[Appalled but Not Surprised]

If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
---Thomas Jefferson
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Your homework assignment, MamaTexan, is to go to GOOGLE and type in the word "thalidomide."

[MamaTexan]

Your homework assignment, MamaTexan, is to go to GOOGLE and type in the word "thalidomide."

A drug that causes birth defects is relevant.... how?

Your homework assignment, Appalling but not Surprising, is to read The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu

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Of the Simplicity of Criminal Laws in different Governments
In republican governments, men are all equal;
equal they are also in despotic governments:
in the former, because they are everything;
in the latter, because they are nothing.
THE SPIRIT OF LAWS Book VI By Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

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Then show us exactly where government gets its authority to tell the People what they can possess or ingest.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"GOOGLE and type in the word "thalidomide.""

Wasn't Thalidomide government approved for use before it was banned?

I wonder how many people suffering with rheumatoid arthritis approve of the government telling them they can't use a previously approved drug that helps with the pain.

Appalling, I'm starting to think you are one of those drug warriors who are motivated by their fear that someone, somewhere is enjoying life.

Michael Frazier