Wow, this is really getting to you, DJ. All right lets do some quick and dirty numbers.
You had approx 130 people sign the petition well lets say 150 to give you the best edge. There are probably 10,000 professionals in the U.S. (I know you compared your position to the whole world, but I dont have time nor the inclination to humor you). So you have 1.5 % of the professionals sign the paper. So if you had 1.5 % ( that agree with you) that leaves 98.5% that don?t. I would call that an over whelming majority.
So lets say there are only 1,000 professionals in the U.S. you are still only looking at 15%, Hardly a majority.
You would need to convince me that there are only 300 professionals in the U.S. for me to consider redoing my numbers and even if there were, you need to get busy and takle Europe and Asia.... sorry but we need to stay consistent.
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I'll make it easier for you:
The organizations A-Start stated signed the letter to congress:
American Psychological Association
American Association of Community Psychiatrists
American Orthopsychiatric Association
Child Welfare League of America
Federation of Families for Children?s Mental Health
National Youth Advocate Program, Inc.
The following refused to sign:
American Medical association (AMA)
http://www.ama-assn.org/ American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
Research & Training Center on Children's Mental Health
The Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
Center for Study and Prevention of Violence.
There are more, these are the ones I was able to locate in the time I had last night.
They didn?t sign DJ, they may believe in the concept but they didn?t sign. They may have it on their web site, but they didn?t sign. No matter how you spin it they are not on the list of signatures, period, why? Some didn?t believe in the wording, others were not invited to participate in its conception.