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07 May
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Classic Board Games
The IOC still hasn’t got this straight, but a Shasta County judge in Northern California has ruled that mandatory drug tests for children participating in non-sports events (such as Chess or music) is a violation of privacy and civil rights.
391 children, including athletes, had already been tested. The prosecutor explained the original decision to institutionally force non-suspected children to pee into a cup while other people listened: “Why any parent would not want to know if their child is taking illegal substances is beyond me.”
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This prosecutor: what a tool.
Wanting to know if your kid is taking drugs is not the same thing as being willing to go to any lengths to achieve that end.
In other words: why any parent would not want his child to know that his parents will stand up for his civil rights is beyond *me*.
That’s gonna get overturned in a heartbeat.
The judge didn’t read his precedents.