Posted on 09/14/2004 9:27:02 AM PDT by jmc813
There really are only a few Paul haters, but they are disproportionately vocal. Several FReepers justifiably disagree with Paul on Iraq, but admire him on domestic issues, but the Paul haters have a blind loathing of the man. These are the same folks who are hardcore proponents of the War on Drugs, gun control, and illegal alien amnesty.
Where does he stand on these issues?
He's a member of Paul's Republican Liberty Caucus, so I'd assume he agrees.
ADD diagnoses are a new phenomenon. What happened?
Once upon a children used their imaginations to amuse themselves and parents were there to raise them. The natural energy of children was expanded on outdoor activity both during school recess and after school. Parents were nearby to ensure their safety and school administrators had enough common sense to know recess served a purpose.
Fast forward a few years.
Television and later video games are invented. At first television was claimed to be a great educator. In reality it becomes fast food for the brain. Programming evolved to an almost universal format of quick changing screens, overloading the senses. Some Japanese animation even causes seizures. This is catastrophic to developing brains, attention spans, and learning of patience.
In the meantime, economic factors changed dramitically. The "New Society" and its high spending creep the tax rate up to almost 50%. At the other end, families are squeezed from global competition against the labor force of third world peasants. This, added to femenism takes the primary care taker, the mother, out of the home and into the workplace. At night both are too tired to tend to children. Instead they sit in front of the TV as their minds rot. Besides, its safer inside and perpetually safety hysterical Sally Soccer Mom rules the roost, lest Dad speak up and get the boot. Zero tolerance and lawsuits keep children in a lockdown at schools. Recess is canceled or shortened to make time for PC indoctrination. Games like dodgeball or even team sports are canceled for PC concerns. Rambunctious kids can no longer be effectively disciplined because of concerns of child abuse allegations.
Children genetically haven't changed in 50 years. But all of a sudden there is a sudden surge in wild kids with no attention spans (they're fat too). "They're unwieldy! What shall we do?" Enter pharmacutical companies with brain altering drugs that will turn kids into compliant little drones.
These financial powerhouses now have an economic incentive to get as many kids as customers as possible. First they influence parents with advertising, the medical progession with financial incentives, and lastly as we see here government with lobbying.
The government looks at the problem and doesn't want to pull children from schools or TV's as they are the great indoctinators. It also will not reduce its tax burden or its sellout of the workplace, to bring a parent home. And here is a pharm rep holding out millions in campaign donations. Their decision is as predictible as the sun rising.
The only thing left is the Orwellian name to put a nice shiny face on the whole thing: The Freedom Initiative.
Huge entrenched factors make this a problem years in the making and very, very difficult to combat. Parents must take initiative and be very aggressive to protect their children from these forces.
Consider yourself informed and warned.
>>Not so far off. Remove the secret part and it looks a lot what this country has degenerated into. It hasn't stopped either.<<
No, "repressive" is the key word. There is a difference between repressive and instrusive. 46,375 regulations on toothpaste is intrusive. Hauling innocent dissidents to a work camp in Fairbanks is repressive. Census forms are intrusive. Electrical currents strapped to your genitals as you are forced to "give up" your correspondents is repressive.
The US government has become very intrusive. That is a bad sign, since repressive governments must first become intrusive. But the US is not repressive. And anyone who publicly proclaims that it is aids and abets our enemies. (fortunately, because we are not a repressive state, there exist no penalties for doing so.)
Somebody wants us to condemn W without so much as reading the report, without knowing the details and take the esteemed Senator's word for everything. Reminds of the Good Old Soviet Union. Communist Party Local Meeting, locksmith Ivanov taking the floor: "I haven't read Solzhenitsin, but I condemn him with all of my working class resolve". Nice.
Nonsense. And your opinion of what is repressive is just that.
Scary...Isn't this the same program used in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia?
Communists sure do love mental health!
Ron Paul is absolutely correct! I have a so-called conservative friend who has her son on Ritalin because "it's easier on everyone"!! Child Abuse at its finest.
PoliceState
>>And your opinion of what is repressive is just that.<<
Oh, Boo-ho-hoo! Someone else expressing their opinion counter to yours is repressive! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
No, asserting that someone else's gross distortions of our nation assists our enemy's propaganda is not repression. Banning you off the FR website is not repression. Prohibiting you from publicizing your own opinions on your own medium is repression.
Whining about being repressed because someone says something you don't like is just plan pathetic.
It's already a done deal in Illinois. It was slimed through the legislature and then after they passed it, they decided to hold hearings.
http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=19099
Pregnant women and kids will be required to undergo mental health screening. The Dept. of Ed will develop the tests for students.
...let alone hypocritical!
Who holds the majority in the Illinois legislature?
Hey, Dangus. For libertarians they seem to be a pretty pushy crowd here. The Police State can be imposed not only from the top, but from the bottom as well. E.g., Chaves regime. It's called the Ochlocracy. No dictator like a libertarian gotten to power.
Dems. Was Republican, but a succession of truly horrible candidates (all named Ryan) has devestated the Illinois Republican party, which went from being like Ohio to being like Massachusetts in 6 short years.
And if they refuse?
I believe almost every single one of them voted for it -- both Republicans and Democrats. I think five or six voted against it. I don't know whether they were Democrats or Republicans.
I think legislators should read bills more carefully before voting on them.
And what does Dem-slimed legislation have to do with W?
It's Bush's program.
http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=19137
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