Thread: McCAIN'S BILL S-3002 IS AN OVERKILL ON DIETARY SUPPLIMENTS

JOHN McCAIN'S BILL S-3002 IS AN OVERKILL ON DIETARY SUPPLIMENTS
PART 1 of 2

by Scott Tips, JD
March 10, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.â€

JOHN McCAIN'S BILL S-3002 IS AN OVERKILL ON DIETARY SUPPLIMENTS
PART 2 of 2

by Scott Tips, JD
March 10, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

The Real Solution

Now, suppose, as scientist and author Durk Pearson has done in an alternate scenario, that after the failed attempt of Richard Reid (the terrorist shoe bomber) to blow up a transatlantic airplane, the government had reacted in the same way as McCain is proposing to do now.

That is, did Reid’s attempt mean that the United States needed to register shoe stores and shoe salesmen? Did it mean that the United States needed to create more regulations on shoe manufacturers? Did it mean that all new shoe designs had to be approved before sale by a shoe-design czar? Did it mean that the shoe-design czar had to have recall authority over all shoes?

No, of course not! What could be sillier? It simply meant that more testing needed to be done at airports to make sure that people were not walking on board airplanes with bombs on their feet disguised as shoes rather than with legitimate shoes. Had the government followed the McCain “solution,â€