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37. Drug testing for ANYONE is a gross violation of Constitutional rights

Fri Mar 1, 2013, 12:50 AM

Mar 2013

We have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Random forced drug testing is a violation of that right. It is unreasonable to demand proof of what is inside one's body and unreasonable to demand that one make water or give blood to determine that. Immediate health and safety concerns may be exceptions in certain cercumstances, but it troubles me deeply that we have grown to accept this drug testing outrage for so long. There really has been very little resistance to this police state tactic and that is tragic.
It is all about Marijuana, of course. You all know that, don't you? Every thing else can be out of your system in hours. And yet we allow it to continue not only without resistance, but with support and judgementalism about who should be tested. Everyone, right?
I say no one. No one. No one. Feck the bosses and their corporate police state. Feck 'em all.

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Maine Democrat submits bill to drug-test welfare recipients [View all] Maine-ah Feb 2013 OP

Ditto WTF! elleng Feb 2013 #1

Fucking idiot. bluedigger Feb 2013 #2

Like everyone else is? Since when is ME testing everyone? MADem Feb 2013 #22

Well how about them? They are getting paid by the citizens. They are government employees. southernyankeebelle Feb 2013 #29

Absolutely! FarPoint Mar 2013 #33

Yep. However, it really is a waste of money. FL has done it and come to find out it southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #47

Sorry....I didn't identify properly...my bad. FarPoint Mar 2013 #48

It's ok. Another old saying "A Pig can't smell it's own hole". Republicans are pigs. southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #50

Hey, now! IrishAyes Mar 2013 #67

Actually I love pigs. In Germany pigs are good luck. I collect them. I just thought southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #71

This message was self-deleted by its author sammy27932003 Mar 2013 #73

Random drug testing should be imposed AnotherMcIntosh Feb 2013 #3

Random hell! bluedigger Feb 2013 #5

OK. I'm in with that. AnotherMcIntosh Feb 2013 #10

And test for alcohol!!! Kelvin Mace Feb 2013 #14

LOL! bluedigger Feb 2013 #17

Allen's makes a coffee brandy? I never knew! MADem Feb 2013 #23

You have no idea... bluedigger Feb 2013 #24

How could I have missed this? I need to get out more! MADem Feb 2013 #25

Just stop at the State liquor store on 95 in NH. bluedigger Feb 2013 #28

I pass that store all the time when I go up to northern ME... MADem Mar 2013 #72

Brandy IrishAyes Mar 2013 #68

they like it mixed with 1/2 & 1/2 or milk. Maine-ah Feb 2013 #32

Sort of like a downscale Baileys! MADem Mar 2013 #36

Blender it with some cheap vanilla ice cream Mopar151 Mar 2013 #39

With a stiff penalty to booth roxy1234 Mar 2013 #56

Fuck her MotherPetrie Feb 2013 #4

Or, as Republicans call it... LTR Feb 2013 #6

And this is a DEMOCRAT? RT_Fanatic Feb 2013 #7

Rec for wider exposure. "everybody else" is drug tested? WTF? uppityperson Feb 2013 #8

They don't care because it was never about saving money . . . markpkessinger Feb 2013 #12

Also about MAKING money for whoever owns the firm responsible for testing... Blue_Tires Mar 2013 #57

"Also about MAKING money for whoever owns the firm ..." That seems to be right. AnotherMcIntosh Mar 2013 #59

IIRC, this was tried in Florida and the cost of the testing Arkansas Granny Feb 2013 #9

Fuck the Deficits!! We will spare NO expense 99th_Monkey Feb 2013 #11

Not only that Kelvin Mace Feb 2013 #15

The author of that Huffington Post article over-stated what the 11th Circuit did. AnotherMcIntosh Mar 2013 #60

How to respond: "I'll take a drug test if you'll take an IQ test." Comrade Grumpy Feb 2013 #13

Random drug testing violates the Fourth Amendment. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2013 #16

what if your boss is the gov't? ie. the military. littlewolf Feb 2013 #18

The civilian Federal government doesn't really drug test. bluedigger Feb 2013 #31

Primary them. nt onehandle Feb 2013 #19

we can't! you don't understand. try and be sensible for gawds sake!!1 frylock Feb 2013 #26

but being back on subject: littlewolf Feb 2013 #20

I would think timdog44 Feb 2013 #21

Great point! I suggest she fill her pee cup in public so we can tell if it's really hers, too. freshwest Mar 2013 #44

Some lawmaker in Kansas timdog44 Mar 2013 #45

They're really arguing over disrespecting humans and treating them as animals. freshwest Mar 2013 #61

Sorry about the headache. Very aggravating. timdog44 Mar 2013 #62

Thanks. And agree with you on all your points. freshwest Mar 2013 #63

Thank you IrishAyes Mar 2013 #69

Thank you. Today is a better day. I hope that people will reason this out with open minds. freshwest Mar 2013 #70

that dime is getting thinner and thinner frylock Feb 2013 #27

What these bills are all about is convincing people nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #30

Damn it, it's poverty that CAUSES the drug use, not the other way around. Ken Burch Mar 2013 #34

what IS this garbage??? Skittles Mar 2013 #35

Drug testing for ANYONE is a gross violation of Constitutional rights Proletariatprincess Mar 2013 #37

Every study has shown that welfare recipients have lower incidences of drug use Fearless Mar 2013 #38

Linky? 1983law Mar 2013 #40

Here you go. PotatoChip Mar 2013 #53

Rock on 1983law Mar 2013 #65

Despicable davidthegnome Mar 2013 #41

I don't think the right reframed it better. The US always had a powerful puritanical streak. Selatius Mar 2013 #42

Well Bigredhunk Mar 2013 #43

This is nonsense, and it is isn't gonna fly. RBInMaine Mar 2013 #46

I hope a REAL Dem. primaries her, come the spring of 2014. PotatoChip Mar 2013 #54

She actually has been pretty progressive on most things, but this is just weird. RBInMaine Mar 2013 #64

So the "Democrat" representing Ed Muskie's hometown is a co-sponsor? WTF indeed. Scuba Mar 2013 #49

Let's drug test the politicians first! They, are the ones that can cause real harm to millions of RKP5637 Mar 2013 #51

Goodness! Turbineguy Mar 2013 #52

What a damn waste of money, too. mainer Mar 2013 #55

Those who test positive They_Live Mar 2013 #58

Sickening IrishAyes Mar 2013 #66