56 to be arrested over cold medicine

The drug warriors and the media machine live a lie.

Every chance they get, they insist provisions in the Patriot Act reauthorization and various state laws are successful in curbing meth production and use. Arguing against this claim (a claim that is patently false) is not allowed. (Ooh, an Allowed Cloud!)

This isn't the only issue where only one side is permitted to be heard. With the media as one-sided as it is, other false claims and bizarre opinions are often repeated as indisputable fact.

Regarding the Patriot Act's new Rockefeller drug law against cold and allergy medicine, there's a concerted propaganda effort by law enforcement agencies and the media to tell people that the law has crimped meth - when it simply isn't true.

Now, in Auburn, Indiana, police are in the midst of serving 56 arrest warrants for the "crime" of buying too much cold or allergy medicine (which wasn't even illegal a few years ago). While one of the 56 has had drug-related charges before, the law of probability dictates that out of any group of 56 American adults, several will have had some illicit drug involvement. There's no indication that these 56 have had any more than any others.

There's no way that anywhere near all 56 planned on making meth out of the medicine they purchased. There just isn't the market for 56 meth labs in a town as small as Auburn. Nonetheless, this adds to 38 arrests from just 3 months ago. If there's no market for 56 meth labs, there's certainly no market for 94.

I'm not even linking to the TV station's article about this with all the street addresses of "suspects" listed. Other articles about similar cases have listed addresses, but this is overkill. With today's vigilante attitude in which people are presumed guilty, it's just dangerous for an article to include addresses.