Court Approves Random Drug Tests in Public High Schools

The goal is to reduce drug use. If kids are smoking pot and want to do
extracurricular activities after school,
then taking kids out of extracurricular [supervised and positive]
activities because they are smoking pot only
leaves them with more [unsupervised] time to do drugs [negative
activities]. I don't understand it, it's another
ridiculous assumption. If you tell a kid he can't do the school play
because he smoked pot then I don't get
what they are supposed to do instead? Isn't it obvious to every human
being on the planet that they are going
to smoke more pot?

I'm all about banning steroids from athletics but then again, I'm for
banning organized athletics in general, to
be honest. Can't they make rules barring ignorant boys who laugh at fart
jokes and torture fat kids from
organized activities? Or is that "moral relativism" whereas pot-smoking
is a moral absolute? Oh and also,
if kids pledge allegiance to the flag that makes them moral and
responsible god-fearing citizens, a ritual so
neccessary that it is vital that kids from polytheistic or atheistic
religious persuasions should be singled out
and ridiculed every morning. And don't forget to spend money, kids!

Preaching to the Converted,
-e.




lewis lacook wrote:

>hello, amerikkka!
>
>
>
>Court Approves Random Drug Tests in Public High
>Schools
>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>
>Filed at 10:23 a.m. ET
>
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court approved random
>drug tests for many public high school students
>Thursday, ruling that schools' interest in ridding
>their campuses of drugs outweighs an individual's
>right to privacy.
>
>The 5-4 decision would allow the broadest drug testing
>the court has yet permitted for young people whom
>authorities have no particular reason to suspect of
>wrongdoing. It applies to students who join
>competitive after-school activities or teams, a
>category that includes many if not most middle-school
>and high-school students.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Previously these tests had been allowed only for
>student athletes.
>
>``We find that testing students who participate in
>extracurricular activities is a reasonably effective
>means of addressing the school district's legitimate
>concerns in preventing, deterring and detecting drug
>use,'' Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for himself,
>Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices
>Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen Breyer.
>
>The court stopped short of allowing random tests for
>any student, whether or not involved in
>extracurricular activities, but several justices have
>indicated they are interested in answering that
>question at some point.
>
>The court ruled against a former Oklahoma high school
>honor student who competed on an academic quiz team
>and sang in the choir. Lindsay Earls, a self-described
>``goodie two-shoes,'' tested negative but sued over
>what she called a humiliating and accusatory policy.
>
>The Pottawatomie County school system had considered
>testing all students. Instead, it settled for testing
>only those involved in extracurricular activities on
>the theory that by voluntarily representing the
>school, those students had a lower expectation of
>privacy than did students at large.
>
>The ruling is a follow-up to a 1995 case, in which the
>court allowed random urine tests for student athletes.
>In that case, the court found that the school had a
>pervasive drug problem and that athletes were among
>the users. The court also found that athletes had less
>expectation of privacy.
>
>Thursday's ruling is the logical next step, the
>Oklahoma school and its backers said, and the court
>majority agreed.
>
>``The particular testing program upheld today is not
>reasonable, it is capricious, even perverse,'' Justice
>Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the dissenters.
>
>In a brief, separate dissent, Justices Sandra Day
>O'Connor and David Souter said they disagreed with the
>court's ruling in 1995 and disagree now.
>
>Of the estimated 14 million American high school
>students, better than 50 percent probably participate
>in some form of organized after-school activity,
>educators say. The trend is toward ever greater
>extracurricular participation, largely because
>colleges consider it a factor in admissions.
>
>Earls and the American Civil Liberties Union argued
>that the Oklahoma school board could not show that
>drugs were a big problem at Tecumseh High School. She
>claimed the ``suspicionless'' drug tests violated the
>Constitution's guarantee against unreasonable
>searches.
>
>Pottawatomie educators, backed by the Bush
>administration, argued that any drug problem is a
>concern. Also, the school said, the drug tests were a
>deterrent for students who knew they could not
>participate in favorite activities unless they stayed
>clean.
>
>During oral arguments in the case in March, a Bush
>administration lawyer said universal testing would be
>constitutional, even though a lawyer for the Oklahoma
>school said she doubted that would be so.
>
>Numerous schools installed drug testing programs for
>athletes after the 1995 ruling, but wider drug testing
>remains relatively rare among the nation's 15,500
>public school districts. Lower courts have reached
>differing conclusions about the practice.
>
>The Tecumseh testing program ran for part of two
>school years, beginning in 1998. It was suspended
>after Earls and another student sued. Earls is now a
>student at Dartmouth College.
>
>The Tecumseh policy covered a range of voluntary clubs
>and sports, including the Future Farmers of America
>club, cheerleading and football. Students were tested
>at the beginning of the school year. Thereafter, tests
>were random.
>
>Overall, 505 high school students were tested for drug
>use. Three students, all of them athletes, tested
>positive.
>
>A federal appeals court ruled against the program,
>saying it took the Supreme Court's 1995 ruling too
>far. Sports are different from other extracurricular
>activities, the lower court said, and the school had
>not done enough to show that students who participated
>in those activities were abusing drugs.
>
>The school district appealed to the Supreme Court.
>
>The case is Board of Education of Independent School
>District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls,
>01-332.
>
>
>
>=====
>
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>
>
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In a message dated 6/27/2002 9:17:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> The goal is to reduce drug use.

Jesse Ventura once said, "organized religion is for weakminded people," which
is ironic because one's first reaction is not "pro wrestling is for
weakminded people too." Piss tests are ineluctable! The nation is
officially convulsing in a psychotic break of urinalysisophilia.

Geniuses of all creeds however are committed to sanitization, if I recall.

However.

Max Herman,

The Genius 2000 Network
genius2000.net

++

Life's stressful enough with all that imposed fear around terrorism that
Bush and his dip-heads keep dishing out to a very confused public. I declare
that kids are always being exploited by adults who pretend that they know
what's good for them when they actually know bugger all in reality, that's
if they actually got a conception of what reality is themselves, these so
called concerned parents and emotionally screwed up judges - yuk! Who wants
a poodle as a kid? An empty headed teenager to shove all one's misleading
assumptions into? Teenagers need to get together somehow and fight back
against these worthless moralists who are corrupt to the core with their
shallow hypocritical stance. Every parent could buy them a varied and
socially informed record collection for their young ones, like The Dead
Kennedys, Sarah Jones etc. I have always thought it to be a suspicious
thing, when children are emotionally blackmail and hoodwinked to swear
allegiance to a flag, whatever culture. Let them go through their own
discoveries, laziness, self & community exploration - leave them alone.

marc garrett




> The goal is to reduce drug use. If kids are smoking pot and want to do
> extracurricular activities after school,
> then taking kids out of extracurricular [supervised and positive]
> activities because they are smoking pot only
> leaves them with more [unsupervised] time to do drugs [negative
> activities]. I don't understand it, it's another
> ridiculous assumption. If you tell a kid he can't do the school play
> because he smoked pot then I don't get
> what they are supposed to do instead? Isn't it obvious to every human
> being on the planet that they are going
> to smoke more pot?
>
> I'm all about banning steroids from athletics but then again, I'm for
> banning organized athletics in general, to
> be honest. Can't they make rules barring ignorant boys who laugh at fart
> jokes and torture fat kids from
> organized activities? Or is that "moral relativism" whereas pot-smoking
> is a moral absolute? Oh and also,
> if kids pledge allegiance to the flag that makes them moral and
> responsible god-fearing citizens, a ritual so
> neccessary that it is vital that kids from polytheistic or atheistic
> religious persuasions should be singled out
> and ridiculed every morning. And don't forget to spend money, kids!
>
> Preaching to the Converted,
> -e.
>
>
>
>
> lewis lacook wrote:
>
> >hello, amerikkka!
> >
> >
> >
> >Court Approves Random Drug Tests in Public High
> >Schools
> >By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> >
> >
> >Filed at 10:23 a.m. ET
> >
> >
> >WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court approved random
> >drug tests for many public high school students
> >Thursday, ruling that schools' interest in ridding
> >their campuses of drugs outweighs an individual's
> >right to privacy.
> >
> >The 5-4 decision would allow the broadest drug testing
> >the court has yet permitted for young people whom
> >authorities have no particular reason to suspect of
> >wrongdoing. It applies to students who join
> >competitive after-school activities or teams, a
> >category that includes many if not most middle-school
> >and high-school students.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Previously these tests had been allowed only for
> >student athletes.
> >
> >``We find that testing students who participate in
> >extracurricular activities is a reasonably effective
> >means of addressing the school district's legitimate
> >concerns in preventing, deterring and detecting drug
> >use,'' Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for himself,
> >Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices
> >Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen Breyer.
> >
> >The court stopped short of allowing random tests for
> >any student, whether or not involved in
> >extracurricular activities, but several justices have
> >indicated they are interested in answering that
> >question at some point.
> >
> >The court ruled against a former Oklahoma high school
> >honor student who competed on an academic quiz team
> >and sang in the choir. Lindsay Earls, a self-described
> >``goodie two-shoes,'' tested negative but sued over
> >what she called a humiliating and accusatory policy.
> >
> >The Pottawatomie County school system had considered
> >testing all students. Instead, it settled for testing
> >only those involved in extracurricular activities on
> >the theory that by voluntarily representing the
> >school, those students had a lower expectation of
> >privacy than did students at large.
> >
> >The ruling is a follow-up to a 1995 case, in which the
> >court allowed random urine tests for student athletes.
> >In that case, the court found that the school had a
> >pervasive drug problem and that athletes were among
> >the users. The court also found that athletes had less
> >expectation of privacy.
> >
> >Thursday's ruling is the logical next step, the
> >Oklahoma school and its backers said, and the court
> >majority agreed.
> >
> >``The particular testing program upheld today is not
> >reasonable, it is capricious, even perverse,'' Justice
> >Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the dissenters.
> >
> >In a brief, separate dissent, Justices Sandra Day
> >O'Connor and David Souter said they disagreed with the
> >court's ruling in 1995 and disagree now.
> >
> >Of the estimated 14 million American high school
> >students, better than 50 percent probably participate
> >in some form of organized after-school activity,
> >educators say. The trend is toward ever greater
> >extracurricular participation, largely because
> >colleges consider it a factor in admissions.
> >
> >Earls and the American Civil Liberties Union argued
> >that the Oklahoma school board could not show that
> >drugs were a big problem at Tecumseh High School. She
> >claimed the ``suspicionless'' drug tests violated the
> >Constitution's guarantee against unreasonable
> >searches.
> >
> >Pottawatomie educators, backed by the Bush
> >administration, argued that any drug problem is a
> >concern. Also, the school said, the drug tests were a
> >deterrent for students who knew they could not
> >participate in favorite activities unless they stayed
> >clean.
> >
> >During oral arguments in the case in March, a Bush
> >administration lawyer said universal testing would be
> >constitutional, even though a lawyer for the Oklahoma
> >school said she doubted that would be so.
> >
> >Numerous schools installed drug testing programs for
> >athletes after the 1995 ruling, but wider drug testing
> >remains relatively rare among the nation's 15,500
> >public school districts. Lower courts have reached
> >differing conclusions about the practice.
> >
> >The Tecumseh testing program ran for part of two
> >school years, beginning in 1998. It was suspended
> >after Earls and another student sued. Earls is now a
> >student at Dartmouth College.
> >
> >The Tecumseh policy covered a range of voluntary clubs
> >and sports, including the Future Farmers of America
> >club, cheerleading and football. Students were tested
> >at the beginning of the school year. Thereafter, tests
> >were random.
> >
> >Overall, 505 high school students were tested for drug
> >use. Three students, all of them athletes, tested
> >positive.
> >
> >A federal appeals court ruled against the program,
> >saying it took the Supreme Court's 1995 ruling too
> >far. Sports are different from other extracurricular
> >activities, the lower court said, and the school had
> >not done enough to show that students who participated
> >in those activities were abusing drugs.
> >
> >The school district appealed to the Supreme Court.
> >
> >The case is Board of Education of Independent School
> >District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls,
> >01-332.
> >
> >
> >
> >=====
> >
> >http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&q=Lewis+LaCook
> >
> >
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anti-supreme court piss ruling buttons:



http://www.eastwest.nu/drugtest.jpg

http://www.eastwest.nu/drugtest2.jpg

http://www.eastwest.nu/drugtest3.jpg




to be stolen and spread.


[my piss is private].

fyi:

Why drug tests flunk
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/04/22/drug_testing/?x

Fooling the Bladder Cops
(Frequently Wanted Information on how to beat drug tests)
http://www.testclear.com/urine/dtfaq/

U.S. Constitution: Fourth Amendment
Fourth Amendment - Search and Seizure
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment04/



so much for feeling temporary glee about this:

Pledge of Allegiance ruled unconstitutional
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/26/pledgeofallegiance.ap/index.html

Children, Throw Down Your Books and Get Into the Streets!

-e.

furtherfield wrote:

>Life's stressful enough with all that imposed fear around terrorism that
>Bush and his dip-heads keep dishing out to a very confused public. I declare
>that kids are always being exploited by adults who pretend that they know
>what's good for them when they actually know bugger all in reality, that's
>if they actually got a conception of what reality is themselves, these so
>called concerned parents and emotionally screwed up judges - yuk! Who wants
>a poodle as a kid? An empty headed teenager to shove all one's misleading
>assumptions into? Teenagers need to get together somehow and fight back
>against these worthless moralists who are corrupt to the core with their
>shallow hypocritical stance. Every parent could buy them a varied and
>socially informed record collection for their young ones, like The Dead
>Kennedys, Sarah Jones etc. I have always thought it to be a suspicious
>thing, when children are emotionally blackmail and hoodwinked to swear
>allegiance to a flag, whatever culture. Let them go through their own
>discoveries, laziness, self & community exploration - leave them alone.
>
>marc garrett
>
>
>
>
>>The goal is to reduce drug use. If kids are smoking pot and want to do
>>extracurricular activities after school,
>>then taking kids out of extracurricular [supervised and positive]
>>activities because they are smoking pot only
>>leaves them with more [unsupervised] time to do drugs [negative
>>activities]. I don't understand it, it's another
>>ridiculous assumption. If you tell a kid he can't do the school play
>>because he smoked pot then I don't get
>>what they are supposed to do instead? Isn't it obvious to every human
>>being on the planet that they are going
>>to smoke more pot?
>>
>>I'm all about banning steroids from athletics but then again, I'm for
>>banning organized athletics in general, to
>>be honest. Can't they make rules barring ignorant boys who laugh at fart
>>jokes and torture fat kids from
>>organized activities? Or is that "moral relativism" whereas pot-smoking
>>is a moral absolute? Oh and also,
>>if kids pledge allegiance to the flag that makes them moral and
>>responsible god-fearing citizens, a ritual so
>>neccessary that it is vital that kids from polytheistic or atheistic
>>religious persuasions should be singled out
>>and ridiculed every morning. And don't forget to spend money, kids!
>>
>>Preaching to the Converted,
>>-e.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>lewis lacook wrote:
>>
>>>hello, amerikkka!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Court Approves Random Drug Tests in Public High
>>>Schools
>>>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>>>
>>>
>>>Filed at 10:23 a.m. ET
>>>
>>>
>>>WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court approved random
>>>drug tests for many public high school students
>>>Thursday, ruling that schools' interest in ridding
>>>their campuses of drugs outweighs an individual's
>>>right to privacy.
>>>
>>>The 5-4 decision would allow the broadest drug testing
>>>the court has yet permitted for young people whom
>>>authorities have no particular reason to suspect of
>>>wrongdoing. It applies to students who join
>>>competitive after-school activities or teams, a
>>>category that includes many if not most middle-school
>>>and high-school students.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Previously these tests had been allowed only for
>>>student athletes.
>>>
>>>``We find that testing students who participate in
>>>extracurricular activities is a reasonably effective
>>>means of addressing the school district's legitimate
>>>concerns in preventing, deterring and detecting drug
>>>use,'' Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for himself,
>>>Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices
>>>Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen Breyer.
>>>
>>>The court stopped short of allowing random tests for
>>>any student, whether or not involved in
>>>extracurricular activities, but several justices have
>>>indicated they are interested in answering that
>>>question at some point.
>>>
>>>The court ruled against a former Oklahoma high school
>>>honor student who competed on an academic quiz team
>>>and sang in the choir. Lindsay Earls, a self-described
>>>``goodie two-shoes,'' tested negative but sued over
>>>what she called a humiliating and accusatory policy.
>>>
>>>The Pottawatomie County school system had considered
>>>testing all students. Instead, it settled for testing
>>>only those involved in extracurricular activities on
>>>the theory that by voluntarily representing the
>>>school, those students had a lower expectation of
>>>privacy than did students at large.
>>>
>>>The ruling is a follow-up to a 1995 case, in which the
>>>court allowed random urine tests for student athletes.
>>>In that case, the court found that the school had a
>>>pervasive drug problem and that athletes were among
>>>the users. The court also found that athletes had less
>>>expectation of privacy.
>>>
>>>Thursday's ruling is the logical next step, the
>>>Oklahoma school and its backers said, and the court
>>>majority agreed.
>>>
>>>``The particular testing program upheld today is not
>>>reasonable, it is capricious, even perverse,'' Justice
>>>Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the dissenters.
>>>
>>>In a brief, separate dissent, Justices Sandra Day
>>>O'Connor and David Souter said they disagreed with the
>>>court's ruling in 1995 and disagree now.
>>>
>>>Of the estimated 14 million American high school
>>>students, better than 50 percent probably participate
>>>in some form of organized after-school activity,
>>>educators say. The trend is toward ever greater
>>>extracurricular participation, largely because
>>>colleges consider it a factor in admissions.
>>>
>>>Earls and the American Civil Liberties Union argued
>>>that the Oklahoma school board could not show that
>>>drugs were a big problem at Tecumseh High School. She
>>>claimed the ``suspicionless'' drug tests violated the
>>>Constitution's guarantee against unreasonable
>>>searches.
>>>
>>>Pottawatomie educators, backed by the Bush
>>>administration, argued that any drug problem is a
>>>concern. Also, the school said, the drug tests were a
>>>deterrent for students who knew they could not
>>>participate in favorite activities unless they stayed
>>>clean.
>>>
>>>During oral arguments in the case in March, a Bush
>>>administration lawyer said universal testing would be
>>>constitutional, even though a lawyer for the Oklahoma
>>>school said she doubted that would be so.
>>>
>>>Numerous schools installed drug testing programs for
>>>athletes after the 1995 ruling, but wider drug testing
>>>remains relatively rare among the nation's 15,500
>>>public school districts. Lower courts have reached
>>>differing conclusions about the practice.
>>>
>>>The Tecumseh testing program ran for part of two
>>>school years, beginning in 1998. It was suspended
>>>after Earls and another student sued. Earls is now a
>>>student at Dartmouth College.
>>>
>>>The Tecumseh policy covered a range of voluntary clubs
>>>and sports, including the Future Farmers of America
>>>club, cheerleading and football. Students were tested
>>>at the beginning of the school year. Thereafter, tests
>>>were random.
>>>
>>>Overall, 505 high school students were tested for drug
>>>use. Three students, all of them athletes, tested
>>>positive.
>>>
>>>A federal appeals court ruled against the program,
>>>saying it took the Supreme Court's 1995 ruling too
>>>far. Sports are different from other extracurricular
>>>activities, the lower court said, and the school had
>>>not done enough to show that students who participated
>>>in those activities were abusing drugs.
>>>
>>>The school district appealed to the Supreme Court.
>>>
>>>The case is Board of Education of Independent School
>>>District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls,
>>>01-332.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>=====
>>>
>>>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&q=Lewis+LaCook
>>>
>>>
>>>__________________________________________________
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In a message dated 6/28/2002 9:26:30 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> [my piss is private].

It's odd that private piss is a very capricious luxury. It's weird weird
weird. I mean, the state will actually chemically sniff your urine and
change its assessment of you accordingly.

Piss tests are bad, they're good, who cares. It's one profession I know to
keep my ugly face out of–solving problems, resolving conflict, and easing
suffering.

Legally I think piss-sniffs are legal under the Consti. With very
conservative judges it's a slamdunk. I mean, if you look at
0101011001001001.org, they're saying "we're already totally bare; we're
already totally infested with the sniffs."

They might be offended but I hope not. Who cares. We're already infested.

For example, an example of the folly of man (Godzilla), September 11 formed
out of slow processes like in Thomas Hardy's "Convergence of the Twain."
Many contemporary poetry people think that poem is dumb and bad. You be the
judge!

It's like the AC/DC song "Honey, What Do You Do For Money?"

Or, the mighty 3rd Eroica in E major. Culture is a doozy don't she.

I think even Negri and Hardt say "we're already in the total surveillance
state." Then they go on to say they're not pessimists, essentially that art
can save us. That's debatable. Gore Vidal has a nice essay at the Thing
about it. How do you turn the Furies into Muses getting democracy and thence
peace?

Statecraft! What is statecraft is another bitch. What is suffering? Is it
a cost? Many people think that suffering is God's punishment. So then you
have a conflict between religion and secularism. Negri and Hardt may offer
advice how to get around religion v. secularism, but I don't know.

High art v. low art, good versus evil, all of these transgressive code-traces
are in the same vacuum. Maybe it's the vacuum left by the end of the Cold
War. I don't know. But they say the 90's were a bubble. That is bad, news.


By way of closure, the Day of Judgment may be susceptible to a Scopes Trial
argument: who can say if the "Day" is literally one day or maybe a
million-billion-year day? Jeez I gotta write me a book of days.

TV-wise here in USA I watched PBS, a great Lehrer NH and a China Doc about
"the pen" and how Confucianism (archival), Taoism (mystical), and Buddhism
(personal) came together. China certainly is a cool country. Also, I saw
the show about the Shakers.

All of this material is 100% relevant to Genius 2000.

Max Herman
genius2000.net

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