Posted on 05/10/2007 11:08:53 PM PDT by neverdem
VIENNA, Austria
(AP) Ordinary drivers and workers who operate heavy equipment or do other hazardous jobs should be subject to random drug tests similar to the spot checks police in some countries now conduct for alcohol, the head of the U.N. drug office said Thursday.
"Road testing works for alcohol _ it will work for drugs," Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, told an international mayors' conference in Istanbul, Turkey.
"Public opinion is waking up to the fact that some people are driving cars, public transport, operating heavy machinery or even flying airplanes while on drugs," Costa said, praising efforts under way in Australia, Britain, the United States and some EU countries to stop it.
In the U.S., the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration requires commercial truck drivers to pass alcohol and drug tests before they can obtain or renew a license. States such as Oregon conduct periodic random drug tests on truckers, and some school districts carry out similar checks on school bus drivers.
Australian authorities who suspect a motorist may be under the influence of narcotics use a swab to collect a sample of saliva and use a kit to check it for drugs such as cannabis or methamphetamine.
British law allows police to conduct roadside drug impairment tests. Britain's latest high-profile case was on Tuesday, when singer George Michael pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while unfit through drugs.
But civil libertarians have challenged random testing, contending it can be an unconstitutional invasion of privacy and is subject to abuse by police who stop drivers without just cause.
Costa brushed off such objections, saying society already accepts police controls for alcohol intoxication.
Costa also urged countries to improve their drug treatment and rehabilitation services.
U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, http://www.unodc.org
Doesn’t the U.N. have something better to do like scam millions out the Darfur tragedy.
The UN continues to find problems that don’t require work or bravery.
I’m all for kicking the UN out of the free world.
This is from scrappleface or the onion right? Coarse with cuba libya sudan iran on the human right watchdog group the un is sort of becoming a satire in itself.
(yes they do)
I'm all for dismantling that corrupt, evil marxist-Islamic totalitarian wanna be world government organization and all the NGO's full of envirowienies, Monkey sex lovers which inhabit it.
The place is evil to the core.
Some essential history if you are to fully grasp the rot – and the plot — at the core of this thoroughly corrupt gaggle of over-educated morons:
ORIGINS OF THE UN, PART 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAzl21AfnZU
ORIGINS OF THE UN, PART 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0qV2OM8ajQ
ORIGINS OF THE UN, PART 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrkshIXYiPs
This sort of thing is now the business of the UN? They sound over-funded.
With small explosives on the tip if they fail.
How about random blood tests of UN employees?
How about drug tests for those who are making law?
How about random STD tests on UN workers? Especially to match them up with the same genetic strains of some STDs in war ravaged lands where the UN is supposed to be “administering” aid?
Now the UN calls for drug testing.
The plots afoot Watson. And freedom thinking peoples are like the proverbial frog in water that is heating up.
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