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To: tacticalogic
Is there some unwritten rule that says if it involves drugs, the end justifies the means?

No, or course not. But the fact is (marijuana aside) that drug use terrifies a great many (obviously not all) parents. I've seen first hand the destruction that drugs bring to kids and to communities. I've seen the death on the roads caused by kids using drugs. I KNOW it's a serious danger to my kids - and I KNOW there are lots of evil people (right in my town and in my kids' schools) who would love for my kids to get hooked on powerful and dangerous drugs. Dole (though wrong consitutionally) is talking to the many, many parents terrified by what drugs can do to their kids.

168 posted on 10/31/2002 7:51:51 AM PST by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
But the fact is (marijuana aside) that drug use terrifies a great many (obviously not all) parents.
Yep, that's your Democracy. Majority rules so that is the way it is.
So much for rights starting with the individual eh?
Well, Democracy might get more than it bargained for on this issue overall.
I liked your (marijuana aside) caveat. Just which drug/drugs do you think will be targeted with these teen tests?
179 posted on 10/31/2002 8:00:49 AM PST by philman_36
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To: yendu bwam
Dole (though wrong consitutionally) is talking to the many, many parents terrified by what drugs can do to their kids.

Yes, she is. She's using an emotional issue, and emotional rhetoric to convince people that the federal government needs to get involved in something that constitutionally, it has no business or authority doing. How do you see that from a politically conservative standpoint, and what kind of precedent does it set? How does it fit the agenda of getting the federal government under control?

187 posted on 10/31/2002 8:06:32 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: yendu bwam
I liked your (marijuana aside) caveat. Just which drug/drugs do you think will be targeted with these teen tests?
248 posted on 10/31/2002 9:41:07 AM PST by philman_36
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