PARENTS GIVE THEIR CHILDREN TO THE GOVERNMENT

April 22.  Last night, I watched an episode of The Practice on ABC.  The legal issue involved stickers displayed on cars.  The stickers were invitations by car owners to the police to search their cars at any time.  In other words, the owners, to "assist the war on drugs," were giving up their right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure.

One lawyer on the show remarked that, some day, we might see a whole town decide to waive the Bill of Rights and let the police do anything it wants at any time.  You know, to stop crime.

I thought, what about a whole nation that allows its President to bury another nation for oil?

I hadn't yet read a Reuters dispatch about thousands of parents in the US giving up their kids to state foster care.  Voluntarily.

These kids have not been charged with crimes.

They are "problem children."

The parents are convinced their children need therapy---which means psychiatric drugs---but the prices of the drugs are too high.

So they give their kids over to foster care, at which point the state WILL pick up the tab for Ritalin and Prozac and Zoloft and Paxil and Haldol and so on.

A report on this incredible phenomenon has been released by the US General Accounting Office.  Get this.  The GAO was only able to carry out its survey in 19 states, and it found that 12,700 kids have been donated by parents to state foster care for the purpose of getting "needed mental treatment."

This goes way beyond car stickers, unless the stickers say, "I hereby grant permission to the state, county, city, or federal police to put my child into foster care and give him brain drugs at any time."

12,700 is only the tip of the unreported iceberg.

And the parents believe that the psychiatric drugs are the answer to their children's problems, when in fact the drugs are mind hammers that shove these kids further into despair, helplessness, and fury.

Let me cite just one study here.  The Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases (1996, volume 184, no.2), written by Rhoda L. Fisher and Seymour Fisher.  "Antidepressants for Children."  It was a review of many other studies.  The conclusion?  "Despite unanimous literature of double-blind studies indicating that antidepressants are no more effective than placebos in treating depression in children and adolescents, such medications continue to be in wide use."

Of course, most parents and doctors and state officials hang their hats on the ubiquitous and propagandized vague term TREATMENT.  Treatment in all times and places and for all reasons is good.  Treatment is what we need more of.  The state must supply treatment.  Parents must find treatment.  Children need treatment.  And if the state will not give parents money to pay for treatment, then parents have the option of donating their children to the state so that treatment will be obtained.  

I would prefer the truth, which goes like this: ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR CHILDREN WILL NOT GET ENOUGH DRUGS TO MAKE THEM DOCILE?  ARE YOU LOOKING FOR DRUGS THAT WILL SUPPRESS YOUR CHILDREN'S DESIRE TO LIVE?  ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR CHILDREN WILL NOT BECOME VIOLENT?  GIVE YOUR CHILDREN TO THE STATE, AND YOUR PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED.  WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME PERIOD, YOUR CHILDREN WILL BECOME UNRECOGNIZABLE TO YOU.  

As my late friend and colleague, hypnotherapist Jack True, once said to me, "If you give people the means to destroy themselves and call it good, they will line up.  They will find a way to get in on the action.  You won't be able to keep them away.  They will keep re-defining what happens to them as they sink further toward oblivion.  They'll say it's good, as they're sinking.  To their last breath, they'll think they're getting the very best in care and they will thank their care givers.  This is the perfect 1984.  The victims are willingly surrendering themselves, and the care givers also believe they are doing the right thing.  It's a closed loop."

My long-time source on propaganda, Ellis Medavoy, adds, "Under the transforming apparatus of PR, anything can be made to seem good.  Or bad.  As we 'celebrate' the tenth anniversary of Waco, we are essentially being told that all those people committed mass suicide.  This is of course a lie.  But in that case, we are told suicide was a very bad thing.  But to give your children to the state so they can be filled with toxic psychiatric drugs?  This is good.  This is not suicide.  This is characterized as a tragic, last-ditch effort by parents to get their children the help they need.  Propaganda works."

While activist groups have been fighting to keep the state from seizing children, when the state wants to forcibly medicate these kids AGAINST THE PARENTS' WISHES, a whole other situation has been developing.  Parents are doing it voluntarily.  

Of course, if we could listen in to conversations between parents and health officials in those 12,700 cases, we would hear some pretty slick sales pitches.  We would also hear some quid pro quo negotiations:  "Mrs. Jones, if you want to keep receiving your welfare check, you have to allow us to medicate your son.  The best way to do this is in foster care."

And the Eli Lillys and the Glaxos and the Squibbs and the Pfizers are laughing up their sleeves.  Against government control of the "free market?"  Are you kidding?  These corporations know that their market is made by governments.  

JON RAPPOPORT   www.nomorefakenews.com