Posted on 01/11/2005 9:10:38 AM PST by PHLSyndicate
GWB's Brave New World. There, I said. Its a cliché that I can't avoid, and a cliché that happens to be, well, true.
If you are a person of the politial persuasion who wishes government control our health care system, I'd advise you to be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it.
It seems that not only does our "conservative" president have the honour of passing the largest piece of social welfare spending since Lyndon Johnson, with the government-funded prescription drug plan, he will most likely be the first President to wield medical science as a weapon against political dissidents through the use of forced drugging and institutionalization for "the politically paranoid."
Wow. This is almost as cool as Eugenics!
Opposing Bush - A Form of Mental Illness?
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 passingsomething that can only help a portion of the population that is suffering significant distress."
Not only is "treatment" of the politically paranoid on the agenda of our benevolent leader, so is the drugging of our children.
Federal Control of Education Must End
The Department of Education is spending $5 million on “Mental Health Integration in Schools” as well as another million dollars for Sen. Kennedy’s early childhood mental health program called “Foundations for Learning.” All this is a boon to the pharmaceutical industry, but a horror for the children whose mental health is not the school’s responsibility. It is just one more effort to wrest control of a parents’ fundamental rights and responsibility over the welfare of their children.
Ron Paul, my favorite Republican, worked to introduce legislation that would at least require parental consent -- but it was voted down. Go figure.
Republicans Have Family under Attack
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.
Am I the only one who is a bit creeped out by all of this? Just as a welfare state necessitates a warfare state, and vice versa, government control of health care necessitates the politicization and abuse of power granted by that authority.
That is as true as the fact that those with power only want one thing -- more power.
I can't thank you enough!
So true. I am in awe!
Looks great!
Bttt
That sounds intriguing.
What was your "New Year's Eve" trip like?
I believe they got locked in a bookstore.
That fellow was fined about 80k for removing airbags and replacing them with flat screen tvs.
OOPS.....sorry, I had talked about that so much I forgot who was on what thread.
New Year's Eve morning we drove to the nearest "big" """city""" so I could go to my favorite bookstore. The discount one that's in the next over shopping center from Barnes and Noble!!!
It's just 50 miles north of us, we went to the book store, grabbed some lunch and were back at one of our favorite spots down here by 2. We didn't last long there and so went to the Moose Lodge and met up with a bunch of friends and were home before 7:30.
We don't DO New Year's Eve - we do New Year's DAY!
Not particularly intriguing, in fact rather mundane.......but I had fun. I bought $175 worth of books and only spent $44. 8 of the 12 purchased were cookbooks.
Thank you, sir!I logged off early last night, but here I am again. :^)
I'm back too.
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