WHERES PROBABLE CAUSE IN DRUG TESTING?
If the ACLU has an agenda, it is that of the Founding Fathers, who fought a revolution to secure the very rights Ben Clinger (Letter, Nov. 20) would so eagerly relinquish. If that’s to be characterized as progressive, so be it. I actually think it’s quite conservative. What the ACLU is doing is fighting to preserve one of our fundamental rights from further government encroachment and circumscription, an all-too-present danger in this post 9/11 world. Mr. Clinger claims to have read the Constitution, but he must have skipped over the Bill of Rights, in particular the Fourth Amendment, which states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.” Where’s the probable cause, Mr. Clinger, in random drug testing? There is none. It paints all teachers with the same ignominious brush of suspicion. I, a proud and drug-free teacher, applaud the ACLU for taking up th
