Posted on 12/06/2004 1:02:52 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
Celebrities, Parents, Legislators and Civil Rights Groups Win Victory for Children's Rights with Passage of the "Prohibition on Mandatory Medication Amendment"
Los Angeles - Celebrities Lisa Marie Presley, Kelly Preston, Kirstie Alley, Jenna Elfman and Juliette Lewis joined the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog established by the Church of Scientology, in applauding Congress for passing precedent-setting legislation that bans school personnel forcing parents to drug their children for classroom or behavioral problems. In order to receive federal funds under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA), the "Prohibition on Mandatory Medication Amendment," was signed into law by President Bush today and requires schools to implement policies that prohibit schoolchildren being forced onto psychiatric drugs as a requisite for their education.
Hundreds of parents across America have been pressured to put their school-aged children onto cocaine-like stimulants or antidepressants for which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just ordered a "black box label" warning of the drugs' high risk of causing suicide among children and adolescents. Ms. Kelly Preston, who met with members of Congress in June last year to enlist support of the amendment, said, "Every mother has an inherent right to protect her child from harm. However, many mothers have been denied that right because psychiatrists have inundated unwitting teachers with the false opinion that educational and behavioral problems are symptoms of 'mental disorders' that require mind-altering drugs. This law gives hope for a new era in education, one where teachers are free to work with parents to find academic solutions instead of unworkable and harmful psychiatric treatments that benefit no one but the psychiatric industry."
Many groups supported the amendment, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Foundation of Women Legislators (NFWL), Parents for a Label and Drug Free Education, as well as numerous state and federal legislators.
Bruce Wiseman, the U.S. President of CCHR says, "Psychiatrists did not want to let go of their stronghold of American schools and launched massive counter efforts to kill this legislation. However, people are waking up to the fact that psychiatric 'mental disorders' have absolutely no scientific/medical validity and that psychiatrists falsely portray them as a disease or physical condition to convince teachers and parents that these are medical issues, which is a complete fraud. Psychiatric 'disorders' are simply checklists of behaviors‹symptoms presumed to be related‹and voted by members of the American Psychiatric Association to be included in their insurance billing bible, the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This has been used to justify the administration of dangerous drugs to more than 8 million children. Parents and teachers were never informed about documented side effects of many of these drugs, including suicide, violence, mania and psychosis."
CCHR says the next step in educational reform is to remove psychiatric and psychological testing and screening from schools which are the feeder lines to psychiatrists who have made turning schools into mental health clinics a business. Millions of students are now dependent upon psychiatric drugs or are taking them illegally. CCHR, joined by scores of parents and civil rights groups, say the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health's recommendations for mandatory mental health screening in school is a frightening representation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, in which Huxley describes a controlled "utopian" civilization achieved with the "technique of suggestion‹through infant conditioning and, later, with the aid of drugs." While the "Prohibition on Mandatory Medication Amendment" will help prevent some of psychiatry's propensity to drug all normal childhood behavior, many charge that the spurious sounding "Freedom Commission on Mental Health" and its recommendations will open another door to dangerous conditioning leading to massive increases in psychotropic drugging of a new generation.
Dr. Julian Whitaker, director of California's Whitaker Wellness Center warns that the motive behind mandatory mental health screening of children is obvious: "That means drugging them!" For psychiatry, this means, "52 million potential customers." He offers this advice to parents: "First of all, refuse to sign those consent forms when they come home from your child's school‹if they can't test them, they can't drug them."
CCHR will monitor the implementation of this law so that any parent who may still experience coercion to drug their child can contact CCHR to report this and for assistance.
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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