NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/drugs/18762

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Redeye)
Subject: Re: FDA gives approval to testing of ecstasy
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:19:50 GMT

>   I'm currently visiting scenic Auburn, CA on business.  The local paper had
> a big story about a local construction employer who hired a PI company to
> do a big undercover investigation on their employees' alcohol and drug use.
> At the end of the investigation they hauled in all of the suspected - not
> identified - drug users, and interrogated them.  Nearly all of them broke
> down and confessed; apparently this investigation company specializes in this
> type of thing and really knew how to put the screws to them.  Big dossiers
> with the employee's name stamped on the top, "We know exactly what you've
> been up to", etc.  Many of the employees named other employees who were then
> hauled in and given the same treatment.  Only a few had the sense to stonewall,
> deny everything, and say "Show me your evidence."  Those few, with no evidence
> against them except hearsay, wound up keeping their jobs.  The majority who
> confessed, whether to drinking at the lunch hour or to smoking pot at home,
> were immediately fired.  The company professed sorrow at being driven to this,
> and surprise that all of the remaining employees felt totally betrayed by
> their employer.

Hmmm.. I've reading a large number of these files and extracting them for my
own personal reference - mandatory drug tests, civil forfiture, policies based
on creating an appearance rather than actually acheiving the stated aims - and
now this.  Private investigation company ... "name your conspirators" ... does
all of this abominable crap remind anyone of the McCarthy Anti-Communist
witchhunts that were just long enough ago for the public to have forgotten
them?  Almost as much fun as the real thing a few more years back - except
these days we, the people, aren't allowed to kill anyone - yet - unless of
course you happen to be passing through Asia.

Has anyone in the American media made this comparison yet - "The Witchhunts of
the 90s" - quite valid in respect to the way this farce is being carried out,
and in the way that the modern targets are, in the main, just as harmless as
the "witches" and "communists" of the last two rounds of lunacy.  But who wants
to be on the side of the bogeyman?

--
May the Farce be with you,
Dave.
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