Homeland Security Seizing Medications From Elderly

[Clara T]

Homeland Security seizing medications from elderly, former Customs official reports
By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Wed Feb 1st, 2006 at 08:09:40 PM EST
Are grandma and grandpa now the newest targets in an expanding war on drugs?

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.

Officials from CBP’s public affairs office in South Florida did not return a phone call from Narco News seeking comment on the operation. The medications being seized, Conrad adds, are bound for delivery to elderly people who have ordered them from Canadian providers.

Due to the extremely high cost of many prescription drugs in the United States, many senior citizens cannot afford to pay for their medications, absent ordering the drugs, often over the Internet, from lower-cost Canadian vendors.

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

[babylonsister]

1. I honestly believe they are trying to kill older Americans any way

possible. This is just sick. Big pharma doesn't make enough? :cry: :banghead:

[FloridaPat]

3. Good way to "save" social security.

[OneBlueSky]

7. there are parts of various PNAC documents that talk about . . .

the need to dramatically reduce population, both worldwide and in the US . . . it's not only older Americans they'd like to get rid of . . . they'd just as soon the entire population be a more "manageable" size -- large enough to serve the needs of the aristocracy, but not large enough to cause any trouble . . .

[Bluebear]

2. Bush's "Final Solution" to the baby boomers retiring

Kill 'em off.

[LiberalEsto]

5. Well, there won't be any more ice floes to put us on

because of global warming, so they have to do something to keep from paying us any Soc.Sec. when we retire.

The ice floes reference is to some old story that Eskimos allegedly put their elderly on ice floes and pushed them out into the ocean to die.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Why Homeland Security?

Why not the DEA? Isn't this their job?

[lindisfarne]

6. Thank goodness DHS is saving us from terrorists, i.e. elderly folk

getting affordable drugs.

[slaveplanet]

8. US Gov reduced to role

of just another street dealer protecting his turf