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Posted by grunjdik on June 17, 2006, 10:17 am
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of this would be happening. It's all you idiots that have brought this down
on us.
No demand, no supply. Stupid fuckers.
>
> Uncle Clover wrote:
>>
>> >Since when did Iodine become a listed substance?!
>> >it is sold for use in water purification OTC as far as I know
>> >
>> >must be more to this story than meets the eye or the govt has simply
>> >gone crazy
>> >again
>>
>> It was the quantities that got him into trouble. Apparently it's like
>> electricity and "indoor gardening" equipment - if someone buys too much,
>> LE
>> investigates. I know it's illegal to be in possession of paraphernalia
>> used or
>> intended to be used in the marketting, manufacturing or consuming of
>> certain
>> drugs. Perhaps they had someone undercover try to buy and got him to
>> confirm
>> that he knew what it was being bought for. I think if they did that, it
>> might
>> be all LE would need.
>> --
>> L8r,
>> Uncle Clover
>> ************************************************
>> The true mark of a civilized society is when its
>> citizens know how to hate each other peacefully.
>> ************************************************
>> "A disappearance is when someone has vanished.
>> A tragedy is when they were photogenic."
>> - a.t-c's Bo Raxo, paraphrased.
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> "If you look at the whole life of the planet,
>> man has only been around for a few blinks of an
>> eye. So if the infection wipes us all out,
>> that _is_ a return to normality..."
>> - Sergeant Farrell, "28 Days Later"
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> The thing is...
> who really knows from this article!
>
> I remember of some in RL, who merely possessed red phos. in their
> upstate rocketry club and pyro
> fun club--as they once had thousands of acres of stony, rocky flat
> wastelands up there
> to 'play on-- becoming paranoid as well as having leo look in
> on their club AND their personal lives simply for ordering that one
> chem LONG before it was illegal to possess
>
> How can anyone hope to know what would constitute arrestable quantities
> of a substance unless they followed the congressional quarterly every
> time it came out or were up on LEO's newest witch hunt that week or
> month?
> As--in the US today--it is generally regarded that you are guilty
> unless you can prove otherwise (at least in rl scenarios I have
> seen---unless you are a politico or 'connected)
>
> Does that mean that polar pure water purification unit I once used for
> hiking should be thrown out or I might be thrown into prison as it DOES
> use iodine crystals for water purification?
> Heck, anyone who has been on the trail--as I was a bit as a
> child--knows that
> iodine crystals in a bit of water kills the bad organisms in it and
> combined with a filtration unit can render unsafe water drinkable
> I remember the commercial hand held units being advertised --showing
> people sucking up mud-puddle water and street runoff with them and
> drinkng it down seemingly with no ill effects!
>
> How long will it go till the US govt deems Earth, wind and fire as
> controlled substances?
> Dont laugh!
> Even at walmart they actively watch and photograph buyers of matches
> and paint thinner and camp fuel they told me as I had to stand and
> wait as they came over to
> use a special card to allow me to buy a simple can of compressed air to
> clean my computer keyboard!
> Isnt that merely compressed nitrogen?
> And, the hassle I had to go thru last time I had my welding tanks
> filled at the gas place as they had to keep special logs and see all
> receipts before selling or filling a tank as they also claimed it was
> due to some sort of anti-drugs regulations
> Heck, if that stuff is used in drug manufacture wouldnt they think
> someone would rather just steal it than openly come buy it for their
> cutting/welding purposes?
> And the prices have skyrocketed due to new regs in storage of ALL their
> gases and paperwork he told me....and I have watched that same co
> change hands 4 times in less than five years due to onerous paperwork
> and inability to turn a good profit it seems...
>
> Thanks for making the US a less competitive place to do business or
> carry on day to day activities Mr Leo alphabet man....
>
> Any wonder China now outproduces us in high tech gear and is said to
> already own over 80-85% of all US govt t-bill debt now?
> They allow anyone to buy/ sell any chemical or gas or item and
> whatever and it is as to the market conditions only that dictates the
> price and only bother with actual drug users
> when it comes to laws and punishment--not innocent sellers of
> materials.
> THUS, in part Im sure, China is also one of the top raw drug and
> chemical manufacturers in the world today and our (US) pharmaceutical
> companys buy nearly all their raw materials and manufactured drugs
> powders and liquids from primarily Indian and Chinese sources as we can
> no longer compete due to onerous, costly govt regulations in the
> manufacturing process
> They simply bottle or press and then package and sell it here (any
> wonder for our high drugs prices here as well!)
> We are a service industry primarily- anymore
> A service industry has NO "real" competitive advantage in the world and
> will wither and die
>
> Thanks US govt for killing-off the spirit of entrepreneurship and
> competition that made our country great at one time
>
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