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JACOB SULLUM: The Secret Silencing of Pain Treatment Activist Siobhan Reynolds. She?s no relation?

By Glenn Reynolds

JACOB SULLUM: The Secret Silencing of Pain Treatment Activist Siobhan Reynolds. She’s no relation, but she’s getting screwed. “By speaking out in defense of a Kansas doctor and nurse accused of running a ‘pill mill,’ pain treatment activist Siobhan Reynolds annoyed the federal prosecutor assigned to the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya Treadway was so angry that in April 2008 she sought a court order telling Reynolds to shut up. . . . Reynolds, who founded the Pain Relief Network (PRN) in 2003 to highlight the chilling effect of drug law enforcement on the practice of medicine, evidently has a talent for getting under the skin of people in power. But that is not a crime. By treating it as such, Treadway used grand jury secrecy to cloak an unconstitutional vendetta.”

I believe that this is a lawless act, though performed by legal institutions.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).