Mental Health Screenings, Compulsory, Commitments for Political Dissidents. BILL FRIST- FILE A BILL= DEFINES 'POLITICAL PARANOIA' = MENTAL DISORDER.

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Opposing Bush: A Form of Mental Illness

 

Kurt Nimmo - January 7, 2005

 

It's not the stolen election or the war crimes committed in my name. It's

not the fact Bush is a liar and a criminal. It's not the Strausscons in the

White House and the Pentagon, plotting multiple wars in the Middle East and

elsewhere. It's not Congress, sold out to neolibs, multinational corporations,

and Wall Street loan sharks.

 

It's me.

 

I'm suffering from " political paranoia " and need Paxil, a prescription

drug for the treatment of anxiety and depression. It's not the 100,000 dead

killed by my government in Iraq. It's not torture or loose talk of nuking

enemies. It is a serotonin imbalance in my brain. I suffer from any number of

possible maladies-depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive

Disorder (thus writing this blog every day), and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

I suffer from mental illness and need help.

 

Congress may come to the rescue-and soon.

 

" 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, 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, " writes Hermione

Slatkin, Medical Correspondent for the Swift Report. " Rick Smith, a spokesman

for Senator Frist, says that the measure has a good chance of passing-something

that can only help a portion of the population that is suffering significant

distress. "

 

" 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. "

 

Characterizing political dissent as a form of mental illness is the

hallmark of authoritarian government. In China, for instance, forensic

psychiatrists label dissent " political lunacy " (see Jacob Sullum, Head Games:

What are the rules for defining mental illness?) and in Soviet Russia political

dissenters were routinely cosigned to mental hospitals. Nowadays, with modern

pharmacology, mental hospitals are no longer required-the mental hospital is

internalized through chemical intervention.

 

No need for FEMA camps or " preventive detention " when we have a " medical

armamentarium " of serotonin uptake inhibitors. All that is needed now is for

Frist and the Republicans to devise a law defining " political paranoia " and

determining that " political paranoiacs " are a threat to society.

 

You will take your Paxil-or something far more debilitating-and by court

order. Recall Bush's effort to screen the entire population for mental illness,

i.e., the New Freedom Initiative. Bush's commission found that " despite their

prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed " and recommended comprehensive

mental health screening for " consumers of all ages. " Naturally, Frist and the

Republicans are mostly concerned about the " political paranoia " form of mental

illness, as the above news item indicates.

 

As a " consumer, " is it possible I am suffering from " political paranoia. "

or is the whole thing a product of my feverish imagination and the result of

reading too many news items on the web?

 

Finally, note that I could not find mention of Frist and the

classification of " political paranoia " after a lengthy Google news search.

Mention of it only appeared on the Swift Report website. Rick Smith's above

quote returned no results. Of course, this does not mean that Bill Frist and the

Republicans do not consider the opposition-including more than a few

Democrats-as mental cases and tinfoil hatters. Rush Limbaugh calls us nutters

every day and millions of gullible Americans take what he says as gospel.

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