U.S. Report Warns Of Terror And Health Risks With Prescription Drug Imports

I don't know how much more transparent this propaganda could get?
First, if it's a free for all, I could claim drug companies are terrorists that peddle expensive drugs that aren't even helping patients and in some cases are killing them. And then these same terrorists complain if the patients go elsewhere to buy them for less money stating they could BE DANGEROUS TO THEIR HEALTH OR MADE BY TERRORISTS? Oh and I almost forgot to mention 9/11! 9/11!9/11!

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

GOOD ONE!

I propose that we immediately jump to the aid of our American cousins in preventing terrorism by outlawing softwood lumber shipments and O&G to that country!

How do people here in Canada feel about people there in America? Do we truly want their demise? Can we separate the "corporate power elite" from the ordinary, average person? Can we focus our hate upon them without hurting the little people? The innocent ones? They pay more than double what we pay because we (and the E.U. countires) get the same drugs from the same companies at cut rate prices. In essence it is the ordinary American who subsidizes our low cost pharmaceuticals by making up the difference themselves so the corporations can make their profit. When we get a deal on our drugs from American manufacturers, they make it up somewhere else. And it is always off from the American people. So could we try to not hate them, but instead focus on the specific company(s) that are gouging them? All they want is to be able to buy their own products at the same prices WE are charged for them, instead of a much higher price that we are responsible for forcing upon them, although indirectly. What is so evil about that? I doubt vey much that ordinary Americans want our demise. I doubt they want us to suffer. Why should we want that for them? Remember this saying? "10% of the population controls 90% of the wealth"? And perhaps there could even be a few of that 10% that are decent people making their wealth honestly...leaving perhaps 5% that are "evil crooks" like our own Desmarais, Chretien, Martin "collective"...so how about this for an idea...let's give the little people a break for a change and focus on the problem...that 5% that IS the problem...on BOTH sides of the border. For our own benefit. If we stopped attacking the little people...and the little people were not divided by these attacks...maybe there would be enough collective strength arising out of mutual support for the "little guy" to realize some actual success in dealing with the TRUE offender(s). I am continually amazed at the focus upon hating the American people on this site. Think about it. If you were to obtain the SUPPORT of over 280 million people...instead of their anger and animosity arising from dodging the feces you continually throw at them...there could be some real changes taking place for the good of everyone. Cripes. The fat cats must be laughing all the way to the bank every day...watching the little people so busy throwing rocks at each other that they totally miss what's going on! And maybe it's not such a bad idea if there is so much hate for Americans here in Canada for them to NOT trust anything we send them. Oh, yes....censor this one out too, okay?

I suspect that far more people have died in the US because of not being able to afford medications than have ever or will ever die of a terrorist attack of any kind. This, however, is nothing but political posturing on behalf of US drug company profits by scaring Americans into paying obscene drug prices by playing the terrorist card.

Here is the latest:<br />
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An outline: <a href="http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=pb&id=746">http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=pb&id=746</a><br />
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wrong place, sorry about that.

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These days, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. Mrs. Irene Peters

As vivelecanada's resident conservative american I want to thank the above anonymous poster for his comments concerning the hatred of America by Canadians. What seems readily apparent to you (blind hatred of the USA) is even more obvious to myself as an outsider. Hating will accomplish nothing at all, it will just create more hate. Fortunately, most Americans remain wholly ignorant of the fact that so many of our northern neighbors view us in such a negative light. This is fortunate because if they DID know...it would get ugly fast. I know when I first discovered how much hate and anger there was in Canada towards my country I was first shocked (absolutely, completely, stunned!), then outraged, then very angry. The natural response to learning something like this, that strangers in another country who you always assumed was a friendly nation and an ally actually hate your guts, is anger and hate. My first instinct was to go around espousing the evils of Canada, to generate some angry feelings on this side of the border. That was my natural response, which I resisted and chose to try to come up with a more positive response, but continued to follow the going-ons of our northern neighbors.

Plus I know several Canadians. One of them is a friend and the others are acquaintances. We have many disagreements on politics and social issues but in the great scheme of things these differences are minor. I think the things we have in common are much more important, and are also more numerous. In my opinion, the differences between your average Canadian and your average American are about as significant as the differences between New Yorkers and Nebraskans, having more in common than differences.

My fear is that these angry Canadians (who seem to have a LOUD voice in Canada) will be picked up on by more Americans, and Americans will start hating back. Its only natural. There could be a backlash of angry feelings and hate towards Canada, which will only fuel more hate and resentment among Canadians towards the USA. Then eventually we'll become unfriendly neighbors and create even more problems for BOTH of our countries.

I've echoed these sentiments before, and this probably won't be the last time. Hating us, lashing out at us, opposing everything we propose for the mere sake of opposing us, and viewing the USA as an oppressive dictator in the world which should be feared and hated, is not going to have any sort of a positive effect at all, for anybody. Disagreement, debate, dissent, protest, all of these things are positive and can be productive. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about how there seems to be this growing sentiment of hatred towards the USA from Canada, on this site we are openly declared as the enemy. The more Canadians view the USA as their enemy, the more true it will become, that's what I'm saying. If you are determined to make us your enemy you will no doubt eventually succeed.

As for the topic at hand, I'm not buying it. I don't see any evidence to suggest that buying prescription drugs over the internet or anything like that would somehow be a terror risk. In the 04 election when President Bush addressed this issue and mentioned terror threats as a reason to oppose importing drugs from Canada I couldn't believe it. It just doesn't make any sense. I think securing our borders, our harbors, and our air traffic would be much more productive than opposing prescription drug imports.

It doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out the real reason for this. Obviously if more Americans buy their drugs from Canada where they're cheaper somebody in the USA is not making as much as they would if this wasn't an option. Let the free-market principles sort it out, or come up with another solution that makes sense and doesn't punish the consumer.

The elephant in the room here is the fact that Americans can buy American drugs cheaper from Canadian pharmacies than they can American pharmacies, THAT is the problem! Maybe we should fix that instead. If we did that, then Americans would have no incentive to buy drugs from Canada, and that would also solve that whole 'drugs from Canada enhances terror risk' problem, which I'm still not grasping at the moment.

I don`t know how you think Darvin that we hate all Americans. If you actually read what we say, you`ll see that we have anger toward your GOVERNMENT and CORPORATIONS for their bullying! I have American friends too, and there`s never a problem. The only time problems arise is when ordinary Americans actually refuse to see the grievances presented by Canadian nationalists. C`mon, man, we do want to be friends! But don`t get mad because we don`t want to integrate, or because we don`t want to kiss America`s ass! Your biggest problem, Darvin, isn`t Canadians asserting their sovereignty, it is your OWN GOVERNMENT and CORPORATE ELITE!Having said that, we Canadians slam our own sellout government and corporate elite for imposing on the Canadian people a similar corporate fascist agenda. Sad to say, much of this comes from the armtwisting in Washington! It`s not like Canadians are burning American books, or calling for the annihilation of all things American. But if we`re disrespected by the powerbrokers in the US, then we`ve got something to say about it!!! If the shoe was on the other foot, Americans would do no less!

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Dave Ruston

Dave,

You can keep saying that over and over again but I'm calling bullshit. I'm not the 'stupid cowboy' that you must think I am. I find it very cowardly that so few of you will just stand up and defend your position. Instead, whenever someone tries to hold you to account for your hatred, you just flat out deny that it exists. "We hate your government, your corporations" BULLSHIT. Maybe your little kool-aid drinking buddies will accept this weak and flimsy defense of your hate speech but I will not!

No, Darvin, you get your back up when you see that Canadians don`t want to kiss America`s ass! We can be friends. We want to be friends, but we don`t want to integrate! You should respect that! But from what I see, many Americans have difficulty relating to people that are a little different from them. Just like many Americans telling France to 'take back that statue' because they opposed the Iraq war. kind of symbolic, though, because that statue no longer means anything.

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Dave Ruston

<p>Darvin,</p> <blockquote>I’m talking about how there seems to be this growing sentiment of hatred towards the USA from Canada, on this site we are openly declared as the enemy.</blockquote> <p>perhaps if you provided sample text on this site that demonstrates said hatred, that would give Dave some context for your viewpoint? Many Canadians draw distinctions between the actions of an average American and the actions of American corporations and/or the American government, just as many Americans might have drawn distinctions between the actions of an average Iraqi and the actions of the Ba‘athist Iraqi government.</p> <p>Some uses of “American” are probably shorthand, e.g.</p> <blockquote>Talk about Yankee imperialism. What more proof do people need that Manning and Harris are just the American voice in Canada?</blockquote> <p>reflects the political continuum being slightly more leftward in Canada as compared to the States; thus, Canadians who would be viewed as “center-right” by average Americans on the American scale could be seen as “far right” by average Canadians on the Canadian scale. Perhaps the impression is that some people here believe that any Canadian who’s farther right than a “blue dog Democrat” must be a Yankee fifth columnist?</p>

I would like to thank Darvin Jackson for illustrating for us how we are being perceved by the average American. He is right. How are the rest of Canadians (millions of them)going to feel after they lose everything they've worked for all their lives because of the activities of a handfull of activists hell-bent on destruction. Thank you Darvin. We needed to hear that.

And yet, Darvin is omniecent enough to tell me what my true intentions are . . . instead of realising that they are only his perception of what my intentions are.


I feel this is the problem with Canadian-U.S. relations between our peoples.

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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill