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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-11 01:57 PM
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44. What rights are long gone?
Please explain your statement. It's completely contradictory. Drug tests mandated by the government are a "search" as defined by the Fourth Amendment, and at least one Federal Court has ALREADY ruled that requiring drug tests for public benefits is unconstitutional.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/law/publicbenefi/marchwinskiv/

So tell me...does the fact that these kinds of laws are blatantly unconstitutional (and have been ruled as such by a court with the authority to make that determination) mean anything to you?

You reframe my position as the strawman of "defending drug addicts". I could be just as negative and say that you're promoting the violation of the Constitutional rights of poor people. The difference, of course, is that I'm actually *correct*.
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