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from the unreasonable-searches-and-seizures dept.
Via Common Dreams, the American Civil Liberties Union reports
[December 3], a three-judge panel at the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a 2011 Florida law mandating that all applicants for the state's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program submit to suspicion-less drug tests violates the Constitution's protection against unreasonable government searches.
[...]The 11th Circuit panel's order rejects arguments made by attorneys for the State of Florida that government has the authority to require people to submit to invasive searches of their bodily fluids without suspicion of wrongdoing, stating "the warrantless, suspicionless urinalysis drug testing of every Florida TANF applicant as a mandatory requirement for receiving Temporary Cash Assistance offends the Fourth Amendment."
[...]A 2012 review of the TANF mandatory urinalysis program found that the state of Florida spent more money reimbursing individuals for drug tests than the state saved on screening out the extremely small percentage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 04 2014, @11:22PM
> I actually don't think "hate" is the right word.
Hate is an oversimplification. The vast majority of what falls under the modern rubric of hate is really just myopic lack of empathy versus an active desire to cause harm.
In a sense using the word "hate" is self-defeating. Nobody likes to be called a hater so they get all defensive about the label rather than examining the implications of their own beliefs and actions. "I don't hate <group I do not belong to here>, I just like <group which I belong to> best of all."