41 face arrest for buying too much allergy medicine

I knew that when we got to the height of allergy season (which peaks in late summer in the Midwest), we'd see the drug warriors go bugfuck ballistic.

In northern Iowa, 41 men and women of various ages are facing arrest because they (gasp!) purchased too much over-the-counter allergy or cold medicine - an action that wasn't even illegal 5 years ago. Under the right-wing Patriot Act and under Iowa's version of this law (which became law thanks to the DLC's Tom Milksop), it's now a crime to buy too much of the stuff - even if you plan to use it only for its intended purpose.

When you've got 41 people in such a small area buying allergy drugs at the height of allergy season, something tells me that very few (probably none) of them are guilty of misusing the drug. Even though the drug can be abused by being made into methamphetamine, there's not enough of a market in such a small area to support 41 meth makers.

In other words, the 41 "suspects" are probably innocent of any meth involvement. Every damn one of them. Probably their only "crime" was having seasonal allergies.

But in BushAmerica, you can't always expect the authorities to use logic.

(Source: http://www.charlescitypress.com/articles/2008/09/18/news/news07.txt)