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