Attempt to dump mental screening fails

Now this really scares me. Why are we about to do a mandatory screening of every child in America for mental health issues?

Rep. Ron Paul hoped to stop mandatory federal program for children

World Net Daily | September 10 2004

An amendment offered by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, in the House of Representatives yesterday that would have remove from an appropriations bill a new mandatory mental-health screening program for America's children failed by a vote of 95-315.

Paul's amendment would have removed the program from the Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005. Ninety-four Republicans and one Democrat sided with Paul, while 118 Republicans, 196 Democrats and one Independent voted against the amendment.

As WorldNetDaily reported, the New Freedom Initiative recommends screening not only for children but eventually for every American. The initiative came out of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which President Bush established in 2002.

Critics of the plan say it is a thinly veiled attempt by drug companies to provide a wider market for high-priced antidepressants and antipsychotic medication, and puts government in areas of Americans' lives where it does not belong.

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This isn't right. This is not only scary but it's wrong.


[edit on 10-9-2004 by mrmulder]

LOL... That's funny...A Sociopath wants everyone tested for mentel illness...HAHAHAHa...

Is a mental screening part of the requisite for being in the military? Maybe it's part of a plan to facilitate the draft if Bush has it put in place again?

Originally posted by elaine
Is a mental screening part of the requisite for being in the military? Maybe it's part of a plan to facilitate the draft if Bush has it put in place again?

Yeah it is part of indoctrination into the military, but that means squat to those people.. According to my Pshyc profile when i signed up, i would make a "perfect " Marine sniper...aka.. lone gunman assasin

we should demand that all of Bush's administration and the members of congress, get a full evaluation first......and that the results of those evaluations are presented to the public during the next campaign season.

I'd go through the hassles of finding out just who supports the idea of mandatory screeninng and look at just who voted down this amendment, but well, I've already decided.....I'm voting anyone in office out!!!

So, they actually think they are gonna require those 5 million or so americans who have lost the healthcare insurance recently to waste their money on psycho-active drugs and force them to drug their children or themselves.....at something like $90/week. They really need that evauluation much more that the rest of us! The cost of any of those mandatory drugs that they are trying to force down out throats should automatically be tax deductable, and a way should be found for it to be refunded to them within the two weeks or so it takes to process their paycheck!
I can see it now.....the diabetic, laid off from Oneida lmt., unable to buy his insulin because of lack of insurance and funds, going into the mental screening while suffering from the effects of his lack of medicine....ya, he's acting hostile, and....look at how uncoordinated he is!! There's something definately wrong with him......here, we'll give him this.....it will help...but then whenever he brings up the problem of no insurance and his need for the insulin, they turn a deaf ear and walk away....

Here's an excellent artilce by Ron Paul on why it's wrong:

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.

Full Stroy: www.lewrockwell.com...

It is all about getting your kids hooked on expensive prescription drugs. The drug companies are going to make billions maybe trillions of dollars, and the politicians get the political donations from the drug companies.

Good for politicians, and good for the multinational drug companies. What else matters anyway ?