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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?

"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.

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.