Put the Kids on Meds: George W. Bush's Vision for America

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from http://warcheerleaders.tripod.com (see original article for links)

Back when George W. Bush was governor of Texas, something called the "Texas Medication Algorithm Project" started up to plan the mental health screening of the general population. It especially focused on testing schoolchildren for behavioral problems and proposed treatment with antidepressant medication. Bush brought the program to the White House with him, and it is now being called the President's New Freedoms Commission on Mental Health. Under the guise of helping those kids who are getting booted from school for being hyperactive, disobedient or whatever, the program prescribes the latest happy drugs for these “behavioral problems”, which has recently included wearing antiwar t-shirts to school and starting a school anarchist club. And just as it is now, parents could be charged with child abuse for refusing to give the kids the drugs once they have been diagnosed. So the pharmaceutical megacorporations, which have donated four times as much money to Bush than to Kerry, will have yet another constant source of cash and generations will be both permanently diagnosed with mental problems and on meds.

Is it a massive cynical plan to reap billions off a gov't program to medicate children or an evil plot to control minds? You decide. Which is worse, anyway?

The British Medical Journal broke the story, "Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness". Another article is "No Child Left Un-medicated?" See also "New Mental Health Program Alarms Parents"

http://warcheerleaders.tripod.com/

[Placebo]

1. Scary stuff...

:scared:

well they ain't gonna screeeeen me! i'll fight 'em off tooth and nail i tell ya what. :mad:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Both

Is it a massive cynical plan to reap billions off a gov't program to medicate children or an evil plot to control minds?

Both.

[jeff30997]

3. Reminds me of Brave new world.

[PhuLoi]

4. Stalinist Russia pioneered this program.

At his height old Joe made the argument that, as his administration was the best possible government for a nation and its people, anyone who disagreed would have to be insane. Hence those who disagreed were certified as insane and sent to asylums to be kept in a medicated state indefinately. How far we've come in the land of the free.

[Green Lantern]

5. Medicating your populace

and undereducating them are excellent ways to control the country. Keep them ignorant and reproducing more fools.

yup-Animal Farm. 1984, Brave New World (or should that be Brave New World Order?) and now we have the Bush Chronicles. Serfdom and slavery are part of an economic order also, and meds would certainly help keep us quiet.

No more Bushwa