Pubdate: Sat, 30 Mar 2002
Source: Northwest Florida Daily News (FL)
Copyright: 2002 Northwest Florida Daily News
Contact:  http://www.nwfdailynews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/313
Author: Myron Von Hollingsworth

QUESTION THE LIES

Re: Your March 23 editorial ("School drug tests and student rights").

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.

Dare to question the lies and the lying drug warriors!

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 is, in 
reality, a prohibition problem. Hitler and his Nazi youth groups would've 
been 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 Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Drug 
Enforcement Administration, the CIA, the FBI, 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 U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Myron Von Hollingsworth

Fort Worth, Texas
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