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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: 3, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Thursday December 04 2014, @11:30PM
Your second one ignored the most important part, racism and the "bucket of crabs" syndrome. The reason why you see such hatred is frankly racism which is still very much alive and well, you'll hear codewords like welfare queens which we ALL know is just their way of saying niggers, and the bucket of crabs is why you'll see tarpaper shacks with republican signs on the lawn, they'l happily fuck themselves out of aid or even medicine if it means they keep a nigger from getting it.
its sad that in 2015 this is so but going through most of the red states and talking to folks...yep, sad to say its racism and bucket of crabs.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.