Skeptic
10th January 2005, 19:38
Incredible - Frist's Bill Defines
'Political Paranoia'
As 'Mental Illness'
From Christopher Rudy
1-10-5
"When the 109th Congress convenes in Washington in January, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define 'political paranoia' as a mental disorder"
Wow! The medical-industrial complex and Big Brother growth industry will make a killing on these drug pushers while eliminating those pesky patriot types.
Might even help Wall Street show "growth" another year while these wolves devour what remains of the body politic. A true win/win for insanity. - CR
"If you're still convinced that President Bush won the election because Republicans figured out a way to hack into electronic voting machines, you've obviously got a problem," says Smith. (or see www.heartcom.org/20reasons.htm for the truth - CR)
"If we can figure out a way to ease your suffering by getting you into therapy and onto medication, that's something that we hope the entire 109th Congress will support."
Holy Nut-case! These guys aren't joking! Is that how far GONE "our" government is? Can you see where it's going if we let it? --CR
Opposing Bush - A Form of Mental Illness?
By Kurt Nimmo
1-7-5
It's not the stolen election or the war crimes committed in my name. It's not the fact Bush is a liar and a criminal. It's not the Strausscons in the White House and the Pentagon, plotting multiple wars in the Middle East and elsewhere. It's not Congress, sold out to neolibs, multinational corporations, and Wall Street loan sharks.
It's me.
I'm suffering from "political paranoia" and need Paxil, a prescription drug for the treatment of anxiety and depression. It's not the 100,000 dead killed by my government in Iraq. It's not torture or loose talk of nuking enemies. It is a serotonin imbalance in my brain. I suffer from any number of possible maladiesdepression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (thus writing this blog every day), and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I suffer from mental illness and need help.
Congress may come to the rescueand soon.
"When the 109th Congress convenes in Washington in January, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define 'political paranoia' as a mental disorder, paving the way for individuals who suffer from paranoid delusions regarding voter fraud, political persecution and FBI surveillance to receive Medicare reimbursement for any psychiatric treatment they receive," writes Hermione Slatkin, Medical Correspondent for the Swift Report. "Rick Smith, a spokesman for Senator Frist, says that the measure has a good chance of passingsomething that can only help a portion of the population that is suffering significant distress."
"If you're still convinced that President Bush won the election because Republicans figured out a way to hack into electronic voting machines, you've obviously got a problem," says Smith. "If we can figure out a way to ease your suffering by getting you into therapy and onto medication, that's something that we hope the entire 109th Congress will support."
Characterizing political dissent as a form of mental illness is the hallmark of authoritarian government. In China, for instance, forensic psychiatrists label dissent "political lunacy" (see Jacob Sullum, Head Games: What are the rules for defining mental illness?) and in Soviet Russia political dissenters were routinely cosigned to mental hospitals. Nowadays, with modern pharmacology, mental hospitals are no longer requiredthe mental hospital is internalized through chemical intervention.
No need for FEMA camps or "preventive detention" when we have a "medical armamentarium" of serotonin uptake inhibitors. All that is needed now is for Frist and the Republicans to devise a law defining "political paranoia" and determining that "political paranoiacs" are a threat to society.
You will take your Paxilor something far more debilitatingand by court order. Recall Bush's effort to screen the entire population for mental illness, i.e., the New Freedom Initiative. Bush's commission found that "despite their prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed" and recommended comprehensive mental health screening for "consumers of all ages." Naturally, Frist and the Republicans are mostly concerned about the "political paranoia" form of mental illness, as the above news item indicates.
As a "consumer," is it possible I am suffering from "political paranoia." or is the whole thing a product of my feverish imagination and the result of reading too many news items on the web?
Finally, note that I could not find mention of Frist and the classification of "political paranoia" after a lengthy Google news search. Mention of it only appeared on the Swift Report website. Rick Smith's above quote returned no results. Of course, this does not mean that Bill Frist and the Republicans do not consider the oppositionincluding more than a few Democratsas mental cases and tinfoil hatters. Rush Limbaugh calls us nutters every day and millions of gullible Americans take what he says as gospel.
http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=485
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence." -- Kurt Nimmo
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo06172004.html
"No one in public life has the courage to explain how those people who died when New York City skyscrapers collapsed were killed by plans concocted by the same people who seek your votes on election day, and still talk about freedom and justice while they pocket checks from large corporations intent on profiting from rebuilding the faraway cities we reduce to rubble." -- John Kaminski
'Power Hour Blocks Kaminski At Last Miinute' http://www.worldnewsstand.net/04/John_Kaminski/3.htm
"Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people." -- Lying Monkey Boy Bush, chimp off the old block
"Will the peons of America, the shirtless ones, the common folk, be cursed by failing to somehow stop the rise of America's Hitler?" -- Sherman H. Skolnick
From 'Bush White House Created Violence'
"We are a discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then we go with the drove." -- Mark Twain
http://www.rense.com/general61/emen.htm
'Political Paranoia'
As 'Mental Illness'
From Christopher Rudy
1-10-5
"When the 109th Congress convenes in Washington in January, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define 'political paranoia' as a mental disorder"
Wow! The medical-industrial complex and Big Brother growth industry will make a killing on these drug pushers while eliminating those pesky patriot types.
Might even help Wall Street show "growth" another year while these wolves devour what remains of the body politic. A true win/win for insanity. - CR
"If you're still convinced that President Bush won the election because Republicans figured out a way to hack into electronic voting machines, you've obviously got a problem," says Smith. (or see www.heartcom.org/20reasons.htm for the truth - CR)
"If we can figure out a way to ease your suffering by getting you into therapy and onto medication, that's something that we hope the entire 109th Congress will support."
Holy Nut-case! These guys aren't joking! Is that how far GONE "our" government is? Can you see where it's going if we let it? --CR
Opposing Bush - A Form of Mental Illness?
By Kurt Nimmo
1-7-5
It's not the stolen election or the war crimes committed in my name. It's not the fact Bush is a liar and a criminal. It's not the Strausscons in the White House and the Pentagon, plotting multiple wars in the Middle East and elsewhere. It's not Congress, sold out to neolibs, multinational corporations, and Wall Street loan sharks.
It's me.
I'm suffering from "political paranoia" and need Paxil, a prescription drug for the treatment of anxiety and depression. It's not the 100,000 dead killed by my government in Iraq. It's not torture or loose talk of nuking enemies. It is a serotonin imbalance in my brain. I suffer from any number of possible maladiesdepression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (thus writing this blog every day), and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I suffer from mental illness and need help.
Congress may come to the rescueand soon.
"When the 109th Congress convenes in Washington in January, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define 'political paranoia' as a mental disorder, paving the way for individuals who suffer from paranoid delusions regarding voter fraud, political persecution and FBI surveillance to receive Medicare reimbursement for any psychiatric treatment they receive," writes Hermione Slatkin, Medical Correspondent for the Swift Report. "Rick Smith, a spokesman for Senator Frist, says that the measure has a good chance of passingsomething that can only help a portion of the population that is suffering significant distress."
"If you're still convinced that President Bush won the election because Republicans figured out a way to hack into electronic voting machines, you've obviously got a problem," says Smith. "If we can figure out a way to ease your suffering by getting you into therapy and onto medication, that's something that we hope the entire 109th Congress will support."
Characterizing political dissent as a form of mental illness is the hallmark of authoritarian government. In China, for instance, forensic psychiatrists label dissent "political lunacy" (see Jacob Sullum, Head Games: What are the rules for defining mental illness?) and in Soviet Russia political dissenters were routinely cosigned to mental hospitals. Nowadays, with modern pharmacology, mental hospitals are no longer requiredthe mental hospital is internalized through chemical intervention.
No need for FEMA camps or "preventive detention" when we have a "medical armamentarium" of serotonin uptake inhibitors. All that is needed now is for Frist and the Republicans to devise a law defining "political paranoia" and determining that "political paranoiacs" are a threat to society.
You will take your Paxilor something far more debilitatingand by court order. Recall Bush's effort to screen the entire population for mental illness, i.e., the New Freedom Initiative. Bush's commission found that "despite their prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed" and recommended comprehensive mental health screening for "consumers of all ages." Naturally, Frist and the Republicans are mostly concerned about the "political paranoia" form of mental illness, as the above news item indicates.
As a "consumer," is it possible I am suffering from "political paranoia." or is the whole thing a product of my feverish imagination and the result of reading too many news items on the web?
Finally, note that I could not find mention of Frist and the classification of "political paranoia" after a lengthy Google news search. Mention of it only appeared on the Swift Report website. Rick Smith's above quote returned no results. Of course, this does not mean that Bill Frist and the Republicans do not consider the oppositionincluding more than a few Democratsas mental cases and tinfoil hatters. Rush Limbaugh calls us nutters every day and millions of gullible Americans take what he says as gospel.
http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=485
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence." -- Kurt Nimmo
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo06172004.html
"No one in public life has the courage to explain how those people who died when New York City skyscrapers collapsed were killed by plans concocted by the same people who seek your votes on election day, and still talk about freedom and justice while they pocket checks from large corporations intent on profiting from rebuilding the faraway cities we reduce to rubble." -- John Kaminski
'Power Hour Blocks Kaminski At Last Miinute' http://www.worldnewsstand.net/04/John_Kaminski/3.htm
"Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people." -- Lying Monkey Boy Bush, chimp off the old block
"Will the peons of America, the shirtless ones, the common folk, be cursed by failing to somehow stop the rise of America's Hitler?" -- Sherman H. Skolnick
From 'Bush White House Created Violence'
"We are a discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then we go with the drove." -- Mark Twain
http://www.rense.com/general61/emen.htm