holy crap

[rm]

Another 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.

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

The mental illness stuff is scary, the incident with the book is totally bizarre. I clicked on it expecting the book being confiscated was something lefty like Al Franken's latest book, not a supplement for the primary RPG that I write for and a book my dear frend Dawn helped write. I have given the link to the Exalted line developer to see if maybe White Wolf's lawyers want to talk to the folk who operate the ferry. Gods, this nation has gone utterly insane.