Posted on 01/11/2005 9:10:38 AM PST by PHLSyndicate
GWB's Brave New World. There, I said. Its a cliché that I can't avoid, and a cliché that happens to be, well, true.
If you are a person of the politial persuasion who wishes government control our health care system, I'd advise you to be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it.
It seems that not only does our "conservative" president have the honour of passing the largest piece of social welfare spending since Lyndon Johnson, with the government-funded prescription drug plan, he will most likely be the first President to wield medical science as a weapon against political dissidents through the use of forced drugging and institutionalization for "the politically paranoid."
Wow. This is almost as cool as Eugenics!
Opposing Bush - A Form of Mental Illness?
When the 109th Congress convenes in Washington in January, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define 'political paranoia' as a mental disorder, paving the way for individuals who suffer from paranoid delusions regarding voter fraud, political persecution and FBI surveillance to receive Medicare reimbursement for any psychiatric treatment they receive," writes Hermione Slatkin, Medical Correspondent for the Swift Report. "Rick Smith, a spokesman for Senator Frist, says that the measure has a good chance of passingsomething that can only help a portion of the population that is suffering significant distress."
Not only is "treatment" of the politically paranoid on the agenda of our benevolent leader, so is the drugging of our children.
Federal Control of Education Must End
The Department of Education is spending $5 million on “Mental Health Integration in Schools” as well as another million dollars for Sen. Kennedy’s early childhood mental health program called “Foundations for Learning.” All this is a boon to the pharmaceutical industry, but a horror for the children whose mental health is not the school’s responsibility. It is just one more effort to wrest control of a parents’ fundamental rights and responsibility over the welfare of their children.
Ron Paul, my favorite Republican, worked to introduce legislation that would at least require parental consent -- but it was voted down. Go figure.
Republicans Have Family under Attack
The idea that children should be routinely examined for mental illness at school and possibly drugged without their parents’ consent is something out of a horrifying science-fiction novel in which a totalitarian state runs everything. Critics of government schooling have long warned that political control of education is an affront to the family and would lead to further usurpation of its authority. The widespread prescription of Ritalin for so-called attention-deficit disorder was only the beginning. In 2002 Bush appointed the Orwellian-named New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which last year issued its recommendations for universal screening.
Am I the only one who is a bit creeped out by all of this? Just as a welfare state necessitates a warfare state, and vice versa, government control of health care necessitates the politicization and abuse of power granted by that authority.
That is as true as the fact that those with power only want one thing -- more power.
I had no idea this was in the wrong forum. My apologies. I'll be more careful in the future.
Since you signed up last week, you have done nothing but post articles from your website...meaning that you're not really interested in FR itself, you're just trying to take advantage of FR's popularity and very wide readership for your own benefit.
If you're so smart that you can write this blog that everyone needs to read, then how come that fact isn't as plain as day to you?
I have been a reader of FreeRepublic for about 4 years now. Only recently have I started writing on my own. Rather than read everyone else's debates and articles, I thought I'd attempt to write on my own and get involved in the debate.
That's Big Gun....
By your post.
If you've been reading FR for four years now, then you would definitely know that we have a separate forum for Bloggers/Personal. And that we roast blog pimps and others who try to promote themselves on News/Activism. So either you're lying, or you've basically admitted to misusing the forum for the sake of attracting readers.
Pulp drama. Coming to theaters near you. Maybe.
-good Thames, G.J.P.(Jr.)
I'm not sure you're going to have much a future here.
But that's not my decision to make, just my opinion.
Please enlighten me regarding you knowlege of hwat is going on in ALL "government" schools that can claim some nonsense of what may possibly be happening in some to be truth for all.
You left something out - from the end of the same article:
Finally, note that I could not find mention of Frist and the classification of “political paranoia” after a lengthy Google news search. Mention of it only appeared on the Swift Report website. Rick Smith’s above quote returned no results. Of course, this does not mean that Bill Frist and the Republicans do not consider the opposition—including more than a few Democrats—as mental cases and tinfoil hatters. Rush Limbaugh calls us nutters every day and millions of gullible Americans take what he says as gospel.
And, to top it off, I can't see anywhere else on Google that Frist has a spokesman named Rick Smith. Apparently for you nutbars, the veracity of the facts don't matter, just as long as the claims fit your preconceptions.
I hear CBS is looking for some new research staffers, you'd fit right in.
I usually read breaking news. I've never really participated fully in this before so I didn't know the rules. Sorry.
I like Big Gun!!!!!
Too funny!!!!!!!!!!
Whiiine. When you post fabricated nonsense as fact, Dan Rather can attest that the messenger becomes the issue.
:)
A tip - quality blog writing does not consist of regurgitating junk from other blogs and then calling it your own.
Amazing..........
Debates are on Wednesday. Come back then and search around for posts to get on. Don't come pimping your blog demanding a showdown. We'll just send you back to the ether.
LOL!!!
This article needs to be submitted as politically paranoid tripe.
He reminds me of this poster that signed up shortly after the CBS memo fraud story broke and then started pontificating to posters who had been here for years about how he and Buckhead were some sort of brothers-in-arms, and wanted everyone to know how he was so important to FR.
I do wonder what happened to that feeb.
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