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UN Urges Random Drug Tests For Drivers
cbsnews.com ^ | May. 10, 2007 | NA

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: unitednations; unodc; wodlist

1 posted on 05/10/2007 11:08:56 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
I am in favor of drug testing UN employees,preferably by alien anal probe.
2 posted on 05/10/2007 11:20:23 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: neverdem
Time to woof some poppy seed muffins.
3 posted on 05/10/2007 11:31:17 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Duncan Hunter for President)
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To: neverdem

Doesn’t the U.N. have something better to do like scam millions out the Darfur tragedy.


4 posted on 05/10/2007 11:50:41 PM PDT by A message
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To: razorback-bert
I am in favor of drug testing UN employees,preferably by alien anal probe.

Me too, but I'd want to use one of those shock probes like they use on veal.
5 posted on 05/11/2007 12:12:27 AM PDT by Jaysun (I got a new lawnmower and she got a new dishwasher. Neither of them speak English.)
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To: razorback-bert

The UN continues to find problems that don’t require work or bravery.


6 posted on 05/11/2007 12:14:32 AM PDT by Loud Mime ("It is not intellect which makes a great scientist; it is character." Einstein)
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To: Loud Mime

I’m all for kicking the UN out of the free world.


7 posted on 05/11/2007 12:23:30 AM PDT by oldenuff2no
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To: neverdem

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.


8 posted on 05/11/2007 12:27:19 AM PDT by Dosa26 (Things fall apart, the center does not hold)
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To: neverdem
Who really cares what a bunch of unelected, selected by other unelected, marxist- liberal elites, at the UN think? Do they think they are the world's governmet that conrols all aspects of everyones lives in every country?

(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.

9 posted on 05/11/2007 12:30:45 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: neverdem

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


10 posted on 05/11/2007 4:37:23 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: neverdem

This sort of thing is now the business of the UN? They sound over-funded.


11 posted on 05/11/2007 5:22:14 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: razorback-bert

With small explosives on the tip if they fail.


12 posted on 05/11/2007 6:55:38 AM PDT by wastedyears (I was opposed to Rudy in the mid 1990s when he took my fireworks away. I was but a little boy.)
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To: neverdem

How about random blood tests of UN employees?


13 posted on 05/11/2007 8:55:48 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (The Islamists plan to kill us and the Democrats are helping them. Ft Dix proves it!)
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To: neverdem

How about drug tests for those who are making law?


14 posted on 05/11/2007 9:19:46 AM PDT by gas0linealley
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To: neverdem

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?


15 posted on 05/11/2007 11:36:26 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: neverdem
UN issues a statement on the global warming debate being over and says any opposition to accepting it as purely man made is immoral.

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.

16 posted on 05/11/2007 12:00:37 PM PDT by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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