Posted on 04/07/2007 8:35:09 PM PDT by bad company
Never mind the new crime of motorcycle stunt driving and DNA testing of litterbugs, the prize for the least-thoughtful proposal this session goes to Democratic Rep. Talibdin El-Amin of St. Louis. His House Bill 1189 makes it a crime to sell baking soda except from behind the counter with a log kept of each transaction including the following information:
1. The name and address of the purchaser; 2. The amount purchased; 3. The date of purchase; and 4. The identity of the sales person
The reason for this law is that ONE of the 1001 uses of baking soda is to make crack cocaine. This is the same thing lawmakers did with pseudo-ephedrine, placing it behind the counter and taking the names and addresses of buyers. That law did place a serious crimp in methamphetamine production.
If that was such a great idea–stay with me here–why not deal the same blow to crack cocaine production by restricting baking soda?
Of course the two situations are hardly alike. Pseudo-ephedrine is a very limited purpose drug. Baking soda has many common household uses. Just ask Arm & Hammer.
Pseudo-ephedrine is used in very small quantities. Presumably law enforcement could run down meth cookers just from examining pseudo-ephedrine sales logs.
But baking soda is everything pseudo-ephedrine is not. It is used in much larger, even massive quantities. Examination of baking soda sales logs (and the resulting search warrants) would turn up WHOLE boxes of baking soda stuck in the corners of refrigerators and being used to deodorize cat boxes. And don’t forget baking soda volcanos. Baking soda is as common as shortening and flour.
This bill just doesn’t cut it. What’s next? Coffee filters? Water? Plastic baggies? These are all items used in the production and sale of crack cocaine.
Rep. El-Amin considers this legislation so urgent that there is an emergency clause requiring enforcement of the new law within thirty days of enactment. Is this a joke? Or just a headline?
No way! You can’t make this stuff up!
More nanny state goodness
This fine public servant has alerted us to an emergency that we never recognized and will probably be pummeled here for it. A prophet without honor in his own land.
Is somebody baking terrorist cookies?
What kind of a name is Democratic Rep. Talibdin El-Amin?
Is that a Muslim? Whatever it is, it has too much time on it's hands!
I use soda for all kinds of things, and I go through a lot of it. Especially when I'm making my crack cocaine. LOL I use it in my fridge, in baking lots of things and on occasion, I use it to polish my teeth. I wonder what the penalty is for using it in those ways? ;o)
Would this include baking soda toothpaste?
Yes, I am. I always Bake them cookies while I'm making my crack cocaine. LOL! ;o)
Great , does this mean that me and my fellow members of BSVSAA -Baking Soda and Vinegar Snorting Association of America are in for rough times ?
No seriously though , to quote John Wayne speaking about hippie war protesters to college students , “it’s getting to be Re***damndiculous”...
what’s next ?
Talk about asininity on parade..
LMAO!
Don't tell anybody or they'll get dumb ideas about outlawing it in toothpaste.
They are different only in degree not in kind. Pseudo-ephedrine was in wide use for perfectly legitimate purposes before the crack cookers started using it. Every single legitimate user is now punished because some buyers misuse the stuff.
That said, this law is about as effective as recording sales of .22 rimfire ammunition, which was the law between '68 and '86. I never heard of it stopping or solving a single crime. The same is probably true, or almost true, of the Pseudo-ephedrine and would certainly be true of the baking soda registration law.
Outrage! If this goes through, only outlaws will have clean-smelling fridges!
Pseudo-ephedrine is still the most effective over the counter decongestant. It galls me to no end to have to fill out my ID every time somebody in my family gets a common cold!
We live in a nanny state, and our freedoms are eroding more and more as time passes.
Democratic Rep. Talibdin El-Amin’s anti-baking soda bill is proof that Muslims don’t have an inferiority complex - they are inferior.
This Democrat is a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
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