INTRUSIVE DRUG TESTS

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 in the name of "the drug problem" which, in reality,
is a prohibition problem.

Worse yet, drug testing will encourage people to use harder, more
addictive, destructive and deadly drugs because they are water soluble and
harder to detect via urine tests.

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, the politicians
themselves et al 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