Homophobia forced this faithful public servant to resign in disgrace. When will we ever learn to tolerate diversity?
Posted on 11/11/2004 8:23:36 AM PST by presidio9
We do not usually favor expensive domestic-policy initiatives, but the Bush administration should consider emergency spending on mental health. So many of its critics have gone nuts.
A casual tourist of the op-eds and the Internet can catalogue all the symptoms. The Bush haters begin with random abuse. "The president got reelected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule" (Maureen Dowd). She left out receiving stolen goods. "I grew up in Missouri and most of my family voted for Bush, so I am going to be the one to say it: The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry. . . . My relatives are not ignorant, they are just greedy and full of classic Republican feelings of superiority" (Jane Smiley). That will be an awkward Thanksgiving dinner.
They predict disaster and conflict, or welcome it. "I don't hope for more and worse scandals and failures during Mr. Bush's second term, but I do expect them" (Paul Krugman). How freude is your schaden? "An administration given to hubris will have to be checked by institutions outside what is likely to be a compliant Congress. This is no time for the independent media to be intimidated by trumped-up charges of liberal bias" (E. J. Dionne). Unleash Dan Rather!
They say the country has been kidnapped. "We don't just disagree on what America should be doing; we disagree on what America is" (Thomas L. Friedman). We hold these truths to be not so self-evident after all. "Where else do we find fundamentalist zeal, a rage at secularity, religious intolerance, fear of and hatred for modernity? . . . We find it in the Muslim world, in Al Qaeda, in Saddam Hussein's Sunni loyalists"
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Maybe I have short-term memory loss. What "scandals and failures" happened in Bush's FIRST term?
Let's ask the British, they used to have a good system going for the nut cases in 1800's...
Homophobia forced this faithful public servant to resign in disgrace. When will we ever learn to tolerate diversity?
I'm not going to let them get to me! Their propaganda geared toward dividing this country will fail!
We need the President to get out there and provide an alternative message.
How do we email Karl Rove?
Give them one way tickets to the EU country of their choice.
Naaahh... No special funding.
That would ruin all the fun of listening to the chorus of craziness. One week later, and it still feels like a party.
Libs never seem to make the connection between greed and their desire to confiscate an ever-larger share of the income earned by Americans. The tone of sneering condescension in the typical lib-written article says all one needs to know about which side believes itself to be superior.
I have a solution. I think we should give the Aleutian Islands to the Liberals. No one except bears and other wildlife use them anyway and we could provide free transportation for all liberals wanting to go. They could then set up their own government with Kerry for president, or maybe gore or hillary, whatever and leave us alone. This would be a great place for the greenies too, with all the wildlife running around waiting to be protected. We could change the name to liberal land...
-"We don't just disagree on what America should be doing; we disagree on what America is"-
That's why I call them unpatriotic - they don't love or respect the US. They love socialism, and don't really care which country provides it for them. That's not patriotic, and I don't think I have to pussyfoot around that one.
I believe the colonies dumped socialism early on, since it nearly killed all the early settlers from lack of initiative.
Great article. But NRO missed the part where the Bush administration is already pushing for mandatory psychiatric evaluation and drugging of the entire population, starting with the kids and pregnant moms.
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 America’s 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 nation’s 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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