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rmAnother one of those theoretically minor yet disturbing events in the new world:
Guy gets his bag searched boarding the ferry today. Person searching the bag tries to confiscate a book he has in it.
Read the post:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mephron/349969.html
Meanwhile:
"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."
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=830
Better mental health is a good thing, but I don't my government, or the pharmaceutical industry to be involved in the diagnosis process. I've spent the last 8 months doing media analysis on the pharmaceutical industry, and it scares the crap out of me.
Guy gets his bag searched boarding the ferry today. Person searching the bag tries to confiscate a book he has in it.
Read the post:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mephron/349969.html
Meanwhile:
"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."
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=830
Better mental health is a good thing, but I don't my government, or the pharmaceutical industry to be involved in the diagnosis process. I've spent the last 8 months doing media analysis on the pharmaceutical industry, and it scares the crap out of me.
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Date: 2004-08-11 04:31 pm (UTC)Based on the text, it looks like a plan to weaken enforcement of the ADA, Clean Air/Water Act style, and funnelling current federal aid dollars to Faith-Based organizations. It also appears to have been announced in February 2001.
I didn't see anything about mental health other than a plan to create a centralized National Commission on Mental Health. That doesn't rule out a sinister agenda (especially considering who we're dealing with), but there was no mention of a national screening policy. The closest it got was saying that mental health services needed to be transformed, and that in the transformed system 'early mental health screening, assessment, and referral to services are common practice'. Whether that means early in life or early in the mental illness is anybody's guess.
My own opinion is that these people could be really effective totalitarians if they weren't so lassie-faire. As it is, they just come across as lazy-ass fascists.