All DU parents call your Senators about the New Freedom Initative, please

[Melodybe]

It is a bill mandating that unruley children be screened for mental disabilites and be prescribed anti-psychoti drugs. THX 1138 just waiting to happen and a fat hand out to the prescription drug companies to boot. Who decides if your children are abnormal? Is homosexuality a mental disability? Is being a free thinker or asking questions mentally deficient? Is being the child of a democrat enough to drug you? Who pays for it?

I don't care if I am spamming the board, I have two small children to think of, and hardly anyone else is posting anything about it.

Here is a link to the article:
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1234

Here is the Capital Hill Switch Board number:
1 800 839 5276

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. I'll call Russ and Herb

tomorrow. :hi:

[lindsayg]

2. "THX 1138"?

Could you please explain?

[Francesca]

3. that is truly disgusting, I am flabbergasted

Don't have kids yet but I am outraged. Can you give some info on the number you provided for those that would like to respond..

[Melodybe]

5. Sure THX 1138 is a great movie

THX 1138 is George Lucas's first movie, it stars Robert Duvall. It is set in a 1984 like future where all those that question are drugged into nullification.

Scary as hell.

[China_cat]

7. Made in the SF BART

stations before the line started running. All white walls, white coveralls. Very sterile feeling.

[billyoc]

4. Well, you don't HAVE to give your children the drugs, do you? n/t

Not that I advocate the draconian monstrosity, and rest assured, I'll be calling Hillary and Chuck in the A.M. :hi:

[Bjornsdotter]

6. They tried this with my son

...ten years ago in my school district, they wanted him on ritalin. I had my son tested by the University of Chicago and his scores for IQ were off the charts.

My local school district told me that my son could not attend their schools unless he was medicated...I stood up in the meeting and told them all to "FUCK OFF"...and that is an exact quote.

I pulled my kids out the next day and sent them to a gifted school. Every year I would get a form from our local district that they wanted to include my son and daughter's test scores in with the district. I would give them the same answer..."Fuck off".

Yes, I definetly will call..I will also send a copy of all of our documentation from the local district and the Univ. of Chgo results with their recommendations.

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

[JohnOneillsMemory]

8. "New Freedom Initiative" !?! Orwell speak nightmare. SNAP OUT OF IT!

Big Nurse helps Big Brother.

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' meets '1984.' The Soviets used this tactic to imprison their dissidents.

The G.O.D. -Guns,Oil, Drugs- administration will use pre-emptive medication to minimize dissent in children so we don't have those cranky-pants street demonstrations or...civil war.)

[City Lights]

9. I've been googling about this and found some interesting stuff.

First, an online petition to sign:

http://www.ablechild.org/declaration%20of%20refusal.aspx

And second, some interesting stuff at mindfreedom.org, including this article:

News Release: President Bush and the Shrinking of the USA

NEWS RELEASE - MindFreedom - 16 August 2004 http://www.MindFreedom.org

President Bush Implements Plans To Screen All Americans for Mental Health Problems

Coalition of Advocacy Groups Says: "Start With the Top. Test President Bush for 'Mental Illness' First."The "Real" Patch Adams Volunteers.

A plan by President Bush to screen all Americans for mental health problems is being opposed by a coalition of advocacy groups who say the plan was cooked up by the drug industry.

<snip>

MindFreedom also maintains that if Americans screened for "mental illness" refuse their drugs, they are vulnerable to laws in 42 USA states that allow for court ordered psychiatric drugging on an outpatient basis. Thousands of Americans are now under these programs, which require individuals to take psychiatric drugs against their will, even while living in their own homes out in the community.

Psychiatrist Sally Satel from the American Enterprise Institute, appointed by President Bush to a key federal mental health advisory committee, called for vastly increasing the amount of forced outpatient psychiatric drugging in the June 2004 meeting of the National Advisory Council for the US Center for Mental Health Services.

MindFreedom Support Coalition International unites 100 grassroots groups to campaign for human rights in the mental health system. While open to the public, a majority of members identify themselves as individuals who have experienced human rights violations in the mental health system. The group is the only one of its kind to have Non Governmental Organization status from the United Nations.

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/bushpsychnews.shtml

I'm going to keep digging.

[n2mark]

10. This is

the beginning to perform "mind control." Yep, our children need drugs to be obedient and BELIEVE what is being fed to them.
No Child Left Behind strips our children of their creativity, their ability to solve problems and to learn beyond testing. Give these kids drugs with No Child Left Behind, we then have robots.

[City Lights]

11. More good stuff:

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 commentary:

President's Bogus Mental Health Screening Initiative Is a Thinly Veiled Scam to Boost Pharmaceutical Profits

The latest act of state-sponsored medical insanity has been announced by the Bush administration with their so-called New Freedom Commission on Mental Health that plans to conduct mental-health screening on all children and adults in the United States. As people are screened under this plan, they will of course be put on highly-profitable and extremely expensive psychotic drugs and anti-depressant drugs, which are manufactured by the very same companies that have donated heavily to the Bush administration and Bush re-election efforts.

This New Freedom Commission plan is based on the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), a medication treatment plan that also screened people for mental health problems and prescribed high-profit prescription drugs to them. But the Texas plan has come under great criticism. A whistle-blower named Allen Jones, who was an employee of the Pennsylvania office of the Inspector General, published a document revealing that medical leaders who controlled the medication plan in the state of Pennsylvania received payment from drug companies who stood to benefit from the mental health screening plan.

In response, Allen Jones was, of course, fired. Similarly, the Texas plan has been formulated by drug companies. Allen Jones described the joint effort as "a political/pharmaceutical alliance" that was "poised to consolidate the TMAP effort into a comprehensive national policy to treat mental illness with expensive patented medications of questionable benefits and deadly side effects." So, at first glance, it certainly appears that this is no more than a good old boy strategy for boosting the profits of pharmaceutical companies through political influence -- it's the same old game.

Not surprisingly, an alarming number of the Bush administration's recent regulatory advances have been thinly veiled attempts to promote the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. The so-called Medicare drug discount cards were nothing more than a handout to pharmaceutical companies that created the illusion of discounts, where in reality people could buy drugs at much lower prices by simply shopping around on the internet. They could get them at lower prices still by buying them from Canada or other countries. Similarly, this mental health screening initiative is nothing more than a grand political scam designed to sell prescription drugs that benefit the pockets of companies who have supported the Bush election campaigns.

more... http://www.newstarget.com/001688.html

There are so many thread going about this subject, I wasn't sure where to include this. :shrug:

[scarletlib]

12. yeah who is going to pay for it?

families losing health insurance all over the place and many policies won't even cover mental health issues at all -- if people don't have money is the compassionate gov of bushco going to cough up the bucks for this? I doubt it.

[mslux]

13. In will be paid for by the government

Our tax dollars into the pockets of the drug companies.