A happy nation
Grandad December 5th, 2011
The few of you who bother to read the comments on this site may have noticed a link there yesterday.
It was an Irish Times report that I had read, but I had to wait until my blood cooled below boiling point before I could mention it.
There are so many things wrong with this that I don’t know where to start.
What really worries me about this is that the idiot who suggested it – Moosajee Bhamjee – is a respected member of society and an ex TD [member of parliament]. He presumably therefore has the ears of the Minister for Sickness and ill-health. Even more worrying is that this is just the kind of mindless crazy thing they would implement without even mentioning it to the public. Maybe they have already started, but judging by my reactions, they haven’t introduced it in my area yet.
I’m no medic but from my meagre knowledge, lithium is used to treat Bipolar Disorder [or Manic Depression as some of us call it]. So he wants to dump this drug into the water supply so we are all forced to drink it, whether we have Bipolar or not. Has he wondered how it would react with any other medications we might legally [or illegally] be taking? Has he considered how some people drink a lot more water than others? Does he realise that by contaminating the water supply he is also contaminating the whole food chain? Has he even wondered at the moral implications of drugging an entire population?
What scares me most is that this would be a typical Nanny/Bully State reaction to a relatively small problem. The number of suicides here is horrendous – 600 per year – but as a percentage of the whole population, it is a relatively small number. I can just hear them though, crying out that “if it will save one life it will be worth it”. It is the catchphrase of the Bully State and is used to impose the most draconian laws on us.
To be honest, it’s not the act of forcing a drug on us that worries me…
It’s that fact that someone would even suggest it.
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that had me gobsmacked! i’m shocked totally shocked at that article.
a resounding N O from me on it! i drink so much water i’d be a zombie
hi GD, obviously don’t agree with putting it in the public water supply, but some interesting reading here… http://rockcreekfreepress.tumblr.com/post/409440581/lithium
(PS: lithium cannot be patented)
GD, Its so fucking depressing, especially with the Govt.s Bugetathon, we all need whatever we can get to give our heads peace. Anyway there is so much shit in our food and water (especially shit) that a bit more won’t make any more difference.
Its all legal and big business too. Did you ever hear of Monsanto. GM is their expertice. Imagine Tomatoes modded to repell insects. There is (thanks to them) only one kind of Rape Seed, all others are extinct, which they developed (Canola) and own the rights to.
So, a little Lithium on top of all the rest of the shite won’t matter now. However, it may mean chemically, genetically modified humans for the future.
Sounds like a plan from The Master Race.
Q; Why does it take The Government two days to read the Budget?
A; ‘Cos its written in German.
I think we should try it out first on our politicians, see what happens!!
Not Green, we already did, http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/09/19/article-1313358-0B404136000005DC-313_468x347.jpg and we know what happened.
Then we voted some more of the Gobshites in.
State issued pharmaceuticals? It’s a Brave New Ireland!
“All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”
“Benito was notoriously good-natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma. The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him. Reality for Benito was always sunny.”
“The policemen pushed him out of the way and got on with their work. Three men with spraying machines buckled to their shoulders pumped thick clouds of soma vapour into the air.”
http://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html
Cat – Come to Ireland and be haappppeeeeeee! We’ll be all on a great high.
Mick – I have no problem with Lithium or just about any drug for that matter. However I would like to be in charge of my own dosage thanks very much. If they want to issue us all with tablets, then I have no problem with that.
Slab – I have long had more of a suspicion that the pharmaceutical industries are behind a lot of political policies. The tobacco fiasco is a perfect example. Nice photo of Biffo, by the way!
Not Green – Change Lithium to Cyanide and I could live with that idea.
Gamma – A Brave New World indeed. Orwell and Huxley would be so proud of us.
Calm down, son. Have a glass of water…
Heh! It takes on a whole new meaning?
…not that you’ll know.
; ‘ )
Or care……
If they’d add the odd tot of Jamesons to the tap water I might raise a glass.
I put my iodine tablets in the water supply ages ago!!!
Ger – I’ll drink to that.
Not Green – Luck you. I’m still waiting on my tablets to arrive.
Sorry, I reckon I’m downstream of ya!
He’s pre-supposing that adding something to the water supply to effect our mental state is already acceptable. He just thinks that Lithium might be the controversial aspect.
We already add flouride to water as far as I know and that has been controversial for years.
Holemaster – I don’t hold with flouride either. I like to control what I take. I have just added him to my Utter Nutter list anyway.