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By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) An entire generation of people now as old as their twenties and older grew up with so many intrusions into their privacy that too many of them probably accept such a state of affairs unquestioningly, and thus are more willing to impose the same oppression on others.  Unlike when I was in high school, today it is common in many high schools to have metal detectors and in even more schools mandatory urine-drug testing for intermural athletes (which makes me all the more unenthusiastic about spectator sports, although I still enjoy watching a good lacrosse game and some of the televised daring non-ball sports (e.g. wild obstacle courses, which I hope do not involve drug testing)).  No job I have applied for (including several retail jobs while a student) ever involved a drug test, unless the urine sample I supplied during my medical exam at the then-named Irving Trust Company -- where I worked as a commercial bank auditor the year before law school -- included a drug test rather than a test for my health (it was 1985, which makes it possible that I wasn't being tested for drugs)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 16, 2008 (boomark / email).