Pubdate: Fri, 30 Jan 2004
Source: Detroit News (MI)
Copyright: 2004, The Detroit News
Contact:  http://detnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/126
Author:  Marybelle Suczek
Reference:  http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n157/a08.html
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LESS INTRUSIVE GOVERNMENT

The Detroit News is absolutely right that having to "prove one's innocence" 
turns the principles of due process on its head ("Congress Should Deny 
Funding for School Drug Tests, Jan. 24). Treating children like criminals 
sends the wrong message about what we expect from them. Not to mention the 
trauma created by false positives from over-the-counter medicines and 
legally prescribed medications.

I thought Republicans believed in smaller and less intrusive government. 
This, like spending millions to promote marriage, is not what government 
should be doing.

Marybelle Suczek

Grosse Pointe
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