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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:06 PM
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Election fraud folks are mentally ill-
January 07, 2005
Opposing Bush: A Form of Mental Illness?

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 maladies—depression, 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 rescue—and 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 passing—something 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.”

Con't-
http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=485
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MarkusQ Donating Member (516 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:07 PM
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1. Yikes! (n/t)
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GreenArrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:07 PM
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2. This is a joke, right?
?
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Goldeneye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:10 PM
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4. Nope...I think I read Dr. KittyKiller himself is in charge of this.
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:33 PM
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16. This may be satire.
Go here...

<http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/health/>

Then, look at the rest of the site.

We're getting scammed. Be careful!!!!!!!!!
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GreenArrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:47 PM
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19. it's got be satire
but it's getting hard to tell anymore.
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New Earth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:08 PM
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3. this guy should be in an insane asylum.
Edited on Mon Jan-10-05 03:08 PM by Faye
to be honest witcha.
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:11 PM
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5. ok, that does it
i have been kicking around this button idea-
back in the ussr.

i gotta do it.
i just need a good image. morphing chimpy into uncle joe? or the picture that was going around a while ago of the guard watching the inauguration preparations? or?? ideas?
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:12 PM
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6. I am not sure what RSS feed for comments on this post means
Comments
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euler Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:21 PM
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13. It's code....
....so you have to read between the lines.
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JoMama49 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:12 PM
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7. Projection - yet again
When you know there is mental illness or something deeply wrong with you, a common symptom is to project it onto someone else. This allows you to deny what you know down deep is YOUR problem. Apparently, the entire Bush Admin. is very good at this.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:18 PM
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10. Exact;ly. It's the backbone of their PR strategy. n/t
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:20 PM
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11. Absolutely
Projection -- abnormal psychology 101.
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euler Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:20 PM
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12. You do know that....
....this is satire, right ?
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toymachines Donating Member (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:12 PM
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8. wait...so joke or not
i am getting tired of not being able to tell the difference between satire and reality because the repugs have turned logic and common sense on its head. god these people really frusterate me.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:15 PM
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9. We have to appropriate this term ASAP
Dr Mengele will no doubt coordinate his efforts with AG Torquemada as soon as the latter is sworn in.

Ease my suffering? LOL! What about Impeachment Therapy?
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:22 PM
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14. Satire, yes, but the REAL ONE IS Bush's "New Freedom Initiative"
Remember this from last summmer? Haven't heard much about it lately --maybe the satire is to prepare us for this again:

Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness
Jeanne Lenzer
New York

A sweeping mental health initiative will be unveiled by President George W Bush in July. The plan promises to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing "services in the community, rather than institutions," according to a March 2004 progress report entitled New Freedom Initiative

(www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/newfreedom/toc-2004.html).

While some praise the plan's goals, others say it protects the profits of drug companies at the expense of the public.

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/1458

Some choice excerpts:

Structures to put the scheme in place have been developed under a so-called "Federal Action Agenda," announced in Washington on Jun. 9, and include mandatory mental health screening, which the plan recommends be linked with "treatment and supports".

The plan's full details have yet to emerge as the Action Agenda still "has not been publicly released," according to A Kathryn Power, director of the Centre for Mental Health Services (CMHS), the Bush administration body spearheading the effort.

(snip)

Under 'New Freedom', mental health screening of adult Americans is slated to occur during routine physical exams while that of young people will occur in the school system. Pre-school children will receive periodic "development screens."

(snip)

On Sep. 13, U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, a medical doctor, denounced the Bush plan for its "forced mental health screening for every child in America," pointedly writing in a weekly column on his website, the "obvious beneficiary of the proposal is the pharmaceutical industry."

According to Paul, who had introduced an amendment to eliminate funding for the plan, "Soviet communists attempted to paint all opposition to the state as mental illness."

Read also warns that the New Freedom plan "conjures up the image of 'state control' of private lives, extending to an individual's feelings ... the increasing medicalisation of life problems and the massive increase in the prescriptions of all types of psychiatric drugs is 'social control'."
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:36 PM
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17. I did hear about this one, and it's truly horrifying.
It's straight out of "Brave New World." Next they'll be putting Valium (or something as expensive as possible) in the drinking water to pacify the masses.
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orthogonal Donating Member (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:31 PM
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15. It's SATIRE, from the "Swift Report"
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IStriker Donating Member (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:40 PM
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18. And it's sad that so many people on here are unable to tell it.
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GreenArrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:50 PM
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20. sad because people were unable to see the satire,
Edited on Mon Jan-10-05 03:57 PM by GreenArrow
or sad because reality is so closely approximating the subject being satirized? This is exactly the kind of thing these guys would try to do.

Another example: the appointment of Henry Kissinger to head the 9-11 commission. If anything should have been satire, that was it. Unfortunately, it was all too real.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 03:52 PM
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21. Lobotomies for everyone!
May I be first in line, please? 'Cuz that's what I'll need.
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