On
11 November 2003
, Clause 61 of the Water Bill was voted in by
MPs. This will allow strategic
health authorities in the
UK
and
N Ireland
to force water companies to fluoridate supplies
after local consultation. Technically
the water companies have had the power to do just this since 1985 but have
rarely done so for fear of legal action from consumers.
Mass,
compulsory medication in this way, regardless of supposed health benefits
or otherwise, completely contravenes basic human rights – the right of
the individual to decide what he or she wants to put into his or her body.
In any event, medication delivered through the taps is completely
uncontrolled. How can it be
measured how much one drinks, what is used in cooking or food
manufacturing processes, what we absorb through our skin when bathing or
showering? It is a completely
‘unscientific’ process dictated by a system that claims to be
scientific!
But
then, we can’t in any way disregard the health risks linked to fluoride.
For example, our thyroid gland, responsible for the metabolism of
every single cell in our body, is extremely sensitive to unnatural
substances. Many people
already have weakened or unbalanced thyroid glands because of the high
level of pollution in our environment, including in particular the
chlorine in the water system. In
fact, it’s not that long ago that fluoride salts were used with the
intention of depressing thyroid activity in the over-active thyroid.
This action as an enzyme poison has obviously been conveniently
forgotten.
This
one example of potential health risk is aside from a host of other
possible problems, from ‘simple’ tooth mottling to cancer.
When
I began to investigate water fluoridation, I found that in fact there are
many different types of fluoride and that the one they propose to use has
never been tested on human beings, apart from in those areas of the
UK
and
N Ireland
where artificially fluoridating the water
already occurs. In these areas
the local people are the live guinea pigs! What
has been tested is a very pure grade of sodium fluoride in purified water
– and since when is our water purified!
What is actually being used is a product called silicofluorides,
known as hexafluorsilicic acid – the toxic waste product from phosphate
fertilizer pollution scrubbers. And
this particular product carries with it a host of other toxic materials,
including arsenic, beryllium, mercury, lead and many more.
Additionally
there has been no testing done in any country which already artificially
fluoridates its drinking water, of the impact of total fluoride exposure.
IE, what we drink, take in through our skin, in cooking, in drugs,
in toothpaste, etc. Neither
its potential effect when combined with chlorine and other water treatment
chemicals. Dental fluorosis,
ie tooth mottling is recognized as a problem affecting those parts of the
world with high levels of naturally
occurring fluoride in the water. IE,
it is linked to an increased ingestion of fluoride.
However, it is usually disparagingly described as “only a
cosmetic side-effect”. Now,
as our children are the main targets for water fluoridation, to supposedly
reduce dental cavities, can you imagine the psychological damage on their
self-esteem and confidence if or when they develop mottled teeth?
No doubt there will be a flurry of new products developed to
counter this effect. Yet more
medication! The truth is that
this is not purely a cosmetic side-effect but an indication of underlying
toxicity. And the government
knows this. As far back as
1999, Baroness Hayman, for the government stated:
“We
accept that dental fluorosis is a manifestation of systemic toxicity …
“
(Hansard,
20 April 1999)
Interestingly,
if you look in the 1993 edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary,
fluorosis is defined as:
“poisoning
by fluorine or its compounds.”
The
key phrase in this new piece of legislation is “after local consultation”. No-one
knows how this will take effect. Will
every ‘local’ individual be entitled to vote?
I somehow doubt it. In
any event, many ‘locals’ may not have the ability or time to fully
assess the situation, especially when information given is often vague and
misleading at best. I suspect
that ‘local consultation’ will only involve local authorities and not
the general public.
However,
if you live in the
UK
or
N Ireland
, and value your freedom to choose what you put
in your body – and that of our children – then I suggest you write to
your MP and your water company and keep abreast of what is happening.
Otherwise, the first thing we as ‘locals’ might know about it
is to discover that it is already in the water.
Remember, the fluoride in question is a contaminant and it is
planned to add it to the water with the express intention of creating
biological change. In you.
But more especially, the children.
Iris
and I have done just this. Iris
wrote the following to the Cornish Times, as a reply to a gentleman trying
to raise our attention to the impending bill:
“POISONED
WATER”
Isn’t
it marvelous? Our
water, our food, the earth, the air, has all been contaminated, mutated
and interfered with, along with other unspeakable acts, by men whose only
consideration is for the powers they desire to control creation.
Mankind stands by ready to give up all its inborn gifts, its
spirituality, in order to grab in greed the so-called glitter of a
lifestyle promised them in return for complete surrender of the principle
which once was a spiritual living practice in harmony with the natural
order, turning a blind eye to the evil repealing of the original laws of
creation and the works of the creator.
Graham
Danton of Downderry, writing in Letters on 12 September, on our poisoned
water situation, should be taken very seriously indeed.
But then when did gullible people ever listen to wisdom until too
late.
And
as for tooth decay. Perhaps we
need to take a step backwards to move forward.
Perhaps we need to look at children’s diets to see why their
teeth are decaying. Sugars,
sugar substitutes, colourings, flavourings, etc.
General environmental pollution.
Weakened immune systems bombarded by vaccinations.
Could these play a part? We
can’t keep piling on more medications on top of each man-made disorder!
Anne
Thomas