Compulsory Mental Health Screening on ALL Americans-Bush's New Freedomin Mental Health

[Guest guest]

-Dear Kent Snyder of the Liberty Committee for Congresman Dr. Ron Paul,

Is it not true that with Congress' funding for Bush's " New Freedom " in

" Mental Health " for

COMPULSORY MENTAL HEALTH SCREENINGS of ALL Americans in Nov. 2004

that the states are NOT mandated to accept the Federal funds?

cc: Ala. Dept. of Mental Health Commissioner Kathy Sawyer, et. al.

-Kent, Did Paul's amendment pass or fail to require parental consent? Thanks

Sandra Lance, D.C. 404 233 4433

-It failed. Here's the vote tally:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2004/roll438.xml

 

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" Kent Snyder " <kentsnyder

<DrLance

Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:58 AM

RE: Kent, Did Paul's amendment pass or fail to require parental

consent? Thanks Sandra Lance, D.C. 404 233 4433

 

 

> It failed. Here's the vote tally:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2004/roll438.xml

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> DrLance [DrLance]

> Monday, December 20, 2004 10:43 PM

> kentsnyder

> Cc: vetzine

> Kent, Did Paul's amendment pass or fail to require parental

consent? Thanks Sandra Lance, D.C. 404 233 4433

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> <vetzine

> <drLance

> Monday, December 20, 2004 6:01 PM

> what paul ammendment?

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> > Doc if you are talking abut Paul's amendment

> > re requiring parental agreement to drug kids

> > that failed t and funding to force test and

> > force drug all children and ADULTS in the schools

> > passed in the Omnibus funding bill

> > last week

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> > http://www.fff.org/comment/com0412d.asp

> >

> > Republicans Have Family under Attack

> > by Sheldon Richman, December 17, 2004

> >

> > Anyone who still believes that the people and the

> > government are the same thing ought to think about

> > what a House-Senate conference committee refused to do

> > recently. Thanks to Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the

> > committee had the opportunity to strike a blow for the

> > rights of parents and for other family values.

> >

> > But it refused.

> >

> > As the committee was working on the mammoth omnibus

> > spending bill, which contains all kinds of pork-barrel

> > favors, Representative Paul sought to have language

> > added to prohibit money from being spent on the

> > psychiatric examination of children without parental

> > consent. The proposed addition said,

> >

> > " None of the funds made available for State Incentive

> > Grants for Transformation should be used for any

> > programs of mandatory or universal mental-health

> > screening that perform mental-health screening on

> > anyone under 18 years of age without the express,

> > written permission of the parents or legal guardians

> > of each individual involved. "

> >

> > Paul, a medical doctor, had a good to reason see this

> > statement included. President Bush supports the

> > recommendation by his New Freedom Commission on Mental

> > Health that all adults and children be screened for

> > so-called mental and emotional disorders by

> > primary-care physicians and schools. As reported

> > previously, similar programs have been adopted at the

> > state level at the behest of large drug companies,

> > which stand to gain handsomely from wider prescription

> > of potent psychiatric drugs.

> >

> > The House leadership and many members supported the

> > inclusion of Paul's spending prohibition. But key

> > members of the Senate balked, particularly Majority

> > Leader Bill Frist, also a doctor, and Sen. Arlen

> > Specter. It was not the first time that Paul tried to

> > scuttle government-sponsored psychiatric screening,

> > and he vows to raise the issue again in the new

> > session that begins in January.

> >

> > The idea that children should be routinely examined

> > for mental illness at school and possibly drugged

> > without their parents' consent is something out of a

> > horrifying science-fiction novel in which a

> > totalitarian state runs everything. Critics of

> > government schooling have long warned that political

> > control of education is an affront to the family and

> > would lead to further usurpation of its authority. The

> > widespread prescription of Ritalin for so-called

> > attention-deficit disorder was only the beginning. In

> > 2002 Bush appointed the Orwellian-named New Freedom

> > Commission on Mental Health, which last year issued

> > its recommendations for universal screening. The

> > commission claimed that mental illness is

> > underdiagnosed and lamented that so many people have

> > no access to the new allegedly therapeutic drugs that

> > are available. But underneath this apparent compassion

> > are some unattractive truths.

> >

> > First, what people think of as mental disorders are in

> > fact actions and statements that others find

> > disturbing. Attributing behavior to disease is no way

> > to teach children self-responsibility. Second,

> > psychiatric drugs can do serious harm. The proposal

> > that children be subjected to stigmatizing diagnoses

> > and dangerous " therapy " without parental consent

> > should be revolting to everyone. When Americans really

> > valued their freedom, they understood that the family

> > was an institutional bulwark against oppressive

> > government. Today the family is regularly shunted

> > aside so that tax-funded social engineers can work

> > their experiments.

> >

> > There is irony in what's happening. Bush's reelection

> > has been interpreted as a victory for " moral values. "

> > While that analysis is grossly oversimplified, many

> > people have the sense that Republicans hold the family

> > sacrosanct while the Democrats have other priorities.

> >

> > Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health tells

> > us that this distinction is a mirage. The Republican

> > White House and Senate are as antagonistic to the

> > integrity of the family as Hillary Clinton and Ted

> > Kennedy are.

> >

> > The Democrats have an opportunity to begin the

> > rehabilitation they so badly need by denouncing the

> > Bush commission's proposals and vowing that they will

> > not be written into law. But don't hold your breath.

> > The Democrats are as much in the thrall of the

> > politically correct mental-health establishment as

> > their Republican counterparts.

> >

> > Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The Future of

> > Freedom Foundation, author of Tethered Citizens: Time

> > to Repeal the Welfare State, and editor of The Freeman

> > magazine. Send him email.

> >

> > =====

> > " In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary

> > act. " -George Orwell

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> > authority.

> > It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to

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> > people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all

> > ages

> > who

> > mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good

> > masters, but they mean to be masters. " -- Daniel Webster

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