[Shadow_Group] Fw: 'Political Paranoia'

[Dean HICKAM]

rense.com

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<http://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<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<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<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  





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