pondering the Federal enforcement of the CSA

Section 885(d) of the federal Controlled Substances Act entitles undercover police officers to obtain, handle, and sell illicit drugs. It states that "no civil or criminal liability shall be imposed" on any "authorized officer... who shall be lawfully engaged in the enforcement of any law or municipal ordinance relating to controlled substances." Section 885(d) applies to officers employed by cities, counties, and states, as well as to federal agents.

The other day the state of Oregon was arguing its case to the SCOTUS for its law, ratified by public referendum, that allows physicians to provide terminally ill patients the means and opportunity to transcend this event horizon. The Federal government argued that this law violated the intent of the CSA in that these "controlled" substances--used under the specific auspices of physicians who are in fact the actual authorized agents of control under the CSA--were not intended to be used in this way. While Oregon's lawyers suggested that these substances are used by the Federal and most state governments for just this purpose when used to execute death sentences, they didn't look into the abuse of the CSA under Section 885(d). Isn't is just the pinnacle of the pyramid of hypocrisy that Bushco would support the random, non-physician controlled, use of controlled substances by a servile class of high school graduates in the pursuit of establishing the police state while suggesting that doctors shouldn't use their training and authority to reduce and alleviate the suffering of terminal patients and their families.

There can be no other determination than that Bushco's sole intent is to increase suffering and coercion, to a level sufficient to warrant not just rebuke but outright defiance, in order to initiate its PNAC developed plans for a total military police state. They wish to be the sole arbitrators of who lives and dies, the sole practitioners of control over controlled substances, removing that authority from the medical community. They want their troops to decide who is shot and dies rather than burdening the justice system with anything more than being nodding yes persons and synchophants of their awesome executive power. The citizens of this nation, slowly, ever so slowly, are awakening to the realization that they are becoming the little eichmanns through their self-induced apathetic dreamstates of the last six years. In order to put them back to sleep, and/or to force them into compliance and conformity, Bushco is willing to take the troops to the streets, to remove health care from the purview of its practitioners, to initiate policies that reinforce higher education only for the scions of the wealthy and white while putting the poor and people of color into camps. It will be interesting to see how the people handle this.