Bush to screen population for mental illness

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | June 21, 2004

[television is just wrong]

Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin need to go first.

[Veracious Poet]

You're freakin hilarious! LOL

[television is just wrong]

The problem is, they already are.

[Joe Hadenuf]

The New Freedom Initiative, according to a progress report, seeks to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community

LOL!

[Paleo Conservative]

What about Michael Moore?

[television is just wrong]

Thanks, will heed the warning.
I'm outta here.

[thoughtomator]

This is f-ed up bigtime. Does Bush want to keep every freedom-loving voter home on election day?

[television is just wrong]

oops, forgot.

[unspun]

dittos

[Cobra64]

W's gone over the top on this.... He's going nuts on domestic-common-sense-initiatives.

He signed the Swimmers Bill. Then the Medical Pills Bill. Two HUGE pork-filled entitlement programs. And now this?

I will say again that I'd F most of the domestic programs, starting with the DOE and goe down to the end of the alphabet. I'd skip "M" - military; the only piece of the Fed. gov't worth a sh!t./rant. And y'all know, I sent W a nicely worded, profession, executive written interpretation of my feeling spelled out above.

[A Citizen Reporter]

How often are articles on WND not atributed to an author of some sort?

[little jeremiah]

??????

WTF????

Is this for real? It's hard to believe.

I know Farah hates Bush, but could this have a grain of truth to it?

[Veracious Poet]

President Bush plans to unveil next month a sweeping mental health initiative that recommends screening for every citizen and promotes the use of expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs favored by supporters of the administration.

If they actually annouce this, they are absolutely nuts.

This is the kind of thing that could drive what little conservative support Bush still had right into the third parties for years to come.

[Bernard Marx]

Good Lord, I thought this was satire until I neared the end. What in hell is this Administration thinking? The Soviets and Cubans used mental hospitals as a means of controlling political dissidents and it looks like we're heading the same scary way. I'm beginning to have serious doubts about this President's judgment.

[giotto]

Is this for real? I can predict that this will be about as popular as HillaryCare. Screening for mental illness is not like sceening for HIV (which of course they would never do.) There's no definitive lab test.

This reminds me of the Soviet Union or Communist China, where simply disagreeing with the government was enough to have you labeled "mentally ill" and shipped to a gulag. Sure their intentions may be good, but as with all laws, it depends who's in power.

This has got to be one of the most hare-brained things the Bush Administration has come up with so far.

[NotQuiteCricket]

How about that? Anyone know how the USSR used programs like this to keep objectors down? If you didn't like the communist way of life you were mentally ill and sent away.

Sorry, but starting this in schools makes it even worse. Started under Bush, and then when the democrats get control all the republicans/conservatives are called nutter and locked up.

[Tall_Texan]

This is a terrible idea during an election year. No doubt the Lenos and Lettermans would turn this on its ear as a sign that Bush is crazy.

Trot out something like this *after* the election when folks will have time to take it seriously instead of as an election ploy.

[AntiGuv]

Olanzapine? That's Zyprexa - used for treating schizophrenia and severe bipolarity. How many of those do they expect to find that our currently undiagnosed? Also, they won't likely be finding them in the grade schools...

[Howlin]

Not many.

I'm with Judith Anne. I don't believe this.

[AntiGuv]

That are currently undiagnosed..