July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Drug testing would take away rights (02/28/08)
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
This letter is in reference to the article in the Feb. 26 edition of The Commercial Review concerning a proposed drug policy at JCHS by Mr. Gulley and his associates.
First, let me state that I don't agree with the idea that Mr. Gulley proposes. The matter of drugs and the usage thereof starts AT HOME with the responsibility of each child's parents educating their children about drugs, etc.
The whole issue is stepping on legal ground and Mr. Gulley knows it otherwise he wouldn't have had the JCHS Corp. lawyer look into it fully first. I'm sure a legal loophole exists somewhere that will be jumped through in order to enact the proposed policy. Mr. Gulley needs to understand and read the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As far as that's concerned, Mr. Frantz correctly stated, "You can only do it with things that are a privilege, and not a right," he said. Furthermore, "That's the only way this can happen," he said.
Those two statements are true, if you can find the legalese to strip each and every student Mr. Gulley wishes to randomly drug test of their rights under the law.
One way is to get the student to willingly submit to a drug test. But, unless the student knows his/her Rights under the law, they would be foolish to do this.
I believe some people go through life on a power trip and will do anything to achieve their goals. This idea is just an example.
There are many rights of the people through the ages that have been stripped away by lawyers and the politicians of this country and are now called privileges - like driving a car for example. The day when they will have to answer for their choices is near.
Freedom is not free, and true peace and prosperity shall not come by the sword and this world will not know it until Jesus Christ comes back again.
Sincerely,
Steven Blowers
Bryant
Evidence?
To the editor:
Constitution of the State of Indiana. Article XIII. Municipal debt.
Section 1 (Two percent debt limit): "No political or municipal corporation in this State shall ever become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount in the aggregate exceeding two per centum on the value of the taxable property within such corporation, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness, and all bonds or obligations in excess of such amount given, by such corporation, shall be void; Provided, that it time of war, foreign invasion or other public calamity, on petition of a majority of the property owners, in number and value, within the limits of such corporation, the public authorities, in their discretion, may incur obligations necessary for the public protection and defence, to such amount as may be requested in such petition."
If Jay County has an assessed value of $754,381,985, then 2 percent of that is $15,087,639.70.
A concerned citizen.
Linus Mescher
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
This letter is in reference to the article in the Feb. 26 edition of The Commercial Review concerning a proposed drug policy at JCHS by Mr. Gulley and his associates.
First, let me state that I don't agree with the idea that Mr. Gulley proposes. The matter of drugs and the usage thereof starts AT HOME with the responsibility of each child's parents educating their children about drugs, etc.
The whole issue is stepping on legal ground and Mr. Gulley knows it otherwise he wouldn't have had the JCHS Corp. lawyer look into it fully first. I'm sure a legal loophole exists somewhere that will be jumped through in order to enact the proposed policy. Mr. Gulley needs to understand and read the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As far as that's concerned, Mr. Frantz correctly stated, "You can only do it with things that are a privilege, and not a right," he said. Furthermore, "That's the only way this can happen," he said.
Those two statements are true, if you can find the legalese to strip each and every student Mr. Gulley wishes to randomly drug test of their rights under the law.
One way is to get the student to willingly submit to a drug test. But, unless the student knows his/her Rights under the law, they would be foolish to do this.
I believe some people go through life on a power trip and will do anything to achieve their goals. This idea is just an example.
There are many rights of the people through the ages that have been stripped away by lawyers and the politicians of this country and are now called privileges - like driving a car for example. The day when they will have to answer for their choices is near.
Freedom is not free, and true peace and prosperity shall not come by the sword and this world will not know it until Jesus Christ comes back again.
Sincerely,
Steven Blowers
Bryant
Evidence?
To the editor:
Constitution of the State of Indiana. Article XIII. Municipal debt.
Section 1 (Two percent debt limit): "No political or municipal corporation in this State shall ever become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount in the aggregate exceeding two per centum on the value of the taxable property within such corporation, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness, and all bonds or obligations in excess of such amount given, by such corporation, shall be void; Provided, that it time of war, foreign invasion or other public calamity, on petition of a majority of the property owners, in number and value, within the limits of such corporation, the public authorities, in their discretion, may incur obligations necessary for the public protection and defence, to such amount as may be requested in such petition."
If Jay County has an assessed value of $754,381,985, then 2 percent of that is $15,087,639.70.
A concerned citizen.
Linus Mescher
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
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