Bill which would require drug testing welfare recipients pulled after amended to include legislators
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
Indiana State Representative Jud McMillin
In a classic show of political hypocrisy, Indiana State Representative Jud McMillin pulled his bill which would have created a pilot program for the drug testing of applicants for welfare after it was successfully amended to require drug testing for lawmakers as well.
“There was an amendment offered today that required drug testing for legislators as well and it passed, which led me to have to then withdraw the bill,” MicMillin, a Republican from Brookville, and sponsor of the original legislation, said.
McMillin seems to be taking the stance that this legislation with the amendment intact would not survive a constitutional challenge.
This is based on a ruling handed down by the Supreme Court in 1997 which prevented drug testing political candidates.
They ruled in Chandler v. Miller that drug testing for political candidates was unconstitutional and thus struck down a Georgia law.
However, this is hardly applicable given that they would not be requiring political candidates to be tested, instead they would be requiring the individuals who had already been elected and were receiving government funds to be tested.
Speaking to the Huffington Post, McMillin stated, “I’ve only withdrawn it temporarily,” claiming that his original bill was painstakingly crafted to pass challenges on its legality and constitutionality.
This claim is quite questionable given that just last year a federal judge struck down a Florida law which would require across-the-board drug testing of anyone and everyone who even applied for welfare, citing Fourth Amendment concerns.
McMillin claims that his bill would not be struck down on similar grounds because the legislation creates a “tiered screening scheme” which allows people to opt-out of the random drug tests, although the consequences for doing so are unclear.
It seems quite unlikely to me that anyone would choose to get drug tested if they didn’t have to, as I don’t know of too many people who like to take time out of their day to experience the painful nature of government bureaucracy while urinating in a cup, likely under the watchful eye of someone intended to prevent people from sneaking in someone else’s urine.
McMillin’s legislation would apparently only require screening for those who declined random tests if they arouse “reasonable suspicion,” which could be anything from demeanor to criminal history to missing appointments at the welfare office.
One must wonder what exactly constitutes a demeanor that raises a reasonable suspicion. Could the demeanor of someone who appreciates their privacy and thus opts-out of random drug testing constitute reasonable suspicion?
McMillin’s legislation is not alone, indeed legislators have pursued drug testing for welfare recipients and applicants in over 30 states, as well as in Congress.
Some proposed bills have even gone as far as going after individuals who claim unemployment insurance or food stamps.
This is part of a broader trend of criminalizing people long before they have done anything wrong. The most disturbing incarnation of this can be seen in the public school system and in the technology known as “threat assessments” which seem like they were taken directly out of the pages of Philip K. Dick’s short story Minority Report.
The Huffington Post, as they are so quick to do, makes this into a partisan issue with Republicans crusading for drug testing and Democrats making up the laudable opposition.
However, I do not think that this is something which can be boiled down to parties and indeed I find that doing so is nothing more than a distraction from the much more grand scale of this trend.
It is also an attempt by the notoriously biased Huffington Post to glorify Democrats while demonizing Republicans.
My readers are likely well aware of the complete sham that is the two party system (better characterized as a two party dictatorship) along with the fact that at the end of the day these two parties serve the same exact interests.
All one must do to realize this is look at the continuity of agenda between presidential administrations, something which I covered briefly in the first episode of End the Lie Radio and which I will be covering in greater detail in coming installments.
The amendment to the drug testing legislation was introduced by Indiana State Representative Ryan Dvorak, a Democrat from South Bend.
“After it passed, Rep. McMillin got pretty upset and pulled his bill,” Dvorak said.
“If anything, I think it points out some of the hypocrisy,” he rightly noted, adding, “If we’re going to impose standards on drug testing, then it should apply to everybody who receives government money.”
This only seems logical to me, as ultimately there is no difference between the government funds given to a State Representative and those given to the recipient of welfare.
All of it is paid for by the taxpayer, so why should the poor and disenfranchised be forced to sacrifice their dignity and privacy while those who receive a lot more money do not?
Dvorak shares my impression of the Chandler v. Miller case, saying that McMillin was incorrect in believing that testing the legislature would be somehow unconstitutional given that the Georgia law was targeting candidates on the campaign trail and not people who were already in office.
McMillan claims that he is going to introduce a new bill this Monday which includes lawmakers as well, adding that he doesn’t have a problem with getting tested himself.
This begs the question: why pull the legislation in the first place?
McMillan’s actions represent the all-too-common double standard held by legislators wherein the American people must submit to laws which they do not.
Even more importantly, there is no significant evidence to support the contention that people receiving welfare or unemployment are more likely to use drugs, or that random drug testing would help prevent such a thing.
I find it laughable that a supposed Republican would be introducing a bill that would actually greatly increase government spending. It would be quite interesting to see if he has any ties to the corporation(s) that would get the contract for all the testing.
If anyone has any more information on this legislation or similar bills being pushed or you just have some thoughts to share on the topic please email me at: [email protected]
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If the Democratic Genocide of Western Countries is not addressed first, then any suggestions for lessening some of the Corruption and Incompetence are doomed, and I provide the evidence for the Evil Dictatorship in America that Americans will firstly have to confront and overcome, and that the American Government will have to Confess to if they wish to be serious, and to be taken seriously.
We all wonder if Britain, America, and the NATO Nazis of Europe will ever admit to the Kosovo Fraud.
Every Decent Person should just ask strangers, and e-mail everyone if they have heard of the Kosovo Fraud, until the words Kosovo Fraud become household words.
People should not be surprised, because Western Governments and their Main Stream Media Allies constantly lie to their People.
1) Although all the right is seldom on one side, the Main Stream Media will present the war in stark terms of good and evil.
2) The evil side will be demonized, and its leader depicted as mad, bloodthirsty, and subhuman, and a modern-day Hitler.
3) The good side will be presented as the savoir of civilization, humanitarian, caring, and compassionate, forced to act because of the barbarity of the other side.
4) The Bribed and Corrupted Western Media ignores the fact that there are atrocities by all sides in all wars, and old atrocity stories will be dusted off and recycled.
Some of those stories will be true, but many will be false, and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to tell while the war is on which are true and which are propaganda.
After the war, although some of the atrocity stories will be confirmed, there will be a retreat from many of the most outrageous ones.
In the case of the Kosovo war, we are waiting for some acknowledgment from the Bribed and Corrupted Main Stream Media that they were wrong.
After endless horror stories illustrated with fantastically high death tolls were aired day after day on CNN, when will we hear a retraction?
Christiane Amanpour repeated her husband’s lies with a perfectly straight face: tens of thousands slaughtered, we were told, and she repeated the lies that the Al-Qaeda murderous drug-dealing KLA were really freedom fighters, the Albanian equivalent of George Washington and his Continental Army!
The Bribed and Corrupted Lying Western Journalists who reacted much as we except; and they put on a bold face and were furiously defensive and unrepentant.
Usually the truth about what has really happened during a war will emerge after it is over.
Sometimes it takes years and years, and we are still learning new things about the Second World War.
But, of course, by then it was too late to make any difference to the outcome of the war, and the media caravan had moved on.
We are learning only now that the CIA helped train the Kosovo Liberation Army before the bombing began.
We did not realize at the time that NATO was lying when it said it did not deliberately attack civilian targets, but you better believe it.
Most importantly, when are the journalists who falsely reported Kosovo’s phoney holocaust as fact going to own up to their mistakes, even if we give them the benefit of a doubt that this was an error and not deceit.
With Modern Communications Technology, such as the satellite phone; instant television links from the front to the studio and between correspondents in the field; electronic transmission of photographs; and the latest arrival at the front, along with the Internet should have provided the public with an unprecedented overview, but instead it turned out to be a disaster for professional journalism.
If, by some chance, the truth about Kosovo gets out, how will the American people react to the revelation that they were lied to by Clinton’s numerous media enablers?
Will they, like all decent People, chase the rubbish out of town, or will they bask in the warm security of their narcotized ignorance, indifferent to the truth and immune to righteous indignation except when prompted by government propagandists?
This is the difference between cultural health and decadence, between a truly American political culture in the traditional sense and one that has become alienated from its roots and degenerate beyond redemption or revival.
There are People who will say that even though Hitler was not put on Trial, everyone accepts that he was Guilty, and that is because Hitler built such a huge Army, Navy, and Air Force to attack other Countries; his Illegal and Immoral Occupation of Czechoslovakia and invasion of Poland, along with many other things; whereas, the Serbs were only defending themselves from American Sponsored and Trained Aggressors.
Had Hitler been put on Trial, then Dirty and Unjust Tactics would not have been needed, as they were with Slobodan Milosevic.
The Prosecutors against Hitler could easily prove their case in at least one month, but after Five Years, the Corrupt and Bribed Kangaroo that is Euphemistically called International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia could not prove their case against Slobodan Milosevic.
America ordered their newly install Puppet Serbian Government to find evidence of Slobodan Milosevic with regard to corruption, abuse of power, and embezzlement at America’s demand.
We all know that the Evil American Empire is Guilty of all of these things on top of Pre-mediating Conspiring with the Nazi European Union and NATO Nazis to commit Physical, Economic, and Cultural Genocide on the Innocent Serbian People.
Milosevic knew, and students of History know, that America never kept even one agreement that was made in writing with the Indians of America, and that they have not changed in the slightest since then, but they have perfected their Evil Tricks and Cunning Cover-ups and Censorships, and so Milosevic and the Serbian People were in a difficult position.
These Videos shows us the true nature of the Kangaroo Courts that are set up by England and America, and the Modern Day Nazis of Europe, and they clearly show that they are truly places of Show Trials, and they are places to further their Many Injustices, and Crimes against Humanity.
At the same time, the Illegal, Immoral, and Corrupt International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia used the Nazis method to whitewash Anglo-American Land Theft, and Anglo-American War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
The Title of the Videos on the Internet is: SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT, and I found a five part Documentary on the internet, Unless the Authorities change the internet location or contents, in an attempt to make me look like a liar or a deviant, in order to try to discredit what I wrote.
In these Videos you will see the Fat Liar Jacques Paul Klein who is telling Fat Lies, and who was the West’s Colonial Governor of Bosnia Herzegovina, and you will notice that this Nazi cannot even keep a straight face when he is Lying in his Fat way, and this is because Jacques Paul Klein is a Fat Liar.
SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 1/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FusfOqCtqc ; SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 2/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1g7Uzgw-Q ; SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 3/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfoNuS_3og ; SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 4/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5AmumT_7Os ; SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 5/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHqaIDBpVZc .
It is true that it is difficult to go against the Lies of Anglo-America and the Nazis of Europe, but there Populations will appreciate it, and it would be better if they Confessed to their Crimes of Injustice against the Innocent.
We need to know that Anglo-America and the Nazis of Europe will go a long way to Cover Up their Evil Crimes, because they can bribe anyone to say anything they want to assist their Cover up.
Anglo-America and the Nazis of Europe have the agenda of not telling the truth on many matters, and it is no different when it comes what they say with regard to the Serbian People.
These Modern Day Nazis want to steal Serbian Land, and they will bribe anyone to say anything, because they are so close to achieving their vile scheme with their Puppets in Serbian Parliament who have accepted the Bribes, and have probably Volunteered to be Secretly Filmed in Acts Paedophilia and Bestiality to guarantee that they will Betray their Own People, just like Anglo-America and the Nazi led German Euro Zone will do.
Many Serbian People refuse to be Slandered and Demonized any longer, and it is up the American led Criminals to set the matter straight by Confessing to the Kosovo Fraud.
This is because the Serbian People minus the few Traitors and Puppets demand these things, and we will not rest until justice is done by having our good reputations restored.
The Serbian People are the most Innocent of all the Groups in the former Yugoslavia, and many Albanians know these things to be true.
The truth is not an option for any Serb who is qualified to live, because that is the one vital ingredient that I think that any Person needs in order to qualify to have the right to truly live, because otherwise they are just the living dead or zombies.
We all know that lies are barrier to reconciliation, because you cannot have reconciliation without truth, but we need to realize that reconciliation may not be what some People want, and there are at least two sides to every story, and the truth must be accepted, if there is to be peace and normality.
Along with Physical, Cultural, and Economic Genocide that the America led NATO has perpetrated, against the Innocent Serbian People, they have committed Democratic Genocide against the Serbian People, and America has a long history of Committing Democratic Genocide against others Nations, against their People in America.
There is no compensation or justice without America ordering their Puppets to deliberately lose the next Election by not funding them and giving them good vote winning lies, because even if Monetary Compensation is difficult at these times, America can give something back to a Wrong People who are the Most Innocent of all Groups in the Former Yugoslavia.
typical new american fascism
I realized that I should have written a few sentences better in my other comment, in order to make them less ambiguous, and they are the following sentences.
It is less ambiguous to say: If the Genocide of Democracy of Western Countries is not addressed first, then any suggestions for long term reduction of Corruption and Incompetence are doomed.
I provided some evidence for the Evil Dictatorship in America that American Citizens will firstly have to confront and overcome if Americans wish to be serious, and that the American Government will have to Confess to, if the American Government is to be taken seriously by its own Citizens.
Along with Physical, Cultural, and Economic Genocide that the America led NATO has perpetrated, against the Innocent Serbian People, they have committed Genocide of Democracy against the Serbian People, and America has a long history of Committing Genocide of Democracy against others Nations, and against their own People in America.
There is no compensation or justice without America ordering their Puppets to deliberately lose the next Election by not funding them and giving them good vote winning lies, because even if Monetary Compensation is difficult at these times, America can give something back to a Greatly Wronged People who are the Most Innocent of all Groups in the Former Yugoslavia.
I can appreciate what you are saying. However, this may not be your best forum. Maybe you should start your own website. You look to be well skilled and researched.
We look here for comments from readers on Madison’s work, specifically the foregoing article. Just saying…
The reason the bitch pulled this is because he knew some of his fellow thugs would be outed and taken off the tax payer doll, the little bitch. If in fact I want to do what I want, you scum sucking ass I will and don’t threaten me with some more B.S laws to make your base look like they are trying to save my tax dollars. You worthless politicians are well known crack addicts, for why would you pompous assess try introducing crap like this, maybe to get your lilly white trash ass pounded on? FUCK YOU.