Pubdate: Sun, 13 May 2001 Source: Oklahoman, The (OK) Copyright: 2001 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Contact: http://www.oklahoman.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/318 Author: Myron Von Hollingsworth Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/testing.htm (Drug Testing) DRUG TESTS INTRUSION Regarding "Drug tests misguided, litigants say" (news article, May 4): 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. Hitler and his Nazi youth groups would be proud. 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 and the politicians themselves. 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 - --- MAP posted-by: Terry Liittschwager