The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

Mandatory mental health screening on all Americans from the "Freedom Commission"? Sounds like a ponzi scheme to help drug companies sell more product. Does Bush think that we buy anything he sells if he says "freedom" or "liberty" enough times while discussing the initiative?

• * Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is making a final attempt this week to lessen the impact of a new program that calls for all the nation's children to be screened for mental-health problems, offering language to the federal omnibus spending bill that would require parental consent before such testing could be done.
  
  As WorldNetDaily reported, in September Paul attempted to have the program removed from Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations Act. His amendment failed the House of Representatives by a vote of 95-315.
  
  This week, Paul offered the following language to the omnibus bill:
  
  "None of the funds made available for State Incentive Grants for Transformation should be used for any programs of mandatory or universal mental-health screening that performs mental-health screening on anyone under 18 years of age without the express, written permission of the parents or legal guardians of each individual involved."
  
  The program in question was proposed by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which President Bush established in 2002. The New Freedom Initiative recommends screening not only for children but eventually for every American.
  

Aside from the corporate angle, which isn't in and of itself a bad thing, the US federal government simply has no legitimate, Constitutional authority to require me to submit to ANY health examination. I believe that such a requirement violates the 4th amendment of the US Constitution.