Pinthouse Pizza
No Longer Land of the Free
RECEIVED Mon., Feb. 2, 2004
Dear Editor,
Why don't we just allow the government to brand us with bar codes and insert computer chips under our skin so it can monitor everything we ingest? America is no longer the land of the free. This is a disgrace to everything our country was founded upon. Current and past presidents have used some of the very substances that these companies will be testing for, so what message are we really sending our kids?
Our senators and representatives have conveniently exempted themselves from drug testing while Drug Czar John Walters tours the country pressuring school boards to implement drug testing for our children.
The hypocrisy of this is so thick it stinks.
We allow beer commercials and every sort of prescription drug commercial on TV and radio, yet we somehow expect our kids won't be tempted to use drugs of one sort or another.
This is a joke.
America had better wake up soon and let its representatives know that we've had enough.
Judge our children by the content of their character, not the composition of their urine.
Why don't we just allow the government to brand us with bar codes and insert computer chips under our skin so it can monitor everything we ingest? America is no longer the land of the free. This is a disgrace to everything our country was founded upon. Current and past presidents have used some of the very substances that these companies will be testing for, so what message are we really sending our kids?
Our senators and representatives have conveniently exempted themselves from drug testing while Drug Czar John Walters tours the country pressuring school boards to implement drug testing for our children.
The hypocrisy of this is so thick it stinks.
We allow beer commercials and every sort of prescription drug commercial on TV and radio, yet we somehow expect our kids won't be tempted to use drugs of one sort or another.
This is a joke.
America had better wake up soon and let its representatives know that we've had enough.
Judge our children by the content of their character, not the composition of their urine.
Scott Russ
Baton Rouge, La.
Baton Rouge, La.