Posted on 09/20/2004 6:16:50 PM PDT by mrfixit514
This is "Crosstalk Hotline". Listed below is information regarding issues that are important to you, our listeners, families, churches, and members of the community at large.
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A presidential initiative, the "New Freedom Commission on Mental Health" has recommended forced mental health screening for every child in America, including pre-schoolers, and ultimately all adults. Such screening would be done by regular doctors when people visit their offices for other medical reasons.
A bill mandating this has already passed the House and is being considered in the Senate, for a possible vote as early as next week.
The program is patterned after the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, which assigns medication treatments based on such assessments there.
These bills constitute a further assault on the family, especially the rights of parents dealing with their children's behavior.
For further information, you may check these articles of analysis by physician and Congressman Ron Paul of Texas:
www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2004/tst091304.htm
www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2004/tst092004.htm
Now is the time for citizens to contact their U.S. Senators to alert them to this bill and its possible consequences, as it likely will be coming to a vote in the next two weeks.
Capitol Switchboard to contact your U.S. Senators:
202-224-3121, or
202-225-3121
Thank you for being alert and ready to act when situations such as this arise.
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I am very concerned about it but I know many will dismiss it as paranoia.
For those who are concerned, see the contacts above to let the Senate know this should be killed.
FMCDH(BITS)
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The US Government
CREEPY!!!
Good luck -- but where were you when the fight over forced random drug testing of students was being fought?
they probably pat them on the back while inserting a chip to monitor them the rest of their lives...
Serious potential Big Brother abuse, closely akin to health care clinics in the school setting where parental permissions aren't necessary sought, where your kids are examined for signs of physical (and mental) abuse, and where your kids are quizzed about you and your un-PC activities (such as gun ownership). Then CPS can decide to pay you a visit.
Or your kid can be put on Ritalin at their discretion, etc.
Watch for the Obesity Patrol -- coming SOON to a school near you.
What are the recomendations? Act like a sheep or go in armed and stand up to that doctor?
If the mental health screening looks for learning disorders, mental retardation, autism, suicidality, and antisocial behaviors, then it sounds like a good thing.
Of course, the parents should always have the final say on the course of treatment, unless the refusal of treatment can lead to serious harm to the child and society.
Thanks for the ping. The government is trying to evaluate the children and I ask WHY? I can only guess the pharmacy companies are behind the move.
Yes,
the pharmacueticals are totally behind this move. Sounds like the Congress people who are investigating the suicidal links between anti-depressants and those who just passed this bill need to talk to each other some more.
Here is a link to my article again for those of you who are interested.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1220966/posts
I'll add a few more links to this and the other thread for those who want to do some more research.
Jenny Hatch
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/1458
Alan Jones was fired for being the whistle blower on this scandal. The British Medical Journal was pretty good about exposing it and our friends in England seem to be much more concerned about their teen suicide rate than our AMA. They have banned all anti-depressants except for Prozac.
The pharama companies were VERY effective in getting this story squashed in the main stream press, they bragged about it on their web site. (watch any news show and most of the ads are paid for by big pharamacuetical companies). - This segment brought to you by Zoloft....
I guess it will be up to the alternative press, again, to expose this for what it is.
Please don't let this story die, it is just too important.
I sometimes wonder how these pharmacuetical company executives sleep at night. Have they no shame? No concern for the well being of ordinary citizens? They know that their dope is addictive, has devastating side effects for teens especially, and everyone else generally.
Ask the families of Eric Harris's victims of the Columnbine school massacre if they have relished in his particular "side effect" to the Luvox he was taking which caused horrible agression and homicidal behavior.
These companies know, and they have covered it up for years, paying off victims, and hushing up the cases, keeping them out of the press.
It is time people.....Expose the fraud, before our whole world is drunk on mental health drugs - forced on us by greedy, slimy, charlatans, who have no concern for anyone's health....
Jenny Hatch
Alan Jones whistle blower report
http://psychrights.org/Drugs/AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf
Jen
The pharama companies were VERY effective in getting this story squashed in the main stream press, they bragged about it on their web site.
Link to AMA site
http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/bush_APA_silences_media.shtml
Jenny
President Says U.S. Must Make Commitment to Mental Health Care
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Psychiatry and the State (Excerpt)
by Dennis Behreandt
The federal government plans a new role in delivering mental health care. Historically, however, governments have used psychiatric techniques for harm rather than good.
On April 29, 2002, President George W. Bush issued an executive order creating a new commission charged with finding ways to improve Americas mental health service delivery system. One year later, the Orwellian-sounding New Freedom Commission on Mental Health released its findings. Its final report recommended mental health screening for all Americans and, in a proposal that should alarm parents everywhere, recommended that the nations schools be used to assess the mental health of all schoolchildren.
President George W. Bush wants to have American citizens, beginning with all school age children, examined by psychiatrists. "The New Freedom Initiative is a plan to screen the entire U.S. population for mental illness and to provide a cradle-to-grave continuum of services for those identified as either mentally ill or at risk of becoming so. Under the plan, schools would become hubs of the screening process, not only for children, but for their parents and teachers. There are even components aimed at senior citizens, pregnant women, and new mothers. "In April 2002, President Bush established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health to conduct a 'comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system.' The commission issued its recommendations in July 2003, chief among them being that schools are in a 'key position' to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at educational facilities." This Draconian federal program began in Texas while G.W. Bush was Governor. It was called the Texas Medication Algorithm Project as an alliance between the pharmaceutical industry, the University of Texas, and the mental health and corrections systems of Texas. Now that Bush is President, he has begun implementing the program at the national level. |
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