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Monday, November 22, 2004
Bill to Screen, Medicate Kids May Hit Senate This Week
Is it just me or has Orwlellian doublespeak become our governments native tongue? Why is it everything is always now named freedom something or patriot something? It is like the shit is totally in your face but to make it better lets make the name rub the unwashed cretins face in the dung they call legislation.



Nov 15 - Funding for a controversial Bush administration plan to submit the nation's school children to mental health testing and drug treatment may end up reaching the Senate floor this week, as GOP congressional leaders look to clear the legislative slate in order to set the table for George W. Bush's second term.

The plan, called the New Freedom Initiative (NFI), is the keystone of a package of initiatives by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, a group of doctors and mental health care professionals established by the Bush Administration in 2002.

As previously reported by The NewStandard, the Initiative’s critics, ranging from grassroots mental health advocacy organizations to government whistleblowers, have said the NFI's proposals do little else but establish state-mandated markets for the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry.

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