"Political paranoia" - Mental disorder?

[k-robjoe]

" "When the 109th Congress convenes in Washington in January, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define 'political paranoia' as a mental disorder."

Wow! The medical-industrial complex and Big Brother growth industry will make a killing on these drug pushers while eliminating those pesky patriot types.

Might even help Wall Street show "growth" another year while these wolves devour what remains of the body politic. A true win/win for insanity.

"If you're still convinced that President Bush won the election because Republicans figured out a way to hack into electronic voting machines, you've obviously got a problem," says Smith.
"If we can figure out a way to ease your suffering by getting you into therapy and onto medication, that's something that we hope the entire 109th Congress will support."

Holy Nut-case! These guys aren't joking! Is that how far GONE "our" government is? Can you see where it's going if we let it?" http://www.rense.com/general61/emen.htm

[havocmom]

1. Trying to make mental screening of kids mandatory and if parents fight it

they are branded as mentally ill. OK, it's official, the inmates ARE running the asylum.

[Demit]

2. I think that is probably satire. It is VERY dry, however.

You can take the "self test" for political paranoia at http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/01/conservatives_p.html#comments

Though there have been proposals for mandatory mental health screening, I don't think it has reached this point yet. But whew! The thing had me going for a minute.

[k-robjoe]

3. You can´t have a satire going like this (?) :

"Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define "political paranoia" as a mental disorder, paving the way for individuals who suffer from paranoid delusions regarding voter fraud, political persecution and FBI surveillance to receive Medicare reimbursement for any psychiatric treatment they receive." http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/health/

You can´t write that Senator Frist is planning to file this bill, unless he is (?)

( The self test is of course satire. ) ( I supose. Didn´t download it. )

[Wilms]

4. Really do think it's satire.

Look at other items on the Swift website.

[k-robjoe]

5. Right you are

I read the whole piece now. It´s satire allright.

Puzzling. Where I come from we have this idea that satire is supposed to be funny.

[havocmom]

6. Problem: It is hard to satirize a group that already acts like a satire

of a political movement. This bunch is so off the wall, truth is often strange than satire, isn't it?

Like, it is true they are gonna try to mandate mental health screenings for all kids in public schools. Sounds like 'Kids are sick until WE say they're OK'.