I wonder if they were strip-searched

ADMINISTRATION USES FEDS TO INTIMIDATE SENIORS:

According to newly released details, last October the Bush administration took the extraordinary step of stopping and searching a bus full of seniors on their way back from purchasing cheaper medicines in Canada. The intimidation move, which FDA officials note is "not consistent" with past practice, came at the very same time the White House and pharmaceutical industry were working to remove provisions from the new Medicare law that would have formally provided seniors access to lower-priced medicines from abroad. Details of the administration's heavy-handed tactics only emerged this month after Sen. Mark Dayton (D-MN) demanded answers in a letter to the FDA – an agency whose complicity with the drug industry has come into question since the Bush administration took office.

Posted by Prometheus 6 on April 27, 2004 - 2:46pm :: Politics