Frist's Bill Defines 'Political Paranoia' As 'Mental Illness'

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This is C&P and if you don't like it fuck it..To all you cut and past cops ...do not read this thread....You have been forewarned.

It seems that the republican right wing first does all the weird stuff to make you doubt it's policies and become concerned what they are up to then call it paranoia and make a law to call it mental illness...

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 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

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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

"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

"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
 
The only thing crazier and stupider than Krastner














































































is someone who voted for Bush.
 
The good Dr was at the scene of the tsunami.

'Make sure you get lots of destruction in the background'....never miss a photo-op.
 
Myst said:
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As for Bill Frist, the millionaire Tennessee sawbones, everthing you need to know about this unpleasing man was contained in one short paragraph of a profile of Frist by Michael Kranish in the Boston Globe Sunday magazine for October 27, 2002, covering the years when Frist was in Boston, first at Harvard Medical School and then at Mass General.

"Frist is an animal lover who said his decision to become a doctor was clinched when he helped heal a friend's dog. But Frist now found himself forced to kill animals during medical research. And his new dilemma was finding enough animals to kill. Soon, he began lying to obtain more animals. He went to the animal shelters around Boston and promised he would care for the cats as pets. Then he killed them during experiments. 'It was a heinous and dishonest thing to do,' Frist wrote. 'I was going a little crazy.'"

So now the US senate is going to be led by the cat world's answer to Dr Mengele! A man who can do that is capable of any infamy. Can't you just picture this oily Tennessean cooing and clucking over the tabbies and tortoiseshells at the shelter, solemnly wagging his head as the shelter staff counselled him on proper cat procedures, then dragging the poor creatures into his lab and torturing them to death. I call on the Humane Society to demand that Frist publicly apologize for this appalling, indeed ineradicable stain on his character, and pay substantial reparations out of the vast fortune that has accrued from the Hospital Corporation of America, founded by his father and brother.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn1231.html
 
ruminator said:
Hey thanks Rummy..That is scary as hell to think of the darkness in the mind of some of the people who rule our lives. I'll bet as a kid he liked to pull wings off butterflies. Kids grow into people and they retain that little secret darkness inside them but it still comes out one way or other...
 
Well, either Frist is a madman or the guy who wrote that piece is gonna get majorly sued one day...

Funny, he ain't been sued yet........
 
krastner said:
He's the Republican speaker of the house...you know the house of ill repute...

Actually he is the majority leader in the Senate.

Carry on.
 
LillyO said:
Actually he is the majority leader in the Senate.

Carry on.

I know that but I couldn't make a cutie using the senate...:)
 
LovingTongue said:
Well, either Frist is a madman or the guy who wrote that piece is gonna get majorly sued one day...

Funny, he ain't been sued yet........

It sounded like the Dr admitted to the allegations and claimed bad judgement, from newspaper accounts.

He's most recently noted for his keen sense of bedroom politics.
 
krastner said:
He's the Republican speaker of the house...you know the house of ill repute...

Isn't it obvious how much I really care about the republican party? I won't even bother to capitalize the party name.
 

"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 passing_something that can only help a portion of the population that is suffering significant distress."



The good news is that this will likely be a certifiable disability under SSI standards.

The bad news is that the program for SSI coverage for any disability will likely be abandonded.


We can set up the help desk right here with documentation only a searchclick away.

:D
 
ourladyofthehighways said:
Jesus, this is nuts. Welcome to the fatherland.

If it's any consolation, it probably has more to do with padding stock portfolios than pigeonholing neurotics.

:D
 
This doesn't wash. The bill is saying that people will be able to put on their Medicare
problems that have been caused by legislators themselves largely, both dems and reps alike. If we are beginning to get paranoid at the things they and there rest of the government
do then they are going to allow us to defray the cost of treatment. It mentions significant
distress that many are afflicted by. Hmmmm..They either know that they are the cause
of the "afflictions" and are in some small way trying to atone, or they have an ulterior motive
such as ..would you believe money.. Hey I'm sounding paranoid already. How about
it's a ploy to label any intelligent protest against the myriad of inconsistencies as insane
when the "unpatriotic" label doesn't mean much anymore. There is a reason for it and you can believe that it is not for altruistic reasons.

The first thing to destroy is trust. The trust that we used to have about our leaders
in our blind ignorance. We accuse the media of distorting and hiding facts today when
they are nothing like the media of the past. In the world of the internet today too many
"facts" are becoming known where fifty years ago we had only one set of facts available
to us.

I started to get a little paranoid during the Nixon admin. Now I used to have great hopes for Nixon but it was during his admin that his private physician..like his DOCTOR.
there's that word again.. Well anyway this doctor ,that had the presidents ear probably
while he had his finger up the Presidents butt, wanted to test all children by the time they
were real young, like two or three. These test, like the great MMPI was to test intelligence, were suppose to be able to tell if a person (at two or three) would fall
in certain categories. One a category where the child would be found to be either
totally sane (able to grow up proper Republicans) or criminally predisposed, either
treatable or incorrigible The former classification to be placed in special places:
camps schools (prisons) for their entire lives as they were non treatable..Wow that
scared the hell out of me.

Fortunately the good doctor soon disappeared from the Washington scene and my paranoia
detector went back into inactive mode. But today the only people who aren't paranoid
are the brain dead.To think today leads to paranoia. However I will have to say that
Paranoia is defined as an unreasonable, groundless fear. So perhaps we aren't really
paranoid to be paranoid today.
 
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