Forced mental screening hits roadblock in House

WND ^ | Sep 9, 2004 | Ron Strom

[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."

[ladylib]

More info from The Illinois Leader:

http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=17748

Apparently the state board of education will be responsible for developing mental health assessments for their students, LOL.

[Wolfie]

Save it. Nobody here's gonna get too upset about this until Hillary's in the White House.

[joesnuffy]

It's about drugging and the office of future crime...

Gonna test all the illegal aliens living in America as well....or just taxpayer's children?

How about the Muslims...no doubt they will claim exemption and start screaming loudly...
and they will also be exempt..

This is un American and just a bit too Orwellian ...

imo

[bondjamesbond]

DELTA is best. BETAs have to think too much and GAMMAs smell bad...

[jmc813]

I'm as anti-Scientology as they come, and I think government mandated screening for anything absolutely sucks.

[watchout]

PoliceState

[GhostofWCooper]

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.

Way to go, Dr. Paul!
Win or lose, at least he's trying! Also, if it weren't for this story in the evil, libertine cyber-rag WND, how many of you would even know that the President's commission recommendations were being enacted?

It is crucial that this amendment be passed. Appropriation bills are generally rubber-stamped, and this despicable affront to privacy and liberty will be enacted.

I have never seen such a massive growth in government power, all the more shocking from a Republican dominated government.
Another thought: If adjudged mentally disturbed, what happens to your right to keep and bear arms?

[familyop]

I'm trying to look up the Bill info with no success at all.

If Paul, Schlafly and friends want the help of coalitions much larger than theirs on legislative issues like the one mentioned above, they should be responsible and thoughtful enough to include bill numbers and full bill texts. Such documents, as I understand it, belong to the federal government and are not copyright enforceable.

We cannot help with such efforts if we only see catchy slogans. The WorldNetDaily column and all other pieces I see against the so-called "New Freedom Initiative" have no information that I can find the Bill item with.

They will continue to lose at fighting Stalinist legislative tactics until we start getting the information we need. For now, the WND and other slogan-filled screeching has only succeeded in spreading propaganda that will stop many from voting in favor of the President in November.

Idjits!

[familyop]

"Another thought: If adjudged mentally disturbed, what happens to your right to keep and bear arms?"

Then your 2nd Amendment right, in reality and effect, goes away, just like it does for divorced husbands. ...little background on that, BTW. Under the VAWA that so many Republicans gleefully pushed their representatives to pass, the 2nd Amendment right of husands divorced by their wives is violated if their wives file restraining orders (which almost all divorcing wives do routinely to gain their edge in child custody cases, and as advised by many lawyers to do).

If men with restraining orders on file are caught with so much as a round of ammunition, they must serve five years in a federal penitentiary. So why should divorced men (about half of all men) bother helping with others' 2nd Amendment rights? They lose their right to the 2nd Amendment/their freedom from only one routine kind of accusation from routine divorces.

[familyop]

I don't see anything from him in the Roll Call record and still can't find any "New Freedom Initiative" mental health item in the Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2004/

So far, I don't believe it but have stalled conservative Election year activity in conservative members of a sizable coalition while trying to find the Bill and item.

When will Republican narrow interest social conservative group leaders learn to provide bill numbers and texts? Those are free for reprinting (laws, bills, documents made on government time) according to what some lawyers have written about copyright stuff.

[GhostofWCooper]

Someone should ping the RKBA gang...

[GhostofWCooper]

Contact Dr. Paul, hell, maybe he's the last man in Congress that still answers his mail...