Posted on 08/15/2014 4:12:07 PM PDT by Innovative
It’s not about “drug dealing,” but the Feds have relied upon FedX to voluntarily cooperate in the past.
From now on, if I were FedX, and the Feds wanted to run some interdiction operations at a hub, I’d say “Go get a warrant.”
I think it’s the pharma industry in the US that is behind this. Trying by any means necessary to shut down the less expensive Canadian meds.
Agreed.
We have become a very corrupt nation.
Why does the government get to determine what kind of pharmaceuticals we take? It’s none of their business. These laws need to be repealed.
It volunteered itself and it was invited.
Now it’s shown itself to be a pretty piss-poor substitute for God.
Yep. For instance the FEDGOV wants businesses to be responsible for discerning if an employee is an illegal alien and if they hire someone who is they can be fined and in some cases arrested.
Myself I think the government can shove it and close the [censored] border and eliminate the problem. Why is it my responsibility to do law enforcement when the FEDGOV won't even build a damn fence across the border?
IS THIS perhaps an assault on free enterprise to favor a government postal service in deep doo doo financially?
Thanks for the info - I guess Obama thought FedEx should have given him more...
I may be mistaken, but isn’t the CEO of FedEx conservative leaning?
Well, not long ago, the government went after UPS for less. Instead of trying to defend itself in court, UPS settled by cooperating, giving the government $40 million and helping to watch for any attempts at illegitimate use of its services. Looks like Federal Express was next in line for investigating, and the feds hit the jackpot there.
Federal Express has been running some interesting political speech campaigns including quite a bit of noise on the Net against UPS. FedEx (Federal Express before) also apparently has some interesting personnel and management policies (whole lotta complaints, especially around last holiday season).
Lowes has also exhibited an interesting presence on the Net, despite its libertine skeletons, pretending to be somehow more conservative than its main competitor to one political side while dramatizing the opposite to the other.
It appears that some big corporations have been emulating Russia’s balkan-esque information tactics. The truth is that most larger corporations have very left-leaning political and social policies while using propaganda and government to regulate against potential competition.
This is not about drugs you can sniff...
It’s about foreign manufactured Viagra and Cialis.
It’s about protecting their big Pharma donors like Pfizer.
Yet another bogus Marxist legalism from the most lawless administration in the history of the United States.
What a crock.
See what happens when you don’t pay enough protection money to the Federal government?
The entire concept of private business, or even individual citizens, policing the activities and services offered to others is a dangerous precedent, and ripe for abuse. A local feed store was prosecuted for selling a raw material for meth, a material that also had other legal uses. The business was convicted for not verifying the material was being used for a legal purpose.
Does Home Depot or Lowes now have to verify any purchase will be used for a legal purpose? Or must every car dealer, or even a private seller, verify that a car being purchased will be used only for a legal purpose? I sell communications equipment that, so far as I know, is used for legal purposes, but what if some of that equipment is somehow diverted and used to support an illegal enterprise? Should I be responsible? Expecting businesses and individuals to be cops is a dangerous precedent. As with FedeX, I will cooperate with the cops, but I have no intention of taking on responsibilities that rightly belong to the cops.
As others have suggested, the word corruption comes to mind when considering some of the areas where government is now sticking their nose. And what else would we expect out of Chicago, either directly or indirectly?
Rumor has it that this has to do with FedEx Field where the Washington Redskins play.
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