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RUSH: Michael Graham today has a column in the Boston Herald, and it\u2019s fascinating. Not being a parent, I have not encountered this. It\u2019s what happens when you send your kids to the doctor and what the doctor starts asking the kids about you. ‘They\u2019re watching you right now,\u2019 begins Michael Graham. ‘They counted every beer you drank during last night\u2019s Red Sox game. They see you sneaking out to the garage for a smoke. They know if you\u2019ve got a gun, and where you keep it. They\u2019re your kids, and they\u2019re the National Security Agency of the Nanny State. I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter\u2019s annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse.<\/line>Not my daughter\u2019s boozing. Mine. ‘The doctor wanted to know how much you and mom drink, and if I think it\u2019s too much,\u2019 my daughter told us afterward, rolling her eyes in that exasperated 13-year-old way. ‘She asked if you two did drugs, or if there are drugs in the house.\u2019 ‘What!\u2019 I yelped. ‘Who told her about my stasher, I mean, ‘It\u2019s an outrage!” I turned to my wife. ‘You took her to the doctor. Why didn\u2019t you say something?\u2019 She couldn\u2019t, she told me, because she knew nothing about it. <\/line><\/p>\n

‘All these questions were asked in private, without my wife\u2019s knowledge or consent. ‘The doctor wanted to know how we get along,\u2019 my daughter continued. Then she paused. ‘And if, well, Daddy, if you made me feel uncomfortable.\u2019 Great. I send my daughter to the pediatrician to find out if she\u2019s fit to play lacrosse, and the doctor spends her time trying to find out if her mom and I are drunk, drug-addicted sex criminals. We\u2019re not alone, either. Thanks to guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and supported by the commonwealth, doctors across Massachusetts are interrogating our kids about mom and dad\u2019s ‘bad\u2019 behavior. We used to be proud parents. Now, thanks to the AAP, we\u2019re ‘persons of interest.\u2019 The paranoia over parents is so strong that the AAP encourages doctors to ignore ‘legal barriers and deference to parental involvement\u2019 and shake the children down for all the inside information they can get.<\/p>\n

‘And that information doesn\u2019t stay with the doctor, either. Debbie is a mom from Uxbridge who was in the examination room when the pediatrician asked her 5-year-old, ‘Does Daddy own a gun?\u2019 When the little girl said yes, the doctor began grilling her and her mom about the number and type of guns, how they are stored, etc. If the incident had ended there, it would have merely been annoying. But when a friend in law enforcement let Debbie know that her doctor had filed a report with the police about her family\u2019s (entirely legal) gun ownership, she got mad. She also got a new doctor. … Of course doctors have a choice. They could choose, for example, to ask me about my drunken revels, and not my children. They could choose not to put my children in this terrible position. They could choose, even here in Massachusetts, to leave their politics out of the office. But the doctors aren\u2019t asking us parents. They\u2019re asking our kids. Worst of all, they\u2019re asking all kids about sexual abuse without any provocation or probable cause. The American Academy of Pediatrics has declared all parents guilty until proven innocent. And then they wonder why we drink.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, you know, you want to listen to a little quotation here from Orwell? (interruption) What is it, Mr. Snerdley? Just stick with me on this. That is why I wanted people to watch the movie The Lives of Others, the German Academy Award winner. This is exactly what happened in East Germany. This is really not new, in terms of happening in human civilization. But here\u2019s a little quote, this is an excerpt from 1984 by George Orwell. ”Are you guilty?\u2019 said Winston. ‘Of course I\u2019m guilty,\u2019 cried Parsons with a servile glance at the telescreen. ‘You don\u2019t think the party would arrest an innocent man, do you?\u2019 His frog-like face grew calmer and even then took on a slightly sanctimonious expression. ‘Thought crime is a dreadful thing, old man,\u2019 he said, ‘it\u2019s insidious, it can get hold of you without you even knowing it. Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep. Yes, that\u2019s a fact. There I was working away trying to do my bit, never knew I had any bad stuff in my mind at all, then I started talking in my sleep. You know what they heard me saying?\u2019 He sank his voice like someone who is obliged for medical reasons to utter an obscenity. ‘Down with big brother. Yep, I said it, over and over again, it seems. Between you and me, old man, I\u2019m glad they got me before it went any further. Do you know what I\u2019m going to say to them when I go up before the tribunal? Thank you, I\u2019m going to say, thank you for saving me before it was too late.\u2019<\/p>\n

”Well, who denounced you?\u2019 said Winston. ‘It was my little daughter,\u2019 said Parsons. ‘She listened at the keyhole, heard what I was saying, she nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don\u2019t bear her any grudge for it. In fact, I\u2019m proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.” This is from 1984 with the kid ratting out a parent saying ‘down with big brother.\u2019 Now, Michael Graham writes this in what is a humorous way. But this is right in keeping with this movie, The Lives of Others, that I have recommended that you see. If we end up with state-run health care, this could be required. This could end up being just like it has been here in Massachusetts, children informing on their parents about their activities and their lifestyles. I haven\u2019t seen the list of questions, but I will bet you that none of the questions asked by the Massachusetts doctors are about any politically correct lifestyle choices. Like I\u2019ll bet they\u2019re not asked, ‘Does dad have boyfriends?\u2019 I\u2019ll bet there aren\u2019t questions like that on this test. <\/p>\n

When you socialize medicine, doctors can\u2019t help but become socialists themselves. This is the one angle of socialized medicine that I don\u2019t think we think about enough. Who\u2019s going to pay the doctors and what\u2019s going to be in it for them? Who will their bosses be? Federal government, state government, that\u2019s who they\u2019ll work for. Doctors won\u2019t tell parents when their 13-year-old is going to have an abortion, for crying out loud. Right now doctors are not allowed, if they find out, to tell the parents. But you get socialized medicine in there, and those people who run it, &agrave; la Mrs. Clinton, want to find out what you\u2019re doing at home. The best way to do it is to require the doctors, as part of an examination of your kids, to find out from them, and then they\u2019ll know. In this case, the instance of a mother whose daughter told the stories about guns in the home, all legal, they got the attention of the authorities with this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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