IN WHICH WAYS CAN A DRUG-ADDICTED EMPLOYEE OF A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT --- SUCH AS THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN IN THIS STATE-CAPITAL CITY FOR TEXAS --- UNDERMINE THE MORAL INTEGRITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY OF A CITY?

----If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin in Austin, Texas, is addicted to an illicit drug such as marijuana or cocaine or heroin or methamphetamines, this means by definition that that municipal government has an unacknowledged ongoing relationship through that employee with an illicit-drug dealer who has ties to organized crime.

----If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict and other persons learn about his or her nefarious activity, the City of Austin's unofficial or official endorsement of the "Keep Austin Weird" slogan is thereby equated in a tragically perverse manner with "Keep Austin High (On Drugs)" --- a revised slogan thereby endorsing illegal activities that can be very harmful to the medical health and public safety and level of obedience of the law of City of Austin employees and this entire state-capital city along the Colorado River.

----If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin in this state capital city for Texas is addicted to any illicit drug, that individual might attempt to share the name and phone number or e-mail address of his or her own drug dealer with a coworker or work supervisor in a context in which the former individual states, "I've been impressed by the quality of the drugs I'm getting from him, and his prices are very reasonable," or words to that effect. By then "recruiting" additional customers for his or her own drug dealer from within the City of Austin workforce, the cited City of Austin-employed drug addict may then be committing a crime in the process that further damages the moral integrity of the City of Austin. This additional damage to the moral integrity of the City of Austin could occur if the "recruited" City of Austin employee or official fails to report that crime evidence to the Austin Police Department or Federal Bureau of Investigation, or, alternatively, if the "recruited" City of Austin employee or official actually agrees to himself become a paying client of the cited illicit drug dealer.

--If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, he or she may bring a baggie containing a "sample" of an illicit drug he had purchased to show to and "impress" a City Government of Austin coworker or work supervisor at their municipal-government workplace. Otherwise, the former individual may keep a "sample" of an illicit drug he owns in the glove compartment or trunk of his parked car that was parked in a City of Austin-approved parking garage or City of Austin employee parking lot. He may then ask a coworker or work supervisor to accompany him to his car during his lunch break, so that "I can show you the quality of the item I'm getting from my drug dealer," as that City of Austin employee might put it. This conduct would then tarnish the moral integrity of either the City of Austin workplace or the City of Austin parking lot facility, and could put both of the City of Austin employees or officials at risk of getting arrested on the spot---whether by a police officer or by an FBI agent or by a Texas Ranger employed by the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that his "leisuretime pursuit of illicit drugs" will at some point during his own tenure with the City of Austin play a role in his reporting for work duties or attending or directly participating in an Austin City Council meeting, for instance, at a time when he himself is under the influence of one or more illicit drugs.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, he or she may decline to accept health insurance coverage through the City of Austin, "since I'm a bit paranoid about the possibility that the City-affiliated health insurance company will figure out that I'm a drug addict and then share that information with the Austin Police Department or my work supervisor. That would result in my getting fired from my job."

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, this increases his or her risk of getting fired because of difficulty getting to work on time and work performance-related problems. That unemployment, in turn, increases the risk that the drug addict fired from his job by the City of Austin will then attempt to retaliate by consuming one or more illicit drugs and then revisiting his former workplace in a rage-filled and possibly violent manner.

--If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that at some point during his career he will report for work while experiencing some form of "illicit-drug addict's hangover". His irritability and inability to concentrate well while on the job during those "hangover" periods are very likely to then significantly disappoint and irk and offend and even alienate his or her work supervisor, his or her coworkers and colleagues with other offices of the City of Austin and other government agencies, and, just as importantly, any members of the general public whom he or she communicates with while on duty and experiencing an "illicit-drug addict's hangover".

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that he will receive a phone call from an on-duty City of Austin official or an on-duty City of Austin coworker during his or her off-duty hours at a time when he himself is "high on drugs". If the drug-addict employee is then expected to respond to a factual question during that telephone conversation, his or her consumption of an illicit drug during his or her off-duty hours would undermine his ability to provide a factually accurate and helpful answer to a question posed to him by an on-duty City of Austin official or coworker. 
Otherwise, if the off-duty City of Austin-employed drug addict is contacted at his home by a City of Austin work supervisor and asked to pursue overtime work for the City "due to an emergency," he poses a major legal liability for the City of Austin when he then agrees to pursue those "emergency" duties for the City without disclosing to his or her work supervisor that he is, in fact, under the influence of one or more illicit drugs.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, this significantly increases the risk that he or she may allegedly attempt to commit a violent crime, such as attempted mass murder or homicide, at some point during his tenure with the City Government of Austin. It is very likely that a disproportionately high share of all mass murders and homicides and attempted homicides and sexual assaults and other personal-injury crimes in the 21st Century United States were allegedly committed by persons--some of them former or current government employees-- who are either current illicit drug addicts or "recovering illicit-drug addicts who have had relapses".

--If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that numerous other Austin residents know about his or her drug addiction. And that, in turn, plays a role in many persons developing the impression that "the City Government of Austin is 'very soft' on drugs", or permissive toward illicit drug activities.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin (TX) is addicted to at least one illicit drug and is a client of a drug dealer, that illicit relationship could result in that City of Austin employee or official attempting in a sly manner to pressure the Austin Police Department into not pressing criminal charges against the individual who sells illicit drugs to himself. The cited City of Austin employee or official could do that by contacting the Austin Police Department and objecting to alleged "persecution" of the cited "friend" or "associate" of that City of Austin employee or official. Otherwise, the cited illicit-drug-addict employee or official of the City of Austin might through associates of his with local government object in general terms to "excessive criminal prosecution" of any and all individuals who are employed in selling marijuana, for instance, since "there is a trend toward legalization of marijuana, which is, in my opinion, a 'victimless crime'," as that drug-addict employee or official of the City of Austin might state. "And after all, the term 'medical marijuana' proves that marijuana can be good for the health, as most reasonable Austinites will surely agree."

---IF ANY employee or official of the City of Austin is a drug addict, he might object to City Council requiring enrollment in a drug-treatment program by City of Austin employees or officials who test positive on a drug test. "The results of that drug test may have been a false positive," as that drug-addicted City of Austin employee or City of Austin official might strenuously object in an e-mail message to a City of Austin official. "And furthermore, I object to this type of flagrant violation of the privacy rights and civil liberties of myself as a hard-working person employed by the City of Austin. I find it very degrading to be asked to submit to a drug test, when my own integrity, as you know, is beyond reproach."