FAN Bulletin 1023

December 23, 2008

Dear Supporter,

Quotes of the year (good and bad). Thank you all for sending them in ? more are welcome.

Jim Schultz, Florida

Michael Easley DDS earlier this year in California was quoted as saying about anti fluoride people.

“Nobody drags anyone to a water faucet and makes them drink. Dig a well. Move out of the country.”    

Paul Connett, Canton, NY

Dr. Peter Cooney, the Chief Dental officer of Canada, who said in Dryden, Ontario on April 1, 2008:  ”I have walked around your town today, and I didn’t see anyone growing horns and you have been fluoridated for years”

Mary Byrne, FAN New Zealand

My favorite quote was the Medical Officer of Health for Regional Public Health saying in response to questions from members of the public at a meeting:   ”You have to remember our position, Regional Public Health have a contract with the Ministry of Health to promote fluoridation.”

Crystal Harvey, Hot Springs, Arkansas

On December 18, 2008 Dr. Lynn Mouden, Director Office of Oral Health, Arkansas Department of Health stated that: “Fluoride is fluoride no mater where it originates…Chemical companies do not profit much from the sale of this chemical.”

David McRae, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

This was from Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding on the day that enforced fluoridation for Geelong and Ballarat was announced, 26th March 2008:  ”The anti-fluoride lobby is resistant to something which will improve dental health for children between seven and 12 years of age. We used to burn witches as well, but we don’t do that anymore either”

John Graham from the National Pure Water Association in he UK
 
For me the most memorable quote this year was delivered by Labor Councilor Peter Marsh-Jenks at the full meeting (all members) of Southampton City Council on 19 November 2008, just before he voted in favor of the proposal to fluoridate the water supplies of 200,000 people in Southampton and South West Hampshire;  ”Mass medication is not always necessarily wrong”

Jeanette Bajorek, California.  Quotes this Question-Answer from the California Department of Public Health pamphlet “Fluoride: Facts & Fiction” - “Has industrial grade fluoride been tested for safety and effectiveness? YES” (http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/FluorideandIndustrialGrade.aspx)

Jeanette also quotes my submission to the South Central Strategic Health Authority (Southampton, UK):

“…what rational person would dose a baby with fluoride at 250 times the level that nature intended, and not even investigate to see if any damage might have occurred. God provides no protective veil for such stupid practices…”
Ref:  The Argument Against the Proposal to Fluoridate Southampton.” (P. 16 Paragraph 5)

Drs. Richard & Karilee Shames, authors of “Thyroid Power”  - “Fluoridation: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Passed”

Ellen Connett, NY

After a 2007 accidental fluoride spill into the drinking water system in Germania Springs, Alabama (recorded levels were 11.8 mg/L ? some said it was higher), the manager of the city’s water plant said that neither the sediment nor the elevated fluoride levels were dangerous:  ”It’s not a health hazard, it’s an aesthetic problem” -at http://fluoride.ecobytes.net/Alert/United-States/Alabama/Germania-Springs-accident-Officials-Jax-Water-Safe-to-Drink

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Gerald Marsch from Wisconsin asks: Would you please ask all the smart people in favor of water fluoridation, why teeth whiteners are the most popular products on the market today?

Robert Hall from Nevada, in response to my list of questions in the last bulletin, provides some sage political and legal advice. I do not have a legal mind but would be anxious to hear from other lawyers as to the suggestions Robert is making on this legal tack. See Robert Hall’s suggestions below.

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FAN FUNDRAISER

As of 4 pm today, we have raised $20,494 from 143 donors.  We are still a long way from our goal of $80,000 by midnight Dec 31, but we still have 9 days to go.

Please note: if everyone on our mailing list gave $10, we would actually reach our target!

I know these are tough economic times, but surely the effort to end fluoridation worldwide is worth $10 to you?

There is also another reason why a lot of small donations is important. If and when we seek support from foundations they always ask: how many supporting members do you have. So the number of donors is critically important.

Making a secure tax-deductible donation online is very easy and quick to do.  Simply click here https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=5061. If you prefer, you can send a check, in US$, payable to FAN to:  Paul Connett, 82 Judson Street, Canton NY 13617.

Thank you.

Paul Connett
 
From Robert W. Hall

Paul, never forget to go back to square one and hammer away with a demand for the legal authority any pro-fluoride lobby claims in order to mass medicate anyone without their informed consent (in writing). Demand all the legal authority they claim as justification for their actions, not examples, all of it.

What is the legal authority for a medical doctor or dentist to treat anyone they cannot lawfully and ethically claim as their patient without their informed consent? Where does any licensed medical or dental professional get the legal and ethical authority to prescribe a systemic poison for millions they cannot lawfully or ethically claim as their patients. If they gave a systemic poison to their patients they would risk their license to practice.

Start with these two questions. Get them in a legal and ethical corner and do not let them go. They are using a debating trick by putting out an assumption in a way that evades questioning. They seize the high road without a fight. We should not be going into most of the other issues that are raised until the entry issue is resolved.

If physicians, dentists and government officials claim the authority to mass medicate, where does that authority stop?

Fluoridation by personal choice for the poorly educated is one issue. Mass medication is an entirely different issue.

Give those who are in a tough fluoride fight my telephone number. That includes their lawyers. I will drill them on a way to win the legal and ethical argument.

Let me give you an example. Try the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the following enabling statute. (Foreign country attorneys will have research their respective laws.) Do a Web search of the following:

42 U.S.C. § 1983, commonly referred to as “section 1983″ provides:

Every person who under color of any statute, ordinance,
regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the
District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any
citizen of the United States or other person within the
jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges,
or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be
liable to the party injured in an action at law, Suit in equity,
or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action
brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in
such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be
granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory
relief was unavailable.  For the purposes of this section, any Act
of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia
shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

Best wishes, Robert W. Hall