Posted on 04/21/2017 6:39:23 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Almost two years after Texas tried to import an execution drug from overseas, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled Thursday that the drug can’t be admitted into the United States.
In July 2015, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice tried to import 1,000 vials of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic that the state has previously used in executions, but the FDA seized the drugs at a Houston airport and has held them ever since. The federal agency has maintained that the import of the drug is illegal because it is not currently approved in the U.S.
In a statement, the FDA said it notified Texas and the Arizona Department of Corrections, which also tried to obtain the drug, that their attempted imports were refused because the drugs appeared to be unapproved and misbranded. The shipments must now be exported or destroyed, according to the agency.
TDCJ spokesman Jason Clark said after the ruling that the department is "exploring all options to remedy the unjustified seizure."
"It has taken almost two years for the Food and Drug Administration to reach a decision which we believe is flawed," Clark said. "TDCJ fully complied with the steps necessary to lawfully import the shipment."
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
YES!
The drug received no complaints from any of their former customers...
“So where is Arkansas getting its medication?”
Arkansas hadn’t executed anyone in years. Their drug supplies are about to expire at the end of the month - that’s why they had this flurry of executions scheduled for the next couple of days.
ALL the states which will ACTUALLY EXECUTE a death penalty prisoner need to switch over to firing squad or hanging.
$10 worth of ammo would buy at least 4 executions.
IF they need a donation- I would send $$$.
California has over 750 people on ‘Death Row’, where they have NO intention of killing them. Some have been there for over 35 years. Their victims didn’t get such a life. Neither should they. The costs of keeping these people prisoners with all the extra guards is something that every state should disclose to the public.
Then perhaps this crap will cease & executions can resume.
Worked large cargo planes in the USAF as a mechanic. Most have nitrogen-based fire suppression systems. The idea is that a pressurized bottle of nitrogen is used to flood the inner-wing location of the fire, displacing the oxygen and extinguishing the fire.
The mechanics who worked on those systems always had to work in groups of 2 or more, lest a mechanic attempt to repair a leaky bottle and is then found dead in the wing by the next shift. It’s happened a few times, apparently, when proper protocol wasn’t followed.
Patriots are reminded the following. The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined federal regulatory agencies like the EPA, IRS and FDA.
In other words, Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not imo.
But by letting faceless bureaucrats get away with exercising federal regulatory powers, powers that appear to be reasonably based on Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3) in this case, members of Congress are once again wrongly protecting their voting records by letting non-elected bureaucrats get away with exercising federal regulatory powers.
Career lawmakers allow this to happen probably so that they can fool low-information voters, voters who aren’t familiar with the Constitution’s Sections 1-3 referenced above, into reelecting them.
By wrongly ignoring its constitutional responsibilities with respect to exercising its unique legislative powers, corrupt Congress is ultimately weakening voting power by letting bureaucrats get away with doing Congress’s unpopular work for it imo.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Patriots are reminded the following. The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined federal regulatory agencies like the EPA, IRS and FDA.
In other words, Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not imo.
But by letting faceless bureaucrats get away with exercising federal regulatory powers, powers that appear to be reasonably based on Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3) in this case, members of Congress are once again wrongly protecting their voting records by letting non-elected bureaucrats get away with exercising federal regulatory powers.
Career lawmakers allow this to happen probably so that they can fool low-information voters, voters who aren’t familiar with the Constitution’s Sections 1-3 referenced above, into reelecting them.
By wrongly ignoring its constitutional responsibilities with respect to exercising its unique legislative powers, corrupt Congress is ultimately weakening voting power by letting bureaucrats get away with doing Congress’s unpopular work for it imo.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
[Or you could always burn some R-22 in a confined space.]
Ah yes, the old phosgene gas condition. Did it many times fixing leaks with the torch in a room full of the old 12, 22, and 502.
Its how the old flame type leak detectors worked.
Yes, its scary. Once I was leaning over into one of the old “coffin” box freezers in the store as we were blowing out the lines with CO2.
The water cooled condensers had failed and filled the system with water.
Luckily I fell back into the aisle instead of the case. Happened very quickly and surprisingly.
Oh yeah, and you know when it happens. When I stopped doing it, started doing controls full time, R-11, 12 and 22 were still a thing.
Weaponized government. If the Left does not want their Little Brown Brothers executed for their crimes, they will use every single tentacle of government to stop it. Including the FDA. Those FDA agents should hang as accessories to whatever crime the perp committed who won’t get executed because the FDA seized the drug.
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