Bush and Co want you and your kids to "turn
off, tune
out, and drop out" if you Think Different.
Here is a collection of stories from Daily Kos and elsewhere that you may have missed about Bush and Co.s desire for a wholesale drugging of the US population. Most of this covers the story of the newly created legislation, Orwellianly titled the "New Freedom Iniative" (the program was included in the Omnibus Spending Bill that passed a week ago). This program would be more aptly "framed" as something like the "New Freedom from Dissent Iniative". Or, more "literally", "Bush's Brave New World Program". This program would make "universal" psych testing (and drug treatment) a standard in schools and public health centers.
To paraphrase a blogger from Illinois: The US now joins Nazi Germany as being the only countries to implement a plan of mandatory universal pshychological testing...
But I warn you, reading more, and Thinking Differently is frowned upon by your Government.
Here are the stories I've found:
Bush Seeking Psychological Testing for all School Kids Without Parental Consent diary by Descrates featuring an article condeming the program by none other than Phyllis Schlafly (who seems to think that this is a Liberal plot...)
Infowars has some info on the specific bill that was just passed in the Omnibus Spending Bill, including a note about the specific omission of parental control in the testing.
A statement from US Representative Ron Paul (R!, Texas) who tried unsuccessfully to get an addendum to the bill that would make the program NOT mandatory and would allow parents to opt their kids out of the testing.
Here is the inside story by an Investigator in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Inspector General, Bureau of Special Investigations, who was a whistleblower arguing that the TMAP program (the Texas model for the Federal program) was merely a way of funneling Federal money to the big pharmaceutical companies. Warning, this is a PDF and it's long!
Some old, but well researched information and links at a website called MindFreedom. They have been following Bush's push for mandatory psych testing since he left Texas, where he had already implemented it in schools.
There is a sexy topless photo of this article's author, who also happens to be a health professional and a writer for the News Target Network website. The article is on also about the "New Freedom (from Dissent) Iniative" and is mostly a rehashing of many other articles, but it includes a lot of good resources, so I figured I'd add it to the list.
This article will make you scream: involuntary human animal drug testing on orphaned kids in NY which was covered in SoLeft's diary. This one doesn't have anything to do with the psych testing, but does go to show haw far the government and big pharma will go.
Oh, and here's one for those who didn't get the "Brave New World" reference, a Wikipedia entry on Aldous Huxley's book, Brave New World.
I can guarantee that I've missed some diaries, please add links to ones you are aware of.
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Some people have said that we should be careful about comparing Bush and Co. to Hitler, and I would agree. Hitler was more blatant. Bush and Co. are far more subtle.