It seems to me that drug testing as a rule has gotten out of control. Millions of dollars are being spent on proving employees are clean or dirty as far as drugs go. The very idea of mandatory employee drug testing seems to violate the whole idea of freedom in the United States. People who have committed serious crimes have been given more rights than the average American who goes to work and pays the bills. The main idea is your right to be innocent until proven guilty. This seems to be backwards in this case : All people who work in jobs that have adopted this policy have become suspects and if they have not complied with this testing rule they automatically become guilty.

We have all become slaves to the rules. It works out to being a damned if you do damned if you don’t kind of thing. An individual is damned if they do by giving the whole notion creedence and validation. The industries we all work in have had the right to test for” cause” for as long as I’ve been working . What has changed? The very idea that my piss has become grounds for my dismissal is insane. We as a people are being held hostage for our urine.

I personally have never wanted to work at my constuction job with a person who was stoned or acting in a manner that was not conducive to project completion. I truly don’t see a reason or excuse for being “high” on the job, or on the road . A person in the US has the right to determine his/her direction in life , but not at the expense of others safety.

I don’t see the point of trying to catch the guy who goes home and fires up or pops a top. That guy is harming nobody, but he will be tested for residuals to see if he is following the rules. He/she will face the humiliation of being labeled a drug abuser for a positive (even a false positive, or “no show” positive) test. This is dicrimination and [we] accept it as a way of protecting the American way of life. Homeland security has made the push for all Americans to step into line and follow their out of control rules. “They ” see citizens as cattle to be controlled at all levels of production.

Anyone who has made the not so voluntary donation of urine knows of how the system works. First you need to give a piss handler your info, which includes all of the items that can give them access to all of your accounts, credit . I can’t see the point in a person who handles piss having my social security number, but it is required for the test. What is the reason for a piss handler to have access to my credit score ,bank accounts , and all other related items? Is this going to be a reason for the government to deny social security at retirement? You tested positive for drugs ,your SS will be denied because you broke some ancient, and sometimes short-sighted law. You as the accused have to prove yourself to be worthy of this test.

The first test I ever did was of little or no concern to me.” I’m innocent of the charges being levied, and therefore will be vendicated” was my frame of mind. The first feeling of being mistreated was the “pat down”. I really felt as though I was going to be put into jail. I was asked to remove all clothing that could conceal a masking agent or some hidden saved clean urine sample. I was watched til the point that the door closed beind me to the bathroom. I wondered at that point if there could be a camera in the stall. It was a humiliating kind of experience, and had the tendency to make me never want to go through it again. But then there is the annual test to prove your continued compliance, and then there is a random to make sure you are “clean” by surprise. What a cruel joke.

This idea of guilty until proven innocent is a blatant disreguard of our “WE THE PEOPLE” rights and needs to be stopped. I’m not saying any actions should be taken by any reader of this rant, but notice should be taken of the info and the civil abuse that “testing” requires.