America's most anti-freedom law?

Another blogger said of this law, "What idiot thought this one up?"

Fourth of July is the best time to patriotically appreciate the unspoiled land that sprawls out before you. And it always makes me think how to best ensure that America's bumpy glide down the slippery slope of fascism is halted. In doing so, it behooves us to identify the issues so we can figure out how to reverse them.

Of any major law in America or any U.S. state, I'd nominate Oregon's version of the right-wing Patriot Act as the biggest threat to the country's freedom. Oh, it's related to the federal Idiot Act all right, because part of the reauthorized version of the Patriot Act is modeled on laws like this.

Oregon goes a step further though. In 2005 the state's right-wing new law began requiring a prescription for cold and allergy medicine that contains pseudoephedrine. Why is this such a bad law? Because these aren't prescription drugs! These are over-the-counter products. Some right-wing lawmakers in Oregon aren't the ones who get to decide that an over-the-counter drug that you need requires a prescription.

The excuse for the law is that it supposedly stops meth cooks from getting an essential ingredient. But I guarantee you they'll get it elsewhere - and they have. They can easily feign allergies just to get a prescription, so the only people who face inconvenience under this law are real allergy sufferers - who have to make a doctor's appointment just to get a drug they used to be able to pick up at most grocery stores. And that's assuming you can even afford to go to the doctor.

As far as I know, Oregon is still the only state that has the prescription requirement. But federal laws are otherwise just as harsh now (though they don't require a prescription yet).

Since these laws passed, meth has become more out of control than ever.

The existence of these laws makes us ask again: "Is America still the land of the free?" In addition to the constitutional questions raised by forcing buyers to sign a log (a rule found in other states), you also have to ask what the law's writers are really fighting. They're not fighting the meth cooks, obviously. Otherwise they'd repeal these laws once it became clear they weren't working.

They're fighting against freedom - and thus against nature itself.

It's really a price support for international drug cartels. I wonder which drug gangs are lining the politicians' pockets.

How do we fight those who'd fight against our liberty? The cities and counties need to step up efforts to make it illegal to enforce the Patriot Act and related feely-bad laws. A few cities did outlaw Idiot Act enforcement. More need to follow suit.

And we need to find precisely which politicians are behind the new laws. I'm not as interested in the ones who merely voted for it, though some were cajoled into cosponsoring it after someone else came up with the idea. I'm more concerned with ones who were originally responsible. And we need to impeach them and remove them from office.

Sure as Bush lied as an excuse to start a war with Iraq, these politicians lied to us when they said these laws would eradicate meth.

This is one of my top 3 issues, and we have to keep it alive until the tyranny of recent years is reversed.

(Source: http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/192284/oregon_antimeth_law_would_require_prescriptions/index.html)