Pharmaceutical drug manufacturers have been planning to line their pockets by putting children on psychotropic drugs for quite some time now.
Drugs like Prozac and Ritalin are prescribed for so-called attention deficit disorders and depression, but some argue that simple diet and exercise alterations could offer a better solution. However, such a common-sense solution (i.e. changing what kids eat) doesn't generate billions of dollars a year.
President Bush recently expanded a project that was mainly funded by pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly when he was governor of Texas in 1995. It's called The New Freedom Initiative and it couldn't be anymore Orwellian.
Mandated psychological testing for students in public schools is a newly proposed requirement.
Didn't take your Prozac, sir? You must be detained.
All school children under 18 and many pregnant women could have to be tested. So the question is, "Do they have a right to say no?"
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) and others tried amending the bill to add parental consent for psychological testing, but that idea was vetoed.
Said to be responsible for the approvals of many psychotropic drugs is Donald Rumsfeld. He heavily lobbied in favor of the drugs over twenty years ago and documents have recently been released, proving that Eli Lilly has been covering up claims that Prozac causes greater chances of suicide.
It is my guess that the testing proposal will be covered in a positive light by all of the mainstream media, but this isn't a surprise. The coverage will put on display the same drug manufacturers who claim mercury-containing preservatives in vaccines are good for children's mental development.
The 10th Amendment states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
This means that our federal government has limited powers which are defined in the Constitution.
We know that the pharmaceutical industry controls the Food and Drug Administration and when all of the former directors of the FDA become executives for billion-dollar businesses, the attached strings become more apparent.
We need to stop these megalomaniacs who've been socially engineering this country since the 1930s.
Ryan Olson is a freelance political columnist for the Web Devil. Reach him at ryan.michael.olson@asu.edu.
