News (Media Awareness Project) - US WI: PUB LTE: Drug Tests Un-American |
Title: | US WI: PUB LTE: Drug Tests Un-American |
Published On: | 2002-07-14 |
Source: | Racine Journal Times, The (WI) |
Fetched On: | 2008-01-22 23:27:21 |
DRUG TESTS UN-AMERICAN
Drug testing is un-American because guilt is assumed until the test proves
innocence, our current conservative totalitarian congress is extremely
irresponsible, and we the people's civil liberties are suffering.
This particular privacy violation costs businesses $1.2 billion a year for
urinalysis of their workers, the Military is notorious for their strict
drug test. (Note that marijuana helped soldiers in times of war) now it's
becoming popular for parents to drug test their children perfect lets
break-up the family. Cut down the lines of communication and sneak around
spying on our kids, let's violate the child's privacy, we use D.A.R.E like
the Salem witch hunts to get our children to turn in their parents in.
Many high schools already do random searches on students not for weapons,
but for drugs. After all the Constitution has failed to protect children in
the classroom, why not expand? Students have lost First Fourth and Fifth
Amendment rights and I think it's absurd. We are sacrificing too many
important rights by allowing drug testing to continue until this unjust
drug-testing frenzy is put to an end, workers, military, service people,
parolees, and yes children need to learn how to protect themselves from the
drug test.
The government has taken the drug war to a ludicrous level. I'm an activist
against the war on (some drug) laws created by the Legislature to protect
me from myself. It demonstrates how totalitarian this country has become.
Every nine seconds someone somewhere gets arrested for marijuana
possession. What a waste of police work when they should be protecting
Americans from real crime. Its about time we "just say no to drug testing."
Donald Lyons
Racine
Drug testing is un-American because guilt is assumed until the test proves
innocence, our current conservative totalitarian congress is extremely
irresponsible, and we the people's civil liberties are suffering.
This particular privacy violation costs businesses $1.2 billion a year for
urinalysis of their workers, the Military is notorious for their strict
drug test. (Note that marijuana helped soldiers in times of war) now it's
becoming popular for parents to drug test their children perfect lets
break-up the family. Cut down the lines of communication and sneak around
spying on our kids, let's violate the child's privacy, we use D.A.R.E like
the Salem witch hunts to get our children to turn in their parents in.
Many high schools already do random searches on students not for weapons,
but for drugs. After all the Constitution has failed to protect children in
the classroom, why not expand? Students have lost First Fourth and Fifth
Amendment rights and I think it's absurd. We are sacrificing too many
important rights by allowing drug testing to continue until this unjust
drug-testing frenzy is put to an end, workers, military, service people,
parolees, and yes children need to learn how to protect themselves from the
drug test.
The government has taken the drug war to a ludicrous level. I'm an activist
against the war on (some drug) laws created by the Legislature to protect
me from myself. It demonstrates how totalitarian this country has become.
Every nine seconds someone somewhere gets arrested for marijuana
possession. What a waste of police work when they should be protecting
Americans from real crime. Its about time we "just say no to drug testing."
Donald Lyons
Racine
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