Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Thursday 21 February 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized
The War on Drugs: arresting innocent people since fucking forever.
The Des Moines Register’s Reader’s Watchdog tells the rather predictable tale of anti-meth zealotry run amok, as a 50-year-old farmer’s wife faces trial for buying too much pseudoephedrine at a Walgreens in the small town of Ottumwa, Iowa. Of note, even though she bought a lot of allergy pills, she actually didn’t break Iowa law. Yet she could still face a 25-year sentence for a conspiracy “with one or more persons to manufacture, deliver or possess with intent to deliver … a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.”
When you can be arrested for NOT breaking the law, you know the entire endeavor is fucked.
2013-02-21 » madlibertarianguy