Parents, read up
This is scary, PK Dick style. Fed’s wanna test your kids mental health. Uh, hell no? Read on…
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO CONCERNED PARENTS
Congress has funded the development of a plan for mandatory mental
health screening of all school children. The purpose of this screening
will be to determine which children should be prescribed powerful
psychiatric drugs.
If this new program moves forward parents will lose control over
mental health decisions involving their children.
And children will face having evidence of psychiatric disorders added
to their permanent record.
This program is being promoted, as usual, to “save the children,” but
the scientific questions involved in childhood mental health
“problems” such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are extremely
unsettled. There is intense scientific debate about the validity of
these disorders.
Worse still, no one fully knows the long term health effects of
administering powerful drugs to developing brains. The already known
side effects of these drugs can be severe. Two deaths have already
been attributed to Ritalin prescribed to children.
Parents and children stand to lose from this new federal program. So
who benefits? Big pharmaceutical companies that help fund political
campaigns. Fortunately, Representatives Ron Paul and Tom Feeney are riding to the rescue.
They have introduced The Parental Consent Act of 2005 (HR 181) to
counter this emerging threat. This bill would de-fund the mental
health screening program. This bill needs your support. Please go to
http://www.DownsizeDC.org and click on the icon for the campaign
titled, “No Child Left Un-drugged.”
Then, you can use the easy Electronic Lobbyist system to send your
representatives a message to support HR 181. If you’re a first time
user, please note that you need to insert your own, easy-to-remember,
password. Do not let the system assign one to you!
After you’ve made your voice heard, please forward this message to
other concerned parents and taxpayers.
Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.
