Posted on 09/08/2004 11:49:05 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
Forced mental screening hits roadblock in House Rep. Ron Paul seeks to yank program, decries use of drugs on children
By Ron Strom © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, plans to offer an amendment in the House of Representatives today that would remove from an appropriations bill a new mandatory mental-health screening program for America's children.
"The American tradition of parents deciding what is best for their children is, yet again, under attack," writes Kent Snyder of the Paul-founded Liberty Committee. "The pharmaceutical industry has convinced President Bush to support mandatory mental-health screening for every child in America, including preschool children, and the industry is now working to convince Congress as well."
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Thank goodness! The potential for abuse is staggering.
Sure glad I'm not a GAMMA....
we don't need testing of children.
we need testing of our leaders.
Interesting story, and Ron Paul's right to oppose this.
But it doesn't bear out the headline one iota. Just because Ron Paul opposes something doesn't mean it's hit "a roadblock" in the House. What was the editor at WND thinking?
This is just unbelievable evil here.. to hell with them.. my children are not theirs.
Ha, ha! With the track record of psych., if they don't remove that program, about half of the parents in this country will either be homeschooling or send their kids to private schools.
In every university, Psych. students and instructors do have a generalized stigma that is earned by many of them, and all others know about it.
Shoot, from General/Intro. Psych. (which course most students do for general requirements), most educated people learn that that standard evaluations, for the most part, are like Voodoo.
...believe in God? That'll score you toward schizo on the MMPI. ...man who likes to read and write a lot (English stuff)? That'll score him toward the homo side and the same malady.
What a crock!
Such an item in a bill would also run right smack into states' rights, at least in one State that I know of.
Ja and if ya don't kooperate, ve vill take your kinder avay to be taught the proper love for thee state!
Furthurmore, if you don't vote for Herr Bush, You vill be labeled an enemy of the publik and the great conservative revolution!
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/address.html
...President Bush identified another obstacle, the fragmented mental health service delivery system. The President said that mental health centers and hospitals, homeless shelters, the justice and school systems have contact with individuals suffering from mental disorders but that too many Americans fall through the cracks of the current system. The President said he created the Commission to ensure “that the cracks are closed.”...
President's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/reports/FinalReport/FullReport-05.htm
Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America
4.1 Promote the mental health of young children.
4.2 Improve and expand school mental health programs.
4.3 Screen for co-occurring mental and substance use disorders and link with integrated treatment strategies.
4.4 Screen for mental disorders in primary health care, across the life span, and connect to treatment and supports.
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/index.html
Some of Joe's writers do go a little over the edge, sometimes.
The President did start that Commission, but is he really in favor of that evaluation item in the Bill?
I haven't had the time to look the Bill and item up. But as a conservative organization explained it to us, and according to my busy memory from a quick scan, the mandatory testing would only apply to public education students and school employees. Fill me in if I'm incorrect on that.
It's still something that needs to be dealt with by the more active voters/constituents, and the latter part of an Election Campaign is an improper time for such an item in a Bill to be crammed into the agenda.
If such an item in a Bill were to pass or continue in Congress through the Election Day, US morale in general would succumb to the noise and costs that would follow. And most of our Campaign would take a seat.
So that item in the Bill must go away or be amended out of the Bill and not become law.
Alright. I'll check the Bill item and the rest of the situation thoroughly as a priority (today).
If this is all true, and if this item doesn't get tossed/vote down, I'm a third party or no-vote, and so will be just about every dad in the fathers' rights movement. ...will work positively in the meantime but will also inform the others right now. We stand for parents' rights--not nutty psych./Div 51 weirdness. ...thought that went away with Hillary's Donna Shalala bunch.
...even if that item comes within a month of floating through the Election, BTW.
Mental illness is something we don’t understand. And if people were to be completely honest then I think that everyone could be classified as some type of crazy.
The treatments are at best band-aid solutions, as the human mind is complex. Heck, we don’t even know how to cure a dog that has mental problems (say from abuse).
Screening for mental problems is a bad idea as we have no real solutions (Drugs). Only when there is a clear problem that renders the person non-functional should the person be treated.
Plus the schools already do enough damage as it is to our young, as we all probably know all too well.
Thanks for the ping. I remember reading about this weeks ago, and it sucked at that time.
I've been through mental health stuff years and years ago (when I used to take drugs) and if you aren't crazy to begin with, you will be when they're finished with you.
The idea of mass "screening" for mental illness is right out of "Brave New World", as the person who is glad he is not a Gamma noted.
If anyone wants to become free from mental illness, get right with God, and He'll fix whatever's wrong. Might take a while, but it took a while to get wrong.
"The New Freedom Commission found that "despite their prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed" and recommended comprehensive mental-health screening for "consumers of all ages," including preschool children.
The above paragraph is what the proposed effort really intends to do. There is nothing to suggest they are trying to drug the population, find people for Ritalin or any of the other spurious allegations in this article.
Usually, such articles come from anti-mental health people such as the Church of Scientology. Many of the hard core Libertarians are runners up in pontificating paranoid convictions about the dangers of assessing children and others for mental disorders likely to impair educational attainment. Shame on Representative Paul: he must have missed his weekly injection of public notoriety.
It's already a done deal in Illinois. School kids and pregnant woman get screened, whether they want it or not:
http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=19137
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