Posted on 12/06/2004 1:02:52 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
I worked for a family for a very short time who was into Scientology. They where very nice but had been so badly sucked into this cult and all of it's deception, trickery, traps, etc. He was a physician with a very young family. They had been a very good Catholic family, run into trouble with their practice, and some how one of these Scientology financial groups swept in, put money forth for the business to continue and then controlled EVERYTHING, every darn thing this family did. Never saw such good and intelligent people SO brainwashed.
I'm convinced that diet has a lot to do with ADD, ADHD kinds of situations. They put so much poison in our foods (under the title of preservatives) that it's no wonder the kids act out.
I've read that Scientology has programs targeting physicians. This is a vulnerable group, becuase they are high earners, but have little financial/business expertise, and are thus easy marks for organizations claiming to specialize in helping physicians with the business end of their practices. And of course, the first thing Scientology does when it signs on one of these physicians, is to gather information which it can later use to blackmail the physician, when s/he tries to sever the relationship with Scientology (which is often at the same time s/he discovers that the front group s/he has been dealing with is actually a Scientology group).
Most of the unneeded medications ( there is a small minority of children that do need medication) are virtually demanded by teachers of failing schools and also by parents who don't want the hassle of raising children or getting therapy or family counseling or parenting classes to deal with these problems.
Ciba Geigy Corporation (Ritalin) stocks just took a nose dive I'll bet.
...talk about an Orwellian name!!
(I don't think Orwell himself could have dreamt it up for such a commission)
ping to one of the most important issues of our times.
"Forced drugging" of school children is a non-existent problem. The real danger here is the influence of the para-military Scientology extraterestrial alien worshipping bizarro cult.
I don't doubt you, but I need something better than two articles from World Net Daily. I followed the link you provided, and then the subsequent link to the New Freedom Commission Report on the White House site, and if the report recommends mental health evaluations of every American, it's pretty buried. A quick perusal didn't uncover the policy.
But if this is what Bush supports, it's the worst policy position of his Administration.
I think what the poster meant is that the enemy (Scientology) of my enemy (drug-pumping school bureaucrats) is my friend. I.e., the Scientologists are doing a good thing here.
Thanks. I didn't see it in the links provided. I surmised that it may have been a line appropriation in a larger bill.
Technically, yes. In reality, schools can (and have) made consent to drugging a condition for allowing the kid in the school, and have brought "abuse" charges against parents who refuse to medicate the kid after a "finding" by a doc or shrink that recommends drugging.
I pulled my middle one out and homeschooled rather than deal with that
Scientology is merely taking credit for this bill in a press release. Many other groups and persons supported it too.
This bill was badly needed. True, the schools can't force parents to give their kids Ritalin, but many of them can and do say, "Either give them Ritalin or they will not be allowed in our school."
Given the fact that many state children's protection agencies have shown a willingness to take kids away from their parents, that's also a potential source of danger that is best blocked.
There is a real problem, because schools are forced to take a lot of disruptive and sometimes dangerous kids and somehow deal with them. The breakdown of families and of family discipline hasn't helped. But force-feeding them all ritalin against their parents' wishes isn't the answer.
oops, sorry, never mind...
Did you read comment #49 in that thread?
(Also #42)
I last heard the President was pushing forced screening for school children, now it's no drugs.
What's going on here? Are the lawmaker's on drugs or what?
"On September 7th, we told you about the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health's plan (a presidential commission) to subject every child in America to mandatory mental-health screening; a plan that will result in the forced drugging of children."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274813/posts
Thanks, I'll go look.
BUMP!
bttt!
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