Pubdate: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 Source: Daily Independent, The (KY) Copyright: 2002 The Daily Independent, Inc Contact: http://www.dailyindependent.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1573 Author: Myron Von Hollingsworth DRUG TESTING SHOULD BE UP TO PARENTS Drug testing of children should be between the child and the parents -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 governments' war on people's privacy, personal liberties and dignity in the name of "the drug problem" which, in reality, is a prohibition problem. Hitler and his Nazi youth groups would be proud. 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. Myron Von Hollingsworth Fort Worth, Texas - --- MAP posted-by: Beth