Letters: November 24  3:36 PM, Nov. 21, 2012  |  Comments   •
Filed Under  Judge's decision puzzling  The PNJ reported that a
judge had labeled unconstitutional a requirement that a veteran
undergo a random drug test to receive a welfare check ? paid
from our tax dollars. The judge called it an example of
unconstitutional search and seizure.  Can this be true? I get
searched if I enter the public courthouse and experience seizure
if I have a penknife or a container of liquids in my possession.
I don't mind because I am receiving "public" service funded by
public dollars.  My question: How is this constitutional, but
taking a drug test to receive public funds is unconstitutional?
Sounds to me that if true, this is an example of judicial
incompetence. The answer for the welfare applicant: Don't take
the money. It's not required.  - Leonard Gilbert Seminole, Ala.
Seminole, Ala.  America lost  Earle Bowden's column ("Hate, fear
can't build true power," Nov. 11), was partially right.  He's
right that "hate, fear