Posted on 06/21/2004 10:19:15 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
I thought that's what you guys wanted?
Sure did, 95% of this hyperactive kids stuff is bunk, and they don't need drugging. Energy and activity are good for kids and inconvienenced adults and teachers should just get used to it.
However if they want to put lots of this stuff in liberals, communists, lefties, and Rats, well OK by me.
Oh yeah, and especially "progressives".
God help our children who will have to live with this crap...unless WE do something about it.
[And both parties are guilty of this kind of thing. Pay no attention the the propagandists who use these issues as a reason to suuport the other guys.}
I don't think that anyone here has denigrated mentally ill people - certainly not me. The idea of testing every American (and especially kids in school)is an unwarranted and dangerous intrusion on individuals. I'm all for mentally disabled people getting the help they need - just leave me alone and let me seek help myself, if I feel I need it.
That's all well and good, but the government has no business being involved in it on any level whatsoever. Mental illness is the epitome of private concern, and the science of psychiatry is centuries away from having the technology to be able to do something like this responsibly.
What's wrong with it? 4 million American boys drugged into submission is what's wrong with it. The ease with which ficticious illnesses can be created, and people coerced into taking drugs that they don't want nor need, is the problem with it. And government involvement, on my tax dollar, is also the problem with it.
Can you imagine what a Democrat President would do with such power? How far a step is it to deciding that anyone with a particular political opinion is mentally ill and must be drugged for their own good?
This is extremely frightening stuff and it has no place in a free society.
---The plan promises to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing "services in the community, rather than institutions," according to a March 2004 progress report entitled New Freedom Initiative (www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/newfreedom/toc-2004.html). ---
We did this already, under Reagan in California. Now the crazies are all over the streets in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Berkeley. It's just wonderful: I'm moving.
I assume that the more sinister potentials in this proposal will be cut out either by Congress or the courts, with a healthy assist from public opinion, and indeed the media.
If I am wrong in this assumption, then it would indeed be wrong for me to call it a "trivial issue."
But in any case, there are many other issues. And I would continue to insist that any conservative who does not find Bush clearly preferable to Kerry is simply too stupid or too unhinged from reality to debate with.
There is far too much at stake.
You didn't read past the first paragraph, did you? The stuff is all there in the BMJ article, just rearranged by WND. Try reading paragraphs 7-10..
Anyhow, I don't know if I have an issue with this or not. I have no problem whatsoever with making mental health more accessible and more integrated. I do have a problem with misdiagnosing and overmedicating.
I'll just wait and see what, if anything, gets announced next month and then I'll decide. That's what everyone else should do to.
This has to be a joke. How can I work for his re-election if this is true?
Busted!
But then it may be buried in all of that bureaucratese.
Nope you are referring to the things that HAD to be done because of the Doyle- ( some other name) bill that passed in CAlifornia in the late 50s. Reagan was never the instigator
Sheesh.. I dunno what's up with all the typos in that last post of mine. Anyhow, I guess it's clear enough regardless..
I don't know about that! I used to think the same about Clinton. Nowaday some 'RATS think he' the second coming.
ROTFLMAO....PIMP.
That was too funny Joe.....I'll be going to bed smiling over that one.
It's 'for the children', y'know. Some things in the Federal Govt. just keep rolling along, no matter who's in office.
Screen EVERY citizen? And get them on meds? No, it should NEVER be trotted out, not in the US of A
WND POLL:
What do you think of President Bush's plan to screen all for mental illness?
Is this guy trying to lose election on purpose? 28.92% (59)
Just test Bush and Kerry and leave the rest of us alone 27.94% (57)
It's thoroughly unconstitutional 16.18% (33)
I think Bush has gone nuts 8.82% (18)
I'm opposed to the idea 8.33% (17)
Plan has some merit 3.43% (7)
Sounds like killing a gnat with a sledgehammer 2.45% (5)
Sounds like a good idea, but I'd like more details 1.96% (4)
Other 1.47% (3)
It's Bush's best initiative yet 0.49% (1)
Just not going kneejerk that your new favorite comdian, joehadenuf has made into an artform.
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