I'd never heard of this before. Apparently during Prohibition, the U.S. government deliberately poisoned industrial alcohol supplies. The idea was to discourage thieves from stealing and selling the industrial alcohol alcohol to drinkers – but they did it anyway. Some estimates place the resulting death toll as high as 10,000 Americans.
Yet another reason for citizens to keep their right to bear arms...
It's called "Denatured Alcohol" and is clearly labeled "POISON" so anyone stupid enough to drink it deserves what they get!
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Also, the bootleggers who made the fake stuff used to spike their weak brew with the poison, so it wasn't just the government that did it.
If the government did it without a warning, then they would be guilty, of course. But it's still done, and with a warnining, as I've shown above. As bad as the government is, there's no reason to blame them for everything, especially when it wasn't all their fault.