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Subject: Re: We're royally fucked


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Anne
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Date Posted: 05:23:25 06/28/02 Fri
In reply to: Alan 's message, "We're royally fucked" on 19:40:21 06/27/02 Thu
 Sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, if you're doing something illegal to begin with (and drugs *are* illegal, and drugs in public schools just plain shouldn't be tolerated), then you forfeit your "rights".

I have a right for my children to go to public school and not have to worry about illegal drug exposure.

>06/27: AP: Court OKs Random Drug Tests in Schools
>
>"The court stopped short of allowing random tests for
>any student, but several justices have indicated they
>are interested in answering that question at some
>point."
>
>*shudder*
>
>First the Patriot Act, then military tribunals, then
>the admonition from on high to "watch what you say",
>then the Padilla case...and I'm surely leaving out
>many other examples.
>
>I wonder if it would be easier had we not enjoyed a
>brief period of a few decades where civil liberties
>were actually taken seriously. If things had never
>changed since, say, 1940, maybe I'd just be resigned
>to the status quo or at least more inured. I expect
>I'd agitate for change, but at least it wouldn't be so
>depressing as it is to see all our recently won
>liberties go down the tubes thanks to "retro" remnants
>of that old-style mentality.
>
>I'm just sick about all this.
>
>Alan
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Re: We're royally fuckedPsychoSquirrel08:01:31 06/28/02 Fri
Re: We're royally fuckedAstrid10:44:13 06/28/02 Fri
Re: We're royally fuckedAlan08:43:09 06/29/02 Sat

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