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From: callisto@blake.acs.washington.edu (Finn)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Koop on drug testing in the workplace
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Date: 17 Jan 90 05:40:20 GMT
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In article <51002@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>How sad.  Koop is so popular, and they're approaching this so diagonally
>[he's trying to help Orrin Hatch get a "federal standards for drug testing"
>bill pushed through], that he may well pull it off.  After that it will be
>VERY hard to stop, since it has now been defined to be "not an intrusion" to
>require that employees pass regular drug tests.  How very very sad for us
 
 (and lots of other reports of atrocities both here and in the press..)

 I am beginning to think that the bill of rights and other legal provisions
only apply when there is significant public pressure that they be applied.
 Apparantly a few people are on some kind of Control kick and have enough
of the rest of the population fooled or apathetic enough that they are going
to be able to continue this nonsense.
 Perhaps the only way to end this nonsense is to encourage them for a while.
 Perhaps when there are mandatory blood tests for school kids and routine
stop and search blokades on the roads, people will come to their senses.
 Of course, history shows that even when ones neighbors are being packed into
boxcars and sent off to "Kindler Gentler Camps", most folks will just thank
God it isn't THEM (this time) and remark about how well the trains are
staying on schedule...