On 2005-06-29 06:54:00, 001010 wrote:
"I think the way they probably look at it is that they've been doing it for years privately anyway, only now, the government can benefit by partnering with the drug companies instead of losing money on welfare. They (W & co) probably feel the nation?s poor and needy owe them for all the years the welfare system was actually helping -- but noooo, they didn't have enough control then, and weren't benefiting themselves. Our government wants you to believe marijuana is evil, but that forcing psyche meds on children is okay?
Do I really want to have another baby? :razz:
Then I went here:
http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?sectio ... Commission
and here:
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/
and here:
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/mission.html
oh, and here too:
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/update09.07.04.htm
So, yeah...
I don't have time to read these links, now, but I will later.
I just want to make a couple of comments.
1) Hardly any bills are on TV beforehand. That is why advocacy groups are so important.
2) The suggestions from the New Freedom Commission as I understand it was brought to them from both the public, industry and patients, as well as any anti that wanted to testify. It didn't come down from the government.
3) I thought the Paul Ammendment was all about funding? You all are only talking about consent. That is the problem of building too much into one ammendment. Sorry, it happens all the time. If the consent issue was so important to Rep. Paul he should have signaled it out. If he didn't, he knew it would fail along with the rest of his restriction of funding ammendment. Why? He introduced the same ammendment the year before. So was he simply grandstanding to please some constituancy or was he serious?
4) Who ever has a problem with the bill better start doing something other than posting to boards and sharing the same info over and over, hence flooding, but not acting.
5) Now for the confusing part to me:
Fornits states the govt:
Our government wants you to believe marijuana is evil, but that forcing psyche meds on children is okay?
Fornits promotes:
Freedom to take all currently illegal drugs but slams people if they choose to take certain prescription medications.
To me, that is weird.
Why not freedom with no criticism?