Pubdate: Mon, 10 Oct 2005
Source: Oregonian, The (Portland, OR)
Copyright: 2005 The Oregonian
Contact:  http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/324
Author: William W. Webb Jr.
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/testing.htm (Drug Test)

DRUG TESTS INVADE PRIVACY

DeForest Rathbone of the National Institute of Citizen Anti-drug 
Policy (Letters, Oct. 5) may be comfortable with forcing drug tests 
on schoolchildren, but I am not.

Children in school now will one day shape the policy and values of 
our country, and cannot be conditioned to accept such blatant and 
indiscriminate invasions of privacy.

Our Founding Fathers amended the U.S. Constitution to secure the 
people from general searches, the very epitome of which is requiring 
drug screening for all schoolchildren.

William W. Webb Jr.
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