European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday March 18, 1986 columns William Safire Burden of proof is being shifted to the innocent who would have thought that a conservative administration with a Justice department headed by a denounced of criminal coddling would be the one that presided Over the Retreat of Law enforce ment in America nobody planned it this Way and the ninth Street urinalysis and sweat measurement Headquarters formerly the jus Tice department does not grasp the significance of the sea change in enforcement under Way. No longer is the Pursuit apprehension prosecution and punishment of criminals the primary interest of investigators. Evi Dently that is too hard too Many Crooks and too few cops is the excuse most often heard for the new approach. Instead they want to do away with the Little technicality known As the presumption of innocence. Rather than go to All the trouble of finding the guilty Needle in the Haystack they prefer to Force each piece of Hay to prove it did nothing wrong. The first step in the abdication of Law enforcement s responsibility came with the adoption of the Cia s use of so called lie detectors. A vast test is under Way in de sense rigged to show How easy it is to detect leaders and spies by strapping employees to a machine that measures nervousness. Maybe this will scare some would be leaders surely As the philosophy of prove yourself innocent spreads it will reduce the Freedom we want to protect. The second step is the proposed testing of Federal employees and after that the Coer Cive testing of All workers for the presence of drugs in the body. The president s organized crime commission recognizing the pervasive nature of the narcotics Trade panicked and recommended suitable testing of individuals which is an invitation to wholesale tests in school and on the Job. That would be a disaster. Wake up everybody the mainly Law abiding population of the United states is in Dan Ger of being stopped and frisked. Traditionally lawmen had to have prob Able cause for examination of suspects. If i skulk about with a bulge in my jacket near a Bank at night or stagger into work with a spaced out look the Law and my employer have rights to invade Niy privacy. And James Kilpatrick 1 cum4lf\ftfwl-Tvtesting, to protect myself against terrorists i will walk through a Metal Detector with fellow passengers but that special Circum stance must not be twisted into a precedent that shifts the Burden of proof from the government to the individual. Do not be taken in by the goodness of causes. Yes National Security must be protected drug dealing must be curbed by better police work against the traitors and criminals not by a Campaign against the rest of us. Picture yourself going to work Tomor Row handing Over blood and urine Sam Ples taking a Quick turn with the House polygraph turning out your pockets and walking through some new fluoroscopy. You object whats matter you got some thing to hide you bet i have something to hide or. Employer me. From you. Not Only is my Home my Castle my body is my Citadel. What goes on in my Home and body and mind is my business. Unless i give you probable cause to suspect me of a crime and a court will give you a warrant for a search you have no business sifting through my thoughts and my excretions or looking under my bed. As for you or. Lawman Stop asking me to do your Job for you. Don t Tell me the Only Way you can Stop the smuggling of cocaine into the United states is by going after the demand forcing searches in the schoolyard and the workplace. Toy going after the Supply in the hands of the criminal which is Why we have a Justice department and a customs service. You know that most of the Coke is flown in across the mexican Border by hundreds of planes each month you have radar and guns Issue a warning to All Pri vate aircraft that unregistered flights will be shot Down and then shoot them Down. Smuggling will decrease death is a deter rent. A but our fashionably overwhelmed lawmen will say this is simplistic. The arcs at ninth Street claim that if we choke the dope off there another Avenue will open up. It s All too much for straight police work so the hapless Reagan vice squad has Given up on the pimps and is going after the Johns. The Weinberger War on leaks and the Meese War on drugs Are predicated on subversion of the personal Freedom of the innocent. Somewhere there must be a candidate with an old fashioned Tough mindedness toward traitors and Crooks and a respect for victims and bystanders who will make an Issue out of Law and order. C new York times news service publishers not court expelled god from classroom my friends on the far right Are mistaken. It was t the supreme court that expelled god from our Public school classrooms. It was the textbook publish ers. That conclusion May be drawn from a revealing study by Paul e. Vitz professor of psychology at new York University who spent months in careful analysis of 60 textbooks widely used in elementary schools across the nation. His study was conducted under the auspices of the . Department of education. This is no Flea bitten piece of research from some cow College in the Barefoot Belt. For purposes of his analysis Vitz chose 10 sets of texts in social studies. Among the publishers were such familiar houses As Allyn & Bacon . Heath Laidlaw Brothers Macmillan Mcgraw Hill and Scott Foresman. An Esti mated 87 percent of the nation s elementary school pupils use these books. Each text was meticulously examined in terms of its references to religion. Vitz defined primary references As words or pictures depicting such religious activity As praying going to Church or participating in a religious ceremony. He defined secondary references As material dealing with religion in some indirect Way such As citing the Date when a Church was built. The most striking thing about these texts Vitz concluded is the total absence of any primary religious text about typical contemporary american religious life. In particular there is not one text reference to characteristic protestant religious life in these  Vitz found a few secondary pictures and passages that touched in some fashion upon religion but they touched oddly. For example in a Spanish speaking neighbourhood churches have places for dances and sports  a fourth Grade textbook from Holt featured a Beautiful old Puritan Church in Peacham vt., not As a Center of religious life but because it is the Center for a summer piano festival. On the rare occasions when the textbook authors mentioned religion at All the references were almost entirely to Amish Catholic jewish and Morman faiths. Vitz found this very curious  it strongly suggests a psychological interpretation of the motivation behind the obvious censorship of Reli Gion present in these books. Those responsible for these books appear to have a deep seated fear of any form of Active contemporary christianity especially serious committed protestantism. This fear has led the authors to deny and repress the importance of this kind of religion in american life. That is for those responsible for these books Active protestantism is threatening and hence  religion it appears is something that happened Long ago and far away. Mcgraw Hill lets us know that in Europe Many people Are  Scott Foresman touches upon hopi rain dances and the Earth Mother of the Pueblos. Follett s third Grade textbook contains one reference to a California Mission and one to Mother Teresa in Cal Cutta. The pilgrims get extensive coverage. Most of the texts had drawings of the first thanksgiving though none mentioned to whom thanks was being Given. The 10 fifth Grade texts contained 230 references to religion ranging from 16 references in Heath to 32 in Laidlaw but 121 of these dealt with religion in the 17th Century 59 with religion in the 18th Century and 37 with religion in the 19th Century. As for religion in our own time it does not exist. Five of the texts made no mention whatever of contemporary religion either in text or pictures. Catholicism is simply excluded from . History from 1800 to the  let me insert a personal note in summarizing the Vitz study i am not advocating wholesale revision of elementary textbooks though from what Vitz says i suspect they Are a pretty superficial lot. Neither am i whooping it up for formalized prayer in the classrooms. I am covering a respectable report by a respectable scholar and i am suggesting that his findings offer us plenty to think about. C Universal press Syndicate the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states government