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	<title>American Conservative News Politics &#038; Opinion - The Land of the Free &#187; Laura Adelmann</title>
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		<title>Bush/Lauer Interview: Man vs Metro-Sexual</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Adelmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Matt Lauer, Today Show recent interview with former president George Bush really annoyed me. Lauer's deep concern about Bush allowing three terrorists to be water boarded which yielded info that saved American lives epitomizes the wimpafication Oprah-lization of American manhood. I thought, â€œGood lord, is Lauer what passes for manhood in America today?â€ Lauer's attitude was embarrassing.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Matt Lauer, Today Show recent interview with former president George Bush really annoyed me. Lauer&#8217;s deep concern about Bush allowing three terrorists to be water boarded which yielded info that saved American lives epitomizes the wimpafication Oprah-lization of American manhood. I thought, â€œGood lord, is Lauer what passes for manhood in America today?â€ Lauer&#8217;s attitude was embarrassing. (<a href="http://www.celebritysmackblog.com/2010/11/09/matt-lauer-george-bush-interview-video-today-show/">link</a>)<span id="more-8342"></span></p>
<p>(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4vLBvU1bA)</p>
<p>Think about this folks. On 9/11, 3000 innocent Americans were murdered who simply showed up to work. No one knew when or where we would be attacked again. George Bush vowed to protect Americans. Three major terrorist leaders were captured, one of which admitted to beheading Daniel Pearl.</p>
<p>To extract info regarding future planned terrorist attacks, Bush approved that the three terrorists be water boarded; a practice our troops must endure during training.</p>
<p>Lauer completely ignored the fact that Bush&#8217;s efforts yielded info which saved thousands, possibly millions of American lives. Rather than thanking President Bush, Lauer, along with his fellow genital-less associates on the left, are obsessed with nailing Bush for making three extremely bad guys uncomfortable. Folks, it does not get any more metro-sexual than that.</p>
<p>Somehow, particularly on the left, strength and manhood are considered ignorant and a negative in America today. It is as if the whole country has become Oprah-fied. Everything is about feelings, being sensitive, not hurting someone&#8217;s self esteem and being nice. Please do not think I am attacking Oprah. But we have become overly concerned with feelings.</p>
<p>For all of you thinking I am some macho man nut case, I am not. My sensitivity getting choked up by truth, honor and love has embarrassed me on numerous occasions. And dare I say it out loud, I enjoyed watching the movie, â€œThe Devil Wears Pradaâ€ with my wife. However, my favorite is the skill and testosterone of Monday Night Football.</p>
<p>The metro-sexual wimps on the left attempt to demean George Bush by calling him a cowboy. I say, thank God Bush is a cowboy. America did not suffer another terrorist attack after 9/12 during the Bush administration which is a remarkable achievement.</p>
<p>But here is the bigger issue. Do these guys on the left realize how embarrassingly genital-less they sound crying in their â€œlight beerâ€ about us not playing nice nice with terrorists who desire to murder millions of Americans?</p>
<p>Who has castrated these guys? Gloria Allred? The National Association of Women? Nancy Pelosi? Maureen Dowd? Oprah?</p>
<p>What kind of women dates these guys? Gloria Allred? NOW gang members? Nancy Pelosi? Maureen Dowd? Oprah?</p>
<p>Ms Dowd has written extensively about how American white men are responsible for all that is wrong in the world. I bet her date book is filled with Matt Lauer types.</p>
<p>To Matt Lauer and all of his fellow liberal metro-sexual media buddies, you do not speak for the majority of Americans. We understand and appreciate the courage, honor and backbone of George W. Bush. Thank you, Mr President for keeping us safe.</p>
<p>By the way President Bush, thanks for not running around the world bowing to foreign leaders and celebrating the decline of America. You Bush haters on the left can rest assured, our current president will never be accused of being a cowboy.</p>
<p><em>Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American</p>
<p><a href="http://LloydMarcus.com">LloydMarcus.com</a><br />
Spokesperson/Entertainer of Tea Party Movement &#038; Tea Party Express.</em></p>
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		<title>Fourth of July: Celebrating Freedom&#8217;s Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Adelmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political correctness has gagged free speech; our economic system, capitalism, is being replaced with the Hitlarian system of public-private partnerships; morality's tombstone is tolerance; and property rights are being lost to our increasingly tyrannical government.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While Americans picnic and party this Independence Day, the ideals and principles our Founding Fathers fought for lie in critical condition gasping for breath.</p>
<p>Political correctness has gagged free speech; our economic system, capitalism, is being replaced with the Hitlarian system of public-private partnerships; morality&#8217;s tombstone is tolerance; and property rights are being lost to our increasingly tyrannical government.</p>
<p>The right to bear arms is under attack; our children are taught more about sexual perversion in school than they are about George Washington and Patrick Henry. <span id="more-508"></span></p>
<p>Monuments bearing crosses are being removed, our strong Christian heritage replaced with secularism, and our own soldiers are put on trial for engaging the most wicked enemy our nation has ever faced.</p>
<p>Prayer in school is long vanished, and now our military chaplains are fighting for the freedom to pray in Jesus&#8217; name.</p>
<p>In addition, America is suffering an alien invasion unprecedented anywhere in the world. They come to our hospitals, have anchor babies, draining hospital resources and taxpayer dollars. </p>
<p>Then, illegals demand more of our money, our rights, our economy, our language. They come spreading diseases like leprosy and tuberculosis, their violent gangs are taking over parts of our country.</p>
<p>All the while, President Bush has been planning his own coup. In March, 2005, he signed on to a covert plan that eliminates America as we know it. We would merge with Canada and Mexico to become the western equivalent of the European Union.</p>
<p>I point out these outrages, but look in the mirror to place blame. </p>
<p>As a people, we have all failed our country.</p>
<p>Our Founding Fathers warned us that freedom demands vigilance, but as our country burns, we are playing a fiddle. </p>
<p>Actually, according to two recent Oprah episodes, married couples are busy having orgies (&#8220;swinging&#8221;) and our children are putting on sex shows over the Internet for pedophiles</p>
<p>And, Americans have plenty of other mindless and/or destructive activities to keep them equally as distracted: Sports, movies, theaters, boating, television and shopping.</p>
<p>However, there is a remnant of citizens who are leading the charge to protect  freedom on several fronts. Among the organizations are Freedom 21 Santa Cruz, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and EdWatch.</p>
<p>But for too long, most of these organizations and others like them been operating with too few volunteers and resources. If you care about your country, this land&#8217;s future, it&#8217;s time to take a stand. Support these organizations, get involved, learn about the issues and what is at stake.</p>
<p>And, if you&#8217;re not sure what to do, get the book Taking America Back by Joseph Farah, editor of World Net Daily. He has developed a thoughtful and possible plan to reclaim this land.</p>
<p>It is available for $12.95 at 1-800-496-3266 or at ShopNetDaily.com. (I have absolutely no connection to this book, other than I think it is brilliant.)</p>
<p>Farah calls for a second American Revolution and he&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s time to put down the fork and the television remote, wake up out of the haze of distractions and comfort of complacency and can take a stand. </p>
<p>As citizens we have inherited a great and precious treasure, freedom, a rare, sweet word that encompasses principles that are only a distant but heart-pounding wish to most people.</p>
<p>Liberty is a hard-won legacy which must be preserved. We must fight back. We must stand for this nation or it will die.</p>
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Laura Adelmann is a Staff Writer for the New Media Alliance.  She is an award-winning investigative reporter and researcher who stands for the conservative Christian values that founded America. She has a passion for truth, integrity and accuracy, as well as a love of research.  Her work, which includes news articles, investigative stories and opinion pieces, has appeared in Minnesota Christian Chronicle, Pro-Family News and numerous local newspapers in Dakota County, Minnesota. Laura has also<br />
written copy for conservative candidates running for state and national offices.</p>
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		<title>Decade of Sustainable Development: Marxist Indoctrination of Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 10:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Adelmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The goal of public schools is not to educate children but to indoctrinate them.  Soaked in Marxist/Communist propaganda, earth worship, and anti-Christian bias, national standards - the federal curriculum in all public schools since 1994 - are intended for the transformation of American society into a government-controlled collective. As Dr. Shirley McCune stated in a 1989 Governor's Conference on Education, "We no longer see the teaching of facts and information as the primary outcome of education."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Sustainable development destroys freedom, creates tyranny</strong></p>
<p>The goal of public schools is not to educate children but to indoctrinate them.</p>
<p>Soaked in Marxist/Communist propaganda, earth worship, and anti-Christian bias, national standards &#8211; the federal curriculum in all public schools since 1994 &#8211; are intended for the transformation of American society into a government-controlled collective. As Dr. Shirley McCune stated in a 1989 Governor&#8217;s Conference on Education, &#8220;We no longer see the teaching of facts and information as the primary outcome of education.&#8221; The senior director of the Mid-continent Educational Laboratory, McCune explained further, &#8220;What&#8217;s happening in America today.is a total transformation of our society. We have moved into a new era.&#8221;<span id="more-296"></span></p>
<p>By its very definition, the &#8220;total transformation of our society&#8221; first requires every aspect of our life as we know it be destroyed: Government, economy and lifestyle. To accomplish the destruction is a tool called &#8220;sustainable development.&#8221;</p>
<p>At first blush, you&#8217;d think sustainable development would pertain to construction or physical planning, which &#8211; in part &#8211; it does. Sustainable development is connected to mass transit, stacked, crowded housing plans and the creation of millions of acres of wild areas where human access is restricted or banned. But the scope of sustainable development is much broader, and is being implemented to impact every facet of human life.</p>
<p>Imposed by the United Nations, sustainable development is key to the destruction of American culture, values, ethics and foundational principles; it is designed to dictate everything people do, think and believe, and will recreate how government and business operate. Our tax dollars are funding this societal transformation as evidenced in our public schools, where 2005-2014 is declared the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.</p>
<p>According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UN&#8217;s Earth Charter is an &#8220;important ethical framework&#8221; and &#8220;educational tool&#8221; for use in the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. The Earth Charter, says UNESCO, &#8220;contains fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society.&#8221;A global society, also called &#8220;one-world government&#8221; is the true purpose of sustainable development. Particularly revealing is one of the primary principles emphasized by the Earth Charter.</p>
<p>Under this principle, there will be &#8220;acceptance of the constraints imposed by preservation of the common good is indispensable to the exercise of freedom.&#8221; Translation: The people will meekly submit to imposed restrictions for whatever most benefits government &#8211; also known as &#8220;the common good,&#8221; a Communist precept. And, though enslaved, people will be told they are free. This principle is one of several classified by the UN as being &#8220;of the utmost importance,&#8221; and to which all member nations (including the United States) must embrace.</p>
<p>Under Earth Charter/sustainable development principles, freedom is redefined as acceptance of constraints, a bold-face lie. The lies are necessary, because for sustainable development to rule, true freedom &#8211; America, the land of the free &#8211; needs to be destroyed. Enter the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and the transformation of society. </p>
<p>This is why our children know very little of their blessed heritage, our Founding Fathers and the freedom they won through prayer and battle, sacrifice, honor, commitment and wisdom. American independence was defined upon this basic truth: That freedom, life, liberty, property, is granted not by man, but from the Creator God (of the Bible), and it is government&#8217;s primary responsibility is to defend those unalienable rights. Under sustainable development, public schools, led by useful idiots or those too scared to speak up for truth, are indoctrinating for the destruction of freedom. Our culture, history, beliefs, economic system and founding must be washed from the minds of the next generation, because sustainable development principles, as defined in the Earth Charter, are completely antithetical to America and freedom.</p>
<p>So, instead of preserving our heritage, kids are taught radical environmentalism, an efficient tool to implement the sustainable development system. Under the radical green-washing curriculum, human existence is subjugated to that of toads and hoot owls because each person&#8217;s &#8220;ecological footprint&#8221; could destroy &#8220;critical habitat&#8221; for a salamander, impacting the whole of nature. Therefore, government must dictate how we work, what we eat, where we live, where we go, how we get there, the goal is<br />
to control our behaviors and decisions. </p>
<p>Sustainable development and it&#8217;s founding Earth Charter is integral to the new purpose of public schools: As McCune accurately described it, &#8220;the transformation of [American] society.&#8221;The next generation is being indoctrinated to not only accept the radical enslavement that is sustainable development, but to encourage its emergence. Its principles are intended to establish world government, a tyrannical power.</p>
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Laura Adelmann is a Staff Writer for the New Media Alliance.  She is an award-winning investigative reporter and researcher who stands for the conservative Christian values that founded America. She has a passion for truth, integrity and accuracy, as well as a love of research.  Her work, which includes news articles, investigative stories and opinion pieces, has appeared in Minnesota Christian Chronicle, Pro-Family News and numerous local newspapers in Dakota County, Minnesota. Laura has also<br />
written copy for conservative candidates running for state and national offices.</p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2006/05/09/decade-of-sustainable-development-marxist-indoctrination-of-children/">Decade of Sustainable Development: Marxist Indoctrination of Children</a> by Laura Adelmann syndicated from <a href="http://www.thelandofthefree.net">The Land of the Free</a>. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Blue Cross Leads Way To Government-Mandated Calisthenics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Adelmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citing "a growing body of research," the proposal concludes that cities and towns can have positive impact on rates of physical activity through careful planning of municipal infrastructure and policy. Offered to municipal and county governments is their favorite thing: Money. Red-tape tied with the Blue Cross funds require development is planned to accommodate walkers and bikers. Getting people out of their cars to do errands like grocery shopping or getting to work is the goal.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota is funding an unprecedented run toward government-mandated calisthenics.</p>
<p>Controlling people&#8217;s behavior to include more exercise should be achieved through land planning, modifying zoning laws and limiting transportation options, according to the company&#8217;s April 28 request for proposals to implement &#8220;Active Community Planning.&#8221;<span id="more-203"></span></p>
<p>Citing &#8220;a growing body of research,&#8221; the proposal concludes that cities and towns can have positive impact on rates of physical activity through careful planning of municipal infrastructure and policy. Offered to municipal and county governments is their favorite thing: Money. Red-tape tied with the Blue Cross funds require development is planned to accommodate walkers and bikers. Getting people out of their cars to do errands like grocery shopping or getting to work is the goal.</p>
<p>To sell this proposal to the public, Blue Cross is asking governments that apply for the $5,000 to $75,0000 contract amounts to provide some cheerleaders &#8211; an elected official or two who can convince the people that this is all about making them healthier. These ambassadors of government-backed calisthenics will be trained on how to incorporate &#8220;active living&#8221; into community development planning. And, it appears, also trained in tactics of public persuasion. Topping the list of anticipated training topics during these sessions is, &#8220;The role of government in promoting active living.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s chew on that one for a while &#8211; in a non-fattening kind of way.</p>
<p>What role did our Founding Fathers lay out for government in promoting exercise? Our Founders limited government oversight, Americans are guaranteed freedoms, including religion, speech, assembly, property ownership. Nothing in our founding documents cover government mandating the right to aerobics. Another training session will focus on the relationship between government&#8217;s land use decisions and &#8220;opportunities&#8221; for physical activity. Having an &#8220;opportunity&#8221; implies choice, free-will, an individual being able to make their own decision, independent of government or anyone else. But, if government diverts funds intended for roads and infrastructure to walking trails and bike lanes, choice is eliminated by virtue of what is available.</p>
<p>The initial money from Blue Cross also pays to get active development rules into the community&#8217;s future planning documents. Once there, it&#8217;s up to the communities to fund active community development, which is virtually certain to be spread to other states in the country. It fits the trend: For decades, America&#8217;s road system has been neglected, but instead of increasing the road system, billions of dollars are being poured into mass transit, near walkable communities and commune-like apartment living.</p>
<p>Blue Cross&#8217; scheme urges government to expand the blueprint for how all will travel to how we will live, work and act: Together, on foot. &#8220;Home&#8221; is a crammed-in high-rise apartment in a subsidized &#8220;livable community.&#8221; Forced walking or biking for all: The mother with a new baby and busy toddler, the busy career person late for a meeting, and grandparents with arthritis. Cars are outdated, cars are downright unhealthy! </p>
<p>And while the people are financially forced into congregating into transit-line developments, government and radical environmentalists use conservation easements to pry development rights out of the hands of landowners and farmers. Conservation easements last forever, forcing a new definition of &#8220;landowner,&#8221; merely a subservient tenant, mandated to fund and implement &#8220;best&#8221; land management practices required by the easement-holder. Perhaps there will be &#8220;best practices&#8221; developed for mandating exercise in those subsidized housing units some day.</p>
<p>Governments granted the Blue Cross funds will be conducting a &#8220;health impact&#8221; assessment of their community, defined as a &#8220;systematic way to shed light on the health consequences of proposed policy or development decisions.&#8221; Finally, it will produce a draft comprehensive plan incorporating &#8220;active living&#8221; in ordinances, zoning, maintenance, new projects and infrastructure. Then you have the first steps toward government-mandated exercise.</p>
<p>Community development has increasingly become about control of the people, and rightly so, because land use planning and zoning is not a Capitalist idea, it&#8217;s a Socialist construct that is designed to lead to a government-planned society. And active community development is not just about walking paths. It&#8217;s about freedom, and the individual&#8217;s right to determine where and how they will live. Blue Cross&#8217; proposal claims to be about peoples&#8217; health, but the insurance company is really hoping to impact its costs through enticing government to further control the people&#8217;s actions.</p>
<p>Government is usually only too happy to oblige.</p>
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Laura Adelmann is a Staff Writer for the New Media Alliance.  She is an award-winning investigative reporter and researcher who stands for the conservative Christian values that founded America. She has a passion for truth, integrity and accuracy, as well as a love of research.  Her work, which includes news articles, investigative stories and opinion pieces, has appeared in Minnesota Christian Chronicle, Pro-Family News and numerous local newspapers in Dakota County, Minnesota. Laura has also written copy for conservative candidates running for state and national offices.</p>
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		<title>Liberals Silence Parents, Sacrifice Children at Alter of Tolerance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Adelmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The free-love generation that despised social restraint, the forever-reckless crowd that never grew up, is destroying our culture and sacrificing our young on the alter of tolerance.  Within 50 years, American culture has degenerated from a nation promoting sound ethics, manners, restraint and self-respect into a culture overrun with tattooed, pierced, drugged-up, sexualized reprobates of every kind. 
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The free-love generation that despised social restraint, the forever-reckless crowd that never grew up, is destroying our culture and sacrificing our young on the alter of tolerance.<span id="more-132"></span></p>
<p>Within 50 years, American culture has degenerated from a nation promoting sound ethics, manners, restraint and self-respect into a culture overrun with tattooed, pierced, drugged-up, sexualized reprobates of every kind. </p>
<p>For families in this over-sexed culture, America has become a battlefield, and it is our children on the front lines. They are attacked 24/7 with sex, pornography, violence, drugs, show-it-all fashion glamorized in filthy-language laced gangsta-rap. Impressionable, vulnerable and dependent, they need adults to demand a moral uprising.</p>
<p>But where is the justified parental outcry? It has been effectively silenced by politically-correct and morally bankrupt liberals using junior-high tactics like name-calling and labeling to silence opposition. All liberals have had to do is associate upright morals with historical outrages like slavery and racism to inoculate conservatives into utter cultural ineffectiveness. </p>
<p>Forcing conservatives into answering liberals&#8217; character-bashing charges before even broaching topics of morally right and ethically wrong dilutes the message and puts conservatives wrongly on the defensive. Effectively changing the debate, liberals smugly return to their prey: Our children.</p>
<p>Indoctrination in schools has become the norm. With parents distracted, liberals have metastasized in our schools, infecting our children with their deadly lies: Abortion is choice, not murder; capitalism is imperialism, not opportunity; abstinence is impossible, not healthy; and moral judgment is not wisdom-in-action, but (intolerable!) intolerance. They are crushing our children&#8217;s moral compass, leaving them vulnerable, unable to recognize wrong, much less understand evil. </p>
<p>We all know it is going on, and it&#8217;s parents who are at fault for not standing up for truth. The enemy is relentless, and indoctrination is made easier by the liberal media. Every day that parents do not stand against the decaying culture and support moral truth, it is our children who are bearing battle scars, who are dying in this culture war. Conservatives need to take back our families, and stand against shock-radio, porn-infested Web sites, twisted sexual television and condom curriculum.</p>
<p>Stand up, speak out and demand accountability to traditional morals before they disappear with our generation.</p>
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Laura Adelmann is a Staff Writer for the New Media Alliance.  She is an award-winning investigative reporter and researcher who stands for the conservative Christian values that founded America. She has a passion for truth, integrity and accuracy, as well as a love of research.  Her work, which includes news articles, investigative stories and opinion pieces, has appeared in Minnesota Christian Chronicle, Pro-Family News and numerous local newspapers in Dakota County, Minnesota. Laura has also written copy for conservative candidates running for state and national offices.</p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2006/04/02/liberals-silence-parents-sacrifice-children-at-alter-of-tolerance/">Liberals Silence Parents, Sacrifice Children at Alter of Tolerance</a> by Laura Adelmann syndicated from <a href="http://www.thelandofthefree.net">The Land of the Free</a>. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Government&#8217;s Big Lie: The &#8220;Crisis&#8221; of Babies With Undiagnosed Mental Illness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the federal government, many newborns, toddlers and preschoolers are undiagnosed mental cases with dire need of &#8220;treatment&#8221; (read: drugs). Following the appalling trend of labeling school children with an ever-expanding list of mental disorders and medicating them with the cocaine-class of drugs like Adderall and Ritalin, government is promoting universal mental health screening and [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To the federal government, many newborns, toddlers and preschoolers are undiagnosed mental cases with dire need of &#8220;treatment&#8221; (read: drugs). </p>
<p>Following the appalling trend of labeling school children with an ever-expanding list of mental disorders and medicating them with the cocaine-class of drugs like Adderall and Ritalin, government is promoting universal mental health screening and treatment &#8221; beginning with babies. <span id="more-87"></span><!--more--></p>
<p>The Federal Mental Health Action Agenda, the blueprint to implementing the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, is targeting America&#8217;s youngest by promoting mental health screenings in places like daycares and schools. </p>
<p>In a 2003 speech, Kathryn Power director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, excitedly reported that mental health assessments &#8221; &#8220;prevention and intervention&#8221; &#8221; are increasingly being conducted in &#8220;non-mental health settings.&#8221; She commended one unnamed community for &#8220;placing mental health consultants in child care settings.&#8221; Also touted was the federal &#8220;Prevention and Early </p>
<p>Intervention Grant Program.&#8221; Power noted the program&#8217;s goal is to reach children &#8221; and babies &#8221; before they &#8220;have a diagnosable problem.&#8221; At that time, Power stated, more than half of the administration&#8217;s programs were to focus on infants and preschoolers. </p>
<p>Mandatory screening of children against government-defined criteria of what is &#8220;mentally healthy&#8221; is an Orwellian nightmare; the government will decide if citizens, starting at birth, are &#8220;mentally healthy.&#8221; </p>
<p>Dr. Karen Effrem, a Johns Hopkins-trained pediatrician, researcher and expert on the government&#8217;s movement toward universal mental health screening, has been sounding the alarm about the dangers of this Big Pharmaceutical movement for years. </p>
<p>She rightly states, &#8220;Government sponsored and controlled universal mental health screening, no matter how sweetly wrapped in the fig leaf of parental consent, should never, ever be implemented. It is never, EVER, the proper role of government to set norms for, assess or intervene in the thoughts and emotions of free citizens, much less innocent, vulnerable, and still developing children. It is our thoughts and emotions that make each of us uniquely and individually human, and we use these thoughts and emotions to understand the world and maintain our inalienable right to liberty.&#8221; </p>
<p>Once a child has been screened, a highly subjective process, their personal medical information will become part of state records, potentially to be used as a screening tool for health care, employment, military or college admissions. An identified child would likely be ushered further into the psychological system for more assessments and &#8220;treatment,&#8221;a term that&#8217;s become a euphemism for Big Psychology&#8217;s first methodology: Drug therapy. And the mental health establishment is not shy about drugging babies. Between 1995 and 1997, psychotropic drug prescriptions for children from 2 to 4 years old grew by 300 percent. </p>
<p>Under the universal screening system, an identified child&#8217;s family like would also be brought into the equation. What happens to parents who refuse to obey the psychological establishment&#8217;s recommendations to drug a baby&#8221; Would the parent be considered a child abuser&#8221; Perhaps there is a genetic component the government screeners may want examined. Indeed, the actual stated goal of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health is much broader than just babies, it promotes mental health screening<br />
for all, including &#8220;Teen Screen,&#8221; an on-line mental health questionnaire. Effrem said the program&#8217;s author admits to an 84 percent false-positive rate. &#8220;Any other medical test with that high of a false-positive rate would be laughed out of the room,&#8221; said Effrem in a March 2 speech, (to be available on DVD at www.edwatch.org). </p>
<p>But &#8220;universal&#8221; mental health screening programs are already being implemented, many through federal grant programs, in states around the nation, said Effrem. The Florida Strategic Plan for Infant Mental Health Plan&#8217;s goal is to develop a system to prevent children from birth to age five from developing emotional and behavioral disorders. </p>
<p>&#8220;Are we going to put the kids in a bubble&#8221; Are the parents becoming breeders and feeders so that the government can provide this mental health nirvana for these children?&#8221; Effrem asked. </p>
<p>Minnesota&#8217;s early childhood screening program is being integrated to &#8220;ensure&#8221; all children ages birth to 5 are screened &#8220;early and continuously&#8221; for &#8220;socio-emotional&#8221; (euphemism for mental health) to link &#8220;children and their families&#8221; to mental health services. In Illinois, &#8220;all children&#8221; are to receive social and emotional screens and the schools are to incorporate social and emotional standards as part of the state&#8217;s learning standards. </p>
<p>U.S. Sen. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has been a vocal opponent of mental health screening. In his Sept., 2004 newsletter Texas Straight Talk, he wrote, It&#8217;s not hard to imagine a time 20 or 30 years from now when government psychiatrists stigmatize children whose religious, social , or political values do not comport with those of the politically correct, secular state.&#8221; </p>
<p>It may not take that long; Effrem said some mental health and violence-prevention programs are already labeling children as mentally ill or potentially violent based on political and religious criteria. </p>
<p>The people need to speak out: There is no baby mental health crisis in America. Broad mental illness screening of babies is an outrageous overreaching intrusion into children&#8217;s personal thoughts, behaviors and emotions, and it needs to be stopped.</p>
<p>Laura Adelmann is a Staff Writer for The New Media Alliance. Columns by this author can be read regularly on TheRealityCheck.org.</p>
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