Privacy: What and how you think should be private unless you choose to share it. The use of technologies such as brain imaging and scanning must remain consensual and any information so revealed should remain confidential. The right to privacy must be found to encompass the inner domain of thought.
Autonomy: Self-determination over one’s own cognition is central to free will. Decisions concerning whether or how to change a person’s thought processes must remain the province of the individual as opposed to government or industry.
Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutical corporations are gearing up for bigger sales of antidepressant and psychostimulant drugs.
“Every crisis, real or threatened, is being used to expand the power of government and abridge civil liberties.” said Dr. Jane Orient, Executive Director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. “Government should not have the power to force medical interventions on people in the name of serving the collective good. And if it does, the responsible entities must not be relieved of accountability for the harm that rash, untested, risky interventions may cause.”
The federal government has proposed a new incursion into education by offering scholarships to college students if they complete a course of study in high school approved by the U.S. Department of Education.
The Abramoff scandal pales in comparison to the stench of the mental health establishments influence over government, causing our children to be labeled in infancy and creating a never-ending market for psychiatric drugs.
Drug abuse is a moral, health, and spiritual problem. It shouldn’t a matter of the criminal law.
Tell your Congressman to support the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment!
The Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment to the State-Science-Justice-Commerce appropriations bill would bar federal funds from wasting taxpayer money by undermining state medical marijuana laws. Right now, 11 states allow their citizens to obtain marijuana to treat a range of diseases. But the federal government is arresting these patients, doctors, and nurses who are using and administering marijuana under state law.
Use the petition linked here to contact your Congressional representative and urge him or her to vote for Hinchey-Rohrabacher. You can modify the text to address your specific concerns more directly, if you wish.
Sign the petition!
Conservatives have long asserted that Roe improperly seized power from the states to regulate abortion. Pro-choice cynics have asserted that this federalist position is one of convenience and not of principle. But those Congressional states-rights champions will have a chance this month to prove their commitment to both states' rights and pro-life issues. But will they rise to the challenge?
The challenge in question is the so-called Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment to the State-Science-Justice-Commerce spending bill. This amendment would forbid federal funds to be used for Justice Department operations which arrest doctors and patients who prescribe and ingest cannabis (marijuana) under the protection of state law.
The 1930s propaganda film "Reefer Madness" makes a good point about Constitutional authority!
children as young as 9, who previously had not thought of the concept of suicide, are being asked invasive and leading questions by TeenScreen such as: Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year? Are you still thinking of killing yourself? Have you thought seriously about killing yourself? Have you often thought about killing yourself? Have you ever tried to kill yourself?" and kids are being lured into doing the suicide survey by TeenScreen's offers of free movie passes, food coupons, pizza parties and $50 mall gift certificates
The undersigned individuals and organizations, as concerned Americans, encourage you to join 44 co-sponsors in support for HR 181, The Parental Consent Act of 2005. The Parental Consent Act prohibits federal funds from being used to create or implement any universal or mandatory mental health screening programs by state, local, or federal government agencies.
The DEA's "War on Drugs" has expanded, but how does this affect pain management?
What’s wrong with the children? Basically the children have started to show signs of insanity because the system that is raising them is nuts.
NAACP Calls for End of Foster Care Drugging
Urgent Action Alert:
From EdAction:
The media has stepped up its propaganda promoting "infant mental health" just prior to upcoming votes in the "lame duck" Congress to fund universal psychological testing of babies, preschoolers and K-12 students, including dangerous drugging to treat them. Please re-read last June's EdWatch summary of those funding proposals and recommendations for cuts:
" Federal Funding for Universal Mental Health Screening."
This legislation protects families from being coerced into administering psychotropic medications that are on the controlled substances list to their children in order to attend school.
Did you know that there is a crisis in infant and early childhood mental health? According to the academic elites, bureaucrats, and front groups for the pharmaceutical industry that are promoting a cradle-to-grave mental health screening, labeling and intervention system, mental illness is rampant even in our youngest children
America’s schools are beginning to resemble laboratories, and our children are the lab rats. In almost every state across the nation, schoolchildren are being subjected to behavioral exams and mental health tests, often without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
While it is important to have a response to biological, nuclear, and chemical attacks and natural pandemics, this legislation removes the remaining small amount of liability that is left of manufacturers after the inception of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Act (NVIC). Now anyone injured by a vaccine or drug during an emergency has lost the unalienable right to trial by jury. They must appeal to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for redress of grievances, when it is this same fallible human being who has the sole power and authority to determine...
Support H.R. 1790 The Child Medication Safety Act. This act would prohibit government school personnel from requiring a child to obtain a prescription for a controlled substance or a psychotropic drug as a condition of attending school or receiving services.
We the undersigned individuals and organizations, representing millions of Americans encourage you to support the Paul Amendment to the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill that prohibits funds from being used to create or implement any universal mental health screening programs.
We urge you to protect public safety, federalism and fiscal restraint by voting for the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment to the Science-State-Justice-Commerce Appropriations bill. That amendment would prohibit the U.S. Justice Department from wasting taxpayer money undermining state medical marijuana laws.
In addition, there are grave concerns regarding whether the federal government should be involved in something that has such profound implications for individual autonomy, parental authority, freedom of conscience, and privacy.
The goal of TeenScreen, the very controversial child screening program, is to do a mental suicide screening of every U.S. child before they graduate from high school. According to their website, they utilize screening instruments called the Diagnostic Predictive Scales (DPS) and the Columbia Health Screen (CHS).
This extraordinary intrusion of psychiatry into our schools shows a blatant disregard of the public will, as demonstrated in the first four years of this millennium by a number of resolutions, education department statements and state laws, all defending a parent's right to make treatment decisions for a child without coercion, and a child's right to education without psychiatric labeling and drugs.