Posted on 12/06/2004 1:02:52 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
There have been cases where Scientology has held members captive in forced re-indoctrination situations, when they were trying to leave the group, and made them very ill in the process. At least one woman died this way.
As was the case with Lisa McPherson and many others.
Several, actually. See http://www.whyaretheydead.net/ for details.
According to the Bill of Rights, our right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, either. That hasn't exactly slowed down the Liberals or their RINO littermates.
"The fact that such a law was needed is frightening."
You can bet the teacher's union had it's grubby little hand in this. All they want is money, a job they can't be fired from or held accountable for, and for your kid to just sit there and watch the TV. If your kid makes a fuss, drug him/her into submission.
I think you are on the short list for a middle-of-the-night door-kicking visit from John Travolta.
I'm sure your right...the establishment of this cult is also extremely interesting....Being a Christian conservative... I would never step into teachings by the many cults throughout America and the world. Many have hooks not easily eliminated.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
So if the Church of Scientology endorsed the Republican party you would vote Democrat? Why don't you try thinking on your own instead of letting your enemies decide what or who you support?
Our middle son was a "high maintenance" baby and was unhappy unless he was doing whatever big sister was doing. In kindergarten, he would spin around in his seat at school when he was done before everyone else and got bored. But his private school didn't punish - they asked if we would send some quiet things for him to do when he wasn't able to run outside right away. Now, he's a busy teen getting "A"s (except in English, just like his father) and playing plenty of sports. He is constantly tossing some kind of ball in the air everywhere he goes - getting on his mother's nerves occasionally. He loves baseball and we make him play all the rest. He doesn't like soccer or basketball but we insist he play anyway. After a few mumbles, as soon as a ball enters the field of play, he's all over it.
It's a shame so many kids are not able to get outside and the ones who can are usually inside sitting around instead and are allowed to sit and eat processed carbs all afternoon.
I hate peeing in the cheerios, here, but this is pretty meaningless when we have the New Freedom Commission recomendations coupled with a federal bureaucracy like SAMSHA to implement those recommendations. This won't be mandatory, at first. Nothing will change except the funding in 2006, 2007, and on, and SAMSHA will grow in power. In ten years no one will remember the word "mandatory" just as parents now are forgetting the state cannot "force" their children on drugs. They can make life hell for you and intensely pressure if you refuse, but they can't force anything.
IF anything a power vacuum is created here and guess who gets to fill it? The best thing would be for the feds to get OUT of the schools altogether, but that will never happen. Once a federal program is enacted, no matter how small at first, it takes on a life of its own and becomes immortal.
JMO. I do applaud the CCHR for their efforts, though. And I hope to hell I am wrong.
However, what the schools do is refuse to allow the child to attend school unless they agree to take the drugs. Then, the parents are liable for not sending their children to compulsory education, unless they then homeschool them.
This is a good thing. Many borderline kids, especially boys, have been forced into ritalin or related drugs, just because the system didn't want to deal with kids being kids.
Now, my son needs them. He is clearly ADHD, and feels better about himself with them than without them (although we did take him off ritalin for a couple of years because the side effects weren't worth the results.)
But if a school system told me they were going to turn me over to the local child welfare people because I decided to take him off the meds, I would have been very, very angry and unhappy. It can be hard to find what works right when you have kids with these types of problems, and it shouldn't be something to be figured out between the school that wants to manage people and the children's welfare people. It should be something that the medical people and parents work out instead. And it often takes time, trial and error, and working with different strategies.
How dare the schools think that their desire to keep kids under wraps instead of letting them be kids gives them the right to play with powerful, sometimes addictive medications for their convenience!
I believe this was buried in the reauthorization of IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which pays for a portion of Special Eduation in schools.
those are Christian scientists. I think it's a different sect altogether. They don't allow blood transfusions either.
My daughter in law was told that my grandson Andrew was ADD. She was furious with them because he could sit for hours at home and play quietly. The diagnosis didn't fit. He was too intelligent to sit in a classroom where the work was too simple. They put him in the library so he could read the encyclopedias. She got tired of it and home schooled him. He's very bright and is tops in his Bible Scripture learning team. I'm learning to hate public school and the crap that goes on with our most precious possessions.
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