Mental Health Screening in Schools Signals the End of Parental Rights

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> http://www.sierratimes.com/05/05/16/24_209_102_203_25370.htm

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> Mental Health Screening in Schools Signals the End of Parental Rights

> Nancy Levant

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> In the 2005-2006 school year, all parents will receive written notice

> of new policies from your children's schools. Many schools will ask

> you to sign permission slips, allowing school counselors or

> " advocates " to have conversations with your children. You will be told

> how your local schools are now involved in vision and dental

> screenings, learning disabilities and speech impediment screenings,

> and other acts of kindness, but watch for the small print or the extra

> little blurb, which states that your children will also be evaluated

> for emotional wellness. Watch for wording like " happiness indicators "

> or " family participation. "

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> The fact is that our president has mandated that every American child,

> age 3 through 18, is federally ordered to be evaluated for mental

> health issues and to receive " enforced " treatment. Welcome to

> President Bush's New Freedom Initiative and New Freedom Commission on

> Mental Health. Welcome to life-long profiling and drug addictions, New

> Freedom-style.

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> 52 million students and six million adults working in schools,

> according to this commission, will be tested and should flush out at

> least 6 million people, or shall we say new customers, who will then

> be mandated to receive " treatment. " What treatment does our

> president's commission have in mind? The newest drugs in the

> pharmaceutical pipelines, of course. The commission recommends

> " specific medications for specific conditions. "

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> One of the state-of-the-art treatments, and most expensive, is an

> implanted capsule - yes, that's right, implanted. The capsule delivers

> medication into a child's body without the child having to swallow a

> pill or the need for parental permission for dispensation.

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> The New Freedom Commission named the Texas Medication Algorithm

> Project (TMAP) a model treatment plan. Medical algorithms are a

> flowchart-style treatment indicator. If you have A symptom and B

> symptom, take C medication. TMAP began with the University of Texas,

> big pharma, and the mental health and corrections system in Texas. The

> American Psychiatric Association concurs that TMAP is brilliant.

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> However, the New Freedom Initiative and Commission is a political-big

> pharma marriage. Many companies who supported TMAP were also major

> contributors to Bush's re-election funds. For example, Eli Lilly

> manufactures olanzapine - one of the drugs recommended in the New

> Freedom plan, and furthermore, George Herbert Walker Bush was once a

> member of Lilly's board of directors. Our current President Bush

> appointed Lilly's chief executive officer, Sidney Taurel, as a member

> of the Homeland Security Council. Eighty-two percent of Lilly's $1.6

> million in political contributions in 2000 went to Bush and the

> Republican Party. Do tell.

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> Texas Algorithm grossed over 4 billion dollars in 2003 and olanzapine

> is Eli Lilly's top selling drug. A 2003 New York Times article by

> Gardiner Harris claims that 70 percent of olanzapine sales are paid

> for by government agencies, such as Medicare and Medicaid. And lo and

> behold, guess who is now able to bill Medicaid for health services?

> Public schools, of course, as they are now under the big

> pharma-political profits/pay-back umbrella once they adopt screening

> policies. Public schools can now be paid to screen and drug your kids.

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> Now, if you ever wonder, ever again, if public-private partnerships

> care about people, then you need a brain transplant. Your children are

> now the legislated guinea pigs and lab rats for the pharmaceutical

> companies who bought and paid for our president's campaign. Favors are

> now returned to those companies in the form of enforced, juvenile

> customers, their health, and their future drug addictions.

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> But wait, there is more. The New Freedom Commission also calls for

> enforced treatment. That means that parents have no rights to refuse

> the treatment recommenced by TMAP and other drug dispensing

> corporate-bureaucratic apparatuses. And as the mental health

> bureaucracy is also involved in this financial game of insidious

> cruelty, parents and families are also to be investigated via the

> result of their children's screenings in schools. In other words,

> schools are now the across-the board, or shall I say nation,

> diagnostic tool for big pharma and child control.

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> And there's more. The U.N. Agenda 21 has also called for total

> intrusion into schools and children lives. No more religion, no more

> individuality, no more real education, no more real grades, no more

> real teaching, no more teacher respect for parents, and no more truth

> from teachers or principals. This sounds very familiar and very

> political to me. And I've said it before, and I will say it again: if

> you are of a religious ilk and you refuse to allow your children to be

> abused by our " educational " system, the stage is being set for you to

> lose physical custody of your children. I suggest that you read this:

> Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century by Richard McKenzie, ed

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> Still got your kids in public schools? Shame on you, and may God bless

> your poor children and forgive you.