New Freedom Initiative And New Freedom Commission To Force Kids Onto Medication

Posted on Tuesday, June 07 at 12:23 by Diogenes
52 million students and six million adults working in schools, according to this commission, will be tested and should flush out at least 6 million people, or shall we say new customers, who will then be mandated to receive "treatment." What treatment does our president's commission have in mind? The newest drugs in the pharmaceutical pipelines, of course. The commission recommends "specific medications for specific conditions." One of the state-of-the-art treatments, and most expensive, is an implanted capsule yes, that's right, implanted. The capsule delivers medication into a child's body without the child having to swallow a pill or the need for parental permission for dispensation. The New Freedom Commission named the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) a model treatment plan. Medical algorithms are a flowchart-style treatment indicator. If you have A symptom and B symptom, take C medication. TMAP began with the University of Texas, big pharma, and the mental health and corrections system in Texas. The American Psychiatric Association concurs that TMAP is brilliant. However, the New Freedom Initiative and Commission is a political-big pharma marriage. Many companies who supported TMAP were also major contributors to Bush's re-election funds. For example, Eli Lilly manufactures olanzapine - one of the drugs recommended in the New Freedom plan, and furthermore, George Herbert Walker Bush was once a member of Lilly's board of directors. Our current President Bush appointed Lilly's chief executive officer, Sidney Taurel, as a member of the Homeland Security Council. Websites for Wisdoms: www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd64.htm www.newswithviews.com/Eakman/beverly26.htm http://www.sierratimes.com/05/05/16/24_209_102_203_25370.htm

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  1. by hoopoe
    Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:21 pm
    And everybody thought Big Brother in Orwell's "1984" referred to the Soviet Union and communism. I guess the jokes on American citizens.

    If what this article is true, if I was a parent in America I would be pulling my kids out of schools and home schooling them.

  2. Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:38 pm
    This is of course bad news, but more pressing to us should be Canada's actions. Clearly, the use of ritalin and it's brethren have been increasing astronomically as well. Perhaps its not a federal policy, but it certainly often seems to be provincial policy in most provinces to get kids on ritalin if they have any kind of behavioural variations (notice I don't say 'disorders' because in many cases I don't think they're anything of the kind).

    There has been little about this at this website, perhaps because enforcement is not federal jurisdiction. I'm in a group in New Brunswick that's just trying to get the government to study the issue, which it refuses to do, in fact it also refuses to disclose the numbers of children taking the drug and the amount. Perhaps Canada already has such a system as is being touted in the States-we just can't find out about it.

  3. Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:47 am
    Damn Hoopoe! You were thinking too hard on that one. You probably aren't a parent and, thankfully for all concerned I imagine, you are not in America. Your comment would benefit greatly from improved knowledge of that "constitution" thingy they have in America as well as a better understanding of the rights of nutters and non-nutters. Would you be suprised to know there ain't a whole lot of forcing the treatment that can be done these days. Hey, but don't let a little knowledge and information get in the way of having fun at somebody else's expense Hoopoe. I prefer to have you happy, if stupid. Think Animal Farm if Orwell it must be.

  4. Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:08 pm
    Yes let's medicate all deviation from the "norm". Guess who get's to determine "norm"? I've heard of teachers telling parents that their children need ritalin. Kid's with ulcers, kids on ritalin, kids on depression medication, it's a brave new world. Since my eldest went off to Kindergarden, I am no longer surprised. Kids are under so much pressure. IMHO, children today have had their childhood stolen. Two hours of homework, four nights a week for grade two students. In Kindergarden, almost before they can write their name, they must sign behaviour contracts. I remember reading the form, and wondering if perhaps my five year old needed a lawyers advice before signing. I hear that todays world is different, and they have to race to compete, and so on, yet I live in a province where a mere 57% pass rate on standardized testing, so all the force feeding isn't paying off.

  5. Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:12 pm
    I see you choose personal attack instead of dealing with the subject above. I must be hard for such a Big "D" democracy to suck up such blatant erosions of personal freedom, better to just pretend it's not happening, vive le big democracy even if it's increasingly in name only.

  6. Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:11 pm
    For clarity's sake, I'll let you know when it's personal. I was discussing a problem observed. Actually, the problem is that you lack any context when reading the information. That is a common source of misunderstanding something new to anyone's eyes. You react without considering and read into the few facts that which your stereotypes and ideological bent dictates. That sort of Lemming thought offers little to the discussion of the issue my friend. Do yourself a favor and speak to people who work where the rubber hits the asphalt with regard to medication and the rights of nutters and non-nutters. Deprived of a better understanding of the context, your rant, as would be expected, borders on the infantile. Learn more regarding that about which you post.



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