Sudafed law used in racist probe

Because the Bush regime was racist, should we be surprised that it used the failed War on Drugs as a pretext for a racist investigation?

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger has unearthed some rather damning documents regarding a federal investigation into small grocery outlets in northern Mississippi. During Bush's reign, the U.S. Attorney's office in Oxford, Mississippi, conducted what it claimed was a terrorism probe - but was actually a racist pogrom.

The U.S. Attorney's office targeted store owners who had no connection to terrorism whatsoever. Almost all of them (if not all) were of Middle Eastern or southern Asian descent.

Although no terrorism arrests could be made, state and federal officials who connived in the probe charged over 60 people for other offenses. One of the main violations? Selling too much pseudoephedrine allergy medicine in their stores.

The Bush regime is making major criminals of people for doing something that wasn't illegal at all until 3 years ago! In fact, the people who were charged didn't even know about the new laws.

When asked about the racial profiling that occurred, a director of Mississippi's drug enforcement bureau said, "We target drug dealers."

Make up your mind. Were you going after terrorists or drug dealers? Talk about mission creep! The fact that authorities come up with different reasons for targeting the store owners is evidence that none of these were the real reason.

It gets worse: It turns out the Sudafed purchases were entrapment all along. The purchases were made by undercover police intentionally buying too much of the drug. (All it takes now to be considered illegal is 3 boxes a month - hardly what I'd call a bulk sale.)

The U.S. Attorney's office cared not one iota about terrorism, but about finding excuses to arrest people based on their ethnic group.

The War on Drugs is a War on People.

(Source: http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090929/NEWS/909290341/1001/news/U.S.-attorney-targeted-N.-Miss.-store-owners)