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When Dissent Becomes Pathology
http://www.PhiladelphiaSyndicate.com/ ^ | 01/11/2004 | PHLSyndicate

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.


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1 posted on 01/11/2005 9:10:38 AM PST by PHLSyndicate
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To: PHLSyndicate; Neets; Darksheare; scott0347; timpad; KangarooJacqui; The Scourge of Yazid; ...

Morning. Welcome to Free Republic.


2 posted on 01/11/2005 9:23:23 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Could someone tell me how to set up a tagline? Any help is appreciated. Thanks)
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To: PHLSyndicate

Pimping you blog I see.


3 posted on 01/11/2005 9:24:24 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Could someone tell me how to set up a tagline? Any help is appreciated. Thanks)
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To: PHLSyndicate

Pimping your blog I see.


4 posted on 01/11/2005 9:24:30 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Could someone tell me how to set up a tagline? Any help is appreciated. Thanks)
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To: Conspiracy Guy; cyborg
PIMP DAT BLOG!

Scheduled addition for ABC's Fall lineup.

5 posted on 01/11/2005 9:27:39 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("Oi! Oi! Is this a proper parliament?")
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To: PHLSyndicate

Which bridge did you find this troll under?


6 posted on 01/11/2005 9:27:40 AM PST by white trash redneck (Everything I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9-11-01.)
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To: PHLSyndicate
Thank you for sharing!
7 posted on 01/11/2005 9:27:53 AM PST by OSHA (Moosenami - Waves of crazed moose thought to be caused by earthquakes deep under the fjords.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Good Grief....another one?

They're really coming out of the woodwork today.


8 posted on 01/11/2005 9:30:33 AM PST by Gabz (Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
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To: white trash redneck

Are you willing to debate Bush's policies or are you going to personally attack me?


9 posted on 01/11/2005 9:31:05 AM PST by PHLSyndicate
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

This blog looks dull. Did not go there because I hate pop ups and spam.


10 posted on 01/11/2005 9:32:31 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Could someone tell me how to set up a tagline? Any help is appreciated. Thanks)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

If you did not go to the blog, then how did you determine it looked dull?


11 posted on 01/11/2005 9:33:57 AM PST by PHLSyndicate
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To: PHLSyndicate

If your blog were any good, you wouldn't have to sign up on FR just to pimp it.


12 posted on 01/11/2005 9:33:58 AM PST by AQGeiger (RKBA Royal Enumerator of the Leguminous Stockpile, Wielder of the Enchanted Endoscope of Justice.)
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To: PHLSyndicate

It is more fun to attack blog pimps.


13 posted on 01/11/2005 9:34:26 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Could someone tell me how to set up a tagline? Any help is appreciated. Thanks)
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To: PHLSyndicate
yuuummmmyyyy..... breakfasttttt....


14 posted on 01/11/2005 9:34:34 AM PST by Hi Heels (Proud to be a Pajamarazzi-Leef lang de Katjes van Viking)
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To: AQGeiger

Could someone explain to me the difference between pimping a blog and sharing something I wrote with this community?


15 posted on 01/11/2005 9:35:06 AM PST by PHLSyndicate
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To: Gabz

This one is gonna be fun cause he's self-righteous too.


16 posted on 01/11/2005 9:35:52 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Could someone tell me how to set up a tagline? Any help is appreciated. Thanks)
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To: PHLSyndicate

There is a section of this forum where personal writings and blogs are welcome.......this does not belong in News.

Now, learn the rules or go away.


17 posted on 01/11/2005 9:36:40 AM PST by Gabz (Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

You're right.


18 posted on 01/11/2005 9:37:06 AM PST by Gabz (Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Could someone actually debate me on this topic or are going to attack my character? I was under the impression that this was a debate forum. How exactly do you propose to advance a conservative agenda when legislation such as I describe is enacted?

Does anyone actually care to discuss this?


19 posted on 01/11/2005 9:37:28 AM PST by PHLSyndicate
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To: Hi Heels

That's one SCARY kittie!!!!!!


20 posted on 01/11/2005 9:37:40 AM PST by Gabz (Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
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