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Will the FDA Attack the US Army?...

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Before you wonder, like I do, if FDA raids are sort of a law enforcement parody designed by the same art director that put together the persona for "The Village People," consider that those "crotch protectors" they're issued cost $430 each.  This is serious business - it's not funny - quit laughing.  These people sit in FDA classrooms for months, listening to "experienced field personnel" telling war stories, warning against allowing some 90 year old granny-type taking off her sock, loading it up with vitamin C pills, and whacking "poor old Joe" in the gonads the day before his retirement...

And, of course, there are those "face protectors" attached to the body armor helmets.  Agents are taught to keep those in place at all times - after all, if they have to whack some patient, in a clinic, in the stomach, with the butt of their Browning 12-guage shotgun, we wouldn't want them to get sprayed in the face with recently swallowed Noni juice, now would we? 

Don't forget the steel-toed shoes, either...

Let's get to the point...

Yes, I deride FDA "raid" tactics.  I know, as well as you do, that those tactics, all that riot gear, the screaming, the smashing, the gun pointing, the overtly aggressive behavior, is NOT because the FDA agents fear the people they are raiding - they don't.  It is all a game designed to deliver a message.  And that message is clear.  It says "we, the FDA, are completely owned by the pharmaceutical industry.  Our employees are trained, not to regulate food and drugs, but to eliminate competition for those drugs, wherever that may be.  We will kill you if we can find reason - and we are looking for a reason."

Ok, here comes the point...  Those FDA raids are a "bully" thing -  the big kid picking on the little kids.  My guess is that if the FDA were dumb enough to get the wrong address, and accidentally raid the average inner city illicit drug operation, they'd get chewed up and spit out - out-fire-powered, out-maneuvered, and out-violenced.  Those cute "FDA" jackets would be worn by local high schools kids for the next year - and the "crotch protectors" would be sold on E-Bay.