Talk:CA's Prop 63
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Newspaper articles often trumpet the wonders of modern day psycho-pharmaceutical research, with messages like, "New medications are revolutionizing the treatment of mental illnesses once thought to be untreatable, making it possible for millions of afflicted people to lead normal lives." [emphasis added]
It sounds reasonable. It sounds convincing...science again conquers our material universe for the benefit of mankind. Who could possibly argue with making life easier for those in trouble?
We invite you to analyze the above quotation more closely from the point of view of children, because the reality and the labels may not reflect the same thing when it comes to psychiatry's "drugs of the moment."
Examine the quotation and reflect on several of the words and how they are used. Take "normal" for example. You probably have your own idea of what a normal sort of life is. Does it involve the consumption of addictive, mind-altering and potentially dangerous psychiatric drugs? Does it involve a total reliance on such drugs to remain normal?
What about the word "medications?" Does it ease your mind by conjuring up images of some benign cough syrup prescribed by a kindly family doctor? Nothing could be further from the truth. A psychiatric medication is a drug.
As with so much psychiatric jargon, you have to be very careful with the words and how they are used. Take "scientific," which is often used by psychiatry to add legitimacy to its pronouncements. According to the World Book dictionary, the word implies "systematic; accurate; exact." Those characteristics have nothing to do with psychiatry or, for that matter, its cousin, psychology.
Examples of other words that suffer at their hands are "values," "right," "wrong," "safe," even "education." This is the subtle propaganda of the psychiatrist and psychologist at work--the redefinition of words. Somehow in their hands, things just seem to get all twisted about and eventually fall apart. The trouble is that their worldwide propaganda on the subject of children and education has thoroughly duped well-meaning parents, teachers and politicians alike, that "normal"--there's that word again--childhood behavior is no longer normal; that it is a mental illness. And further, that only by continuous, heavy drugging from a very early age, can the "afflicted" child possibly make it through the worst.
Who would have thought 40 years ago that we could have come to this? Nevertheless we are here, and the harsh reality is that because of it, precious young lives all over the state are at serious risk, permanently damaged, even lost to us at the hands of the "mental health" profession. Their "solutions" have only led to more violence, degradation, drug addiction and less ability to handle life.
Proposition 63 is deceptive in it's text. Don't let it pass.
64.81.48.98, why do you delete the discussion? If you have a libertarian argument for prop. 63, let us know. Paul Studier 19:07, 23 Sep 2004 (PDT)
