The New Freedom Initiative

Forced mental health evaluations

Here we go again. This is NOT about freedom! Here comes the federal government seeking to "help" people again. This time they plan to force every American into mandatory mental health evaluations starting with school children and their teachers - an easy-access population controlled by funding-hungry school administrators.

You who are going through CPS trauma and family-interference should know better than anyone that a mandated, forced mental health evaluation is an intrusive, distressing process. It is a violation of your right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment.

This "New Freedom" is another violation of the Tenth Amendment which 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 is the latest in a long line of violations. The federal government unconstitutionally interferes with child welfare, health care, education and so much more.

Just like many other laws Bush signed, the "New Freedom Initiative" is deceptively named. This is not for more freedom. It is for violations of our freedoms and our rights to decline intrusive health evaluations. Do you realize in 2003 Bush signed a law called "Keeping Children and Families Safe" that renewed child welfare funding and included a new clause allowing caseworkers to intrude on your formerly private medical records? Do you think your children and families are safer now?

Do you realize this followed the new medical "privacy" act, HIPPA, that keeps your closest relatives from being able to ask your doctor how you're doing, but allows all HHS employees full access to your records? Does this feel like medical record privacy to you?

Do you think the Patriot Act and its violation of Constitutional Rights was something real patriots would approve of?

So who does this "New Freedom" benefit? Drug company owners, that's who. They'll be dishing out more psychotropic drugs than ever. It will also help the fascists who are controlling our government to keep our dissidents and independent thinkers under chemical restraints just like they've done to so many children in fosterincarceration facilities. It will help them break down the will and autonomy of the population, forcing more beautiful souls to become mindless, over-medicated sheep.

People who truly need mental health services have a way of identifying themselves and they are already getting services. Forced mental health evaluations and forced medications are not needed for every child and adult in the US population. This is about government control, not about "helping" and not about freedom.

Public schools to be used as children's mental health centers

"Schools are where children spend most of each day. While schools are primarily concerned with education, mental health is essential to learning as well as to social and emotional development. Because of this important interplay between emotional health and school success, schools must be partners in the mental health care of our children."
                               - From the Final Report of the New Freedom Commission

By starting this intrusive scheme in public schools a new generation of children will become accustomed and acclimated to the government's new role of forced mental health "services"... just like most young Americans today think CPS is a normal part of life even though the system started less than forty years ago.

Adults will be forced into evaluations too

Imagine a world where you're forced to get a mental health evaluation whenever you need medical help of any kind, when you're in need of temporary shelter, or when you apply for senior housing. Imagine a world where government doctors will decide to force unwanted medications on you.

Its coming. Here's what the Final Report of the New Freedom Commission suggests:

"The Commission supports implementing systematic screening procedures to identify mental health and substance use problems and treatment needs in all settings in which children, youth, adults, or older adults are at high risk for mental illnesses or in settings in which a high occurrence of co-occurring mental and substance use disorders exists. In addition to specialty mental health and substance abuse treatment settings, screening for co-occurring disorders should be implemented when an individual enters the juvenile or criminal justice systems, child welfare system, homeless shelters, hospitals, senior housing, long-term care facilities, nursing homes, and other settings where populations are at high risk. Screening should also occur periodically after an individual enters any of these facilities."

"When mental health problems are identified, children, youth, adults, and older adults should be linked with appropriate services, supports, or diversion programs. Additionally, given the high incidence of substance use disorders among parents of children in the child welfare system, where indicated, these parents should be screened for co-occurring disorders and linked with appropriate treatment and supports."
                               - From the Final Report of the New Freedom Commission

It sounds like CPS for everyone!

Can you imagine not being able to get into senior housing just because you refuse a mental health evaluation or refuse to take mis-prescribed meds?

Can you imagine going to the hospital for back surgery and being forced to have a psychological evaluation while you're there?

These evaluations are not just for the mentally ill. They will be forced on everyone, one way or another. As time goes by the control-freaks in the government will find more and more ways to force these evaluations and medications, to oppress and enslave us.

The "New Freedom"

Expressing the sense of Congress that Congress should adopt and implement the goals and recommendations provided by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health through legislation... (Introduced in House)

HCON 292 IH

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. CON. RES. 292
Expressing the sense of Congress that Congress should adopt and implement the goals and recommendations provided by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health through legislation or other appropriate action to help ensure affordable, accessible, and high quality mental health care for all Americans.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

October 2, 2003
Mrs. NAPOLITANO submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of Congress that Congress should adopt and implement the goals and recommendations provided by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health through legislation or other appropriate action to help ensure affordable, accessible, and high quality mental health care for all Americans.

Whereas the National Institute of Mental Health has found that 22.1 percent of Americans ages 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder each year;

Whereas the National Institute of Mental Health has found that 4 of the 10 leading causes of disability in the United States are mental disorders;

Whereas approximately 90 percent of the 30,000 people who commit suicide in the United States every year have a diagnosable mental disorder;

Whereas the President created the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health on April 29, 2002 to study the mental health service delivery system and make recommendations to enable people with serious mental illness to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities;

Whereas the Commission identified 6 goals to begin transforming mental health care in America: (1) to help all Americans understand that mental health is essential to overall health; (2) to make mental health care consumer and family driven; (3) to eliminate disparities in mental health services; (4) to make early mental illness screening, assessment, and referral to services common practice; (5) to ensure delivery of excellent mental health care and acceleration of mental illness research; and (6) to use technology to access mental health care and information;

Whereas the Commission has made a number of recommendations to Congress to implement its goals;

Whereas the Commission has recommended that to implement its first goal of helping Americans understand that mental health is essential to overall health, Congress should address mental health with the same urgency as physical health, as well as develop and advance a national strategy for suicide prevention and a national campaign aimed at reducing the stigma attached to seeking mental health care;

Whereas the Commission has recommended that to implement its second goal of making mental health care consumer and family driven, Congress should support the practice of developing an individualized plan of care for every individual with a serious mental illness, encourage mental health care providers to involve consumers and families in the mental health system and the path toward recovery, take action to realign relevant Federal programs to improve consumer access and accountability for mental health services, support the States in developing extensive, coordinated mental health systems, and encourage the protection and enhancement of the rights of people with mental illness;

Whereas the Commission has recommended that to implement its third goal of eliminating disparities in mental health services, Congress should support improved access to quality care in rural and geographically remote areas and ensure that mental health care providers are trained to work effectively with culturally diverse populations;

Whereas the Commission has recommended that to implement its fourth goal of making early screening, assessment, and treatment of mental illness a common practice, Congress should help promote children's mental health by improving and expanding school mental health programs, encouraging screenings for mental disorders (including co-occurring substance use disorders) in primary health care, and supporting appropriate referral to treatment and integrated treatment strategies;

Whereas the Commission has recommended that to implement its fifth goal of ensuring the delivery of excellent mental health care and the acceleration of mental illness research, Congress should encourage the acceleration of research to promote recovery, cures, and prevention, the advance of evidence-based practices using dissemination and demonstration projects, the improvement and expansion of the workforce which provides these services, and the development of a base of knowledge in understudied areas;

Whereas the Commission has recommended that to implement its sixth goal of using technology to access mental health care and information, Congress should encourage the use of health technology and telehealth to improve access and coordination of mental health care, particularly for Americans in remote areas or in underserved populations, and the development and implementation of integrated electronic health records; and

Whereas these goals are interrelated and must be pursued together as quickly as possible: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that Congress should act immediately to adopt and implement the goals and recommendations highlighted in the final report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, `Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America' through legislation or other appropriate action to help ensure affordable, accessible, and high quality mental health care for all Americans.

See it for yourself and check for more pending legislation at http://thomas.loc.gov.