Thursday, August 12, 2004
Two-Fold Terror Threats
Here's one from the "Let's Scare the Hell Out of Them" files.
This fake terror threat works on two levels:
I'm impressed. Our government is becoming more efficient. No more single objective terror threats for us. I guess 9/11 has changed everything.
- Tampering with prescription drugs imported from Canada could be a way for terrorists to launch an attack on Americans, acting U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Lester Crawford said Wednesday.
Crawford said in an interview possible action by terrorists is the most serious of his concerns about the increasing efforts of states and cities to import drugs from Canada to save money.
Would-be terrorists need only poke around the Internet to learn how Tylenol, then the leading U.S. painkiller, was removed from shelves, filled with cyanide and returned to stores to kill unsuspecting consumers two decades ago.
"I would think that's something they would be looking at," Crawford said of terrorists.
This fake terror threat works on two levels:
- It reminds people of terrorism (like we could forget), and
- It discourages people from buying their prescription drugs from Canada, helping ensure the pharmaceutical companies make a profit.
I'm impressed. Our government is becoming more efficient. No more single objective terror threats for us. I guess 9/11 has changed everything.
