Labor history Oct 30 Ed Meese, attorney general Reagan administration says spy on your workers

Omaha Steve

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Sun Oct-30-11 03:42 PM
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Labor history Oct 30 Ed Meese, attorney general Reagan administration says spy on your workers

October 30

Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urges employers to begin spying on workers "in locker rooms, parking lots, shipping and mail room areas and even the nearby taverns" to try to catch them using drugs - 1986

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history

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Sun Oct-30-11 03:46 PM
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1. We were warned

The drug war was always seen by many activists as a way to broaden the power of the police state and suppress dissent. To this day my pro-legalization stance causes people to assume I use drugs or wish to use drugs when I couldn't care less about that aspect. My concern is the growing power of the police state and growing violence of gangs in the black market prohibition has created.

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