DANGER ! ! Child Medication Safety Act, HR 1790 in Congress
"Safety" ????? They always throw in
the flowery term to make the evil deed acceptable to the gullible
public. Other examples "protect" to facilitate the stealing of our
lands. "Thin by burning" to further destroy what wildfires missed.
Drugging our kids is another strategy
in the dumbing down process in our schools. Boring bright,
energetic kids to death with non-sensical teachings (devoid of
knowledge) will very likely develop a distraught student who
can be diagnosed "Attention Deficit Syndrome" ADS. Now
the bright minds are being labeled "mental illness" subject to even
more drugs and possibly being snatched away and popped into a mental
health institution. The term the "inmates are running the
asylum" is becoming ever more true and invasive of our entire
system. It's the ones outside and running our social system that
we need to fear the most. When Rome fell it was due to
even fewer complications than are threatening our future
as a nation. Being inflicted upon us are ever
more extensive and aggressive behind the scenes schemes
deliberately as well as accidentally dedicated to accomplishing just
that, the downfall of America. Clarice
May 2, 2005
Minnesota's
Rep. John Kline introduced the
Child Medication Safety Act (HR 1790)
in Congress on April 21st with 16 co-sponsors. The Act protects
children and their parents from being coerced into administering
psychotropic medications in order to attend school.
In
this legislation, schools would be prohibited from requiring parents to
put their children on powerful psychotropic medications. The
legislation is very important because it allows parents to have their
children educated, not medicated. It will prevent schools from forcing
parents to use medication to keep their children in school, instead of
getting the proper academic or other help for behavior difficulties
that these children need. It also prevents the use of powerful drugs to
enforce the acceptance of the psychosocial, non-academic standards of
the federal curriculum on those who disagree by disguising resistance
as academic under-performance.
Dr.
Karen Effrem of EdWatch has
testified
in Congress that medical literature demonstrates that these
medications are overused, ineffective, have dangerous side effects, and
most importantly that the "disorders" that they treat are vague social
constructs -- that there are many other reasons for behavior and
learning disorders that do not require medication.
The
World Health Organization, in its World Health Report, 2001, stated,
“Childhood and adolescence being developmental phases, it is difficult
to draw clear boundaries between phenomena that are part of normal
development and others that are abnormal.”
The
Surgeon General stated in 1999 that, “The science is challenging
because of the ongoing process of development. The normally developing
child hardly stays the same long enough to make stable measurements.
Adult criteria for illness can be difficult to apply to children and
adolescents, when the signs and symptoms of mental disorders are often
also the characteristics of normal development.”
Last
year Congress appropriated grants to local school districts to treat
teenagers suffering from mental, emotional or behavioral disorders>
This will result in more psychiatric drugging in schools. Congress also
provided $7 million for grants for additional interventions,
which will also result in more screening and drugging of children and
adolescents. (See our
July
26th update)
The
Department of Education is spending $5 million on “Mental Health
Integration in Schools”, as well as $1 million for Senator Kennedy’s
disastrous early childhood mental health program called Foundations for
Learning. (See our
update.)
One example of the need to prohibit coercion to medicate is
demonstrated in an article just out --
Medicating Aliah.:
- ALIAH GLEASON IS A BIG, lively girl with a round face, a quick
wit, and a sharp tongue. She's 13 and in eighth grade at Dessau Middle
School in Pflugerville, Texas, an Austin suburb, but could pass for
several years older. She is the second of four daughters of Calvin and
Anaka Gleason, an African American couple who run a struggling business
taking people on casino bus trips...Aliah was a B and C student who
"got in trouble for running my mouth."
First diagnosed by school personnel as having "oppositional disorder",
Aliah was later screened for mental illness and taken to the
Austin State Hospital, a state mental facility, against her parents
wishes. "What, if anything, was wrong with Aliah remains cloudy." The
entire story is on-line. Other parents have testified before Congress
of similar situations.
Action:
Please thank these member of Congress for co-sponsoring HR 1790:
Rep Barrett, J. Gresham [SC-3]
Rep Boehner, John A. [OH-8] - 4/21/2005
Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5]
Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8] - 4/21/2005
Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2]
Rep Gutknecht, Gil [MN-1] - 4/21/2005
Rep Hostettler, John N. [IN-8]
Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3] - 4/21/2005
Rep Kennedy, Mark R. [MN-6]
Rep LaTourette, Steve C. [OH-14] - 4/21/2005
Rep Lewis, Ron [KY-2]
Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] - 4/21/2005
Rep Pence, Mike [IN-6]
Rep Souder, Mark E. [IN-3] - 4/21/2005
Rep Wicker, Roger F. Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] - 4/21/2005
Please urge other members to co-author this important bill. Pass
this information on to your friends and family in other states.