Re: dad campaigns to stop school drug testing

"Guido Marx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Bob LeChevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Jenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > "ColoradoSkiBum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> : Not likely.  Drug testing where there is a legitimate
government
> > >> : purpose (in this case setting a good example for kids)
> > >>
> > >> What a crock of shit.  What next, they get to follow us around on
weekends?
> > >> To make sure we're "setting a good example for kids"?
Oops--OMG--I just
> > >> used a cuss word in a newsgroup post--what a poor example!
> > >
> > >if we want to 'set a good example for kids' we will protest the
idea
> > >that they should be treated like criminals with no cause
> >
> > Since non-criminal adults are regularly subjected to the same
> > treatment (either by government or by employers who have no
> > constitutional restrictions), it is the attitude that drug testing
is
> > "treating like a criminal with no cause" that needs to change.
>
> Why ?  You ARE being treated like a criminal.  The purpose of drug
> testing is for you to show your employer that you are not using
> illegal drugs.  So - since a random test - or a blanket test, is
> performed with no reason for your employer to think that you are - you
> are being asked to prove yourself innocent.  This is indeed "treating
> you like a criminal".  Indeed - the underlying assumption here is that
> you ARE a criminal.
>
> > Having to get a physical is not being "treated like a criminal"
> > either.
>
> If the purpose of a physical was to find out if you were commiting
> illegal acts - then that too would be "treating you like a criminal".
>
> BTW - I've never had an employer ask me to have a physical.  Students
> are required to have them before engaging in sports - or before going
> away to camp, etc.  But, this is reasonable.  A person shouldn't
> engage in sports without knowing if there is perhaps an underlying
> physical problem which might cause you harm.
>
> The pupose of drug testing is to threaten people who take
> non-societally-approved drugs.  It isn't an accident that drug-testing
> discriminates most heavily against marijuana users.  Those are the
> people that drug-testing is primarily aimed at.  Which is ironic,
> since marijuana is probably the most benign of all the legal or
> illegal drugs available.  The coffee which most every employer
> provides their employees is an addictive drug which poses a much
> larger health risk to the employees than marijuana.
>

Yea well tell the government they can't drink coffee and they will shoot
you.
Terrorists.

voodoo disease 666

Death to the christian military
> Guido