Homeland Security seizing medications from elderly, says ex-Customs agent

[Dunvegan]

If something wicked this way comes, you can bet it comes from the Department of Homeland Security.

Homeland Security seizing medications from elderly, former Customs official reports
Are grandma and grandpa now the newest targets in an expanding war on drugs?

By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Wed Feb 1st, 2006 at 08:09:40 PM EST

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/2/1/20940/49383

An operation allegedly underway in Miami –- supposedly being spearheaded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) -- seems to indicate that elderly folks are indeed in the dragnet zone.

As part of that operation, CBP, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is seizing Canadian shipments of legally prescribed drugs that are being flown into the international mail facility at Miami International Airport, according to Mark Conrad, a retired U.S. Customs supervisory special agent.

Conrad, now an attorney, serves as the associate general counsel for the National Association of Federal Agents. He says the information about the seizure program was brought to his attention by a whistleblower, who does not want to go public out of fear of retaliation.

*snip*

The medications being seized, Conrad adds, are bound for delivery to elderly people who have ordered them from Canadian providers.

More here: http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/2/1/20940/49383

[Warpy]

1. Fatten Big Pill

That's the only thing this evil bunch cares about.

Let seniors and the uninsured die. Who cares? They should have gone without food and heat so they could pay their medication bills to the level needed to keep big pill CEOs living like sultans.

[truthisfreedom]

2. this will go over really well with the voters. nice plan, anti-terror

goofballs. gramma and gramps, who couldn't afford corporate-welfare pharmacy company's products here in the states now don't get their meds from Canada, so they suffer... it's a great image, huh? perfect. bush's America... where if you're not in hell already, you soon will be.

[nodehopper]

3. that would make a great bumper sticker!

Bush's America: where if you are not in hell already, you soon will be

[screembloodymurder]

4. Gotta protect big pharma.

Homeland Security is a joke and it's on us.

[Surya Gayatri]

5. Let's hope the AARP

jumps on this and uses it for another anti-BushCo broadside. These people's wickedness knows no bounds--confiscating life-saving drugs from the elderly! SG

edit typo

[brainy]

6. THE TERMINAL by Steven Spielberg

MUST SEE FILM - AHEAD OF ITS TIME
Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Like an airport running at peak efficiency, The Terminal glides on the consummate skills of its director and star. Having refined their collaborative chemistry on Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me if You Can, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks mesh like the precision gears of a Rolex, turning a delicate, not-very-plausible scenario into a lovely modern-age fable (partly based on fact) that's both technically impressive and subtly moving. It's Spielberg in Capra mode, spinning the featherweight tale of Victor Navorski (Hanks, giving a finely tuned performance), an Eastern European who arrives at New York's Kennedy Airport just as his (fictional) homeland has fallen to a coup, forcing him, with no valid citizenship, to take indefinite residence in the airport's expansive International Arrivals Terminal (an astonishing full-scale set that inspires Spielberg's most elegant visual strategies). Spielberg said he made this film in part to alleviate the anguish of wartime America, and his master's touch works wonders on the occasionally mushy material; even Stanley Tucci's officious terminal director and Catherine Zeta-Jones's mixed-up flight attendant come off (respectively) as forgivable and effortlessly charming. With this much talent involved, The Terminal transcends its minor shortcomings to achieve a rare degree of cinematic grace. --Jeff Shannon

hint: there is an unforgettable prescription drug confiscation scene

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Welcome to DU. I thought that movie was great. Thanks for mentioning it

[Inland]

7. Patting down the Depends looking for a stash. nt

[EFerrari]

9. There is nothing these people will not do.

:kick:

[LiberalEsto]

10. Off to Detention Camp, Grandma!

Buying arthritis pills from Canada?
Why, yer nothin' but a gawd-damned terrarist!