I will not piss away my liberty for temporary financial security.

There, now you’re free.

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Most “pre employment” drug tests, however, such as those typically required by low-wage corporate employers such as Walmart, Home Depot and similar companies, are NOT controlled or required by federal regulations. They only need to comply with that company’s own policy and procedures. (These tests are voluntary, because a company gets federal contracts, or just likes a “drug free workplace” and an opportunity to get more controllable, docile workers. In some states, there is a slight discount in Worker’s Compensation premiums like 5% offered by some insurance carriers).

In any case, these “faux” voluntary “preemployment” drug tests tend to be as cheap as possible for the company (the instant test panels rather than lab work) and there is typically no requirement of direct observation.

But if you’re a ex-convict, a pilot or a long-haul truck driver who is covered by US DOT or DOJ/BOP requirements, expect the full monty when you’re tested and leave the Wizzenator at home.

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The kind that Walter Lippmann in his Preface to Morals warned us about, one in which, to stop its’ fearful hands from shaking, will accept manacles…and also attempt to place those manacles upon those who neither need nor want them, as they are quite able to regulate their own behavior based upon personal convictions, and don’t require anyone else to do their thinking for them.

That’s what prohibs mean to me. They’re the pathetic sorts that want a Big Mommy or Big Daddy to tell them what to do…or worse, harbor a secret desire to be that Big Mommy or Big Daddy. Authoritarianism invariably stems from the fear of its’ adherents that the freedom of others will cause damage to themselves, and so that freedom must be throttled. Hence the drug law manacles they clap upon their own wrists, and demand we wear as well.

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Which sounds strange to me, because I figure that such a situation with major transportation employees would have already resulted in firing and no more tests.

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Stuff like this reminds me why I always liked that David Crosby song… “What Are Their Names”

I wonder who they are
The men who really run this land
And I wonder why they run it
With such a thoughtless hand

What are their names
And on what streets do they live
I’d like to ride right over
This afternoon and give
Them a piece of my mind
About peace for mankind
Peace is not an awful lot to ask

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Elimination of this rule ought to be taken up on the House floor as a new bill. Maybe Ron Paul could do it. Anyone who resists eliminating the rule could be ridiculed mercilessly on the late-night TV mockery circuit.

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on a serious note, how is this legal? I mean this is a partial strip search. How is this not a violation of the 4th amendment?

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