Welcome to Bush's America

Question: How can you, normal citizen without too much money at your disposal, be busted for manufacturing weapons of mass destruction?

Answer: Run a methamphetamine lab.

As reprehensible as producing drugs is, shouldn't laws against drug producers remain within the jursidiction of drug laws? But in North Caolina, a man with a meth lab was busted for making weapons of mass destruction because meth is considered a "chemical weapon." How long will it take for this "logic" to be applied to growing pot?

In California, federal prosecuters charged a man with "terrorism using a weapon of mass destruction" because a pipe bomb exploded in his lap. What exactly is the definition of "weapon of mass destruction"? I mean, if a pipe bomb can explode in a man's lab and it doesn't kill that man at point blank range, the destructive power of such a weapon is pretty weak, don'tcha think?

But, ever since the Patriot Act became law, it has been creating new definitions of terrorism, and the act that was supposed to curb terrorism is now being used against normal citizens, for normal crimes. Gee, who didn't see that one coming?