. and his buddies at URL Pharma.Concealing Tyranny
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/10/battle-between-cops-cameras_n_795295.html
We live in a police state
http://gothamist.com/2010/12/08/this_is_what_you_get_for_picking_up.phpModel for standing up to the TSA
http://noblasters.com/post/1650102322/my-tsa-encounterSomething shady in New Mexico
As many of you know we are in the midst of a two month road trip to visit family for the holidays with our first stop being Michigan. Just now as we were driving through New Mexico we experienced the New Mexico State Police up to something shady.
The police have set up a checkpoint on I40 Eastbound just east of Albequerque. They are stopping every single vehicle for what they are calling a "license and registration check". When it was our turn, they didn't check any documents but rather asked where we were going and looked in our windows.
After we were permitted to go, we noticed an area to the right of the road where several cars and trucks were stopped and several cops were inspecting them underneath, under the hood, inside and even in the seats... yes they had torn open one of the seats.
I don't know what they were looking for but I can only guess that they were using a bogus "license and registration check" to get probable cause for some other purpose.
Yet another example of Gulag style tactics to end around the 4th Amendment and our rights protected by the constitution.
Absolutely disgusting.
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