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Today in the War Against the War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs

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I’m not optimistic about this ruling surviving the higher levels of the federal courts, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t right:

Judge Mary S. Scriven of the United States District Court in Orlando held that the testing requirement, the signature legislation of Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican who campaigned on the issue, violated the protection against unreasonable searches.

“The court finds there is no set of circumstances under which the warrantless, suspicionless drug testing at issue in this case could be constitutionally applied,” she wrote. The ruling made permanent an earlier, temporary ban by the judge.

Mr. Scott, who had argued that the drug testing was necessary to protect children and ensure that tax money was not going to illegal drugs, said that the state would appeal the ruling.

“Any illegal drug use in a family is harmful and even abusive to a child,” he said in a statement. “We should have a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug use in families — especially those families who struggle to make ends meet and need welfare assistance to provide for their children.”

Ah, yes, “zero tolerance.” So Florida has mandatory drug tests for everyone who, say, claims property taxes as a deduction against their federal income taxes, right? And people who receive agricultural subsidies? We can’t have taxpayer money subsidizing an illicit lifestyle. WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!?!?!?!?

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