Posted on 10/26/2016 10:16:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Texas legislature will face a major “mental health” decision when they meet this January.
The question will be whether to pass a replacement law for the psychologists’ licensing statute. Their major problem will be passing something -- if they pass anything at all -- that is constitutional under the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.
The issue is that the freedom of speech includes the freedom to talk and listen to whomever you’d like about psychological matters -- thoughts, feelings, behavior, perceptions -- including as a paid service. According to the old Texas law, you needed a license from the state in order to talk about such things to a member of the public. And as a member of the public, the only lawful person to talk to about your problems would be a state-licensed psychologist.
But in January, 2016 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit determined that the Texas psychologists’ licensing law violated the First Amendment. And because it was unconstitutional, the law became unenforceable. The law had defined the “practice of psychology” too broadly, the Court said, and therefore infringed our freedom of speech. It was so broad, in fact, it allowed the state to forbid and punish anti-smoking and weight loss counselors, life coaches, and many others -- just about anyone providing a service that was broadly about behavior.
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That’s the same question as, “Is limited government good for your mental health?”, since that is all the Constitution does: creates and limits the central government.
When you look at how sick and corrupt our mostly unconstitutional central government has become, and how much better off America was in the 1800’s and early 1900’s before unconstitutional socialism began in America, the answer should be obvious.
A free people are always the happiest, healthiest people in the world.
Only for freedom and liberty loving Americans.
For Islamists, Communists & other totalitarian loving, God hating anti-Americans, the Constitution makes them want to go to their safe spaces.
Let’s see: the so-called “progressives”, who didn’t have much use for the Constitution when they were still sane, now want government to regulate pretty much everything that isn’t sex or sexual expression or frees up folks for having more sex (like abortion).
We need licenses or permits to do anything because, save for our sexcapades, we are bound before a government that is free.
At least when government did a lot less for people but made a show at expecting some lip service to sexual morality we were free from their endless government demands we pony up and together line and not so riddled as a people with STDs....
“Toe the line” ... darn autocorrect!
Texas is always a mixed bag. Loves freedom in some ways, but in others its extremely over regulated and they love petty rules.
They passed a strict law on drone flying after someone used a drone to find someone polluting the living hell out of the water.
They passed open carry...as long as you possess a concealed carry permit.
There are lots of little “gotchas” like that.
It was the Marxists (Wundt incl.) who created “psychology” in Germany-—in the 1800s—along with Fichte who knew that psychologists could destroy Free Will in children if they could get children away from the Natural Family early enough. They could literally destroy the normal integration of the brain, program beliefs into the child, and warp the child for life, so they are incapable of Reason and are addicts for life. Everything is based on emotions tied to ideas-—Like White Males are EVIL and Christianity is Evil and Irrational (when it is the most rational religion of all-—and ALL people have a religion). Schools/books all promote hate (opposite of our Christian heritage which ended slavery).
It is their Marxist technique used by Lenin as a way to control the masses. It is pseudo-science at best but effective at destroying the Free Will and Individualism for the collective (group-(non)-think) culture that John Dewey (and Horance Mann) set up to get a mass of “bots” like the Prussian army-—men who never question ANY order by the State.
What the aim is in psychology is to destroy Reason and Logic in people and create a New Religion (Scientism—materialism). Only “licensed” by the GOVERNMENT so they can SCREEN the BELIEFS OF THEIR AGENTS.....so they can FLIP GOOD AND EVIL-—DESTROY RELIGION (the idea of sin)—and replace it with their Satanic, irrational worldview of moral relativism, so the masses would be incapable of Reason (critical thinking). Snowflakes——Words are meaningless, History is unknown, children are hyper sexualized so they are easily corrupted, all biological connections and bonding to parents WEAKENED or destroyed to the point of non-existence-—so that people are isolated and easily controlled and become addicts to State institutions.
Psychology is the MO of Marxists. They took over the APA and ALL UNIVERSITY COURSES-—to actually make the Sane into the evil/insane ones, and the Insane (psychopaths who kill for power) into our masters.
To destroy the control of the Minds—we need to get RID of State control over licensing. And we need Free Press which was destroyed in 1914. People should be free to go to whomever-—and that includes quacks if they are stupid enough. Same with doctors. People should be able to research their training, and we already had enough laws on the books for fraud.
Having control over testing/licenses is a MAJOR Mind Control problem. We need people to be able to pick their own physicians from wherever, like before all the controls and Medicare cr*- were put in place to destroy this nation’s freedom, and keep the good people from getting approved by the Satanists and in positions of power. They have infiltrated ALL the boards of “approval” now so good Christians can not apply in “psychology” now since the ONLY allowed meme is that sodomy is a virtue and boys can be girls and mutilation and drugs are “good” and healthy for even little children. It is like literature for children. If it denigrates homosexuality or transgendered mental illness, they won’t get published and they CAN”T be put into curricula.
It is essential to control all ideas given to our children and only Christianity is being banned because it is the ONLY rational religion which created the Age of Reason and made pederasty, slavery, mutilation, misogyny, incest “Evil”. All other “holy” books outside of the Bible, allows the above and worse. Our Justice System was ONLY based on Christian Ethics-—none other. The God is Dead people knew to flip Good and Evil they had to destroy the Christian Worldview in children so the satanists/Marxists took over the culture with the pedophile, pervert Kinsey, and marched through ALL the institutions.
It’s not really that big a challenge. Most places limit advertising that people can and charging people for talking about their problems without a shrink license.
The other variation of this is the psychology associations saying transgenderism and homosexuality are not mental illnesses, thus preventing licensed psychologists from helping someone deal with gender dysphoria by rectifying mind with biological sex or help someone left with same sex attraction after molestation reject it.
The end result is that in those states, if you want counseling to be normal, you’re not ALLOWED to talk to a licensed psychologist and have to use someone who can be punished for doing so.
Changing Texas state law in this regard then lets Christian counselors help the sexual minorities get back to normal regardless of what the state level APA does.
Requiring licensing to do a job is a revenue source for the government, and it puts enough of an impediment up that wages for those with licensing go up 10% on average due to lack of competition.
Institute for Justice is fighting that, especially insane cases like hair braiders told to get a cosmetology license that costs thousands of dollars but doesn’t cover hair braiding.
To me, state law is a nit compared to the mostly unconstitutional $4 trillion federal tyrant beast. The Constitution is generally aimed directly at the feds, not the states and the people of each state can control their state through state elections, propositions, initiatives, and special elections. Worst case, move to a state more to your liking.
The greatest threat to our freedoms and way of life isn’t China or Russia or Islam or even Texas, it is the mostly unconstitutional $4 trillion federal tyrant beast.
When America's Founders and Framers of their Constitution wanted to convince ordinary farmers and citizens of the merits of a written "People's" Constitution to limit the powers of those to whom they entrust the powers of government, they published and circulated 85 essays, known as THE FEDERALIST.
It's time for citizens, once again, to examine those strong and clear words of Madison Hamilton, and Jay. They are just as clear for today's audience as they were then. Circulate the following excerpts to your friends. Even the least politically savvy will "get" Madison's meaning, especially in light of the power grab now going on in Washington. After all, THE FEDERALIST was the Framers' authoritative explanation of their Constitution, and directed by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia in 1825 to be used as the text for its law school in its studies of "the general principles of liberty and the rights of man," and said by Jefferson to "constitute 'the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the U.S., on questions as to its genuine meaning.'":
"The house of representatives... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"Such will be the relation between the House of Representatives and their constituents. Duty gratitude, interest, ambition itself, are the cords by which they will be bound to fidelity and sympathy with the great mass of the people." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"The propensity of all single and numerous assemblies (is) to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
Note particularly the following words of wisdom from Federalist No. 63, and take heart. You are doing what you were meant to do when you speak out on intrusions on your liberty. According to Madison:
"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" - Federalist Papers, No. 63, 1788
Thank you.
You beat me to it.
As I said before what a stupid question.
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