DRUG TESTING COUNTERS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

Carlton E. Allen (Letters, March 4) is proud his son is in the Commerce
school system, in which random drug testing is being proposed.

Wonderful. But why stop there? Strip searches would be even more efficient.

Sadly, there is that bothersome piece of fluff, the Fourth Amendment, which
was probably sneaked into the Bill of Rights by liberal lily-livered,
soft-on-crime pantywaists. It reads, "The right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

So, like so many good and true Americans, Allen wants to do away wholesale
with constitutional protections of individual rights. Perhaps he would like
to set an example by submitting publicly, every day for a month, to a strip
search. That would really be courageous.

Francis Assaf