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Date: | Thu, 15 Dec 1994 10:56:13 EST |
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Rick,
Even police can't search people without probable cause, its
one of the tenets of our legal system, and, I think,
unreasonable search and seizure is unconstitutional.
From what I can understand, there is no probable cause
associated with these drug tests (with their close analogy
to "searches.") So, by analogy, should all of our
apartments/houses be searched by the administration of the
museum for evidence of illegal behaviour?
I can't understand what the difference between this
obviously absurd suggestion (searches of our house), and the
apparently wide-spread acceptance of drug searches. Can you
help me with this? Or does the blanket condemnation of
drug-use you express justify this suspension of our rights.
Had any drinks lately? Cigarette, coffee? Do drug tests test
for alchoholism (manifestly more dangerous and widespread
than casual use of something like marijuana)? Or is it the
illegality that's at issue, not the potential impairment?
Well, then again, back to the argument about searching your
apartment...
Eric Siegel
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