I had a go but I was all dictatorial ;p
Yeah but i'm concentrating on me own business ideas firstly :p unless I can somehow profit from this venture ;] ;p
bet they can, as autism is "bad" and "evil"
a social ill that must be cleansed for the good of the people ;p
Looks like our do nothing Congress, when it does something, does the most rediculous and unecessary problem causing thing it could do.
Right now I've got some kind of.... empathy. I think it is empathy I am feeling.
I can now understand the mind of a terrorist.
I somewhat feel... its my duty to fight this off.
Wierd feeling though. But this is my feeling... So this is how it is to think like a terrorist...
If I wasn't in Denmark, in some kind of mental institution, I would have blown up the White House... For sure.
Go to HELL congressmen!
Flood the White House with Sarin nerve toxin
>.>
here's the text of the article from the first post.
Congress Declares War on Autism
Public Outcry Leads to $1 Billion in Autism Research
The research funds provided by the Combating Autism Act could go a long way in helping the 1.5 million Americans living with autism. (ABCNEWS.com)
By ED O'KEEFE
Dec. 7, 2006 — In its final hours of business, the Congress criticized as "do nothing" has done something big about autism. The Senate and House unanimously passed the Combating Autism Act, wide-sweeping legislation that authorizes nearly a billion dollars toward autism research over the next five years.
The bill, favored by bipartisan majorities on both sides of Capitol Hill, had been held up by a single member of the House, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas.
Barton fought the early versions of the bill because he opposed directing federal funding toward specific priorities, particularly $45 million in the original version of the bill that could be used only to investigate the possible role environmental factors might play in causing autism.
A statement from Barton's office said the final bill is "consistent with chairman Barton's view that scientists should determine research priorities, not politicians."
The final bill, which drew support from nearly every major autism group across the country, includes environmental factors in a list of research options that the federal government might pursue.
Jon Shestack, co-founder of Cure Autism Now, said in a statement, "This bill is a federal declaration of war on the epidemic of autism."
But the road to legislative success was a long one for autism activists.
Though it was co-sponsored by 48 members of the Senate and a majority of the Republican-controlled House, the bill's prospects looked dim as Barton persisted, holding up the bill since August, when it first passed the Senate unanimously. The bill and Barton were featured in a segment on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on Sunday, Oct. 8.
Actress Patricia Heaton, representing the autism activist group Cure Autism Now, called out Barton by name on "This Week," welling up and demanding, "We need to get politics out of the way here because there are people's lives at stake. And it's heartbreaking. And yet, I see these parents, and they are so strong … they are fighting for their kids, really fighting for their kids. And that's why I'm here to really beg Joe Barton to pass this bill, because it has the support of everyone else. And I think he needs to do the right thing."
Radio personality Don Imus also took Barton to task, repeatedly calling out the congressman for his opposition to the bill, and citing the Heaton interview on his daily program.
Cure Autism Now supported the compromise version of the autism legislation that passed this week and issued a letter signed by 10 other autism activist groups. In the letter, the agencies thanked Barton and his staff for "their diligent efforts to reach a mutually agreed position within our community."
The letter went on to say, "Chairman Barton is fully aware that the autism community would have preferred House action on the [original] version of this bill. While there will be many battles ahead to be won in this war, the autism community applauds all its congressional champions who have made this historic moment possible."
And so, as the 110th Congress concludes its often-embattled tenure, a last-minute compromise led to a historic agreement and this bill is on its way to President Bush's desk for his signature. The entire "Voices" segment and an extended interview with actress Patricia Heaton can be viewed at "This Week's" Web page.
yucky gross.
read the article and it seems like it's just the curebie commnunity represented as all autistics. i wonder when they will declare the war won. when every single one of us is gone? is it really heartbreaking to be diffrent? will this lead to manafactured babies?
i fear we will soon find out.
but also, screening before a child gets aquainted by the parents has a chance of the child being hated for who they are and just strugging to become nt and not themselves. people that have succeded the most in life were usually conidfent in themselves, and this bill kills that for many children, as they will be told to only act a certian way and that the way they were made was flawed and not to trust that evil self. this won't be good...for anyone.
I Dpont Care How Far I Am Away From The Origonal Post But Maybe They Will Learn From This Reasearch That We Are Not Physicaly/Mentally Disabled
Summary Bill Description
This legislation will accomplish the following goals in the fight against Autism:
Double NIH spending on autism research.
Empower the Director of the NIH to act as an "autism czar" - developing an annual research budget on autism, based on the best science, and requiring that budget be reported to Congress.
Create a screening program in all 50 states for the early identification of children with autism - short of a cure, early identification leading to early intervention with behavioral services provides the best available outcomes for autistic kids.
Fund the efforts of the Autism Treatment Network to identify the best medical practices in the treatment of autistic kids.
Continue funding of the epidemiological and public education programs on autism at the CDC.
Authorize, overall, nearly 1 billion of federal spending on autism over the next 5 years - a multi-front war on autism from public awareness and early diagnosis to basic biomedical research.
when they mean fight against autism, what does that mean? in my opnion, autism is netural, it's the person that makes it bad. it's like guns, they are netural, but they can be used for good or evil depending on the person with the gun. so life as an autistic is not better or worse in theory, just a difrrent life. what makes it bad is that there is so much rasicm against autism in general that it is made to be evil.
secondly, the screening program will be optional right? if i ever have kids, i don't want my children going though this screening process until they are at least three years old, if ever. i respect all human beings in the way they were made, and won't let others determine if they are good enough or not to live. a cure would mean declaring my children as defective as they were made and putting "false" personality into my kids, put in by humans that didn't like the way they were made orignally. i take great offense in a cure becuase of that.
and behvaioral treatments, meaning reprogramming and ensuring that the child hates who they are and desires to be the way our culture demands of them or be felt as worthless? that's not the world i want my children growing up in. i grew up in a loving home, and my parents used postive reinforcement, telling me to like who i am and that i was made exactly the way i was supposed to and wasnt defective, and that i shouldn't strive to be someone i'm not (and with the peers i had back then, i wouldn't want to be like them, too many bullies). and what is the best outcome? them acheving the goal of being nt? lower standrads and the expectation that doing things the nt way, even though harder for them is the best way to get through life? yeah right. i do things the way i feel is the best for me, which at times is way diffrent than the nt way. i think it benifited me alot of times, but also it was harder for me than the nt peers. but making the autistic strive for doing the nt way when they are not makes it always harder for them, as they are forced to fight their natural way of being, and thus hate themselves, to feel like they are not worthless and not a drain on socitey, etc.
and why is everything with autsitics always treatment? i thought it was called education and growing up. i grew up just fine, fine public school education and graduating from college this week. i guess we're not good enough for that...
i guess the low expecations for autistics still exist. too bad, becuase this is going to be ugly, as the parents take those in, and see their child as a failure and start treating it like a toy just to get it the way they want it to. every parent is going to have a dream broken, girls mean no nfl star, etc, and to say autistics are hopeless is sick and wrong. they need to look at parents that don't give up and instead try for the best.
what's the public education tones? more racism? more sterotypes? more reasons to get rid of us, becuase we're supposely useless? no thanks.
and again with the war talk? will they stop? we did nothing, i wish the curebies would go away so that we can live our lives how we want instead of these curebies telling us what they think we need. i guess their war is against everyone that doesn't agree that we need to be elimnated, and the end result is getting rid of us.
this needs to be stopped.
is it useful to contact the White House? ie before that monstrous thing gets signed... just in case:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Do any of you have any knowledge of how American legislation works? What if the support in a year is gone, can they get rid of the bill then? Cause then we could direct attention to the supporting legislators.. Otherwise we have a serious problem......
Here's the *** site..
http://www.combatautism.org
I Dont Know But I Contacted Them 20 Times Yesterday And I Think Everybody Should, I Think We Should Also Google Bomb Them As e.g. "Really Stupid Idea" ect....
it's not offical yet. the president still has to sign the bill before it passes. i'm kinda hoping he says no, but with all the racial intolerance against autistics favored in the media today, he won't and we will be offically declared bad for socitey (at least here in the us).
to say that autistic children are just diffcuitles and burdens is wrong and just trivalizies us to nothing...
After hearing about this act, my heart has been aching ever since!
Im a proud parent of a 6 year old autistic boy.He is not very verbal (and there's nothing wrong with that), but I know that he is very happy with the way he is(how he was born to be) and I encourage him to stay that way and always will.A fellow parent brought this act to my intention and said "Isn't this great news?!"
I say NO! It's terrible news! AND My son's mind is HIS mind, not the government's and I will never allow his mind to be 'toyed with' against his will.
It depresses me how anything remotely 'different' in a person is given a 'not normal' label. Is imperfection really that bad? Show me someone who is perfect! I've yet to met anyone who is:/
Imperfection or differences is what makes an individual and individual and should be encouraged and embraced!
Just let me know the course action this group will take to protest this act. I will be more than happy to support it! 100%
i know what you mean. we were made autistic for a reason and to change that is i feel is that we haven't reached even humanity and that humans should be able to change others demean the autistic changed nt's to less than human that have to give thanks to their doctors all of the time. it also promotes certian traits above others, which i belive is wrong, and also prevents us from fufilling our hopes and dreams, but instead fufilling those of others that do not like the way we are.
saw a plastic surgery show tonight, and it seems like the ones that have alot of work done look very creepy and not natural to the point where they looked to be a work of human engerring rather just natural looks. i fear that will happen to autistics if rewriing surgery is done to us, as we will just be fake nt's, produced by human engerring and forced to be second rate nt's instead of first rate autistics. i think acutally, socitey will be harmed greatly if autistics were turned nt, as they won't be true nt's and we will lose the production of the autistic (even though curebies think it doesn't exist.)
it's a shame that our socitey demands robot beings now that do everything exactly the same. it will be a very boring world if that ever happened. screening these kids really early will cause them to become robots earlier and just hate themselves and try to be nt and struggle with it, when they shouldn't be fighting themselves, and just like themselves for who they are. autism is not a set of defiences, it's a set of traits that have their own pros and cons. the problem is that there is not alot of places that can help harvest the autistic traits correctly, so they decide to get rid of us.
and the thought of the goverment now declaring our brains as diseased is distrubing. now we're a terroist group, out to destroy familes and socitey. and now we'll probaly be stripped of our rights and be forceliby cured. if that comes to reality, i'll try to get my diagosis removed or leave the country.
i hope the us doesn't declare this site to be a terroist orgization.
i wanted to add one more thing...what people need to undestand is that being autistic does not nesscarliy mean we are doomed to live an inferior life compared to our nt peers, becuase partly a view of a inferior life is fluid and changes from person to person. some people like to socialize while others don't is one example. a normal life is techinally impossible as a defintion of a good life is not the exact same for everyone, and to expect autistics to follow some rules of a normal life while nt's are expempt is just a double strandrad to turn autistics into predictable robots that nt's can control, thus becoming inferior to them.
in short, autism is not a worse way of life nessicarly, just difrrent. i think the main thing we need to do is to get rid of the negative sterotypes that the curebies have purpoted and tell them that autistics are not all the same and doom and gloom as the curebies promote. if we empathize the postives of autism and a more postive view of raising and being around autistics instead of just the longing to fix the child becuase they feel that autism is never postive. that could start the end of combating autism and the start of celerbating autism.