Sweetheart Deal Settles Google Canadian Online Drug Trade Case

Human Events ^ | 8/26/11 | Neil W. McCabe

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

Reaching an Aug. 24 agreement with the federal government, the world's largest search engine company turned over $500 million in revenues from its AdWords online advertising business, which accepted the illegal importation of drugs from Canada.

“The Department of Justice will continue to hold accountable companies who in their bid for profits violate federal law and put at risk the health and safety of American consumers,” said Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole, who announced the settlement.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

Google in the news again, and not in a good way. Quelle suprise

[Pearls Before Swine]

How am I going to find my Canadian Pharmacy now? Use a Chinese search engine?

That would be rich, considering how everyone dumps on the Chinese for censoring the Internet.

[Prokopton]

put at risk the health and safety of American consumers,

Right, those nasty Canadiens...lots of trouble with contaminated food and drugs coming from Canada...

[familyop]

"He [Obama] cut a deal with the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)" to deprive and kill severe asthma patients who pay for their own medications--even Canadians who have paid heavily in fees and taxes to be legal residents of the USA. There's irony in the fact that so many of them came only because of family (marriage to US citizens) and/or desire to eventually be US citizens and not to get welfare/debt/anti-American-corporate-government-income money from the corporate-government bosses of this now-cesspool of globalist/socialist corruption. Some of them actually came to produce things of real value and good use with their own hands.