Pubdate: Tue, 13 Nov 2001
Source: Daily Independent, The (KY)
Copyright: 2001 The Daily Independent, Inc
Contact:  http://www.dailyindependent.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1573
Author: Myron Von Hollingsworth
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/testing.htm (Drug Testing)

DRUG TESTING SHOULD BE UP TO PARENTS

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. 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 politicians themselves and 
others can't live without the budget justification and forfeiture benefits 
that prohibition affords them.

Myron Von Hollingsworth

Fort Worth, Texas
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