e-mail I sent to the chair of our county legislature re: TeenScreen . . .

[OneBlueSky]

Hi, Harriet,

I don't know if you're familiar with BushCo's New Freedom Commission and its offshoot, TeenScreen.

Essentially, Bush plans to test every American for mental illness, beginning with school children -- and without parental consent! The plan also includes mandatory therapies, i.e. specific psychoactive drugs from American pharmaceutical companies (otherwise known as Bush supporters). Here's what Columbia University thinks of the program:

TeenScreen: Front Group for the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex
http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html

The program has already been instituted in several states (e.g. Illinois) -- without parental notification of the testing -- and they plan to take it nationwide. Lawsuits have already begun:

TeenScreen: The lawsuits begin
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/061405Pringle/061405pringle.html

What's most disturbing about this whole scheme is that the administration is trying to keep it secret while they go about instituting it. It's disgraceful and scary as hell, and if local communities don't stand up to BushCo, it will be in all our schools before we know it.

I encourage you to read the above articles, as well as the ones I'll cite below. I think this is something that the legislature should address before it actually starts happening here. If federal law won't require parental consent for the testing, then local law should.

You might also want to pass this information along to the Democratic candidate for County Executive; it would be a powerful campaign issue to use against her opponent.

Best,

Michael M.
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Psychiatric Drugs: TeenScreen Draws Criticism, Legal Challenge
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/06/17/psychiatric_drugs_teenscreen_draws_criticism_legal_challenge.htm

TeenScreen Sets Up Shop In Illinois
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00263.htm

Mental Health Screening in Schools Signals the End of Parental Rights
http://www.sierratimes.com/05/05/16/24_209_102_203_25370.htm

Federal Funding for Mental Health Screening of Kids
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul258.html

Bush's Texas Two-Step: TeenScreen and TMAP
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/052705Pringle/052705pringle.html

Protect Your Children Against Screening
http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/protect-your-children.htm

Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/1458

Medicating Aliah
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/medicating_aliah.html

TeenScreen - Another Gross Distortion
http://www.holisticjunction.com/displayarticle.cfm?ID=4391

[classof56]

1. By God, this is terrible. Not the first I've heard of it, of course.

Didn't realize the "plan" had progressed this far. I have school-aged grandchildren, but looks like they won't be the only ones who will be subjected to this atrocity. A medicated populace--just what Bushie's handlers have wanted so they can push their PNAC agenda down our throats.

I'll get this info to my grandkids' parents and spur them--and me-- to action. We must stop this evil in its tracks!

Tired Old Cynic

[wli]

2. all ages??? time to emigrate ASAP

Clearly a Stalinesque "lobotomize all political opposition" maneuver.