In These Trying Times, it's Good to be a Jackboot!

Well right near my stomping ground the DEA has stopped a few people from getting prescription painkillers and other drugs from a phony online pharmacy.

According to federal court documents unsealed Thursday, Drug Enforcement
Administration agents searched the offices of eDentity Media Inc. in January
2007 as part of an investigation into an illicit prescription drug ring
purportedly run by Florida resident Antonio Quinones.

I can't imagine what the customers did after this. Get their "meds" from somewhere else, maybe? But another feather in the cap of the DEA, who bosses will certainly demand that even with all the debt our nation is in, still needs increased funding to make even further improvements in preventing otherwise law-abiding people from putting certain substances into their body.

One of the emails from the owner of eDentity was certainly telling:

"(I) need to make sure you're OK before going too far," the man wrote in a
secure instant message to the agent. "Nothing personal. But you show a good
knowledge of the industry. DEA agents are usually clueless on the
details."

Boy, ain't that the truth. Just ask any pain doctor. Or pretty much anyone else who is not a drug war apologist.