You know the drug has hit home when dying cancer patients are being robbed and beaten savagely for their pain-killing narcotics. As if that weren’t bad enough, the media put out deliberately redacted stories to prevent us “little people” from knowing what happened.
A Fredericksburg cancer patient is recovering after being brutally beaten during a robbery Monday.
Police said three men knocked on 43-year-old Eddie Butler’s door Monday night, in the 300 block of Altoona Drive. When the victim answered, the men pointed a gun at Butler and demanded money and prescription drugs.
Prescription drugs?
Technically that’s true, but why the euphemism? Clearly the people who edit these stories don’t want the public to know the motive, which is a very simple economic one
Pills that cost 50 cents at the drug store are worth 50 dollars on the street. The drugs themselves are basically worthless.
What make them “valuable” are laws which make them ever harder for addicts to get and drive up street prices.
That false price differential caused a poor dying man to be beaten within an inch of his life, and it isn’t even reported.
Police said Butler resisted, and the suspects responded by beating him with a metal baton. “They went in my pockets took my rent money and the meds I had on me and took off,” Butler told 8News reporter Nate Eaton.
Investigators were appalled at the brutal nature of the attack.
“Because of the victims weakened condition due to his medical problems there was no need for these three assailants to attack him with a weapon,” said Natatia Bledsoe, spokesperson for Fredericksburg police.
Investigators believe the suspects knew that Butler, in the final stages of throat cancer, had prescription medication. The suspects were seen fleeing the scene in a white SUV.
There they go again with “prescription medication.”
Why is honest reporting so feared?
And why are people being beaten and often killed over essentially worthless substances?