Pubdate: Sat, 26 Jan 2002
Source: Bucks County Courier Times (PA)
Copyright: 2002 Calkins Newspapers. Inc.
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Author: Mike Wiley

BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE WITH DRUG DOGS

If effectiveness is your moral compass, then why not start house to 
house searches of all citizens by the DEA?

Regarding your editorial on using drug-sniffing dogs in schools, your 
logic is troubling. You state "If the searches are effective, we'd 
like to see all districts institute them."

If effectiveness is your moral compass, then why not start house to 
house searches of all citizens by the DEA? I'm certain that this 
would be quite effective in eliminating many drugs. And as for noting 
the Supreme Court's support for the drug dogs in schools, just a 
cursory glance at history shows the fallibility of that noble body 
(support of slavery, segragation, etc) .

In the final analysis, we are teaching our children that government 
can and should use the most extreme measures to protect us from 
ourselves. We should instead be teaching them the wisdom of those 
like Frederick Douglass who said, "Find out just what people will 
quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and 
wrong which will be imposed on them."

Mike Wiley
Marshall, Tx.
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MAP posted-by: Josh