Obama's "No Fly" List for FedEx and UPS

by Wendy McElroy
Mar. 22, 2013

The Obama administration is notorious for crony capitalism, through which big businesses reap huge riches by virtue of their cozy association with government. Big oil, big car companies, big agrobusinesses, big banks, and big drug corporations are among the legally privileged cronies who are profiting at the expense of nonprivileged competitors and of customers who pay higher prices.

Now the Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to institute the shipping version of a "no fly" list on behalf of the big pharmaceutical companies and in the name of the war on drugs. The DOJ wants America's two largest courier/delivery services to open and report on the shipments from online pharmacies, allegedly to staunch the flow of illegal pharmaceuticals. Here's the catch: the DOJ wants packages opened even when there is no reason to suspect illegal contents.

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