Regulate Baby Formula as Terror Threat?

Sudafed and similar medicines have been increasingly regulated because some of the ingredients are used in the production of methamphetamine. Law-abiding citizens have been forced to deal with the inconvenience and legally questionable requirement to produce driver's licenses and other i.d. in order to buy over-the-counter allergy medicine. Some stores keep logbooks recording individuals' purchases of these legal and necessary medicines.

Some senators have pushed this hyper regulation as part of the War on Terror, saying that drug sales are linked to terrorism. The very same senators who insist on collecting personal data on law-abiding Sudafed users refuse, of course, to secure our borders against illegal entry or to require photo identification of voters to prevent voter fraud. Strange priorities.

Now it turns out that powdered baby formula is being used by drug producers to dilute and thus sell more methamphetamine. Already, some stores are putting the powdered formula behind the counter to prevent shoplifting.

Will senators be racing to add the regulation and identification of baby formula users to the Patriot Act, along with the names of those who need to use Sudafed?

I doubt it...which just goes to show that the senators' selective regulation is rather silly and hypocritical.