"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Sheriff Wants Doctors to Have Patients Sign Away Rights
"Like many law enforcement agencies, prescription drug abuse was a problem in need of a solution, and rather than go through the onerous burden of awaiting people to engage in crime, it dawned on them that they could just sneak in through the back door of the physician's office and slip in another seemingly innocuous form, a blob of mumbo-jumbo and was essentially guaranteed no one would ever read, and get it signed."
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The most disturbing thing about this article is the number of seemingly literate people who believe that "the police won't bother the doctors," that they're just "after the addicts." Can people with access to the Internet actually be this ignorant? Stupid, I get. But ignorant?