Reading through some comments made on a recent article about feeling controlled by organizations that do drug testing has left me with an interesting query. I don't believe the person who had posted the blog/article meant that he promoted drug use or substance abuse in any way. He simply stated in layman's terms that he felt the constant monitoring of peoples private lives, when there is absolutely no basis for it, is like being falsely imprisoned. Although, I may be over complicating it a bit, but it got me thinking.
I don't believe in drug testing in the workplace in order to become employed by that establishment. For many reasons I assure you, but one in particular, it is arrogant and classist. If the employer expects the employee to submit to a test that will determine his employment based solely on that test, it is as if that employer is saying, "Well we don't trust people at your pay grade because the majority of you are drug users and your not mature enough to stay off drugs." Maybe that is a little to harsh or clear, whichever works.
It is as if rights that were once slowly slipping away have taken a quite a quick tailspin. The worst part is that a great deal of Americans believe that this sort of elite type of monitoring is just fine and if you oppose it you are a drug addict. So closed minded, so controlled by the media and their own fear, so so, dare I say Nazi?
Have you ever sat there and watched a WWII documentary and wondered how nearly and entire nation was in support of the torture and murder of other human being? Well if you have wondered that take a look at your own life and ask yourself what you have just accepted out of exhaustion. How many times you have agreed with an opinion you knew was wrong, just because it served your purpose. As yourself, how we got to where we are now in this country. A rather sad place I think. The sort of place that makes Ancient Rome seem like a fair and just society.
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