Posted on 11/11/2004 5:37:46 PM PST by wagglebee
Where did this commie/facist crap come from and were do we call to complain?
They don't have to look for mentally ill people, they are lounging about the gutters of all our cities. They should get THOSE poor people some help.
Sometimes I don't understand America. You can't smoke, you shouldn't drink, heaven forbid you smoke a joint, but we should all be taking heavy duty mind and mood altering prescription drugs. As a child of the 70s I gotta admit, I don't get it.
Over my dead body.
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Psychiatry and the State (Excerpt)
by Dennis Behreandt
The federal government plans a new role in delivering mental health care. Historically, however, governments have used psychiatric techniques for harm rather than good.
On April 29, 2002, President George W. Bush issued an executive order creating a new commission charged with finding ways to improve Americas mental health service delivery system. One year later, the Orwellian-sounding New Freedom Commission on Mental Health released its findings. Its final report recommended mental health screening for all Americans and, in a proposal that should alarm parents everywhere, recommended that the nations schools be used to assess the mental health of all schoolchildren.
President George W. Bush wants to have American citizens, beginning with all school age children, examined by psychiatrists. "The New Freedom Initiative is a plan to screen the entire U.S. population for mental illness and to provide a cradle-to-grave continuum of services for those identified as either mentally ill or at risk of becoming so. Under the plan, schools would become hubs of the screening process, not only for children, but for their parents and teachers. There are even components aimed at senior citizens, pregnant women, and new mothers. "In April 2002, President Bush established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health to conduct a 'comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system.' The commission issued its recommendations in July 2003, chief among them being that schools are in a 'key position' to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at educational facilities." This Draconian federal program began in Texas while G.W. Bush was Governor. It was called the Texas Medication Algorithm Project as an alliance between the pharmaceutical industry, the University of Texas, and the mental health and corrections systems of Texas. Now that Bush is President, he has begun implementing the program at the national level. |
The fact that the POTUS supports it disgusts me. Correct me if I am wrong but I sure thought on the previous thread a few months back, that it said he did.
This is a waste of taxpayer dollars and it's intrusive. It's no secret that a pillar of communism is to nix the parents and put the state in their place as the ultimate authority. The feds are going too far.
I think you are right. How any sensible person can hear about this and not be reminded immediately of Hitler is beyond me. It is textbook eugenics, which has been a tool of the left for the last hundred years.
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
If this passes, look for school psychologists decreeing that being conservative or Christian is a mental illness that mandates massive chemical intervention
Personally, I am not scared of psychological screening, if it is done correctly. However, I don't see how we could afford it. We already have all these mentally ill homeless problems, and we can't even afford to take care of them now.
I have read that the association of pediatricians (not quite sure what their official name is) views a handgun or rifle in the home (that is legally owned by the child's parents) to be a cause for concern. They actually ask children if there are guns in the house.
Most people on this site will think this is a program started by liberals.
The term "mental illness" is widely used to describe something which is very different than a disease of the brain. Many people today take it· for granted that living is an arduous process. Its hardship for modern man, moreover, derives not so much from a struggle for biological survival as from the stresses and strains inherent in the social intercourse of complex human personalities. In this context, the notion of mental illness is used to identify or describe some feature of an individual's so-called personality. Mental illness -- as a deformity of the personality, so to speak -- is then regarded as the cause of the human disharmony. It is implicit in this view that social intercourse between people is regarded as something inherently harmonious, its disturbance being due solely to the presence of "mental illness" in many people. This is obviously fallacious reasoning, for it makes the abstraction "mental illness" into a cause, even though this abstraction was created in the first place to serve only as a shorthand expression for certain types of human behavior. It now becomes necessary to ask: "What hinds of behavior are regarded as indicative of mental illness, and by whom?"
They will never admit it, but I think the goal of the left is to see to it that EVERY child in America is diagnosed as needing Ritalin (or some similar mind-altering drug). Creating a nation of zombies will enable to promote their agenda with far greater ease.
Oh yeah, Texas is a real gem of an example of this type of program: Foster Kids on Mind-Altering Drugs?
Yep. A real gem. /extreme sarcasm off
Who are behind this?
It seems that the Republicans are pushing this.
I agree with you - anyone under the age of 18 has to have parental permission - and what if these screenings had been done years ago in Columbine could the shootings have been prevented?
Also by checking people early perhaps we could identify possibilities of homelessness before it happens.
I don't know just a thought.
Well, we need to elect more Republicans so this won't happen.
Bush is one of the ones promoting this!
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