Is mandatory mental health testing the beginning of the end ?

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Across America the citizens of our country are in the dark about what this administration is doing to us. The idea of mandatory mental health testing is another indicator that our once glorious nation is being destroyed from within.

Here are a few articles that I've gathered to send to Republican family and friends. They've expressed interest and concern whenever the topic comes up. It's one of the few issues where we find agreement.

Please add any other links or information about this topic.


The Psycho State

by Rep. Ron Paul, MD

A presidential initiative called The “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health” has issued a report recommending forced mental health screening for every child in America, including preschool children. The goal is to promote the patently false idea that we have a nation of children with undiagnosed mental disorders crying out for treatment....

The greater issue, however, is not whether youth mental health screening is appropriate. The real issue is whether the state owns your kids. When the government orders “universal” mental health screening in schools, it really means “mandatory.” Parents, children, and their private doctors should decide whether a child has mental health problems, not government bureaucrats. That this even needs to be stated is a sign of just how obedient our society has become toward government. What kind of free people would turn their children’s most intimate health matters over to government strangers? How in the world have we allowed government to become so powerful and arrogant that it assumes it can force children to accept psychiatric treatment whether parents object or not?

Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.



Now Bush wants to test every American for mental illness--including you!

By Jordanne Graham

Never mind that it couldn’t have less to do with freedom; The New Freedom Initiative proposes to screen every American, including you, for mental illness. To this end, the president established a New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, to study the nation’s mental health delivery service and make a report. It’s interesting to note that many on the staff appointed to the Commission have served on the advisory boards of some of the nation’s largest drug companies...

Children and school personnel will be the first to be screened...



President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health


Nationwide Mental Health Screening Proposed


Attempt to dump mental screening fails Rep. Ron Paul hoped to stop mandatory federal program for children


Children's Mental Health Plan gives legislators headache


For the latest news, Google "New Freedom Commission on Mental Health".