This should scare the hell out of every parent in this country, URGENT

[jaylind]

Heh.  We are *all* mentally challenged imo.  LOL!  Terminology isn't a big thing with me...if you met my child you would understand what I mean, she really is ill for a large percentage of the time.  Challenging doesn't even begin to describe.......anyway....

My dd has other issues besides ADD/ADHD...in fact, those are the very least of my worries.

Kids who improve with diet and guidance are probably not truly ADD/ADHD...there is a chemical and structural change in the brain of those who have it.  That said, the American diet children eat these days is atrocious and that is another soapbox issue of mine...the processed food industry is poisoning our children, no bones about it.

The truly scarier prospect, though, is that kids who have something far more dangerous and deadly are dx'ed and medicated for ADD/ADHD.   This happens far too often and the misdiagnosis leaves children and families at high risk for tragedy.

[MYSONSDAD]

>The truly scarier prospect, though, is that kids who have something far more dangerous and deadly are dx'ed and medicated for ADD/ADHD. This happens far too often and the misdiagnosis leaves children and families at high risk for tragedy.<

This is exactly the point I was trying to make. What gaurantee do we have, that professional, well trained people will be in charge of our childs care? It will turn the children into a number.

Here is an article on this subject...and again, it scares the hell out of me.

U.S. Mental Health Screening Signals End Of Parental Rights
 
By Nancy Levant  
The Sierra Times  
4th June, 2005.
 
In the 2005-2006 school year, all parents will receive written notice of new policies from your children's schools. Many schools will ask you to sign permission slips, allowing school counselors or "advocates" to have conversations with your children. You will be told how your local schools are now involved in vision and dental screenings, learning disabilities and speech impediment screenings, and other acts of kindness, but watch for the small print or the extra little blurb, which states that your children will also be evaluated for emotional wellness. Watch for wording like "happiness indicators" or "family participation."  
 
The fact is that our President has mandated that every American child, age 3 through 18, is federally ordered to be evaluated for mental health issues and to receive "enforced" treatment. Welcome to President Bush's New Freedom Initiative and New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Welcome to life-long profiling and drug addictions, New Freedom-style.  
 
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. Eighty-two percent of Lilly's $1.6 million in political contributions in 2000 went to Bush and the Republican Party. Do tell...
 
Texas Algorithm grossed over 4 billion dollars in 2003 and olanzapine is Eli Lilly's top selling drug. A 2003 New York Times article by Gardiner Harris claims that 70 percent of olanzapine sales are paid for by government agencies, such as Medicare and Medicaid. And lo and behold, guess who is now able to bill Medicaid for health services? Public schools, of course, as they are now under the big pharma-political profits/pay-back umbrella once they adopt screening policies. Public schools can now be paid to screen and drug your kids.  
 
Now, if you ever wonder, ever again, if public-private partnerships care about people, then you need a brain transplant. Your children are now the legislated guinea pigs and lab rats for the pharmaceutical companies who bought and paid for our president's campaign. Favors are now returned to those companies in the form of enforced, juvenile customers, their health, and their future drug addictions.  
 
But wait, there is more. The New Freedom Commission also calls for enforced treatment. That means that parents have no rights to refuse the treatment recommenced by TMAP and other drug dispensing corporate-bureaucratic apparatuses. And as the mental health bureaucracy is also involved in this financial game of insidious cruelty, parents and families are also to be investigated via the result of their children's screenings in schools. In other words, schools are now the across-the board, or shall I say nation, diagnostic tool for big pharma and child control.  
 
And there's more. The U.N. Agenda 21 has also called for total intrusion into schools and children lives. No more religion, no more individuality, no more real education, no more real grades, no more real teaching, no more teacher respect for parents, and no more truth from teachers or principals. This sounds very familiar and very political to me. And I've said it before, and I will say it again: if you are of a religious ilk and you refuse to allow your children to be abused by our "educational" system, the stage is being set for you to lose physical custody of your children. I suggest that you read this: 'Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century' by Richard McKenzie.  
 
Still got your kids in public schools? Shame on you, and may God bless your poor children and forgive you.  
 
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