{"id":181700,"date":"2016-04-09T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/09\/who-says-that-irony-is-dead-6\/"},"modified":"2016-04-09T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T01:59:00","slug":"who-says-that-irony-is-dead-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/09\/who-says-that-irony-is-dead-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Says that Irony is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Pittsburgh are <a href=\"http:\/\/countercurrentnews.com\/2015\/12\/cops-fighting-mandatory-tests-claim-its-unconstitutional-to-screen-police-urine\/\">fighting mandatory drug tests because they claim that it is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In an unprecedented protest against the routine offenses against due process and bodily integrity carried out in the name of the \u201cwar on drugs,\u201d the union representing Pittsburgh police officers has condemned workplace drug and alcohol testing as a violation of the Constitution. Their zeal for the right to privacy only applies to themselves, however, not to the public they supposedly serve.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">NBC affiliate WPXI reports that the Pittsburgh Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police \u201chas filed a civil rights grievance against the city, claiming officers have been order to undergo drug and alcohol testing that is in violation of their contract.\u201d Union attorney Bryan Campbell describes the policy as \u201can illegal search and seizure.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">To which those not protected by Blue Privilege might respond: Welcome to our world, FOP.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Another blatantly obvious reason for police opposing public scrutiny of their urine is that it could reveal the usage of such things as anabolic steroids. Police officers are no stranger to \u2018Vitamin S\u2019 as many of them have not only been caught using the rage-inducing hormones, but selling them as well.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Pittsburgh are fighting mandatory drug tests because they claim that it is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy: In an unprecedented protest against the routine offenses against due process and bodily integrity carried out in the name of the \u201cwar on drugs,\u201d the union representing Pittsburgh police officers has condemned workplace drug and alcohol &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[960,1041,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irony","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}