In the meantime the US government can't keep tons of illicit drugs like cocaine and so on from getting into the country.
Eric Holder doing a Jesse Jackson?
Earlier article (July 2014):
FedEx Accused of Conspiracy to Distribute Prescription Drugs for Online Pharmacies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3181814/posts
“Federal Express was indicted Thursday on federal charges alleging that it distributed prescription drugs and other controlled substances to people that the company knew had no prescriptions on behalf of illegal Internet pharmacies.
“We want to be clear what’s at stake here: The government is suggesting that FedEx assume criminal responsibility for the legality of the contents of the millions of packages that we pick up and deliver every day,” said Patrick Fitzgerald, a senior FedEx official. “We are a transportation company — we are not law enforcement. We have no interest in violating the privacy of our customers. We continue to stand ready and willing to support and assist law enforcement. We cannot, however, do the job of law enforcement ourselves.”
Nothing to do with the failing USPS?
How is a company charged with a crime? It says Fed X faces fines. What? No prison time for Fed X?
Which political party does FedEx give the most in donations too......
Microsoft solved its govt problems by donating to Dems and their causes.
I do not know how they could possibly convict FedX for this. But I do know that for years, FedX cooperated with Federal, State and local investigators. They would cooperate by allowing access to their hubs to have drug dogs conduct sniffs of suspicious packages. They would allow use of their vehicles and uniforms to make controlled deliveries of said packages to make a bust.
I strongly suspect the Feds just put an end to that cooperation.
I can tell you from my experience as a former banker that FedGov wants business to be a law enforcement agency, and if you don’t play ball you’ll find yourself in the dock.
Where I live the addicts used to chase the FedEx truck each morning when it came over the bridge. Whenever the truck stopped the junkies would mob the driver demanding that he check his manifest to see if he had their delivery. FedEx, at least temporarily, stopped delivering packages for several of these shady pharmacies. This was four or five years ago.
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 These laws need to be repealed.
IS THIS perhaps an assault on free enterprise to favor a government postal service in deep doo doo financially?
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?