DRUG TESTS INTRUSION

Regarding "Drug tests misguided, litigants say" (news article, May 4): Drug
testing of children should be between the child and the parent -- with
their own money -- without intrusion by the schools or the state. Stop
asking the government to raise other people's children with my tax dollars.

Making people urinate on demand beginning when they are very young
desensitizes them to the government's war on people's privacy, personal
liberties and dignity. Hitler and his Nazi youth groups would be proud.

Maybe the corrupt politicians and media are required to adhere to the party
line of prohibition because law enforcement, customs, the prison and
military industrial complex, the drug testing industry, the "drug
treatment" industry, the INS, the CIA, the FBI, the DEA and the politicians
themselves. can't live without the budget justification, not to mention the
invisible profits, bribery, corruption and forfeiture benefits that
prohibition affords them.

The drug war also promotes, justifies and perpetuates racist enforcement
policies and is diminishing many freedoms and liberties that are supposed
to be inalienable according to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Myron Von Hollingsworth, Fort Worth, Texas