Ron Paul M.D. New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

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The REAL drug wars......The “New Freedom Commission on

Mental Health "

 

AMAZING how the word FREEDOM shows up in such rotten legislation...sort of like

PATRIOT in the Unpatriot Act. Am I " mentally ill " for suggesting that

governmental forced screening of children for " mental illness " can not be a good

thing? In many states schools are empowered to force Ritalin/Prosac/whatever

down the throat of those that don't completely conform.

 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul203.html

 

NOTE: This is what happens when the medical-industrial complex

(big business) merges with big government. The medical-industrial

drug pushers do the same old Machiavellian dance as the

military-industrial complex, in this case creating and managing disease through

the

sanctioning of nutrition-stripped, chemical-laced " food " that whacks people out

and then prescribing drugs for whatever you... treating the symptoms while

compounding the cause for more treatment later. More people are living off

cancer than dying from it. Thank goodness for guys like R.Paul, LenHorowitz,

http://drday.com/ (Ck her site---especially her breast tumor) JRense,Joyce

Riley, Wayne Green,GeorgeNoorey to mention a few.

 

by Rep. Ron Paul, MD

 

A presidential initiative called The “New Freedom Commission on

Mental Health?has issued a report recommending forced mental health

screening for every child in America, including preschool children. The goal is

to

promote the patently false idea that we have a nation of children with

undiagnosed mental disorders crying out for treatment.

 

One obvious beneficiary of the proposal is the pharmaceutical

industry, which is eager to sell the psychotropic drugs that undoubtedly will be

prescribed to millions of American schoolchildren under the new screening

program. Of course a tiny minority of children suffer from legitimate mental

illnesses, but the widespread use of Ritalin and other drugs on youngsters who

simply exhibit typical rambunctious, fidgety, and impatient behavior is nothing

short of criminal. It may be easier to teach and parent drugged kids, but

convenience is no justification for endangering them. Children’s brains are

still developing, and the truth is we have no idea what the long-term side

effects

of psychiatric drugs may be. Medical science has not even exhaustively

identified every possible brain chemical, even as we alter those chemicals with

drugs.

 

Dr. Karen Effrem, a physician who strongly opposes mandatory

mental health screening, warns us that “America’s children should not be

medicated by expensive, ineffective, and dangerous medications based on vague

and dubious diagnoses.?She points out that psychiatric diagnoses are

inherently subjective, as authors of the diagnostic manuals admit. She also is

concerned that mental health screening could be used to label children whose

attitudes,

religious beliefs, and political views conflict with the secular orthodoxy

that dominates our schools.

 

The greater issue, however, is not whether youth mental health

screening is appropriate. The real issue is whether the state owns your kids.

When the government orders “universal?mental health screening in schools,

it really means

“mandatory.?Parents, children, and their private doctors should

decide whether a child has mental health problems, not government bureaucrats.

That this even needs to be stated is a sign of just how obedient our society has

become toward government. What kind of free people would turn their children’s

most intimate health matters over to government strangers? How in the world

have we allowed government to become so powerful and arrogant that it assumes it

can force

children to accept psychiatric treatment whether parents object

or not?

 

Parents must do everything possible to retain responsibility and

control over their children’s well-being. There is no end to the bureaucratic

appetite to rule every aspect of our lives, including how we raise our

children. Forced mental health screening is just the latest of many state

usurpations of parental authority: compulsory education laws,

politically-correct school

curricula, mandatory vaccines, and interference with discipline through

phony “social services?agencies all represent assaults on families. The p

olitical right has now joined the political left in seeking the de facto

nationalization of

children, and only informed resistance by parents can stop it.

 

The federal government is slowly but surely destroying real

families, but it is hardly a benevolent surrogate parent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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