A caller to Rush last week brought up the very interesting theory that one reason 75% of the kids in government schools are diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, autism, etc., and placed on psycho-active drugs like Ritalin (among many other drugs, including anti-depressants) is so that one day the government can deny them, as grown-ups, “permission” to purchase firearms based on “mental health” issues.
So the reason for all the drugging of kids in the schools may go way beyond merely making life more convenient for lazy parents and lazy teachers - - it may be a long-range setup for dismantling Second Amendment rights for most people. Once that’s accomplished, those who are left with government “permission” to own firearms can be dealt with in other ways.
By the 2016 elections we are all going to be insane;)
I have long thought they moved the goal posts to diagnose ADHD in kids, broadening it to the point of making nearly any kid eligible for that diagnosis.
I have always thought that if I grew up today, there is 100% no doubt they would have me on some kind of behavioral medication.
I look at all my report cards (yes, I have them...my parents saved them all for me) and a recurring theme from kindergarden into high school was a “inability to exercise self control in class”. I wasn’t being a jerk (well, except for that time I lit a firecracker in French class and threw it under the chair of the kid in front of me) but I would generally not do what the teacher wanted me to do, which was sit there and absorb.
I would ask questions, make comments, sometimes talk to the kid next to me (which caused me to get paddled on two separate occasions) or not pay attention, so when I got called on, I had no idea what was going on a lot of the time. In spanish class in seventh grade, I got paddled after class for bursting out with the trademark Speedy Gonzales line “¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!”
I was just a goofy kid, I guess. And I hated Spanish class.
Nowadays, I am sure they would have me on Ritalin or something like that. (shudder)
I’ve brought up that same theory and believe it can happen.