Repost: Pee-Pee Police Procure Public Payola

Although only 5% of public schools currently force students to submit to random urine tests in order to participate in extra-curricular activities, Uncle Sam is on a crusade to extract every drop of yellow gold from bladders of children everywhere. The Office of National Drug Control Policy has been sponsoring seminars in school districts across the country, offering tax dollars to districts that comply and implement urine monitoring, all in the name of "protecting the children".

Please don't get me wrong, folks. I don't want to see children become addicted to drugs, but I also know for a fact that many of our schools aren't as safe as our shopping malls (it seems children are less valuable than property), when it comes to preventing random shooters, bomb-wielding terrorists, and escaped pedophiles that might wander onto campus (or get a job there). So if tax dollars are going to be used to protect children at school, isn't freedom from violent predators and pedophiles more important than being drug-free?

Speaking of pedophiles, it just so happens that many child rapists are further perverted by a not-so-golden fetish - watching children urinate (unfortunately it's true). Wouldn't they relish the opportunity to earn $15 per hour to watch children squat and pee all day? And we know from numerous recent news reports that teachers and school officials are not automatically above raping a child or two (which makes sense, as predators gravitate to positions of power). Urine collector would be a pedophile's dream job, no?

As a survivor of child abuse, I find it appalling that school officials will force kids (one in five of whom will be or have been sexually assaulted, and may be retraumatized by this coerced urination) to drop their drawers in the vicinity of adult stangers, without any probable cause or judicial (or for that matter, parental) oversight. Mark my words - justified lawsuits will be the inevitable result of devastated kids.

Consider this... If you are a parent, do you let your child go into bathroom stalls alone with strangers? Do you let them tinkle in the immediate vicinity of distant family members you don't know so well? Then why in the world would you trust Big Brother in the potty stall alone with your kid?

A more moderate approach would allow public school districts to make these drug tests available to parents who request them when they notice warning signs in their own kids. But nothing about our current federal administration is moderate - they understand brute force. And ironically, their heavy-handed approach may drive kids away from the very extra-curricular activities shown to reduce substance abuse.

You may access the following link to learn more about the federal potty police, and to let your public drug officials hear your voice:
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/studentdrugtesting/index.html

PLEASE REPOST!

Your Iconoclast,

Chris Largen
www.Building-Block.org