First lawsuit against mandatory Mental Health Screening!

[dbeach]

Attorneys please start your engines..parents please get out your checkbooks..

Why do the busheviks like to make the Middle Class pay? and pay? and pay? repeat..


http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/061405Pringle/061405pringle.html

TeenScreen: The lawsuits begin

By Evelyn Pringle
Online Journal Contributing Writer

June 14, 2005—The scheme concocted by the pharmaceutical industry and pushed forward by the Bush administration to screen the entire nation's public school population for mental illness and treat them with controversial drugs was already setting off alarms among parents all across the country. But in the state of Indiana, the alarm just got louder.

Taxpayers better get out their checkbooks because school taxes are about to go up as the lawsuits against school boards start mounting over the TeenScreen depression survey being administered to children in the public schools.

The first notice of intent to sue was filed this month in Indiana by Michael and Teresa Rhoades who were outraged when they learned their daughter had been given a psychological test at school without their consent.

Dr. Karen Effrem, a pediatrician and strong opponent of mandatory screening recently warned, "Universal mental health screening and the drugging of children . . . needs to be stopped so that many thousands if not millions of children will be saved from receiving stigmatizing diagnoses that would follow them for the rest of their lives. America's school children should not be medicated by expensive, ineffective, and dangerous medications based on vague and dubious diagnoses.""

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1. why do we...

Aren't you tired of hearing about things after the fact? Bush started this mental health push way back when he was Governor of Texas, it's nothing new. What get's me is why Kerry didn't bring this stuff out to the American people? So many things could have saved us from 4 more years of hell!

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2. Doesn't it seem like Bush is trying to kill mirror images of himself?

He has attacked corrupt rulers of fascist countries. He attacks religious extremists. Now he is trying to find adolescents with mental illnesses.

[atommom]

4. There can be only one!

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7. Bwaaahahaha!

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3. Every single thing Bush touches

turns to shit. We can't count that high, the number of things he has completely messed up. No human being and no group no matter how large will EVER be able to keep track of each lousy decision he has made. Kerry had gone on so many issues, he was criticized for covering too many issues. Then criticized for not covering certain ones. He was in a lose lose position, IMO.

We all are right now. While we are putting out one fire the idiot president made, he is starting a dozen others at the same time. I am constantly hearing people blame Kerry for things, as the repubs blame Clinton for things... way too much, it's almost a habit.

just adding: even this damn bill that passed about mandatory testing was slipped through when our attention was diverted to some other nightmare he was imposing on other innocent people. We are being bombarded like this, on a constant basis. I'm convinced they are hurting someone right this very minute that I am typing this. It's a freakin' nightmare.

[dbeach]

5. I am against kids on drugs after 2000

cuz thats when the ship came in for big pharma and every other corporat that swimin the sewers of DC and the other 50 capitals..

Some kids need drugs..fewer than we will ever know cuz big pharma has a pill for every thrill
Street corner drugs or pharmacy drugs..
I don't want my kids on drugs..

BTW pfizer stock has gone down since 2000 hovering at about $28/share

I guess they underpaid their lobbyists .!!

[obxhead]

6. get 'em hooked.

pill poppin' is so fun.
(song)
...and do you know why, why because I was high.

[warbly]

8. When did this go through?

i heard a few blurbs about such a program last year but figured since i never heard anything else it must have died in bill form. We need to make big noise about this. The country isn't even aware this sick program has been implemented.
Nobody right left or center is going to want the government deciding if their kids are mentally "ill".
The Bushies are the absolute worst ever. They are 1984 and a Brave New World incarnated.
man oh man. I dont have kids, but if i did i'd be looking for a private school before the government could mandate prozac 'soma' for my child. In a brave new world by aldous huxley the totalitarian government prescribes mandatory doses of 'soma' a drug that keeps the populace docile, which sounds remarkably like prozac considering the book was written several decades ago. yikes!

[dbeach]

9. read up on Ron Paul[Dr. No} who is fighting this MH test..

"Don't Let Congress Fund Orwellian Psychiatric Screening of Kids

January 31, 2005

Every parent in America should be made aware of a presidential initiative called the “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.” This commission issued a report last year calling for the mandatory mental health screening of American schoolchildren, meaning millions of kids will be forced to undergo psychiatric screening whether their parents consent or not. At issue is the fundamental right of parents to decide what medical treatment is appropriate for their children.

Forced mental health screening simply has no place in a free or decent society. The government does not own you or your kids, and it has no legitimate authority to interfere in your family’s intimate health matters. Psychiatric diagnoses are inherently subjective, and the drugs regularly prescribed produce serious side effects, especially in children’s developing brains. The bottom line is that mental health issues are a matter for parents, children, and their doctors, not government."

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10. please nominate this for the front page

or the greatest page, or whatever. rate it up. i don't have enough posts. America is not aware of this.

[dbeach]

11. been and gone

received some attention at Du .

should be huge...
My kid is hyper but there is no way he goin on drugs..recently started him on vitaimin B blaster..seems a bit calmer...

[warbly]

13. hyper is fine

kids grow out of hyper without drugs all the time. my nephew was super hyper, now he is a calm cool 19 year old. no drugs. sports might be the answer, or some sort of exercise anyway.

[dbeach]

14. swimming the ocean and karate..

I agrree!

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12. the biggest question though is

when Bush leaves office, how are going to fix all these new things he's put into place? They're obviously violating our civil rights! It's going to take forever...We MUST FIND A WAY TO PUCH FOR IMPEACHMENT BEFORE ITS' TOO LATE!

[dbeach]

15. most difficult answer..

I don't see the busheviks or neo-cons leaving office peacefully and have heard same from lots of folks who are less intense than me..
the bush criminals are acting the role of every rich creep and dcitator in hstory and to have this closeness to complete control of hitlers prize is stunning

controllers will stop at nothing to maintain this police state..

all to protect their privleged lifestyles from the commoners..Sad and ole story..

[warbly]

16. found this about the bushies and eli lilly

Early in 2002, Bill Frist tried to get protection for Eli Lilly from these suits attached to legislation that would increase the availability of vaccines to average Americans, but this attempt was thwarted by Senator Edward Kennedy. The Homeland Security legislation mysteriously found itself amended to carry the Lilly litigation protections, written in language virtually identical to Frist's original attempt. The bill passed, and no one in Washington DC is willing to take responsibility for it. Frist, whose ties to the corporate healthcare industry are blood ties, whose family made its fortune through the massive Hospital Corporation of America HMO, who helped scuttle the Patient's Bill of Rights, whose book was promoted and distributed vigorously by Eli Lilly, denies all knowledge.

The White House likewise denies any knowledge of the author/sponsor of the Lilly amendment. This stretches belief, considering the ties the Bush administration has to the pharmaceutical giant. George Herbert Walker Bush sat on the Lilly Board of Directors during the late 1970s, appointed by the father of Bush Sr's. vice presidential candidate, Dan Quayle, who owned controlling interest in the corporation. Bush Sr. was personally ordered by the Supreme Court to stop lobbying the IRS on behalf of Lilly for tax breaks in 1982. The Bush family has been substantially invested in Eli Lilly stock for years.

White House Budget Director Mitchell Daniels is a former Lilly executive. Disgraced Enron CEO Kenneth Lay also sat on the Lilly Board of Directors, until he was forced to resign in disgrace in December of 2001 after his company exploded in a blizzard of fraud and deceit. During the 2002 election cycle, Eli Lilly gave more campaign money - $1.6 million - than any other pharmaceutical corporation, 79% of which went to Republican candidates. The Lilly amendment that found its way into the Homeland Security bill in the immediate aftermath of that election can be seen for what it is: a payoff.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/010103A.wrp.dead.htm
by Will Pitt

[dbeach]

17. GREAT RESEARCH

beneath EVERY bush..you will find dirt.

King George Bush the second = KGB II