Sodium Fluoride as one of the most universal past and present methods for the express purpose of destroying men's mental capacity beyond a certain point of development, for the express purpose of subjugation and enslaving the race as openly confessed by its advocates.
Water is not generally considered as under the classification of "food," nevertheless, it is just as essential to life and health as food.
Man and animal, with exceptions, is able to live for a longer period without food than without water.
Recognizing this, a certain group of the enemies of god, men and Nationalities, whose one thought is the deterioration and enslavement of the mass, gave their first consideration to methods for this purpose through the simple procedure of adulterating the water supply which their intended victims would be forced to drink and use in the preparation of food.
The published admittance of many engaged as agents for the accomplishment of this purpose, is unimpeachable evidence, and has never been contradicted.
We again quote two of these: Ana Pauker and Bertrand Russel, in addition to the testimony of several others:"
"...Diet...injections, and inunctions, will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character desirable,..."__Bertrand Russell, (quoting Fitche).
"Another easy method of attack, she (Ana Pauker) explained, was offered by the kind of water system on which a high percentage of the population depended, and which could be destroyed of polluted simply and easily...__"I Live Again."
Rene M. Vale, a former communist and party worker, often appearing before investigating committees, wrote a book exposing the conspiracy of communism. Her book Red Court, written in the form of a novel, was published in 1952 by the Nelson Publishing company, and contains these statements:
"In regions of the country where resistance was most apt to develop we saw to it that virus diseases struck, and when antibiotics threatened our program, we devised other means of vitiating the populace. Fluoridation of drinking water was found to be about the most successful. We directed our cadres in the medical and dental fields to beat the drums for ‘protection' of children's diseased teeth, by adding fluorides to water - and saw to it that no one informed the public that fluorides affected brain and nerve cells to such a degree that initiative was reduced. In other words, we used the same system on the American public which animal trainers use on jungle beasts to make them docile.(1)
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(1) Fluorides ingested in any form, or any medium, by human beings,
have the same effect on humans as they have on animals. this is
apparent by the effects Saltpetre has on man's nature, as it has
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A letter of information having wide circulation and for which we have the writer's personal permission to quote, is of paramount importance and will answer the many who have requested us to supply them with information of the subject.
Charles Eliot Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, according to his own statement, was sent by the United States Government to help take charge of the I.G. Farbin chemical plants in Germany at the end of the second world war. What follows are quotations from a letter which Mr. Perkins wrote to Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dated October 2, 1954. Mr Perkins has personally given us permission to use the contents of this letter:
"I have your letter of September 29 asking for further documentation regarding a statement made in my book The Truth About Water Fluoridation to the effect that the idea of water fluoridation was brought to England from Russia by the Russian communist Kreminoff.
"The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population of whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce sterility in the women(2) and so on. In this scheme of mass control, sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place.
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(2) Refer to the statements made by Ana Pauker and Bertrand Russell,
quoted throughout the present work.
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"We are told by the ideologists who are advocating the fluoridation of water supplies in this country that their purpose is to reduce the incidence of tooth decay in children, and it is the plausibility of this excuse, plus the prominence of those who are responsible for the present spread of artificial water fluoridation in this country.
"However - and I want to make this very definite and very positive - the real reason behind fluorination is not to benefit children's teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could be done that are much easier, cheaper and far more effective. The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty....(3)
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(3) Refer to the statements made by Ana Pauker and Bertrand Russell
relative to the means and methods used for the subjugation and
deterioration of those the heartless and Souless enemy seeks to
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"In the rear occiput of the left lobe of the brain there is a small area of brain tissue that is responsible for the individual's power to resist domination. Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluorine will in time gradually reduce the individual's power to resist domination by slowly poisoning and narcotizing this area of brain tissue and make him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him....(4)
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(4) The drugs employed for mass medication of animals for human
consumption produce almost identical results in those consuming
such foods for any length of time.
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"When the Nazis, under Hitler, decided to go into Poland...the German Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific and military ideas and personnel, and the scheme of mass control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian Communists because it fitted ideally into their plan to communize the world...
"I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time....
"I say this with all of the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years' research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine - any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person, mentally or physically."
In a personal letter to Mr. Kissinger of the Lee Foundation, Mr. Perkins further states a fact long known to Biochemists:
"It is a demonstratable biochemical fact, which I have repeatedly proved in my laboratory, that fluorine (the Metallic substance) even in minute amounts, over a period of time, destroys the enzymes which make possible the utilization of vitamins, minerals and other necessary food components for the care and maintenance of the human body.(5) We who are fighting water fluorination should confine our efforts to bringing this information forcefully and clearly to the public.
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(5) Perhaps this, in addition to the destructive power of Sodium
Fluoride, is why the deterioration of vitality and health is do
rapid when the substance is taken into the system, especially
so in the case of children, and why even dental paste manufacturers
warn against its use before the age of six to nine.
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The identical results follow the feeding of the various Toxic drugs to animals. These do two things: They destroy the vital elements normally in the meat of the animal, and make the meat unnutritous, and generally unfit for human consumption.
In a personal letter to the present writer, Mr. Perkins further states:
"In my letter you will notice that I make it clear that, although the idea of artificial water fluoridation was first conceived and practiced as a Communist technique for control of the masses through specific medication to achieve certain specific sociological results, the main argument against artificial water fluorination is not the fact that it is part and parcel of a Communist technique of mass control, but that is a devastating poison that, over a period of time, completely wrecks the human mind and body by profoundly altering the biochemical composition of the body and seriously interfering with the physiological functioning."(6)
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(6) From our point of view the most diabolical effect is that
this agent softens the mind by degrees, and in time either dethrones
reason, or brings about total insanity.
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What is the Sodium Fluoride that is placed into the drinking water in any communities in America? We first offer a quotation from the authoritative U.S. Dispensary, 1950 edition.
"Owing to its comparatively recent introduction, the clinical efficiency and clinical toxicity cannot be properly evaluated.(7) Although experience with accidental poisoning from roach and ant powders indicates its poisonous properties (see Nicholson, Landers Veterinary Toxicology, p. 945, p. 100), it appears that when used as recommended it is no more toxic for swine than that of chenopodium and phenothiazine. Reasonable precautions must be taken to prevent ingestion of the pure drug or inhalation of the dust(8) by both animals and humans." P.1759.
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(7) When Sodium Fluoride is placed into the water system or in
foods, there is a continuous ingestion of it, and this accumulates
in the system. The smallest possible amount so ingested will in
time become a destructive accumulation. Worst of all, children,
like adults, drink this same Toxically drugged water, perhaps
more so than adults, and dental preparation firms have openly
admitted it is dangerous to children, ages six and/or nine.
(8) Both the Germans under Hitler and the Russians (see Ana Pauker
and others) advocated, and made use of this method for mental
deterioration necessary to enslave or destroy.
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"Fluorides are violent poisons to all living tissues because of their precipitation on calcium.(9) They cause fall of blood pressure, respiratory failure and general paralysis. continuous ingestion of non-fatal-doses, according to Sooman (Journal Pharmacol., 1921, 17, 197) cause general cachexia and permanent inhibition of growth."
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(9) There is a grave misunderstanding relative to Fluorides.
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Sodium Fluoride used in drinking water is a metallic(10) substance. It is an inorganic poison, with great toxic qualities, and cannot be changed by metabolism - human digestion cannot change it. It remains a poison. It accumulates in the system. Its destructive effects increase as time passes.
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(10) Some biochemist find fault with the use of the word "metallic."
However, it is a residue in the manufacture of aluminum which
certainly is a metal, hence we feel that metallic properly classifies
it. However, we have no quarrel with any term employed by others.
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Sodium Fluoride is not an essential to the body, bone or teeth. It is Calcium Fluoride as found in natural foods that is so highly essential. It is organic Calcium in combination with vitamin C complex, not its concentrate, more abundantly found in rose hips and citrus fruits - riboflavin - these are the elements essential to the building of all bony structure and keeps teeth healthy.
For a better understanding of Fluorides they should be separated into three classifications:
1.Sodium Fluorides, a toxic chemical. This is employed in fluoridizing water. It is a poison because it is a Toxic chemical. This type of Fluoride causes precipitations of Calcium. It cannot be metabolized, and the system cannot free itself form it. It accumulates, after the manner of mercury and arsenic.
2.Natural Fluorides. This is found in water in certain districts. This fluoride, though not organic, is associated naturally with other minerals and is not generally Toxic.
3.Organic Fluorides. This is found mostly in vegetables, some fruits and other food substances. It is associated with, and not inimical to natural calcium, and in conjunction with vitamin C and Calcium, is a bone builder and teeth preserver. It is not poisonous, and being metabolized as is calcium and other minerals, it is not cumulative.
Many well informed and experienced physicians possessed of dietary knowledge who are concerned with the welfare of their patients, warn them not to drink water, eat foods or use tooth paste containing Sodium Fluoride, especially not those very young or suffering from kidney or heart disease and/or various other ailments.
Sodium Fluoride possesses three outstanding qualities: It gradually hardens the muscles; it disorganizes the nervous system; it softens the brain. Before - so far as is known - anyone thought of using it in drinking water, it was used as a rat poison. Cattlemen used it to partially sterilize their bulls so that they would be more tractable; possibly - we do not know - it was this usage that gave certain Asiatic enslavers and murderers their idea to employ it in destroying the resistance - will power - of those they wanted to subjugate and/or enslave by first making them robots.
According to reports which have not been contradicted, Dr Leo Spira, M.D., Ph.D., New York, made the statement that:
"It (Sodium Fluoride) deprives the body of calcium(11) (a natural component of all bone). Heart, diabetic and kidney patients are warned not to drink fluoridated water."
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(11) Microscopic examination of the blood of cancer sufferers
shows a great deficiency of Calcium. Metallic-Sodium Fluoride
- destroys Calcium in the system according to many investigators.
There is a further and most important consideration.
Animals fed with rich yellow corn take into their system
large amounts of Natural Calcium and this is built into the flesh
and biochemically - by life chemistry - metabolized by the consumer.
When animals are denied part of this rich Calcium food by the
substitution of Toxic drugs, they are deprived of this Calcium
as well as other mineral and vitamins essential to their own health
and the physical and mental health of men. These drugs tend to
destroy whatever vitamins and minerals may already be in the flesh
of the animals. Eschewing beings called fanatics, we ask the question
many are asking: May this, together with Fluoridation, not be
the cause - or one of them - of the rapid increase of cancer,
muscular diseases and mental weaknesses?
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Dr. Charles Dillon, DDS. LSD., Bristol, England, is credited with the statement:
"Fluoride intoxication is insidious and accumulative(12) especially when the daily dose is small, but its affects are permanent(12) and irreparable."
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(12) It is important to recall that for a long period of time
Syphilis was treated with Mercury. This chemical, like Sodium
Fluoride, was insidiously accumulative and could not be eliminated
from the system by any known means. The end results were so grave
that this method of treatment has been almost entirely discontinued.
Another example is the use formerly made of Arsenic by women for
whitening of the skin. It was found that this did two things:
It brought about the pallid skin by destroying the red corpuscles
of the blood and it, like Mercury, accumulated in the system;
the ultimate, if continued, was Anemia or Tuberculosis.
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Dr. H.V. Smith, of the University of Arizona, is credited with the conclusion that:
"There is ample evidence that mottled teeth, though they are somewhat more resistant to the onset of decay,(13) are structurally weak, and when decay sets in, the results are often disastrous."
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(13) If natural methods were followed such decay could readily
be avoided. This requires only that in addition to undenatured
foods, a plentiful supply of natural vitamin C Complex and Calcium
bone meal be ingested. This would not alone help to keep the teeth
healthy and normal, but benefit the entire system.
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Dr. Paul Manning, D.M.D., LL.B., is reported as having stated:
"Fluoridation is experimental Mass-medication(14) of entire populations by the impregnation of entire water supplies of whole communities (frequently without their consent and against their wishes) with metallic fluorine compounds incapable of being assimilated (as is food), under conditions of duress (14) without cessation of a reasonable chance to escape."
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(14) No experienced and reputable physician would ever approve
of mass medication. His first effort on call, is to try and find
the cause of the ailment, and then prescribe the proper medication.
To advocate any remedy, even though natural, to be given a person
who is not ill, is, by its reaction, liable to be causative of
disease. It is certain that nine out of every ten reputable physicians
would denounce mass medication of the physically well.
Perhaps the two largest groups of people most conscious
and concerned about their people's well-being and health, are
the Catholics and Jews, and for this great credit must be given
them whatever our personal opinion of race or creed may be.
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Msgr. Thomas J. Riley is reported responsible for the following statement appearing in The Pilot, official publication of the Archdiocese of Boston, Mass., April 1956:
"There is no officially expressed attitude of the Church(15) on this question. The arguments pertain to the field of science and must be evaluated by experts in this field. If it should be shown that grave injury to public health is occurring because of conditions which would be remedied adequately by fluoridation, the state would be justified in introducing this means of meeting the difficulty.
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(15) References to statement made by His Holiness, Pope Pius XII
to follow.
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"If competent and recognized authorities in the fields of medicine and public health cannot agree on the merits of fluoridation(16) it would seem that the state should postpone action in the matter."
Rev. Francis J. Connell, Dean of the School of Theology, Catholic University of Washington, D.C., (July 1956), is credited with the statement:
"Even if the majority of citizens want fluoridation they may not impose their will on others(17) by having the public supply of water fluoridated unless it is morally certain that ultimately fluoridation will be more beneficial to the people as a whole, than if it were not used."
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(17) A question to be answered not only be the proponents for
fluoridation but by all the people is this: Have officials the
rights and privileges to impose their own will upon others en
masse which the murderous dictators of Europe did not have? If
the answer is that they have, then wherein are they different,
morally and criminally, from the dictators?
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Rev. Lyle F. Sheen, of St. Malachy's Rectory, Genesoe, Illinois, according to reports, has been militantly engaged in fighting mass medication, and is reported to have said: __American Mercury, December 1956.
"I am on dangerous grounds, not because I may be wrong, but rather because I am right, and too many important people are wrong....Many good men were deceived into joining this hideous plot. Fluoridation is a super-colossal hoax....False friends will desert me, but as a priest and an intelligent man, I am compelled to speak. For the sake of money or social position, I refuse to betray my helpless parish and friends....I could not face their scorn on Judgment Day when they learn that I knew what sodium fluoride was, and did not tell them."
The Brooklyn Tablet, a leading Catholic Publication of Greater New York, is reported to have printed this statement editorially in its fight against fluoridation:
"Water contaminated with fluorides can be the cause of premature births and abortions" __see Catholic Mirror of Springfield, Mass., March 1952, "...which also printed ‘Fatalities due to premature birth, according to the U.S. Bureau of Vital Statistics, constitute one of the ten leading causes of death in the western and south central states, where fluoridine contaminated water supplies are of common occurrence".
It is common knowledge that the foreign dictators believed that Sodium Fluorides would cause miscarriage and abortion and directed one use of it for that purpose. It is authoritatively shown that it will do this - knowing its action on certain portions of the human system - then the use of fluoridated water for human consumption by Catholics (and all others as well if consciously used) would constitute a cardinal sin.
His Holiness Pope Pius XII, in the Moral Limits of Medical Research and Treatment, September 14, 1952, is reported responsible for this statement:
"The great post war trials brought to light a terrifying number of documents testifying to the sacrifice of the individual to the `medical interests and community'...medical experiments immediately and directly affecting the physical being.(18) Public authority has no power in this sphere. It cannot, therefore, pass it on to research workers and doctors."
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(18) Anything that has a detrimental - a toxic or poisoning effect
- on the physical man, also has a direct and detrimental effect
upon both the mind and the Spiritual being. The Pope, as the leader
of millions throughout the world, was fully justified in his pronouncement.
Fluoridation without the consent of the people, or even with their
consent, if they are ignorant of its effects on mind and body,
cannot be justified. It is forced experimentation upon vast numbers
who cannot, or are unprepared, to resist and protect themselves
and their families. The writer is neither Catholic nor Jew and
cannot be accused of favoring either.
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Ever since the time of Moses, the Jews have been extremely sensitive of health conditions and against anything, especially food - water is an integral part of food - that would interfere with physical and mental normalcy. This is so clearly indicated by their edict against pork in their diet.
New York City has been called the City of the Jews. Although New York City is one of the largest in the world, and the state of health of the people is of prime importance, it does not have fluoridation of its water supply (1957). This failure to fluoridize is unquestionably due to the findings and conclusions of the New York Water Commissioner, and is to his eternal credit.
The opinion of Author C. Ford, Commissioner, was published and has been widely circulated throughout the country by the Greater New York Committee Opposed to Fluoridation and, because of its straightforwardness and clarity, is here reproduced in full:
Arthur C. Ford, Commissioner
"Under the City charter, the Commissioner of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity is charged with the responsibility of maintaining the purity and wholesomeness of the city water supply. The matter of purity has a direct bearing on the people, and involves the determination and evaluation of the tolerance of suspect, hazardous or toxic substance.
"The department has extensive laboratories staffed by reputable scientists and competent sanitary engineers, with a massive library in which is contained over five thousand references on the subject of the fluorides alone. We have continued to study and evaluate the effect of toxic substances as related to water supply. The matter of fluorides has been under our scrutiny for over 20 years.
"The addition of fluorides to the water supplies is not coupled with the concern of maintaining or improving the quality of the water or making it safe. No one has suggested that dental caries is a water-born disease or that water is a cause of dental decay. No satisfactory reason has ever been advanced to show why everyone in a community must be compelled to risk life-long extraordinary exposure to the toxic action of fluorides, particularly when safer, more effective and more economical ways of administering fluorides for caries prevention is children's teeth have been pointed out and are available.
"Whatever the merits of fluoridation, it would not concern us as a department if the question of water supply safety were not involved. But we are concerned, and, like yourself, in all conscience, our concern is primarily with the safety of the water supply for each and every individual of our entire population of eight million people throughout the City.
"We are aware that the fluorides are extremely toxic substances, and evidence exists to show that even at the recommended level of one part per million of fluoride in drinking water, people in fluoridated communities have been harmed. A very small percentage among a population of eight million, sensitive to the chemical and adversely affected, would constitute a serious significant number of persons harmed.
"We know of reputable, independent medical authorities throughout the United states and in the local area who have found evidence of fluoride damage to persons living in fluoridated communities. These medical authorities disagree with the fluoride hypothesis, and they have raised grave questions with respect to the safety of the procedure for an entire population which includes the young, the old, the susceptible and the infirm as well as the healthy.
No one has made a claim that the ingestion of fluoride can be of benefit to the teeth beyond the formative years of childhood. Because of this, and for reasons of safety and economy, this department has proposed that the City distribute fluorine tablets through health stations, free of charge, for parents to administer to children. The cost to the City, ascertained at less than 25 cents for a thousand days' supply for each child, would be less than one-fifth of the cost of a fluoridated water program. Tablets (a pharmaceutical grade in contrast with the commercial by-product used in water fluoridation) would provide and exact procedure, under control, to be taken only by those during the formative period of their teeth.
"Fluoride, besides being a toxic substance, is not all excreted when taken into the system, a significant percentage remaining cumulatively. Fluoridation of the drinking water at any level of concentration is a very indiscriminate procedure, since children drink widely varying amounts of water, each according to taste, physical activity and seasonal variations of the year. The daily intake of one child often differs greatly from that of another who may drink milk, fruit juices and soft drinks in abundance.
"How then, will each child receive its appropriate share of water having a given concentration in parts per million of fluoride?
"The problem of managing the control of dosage of fluoride chemical to obtain uniformity throughout a gridwork of more than 5000 miles and tunnels involving different sources and pressure gradients, as in the New York system, is formidable. None of those who have made statements to the contrary have ever had the experience nor do they possess knowledge of what the exact result would be. Our concern and responsibility in the department is to provide the people of our city with a dependable supply of the purest and safest water possible. No one can guarantee similar safety to all the people in the City of New York under a program using the water supply as a fluoride vehicle.
"The people of the City of New York are entitled to know the risk they are being asked to assume before endorsing a program involving so many questions yet unanswered.
"Unfortunately the forum on the subject of fluoridation is not as open as it should be, even among professions. Although this reply to your letter is written at length, it is impossible here to do more than call attention to the complex nature of your fluoride proposal. There has been too much of mass hysteria, blind following and lack of objective thinking by too many people on both sides of the question. We believe the serious nature of what you are proposing and supporting deserves all of your objectivity in inquiry and thought, and a good look at all of the facts."
Very truly yours,
Arthur C. Ford, Commissioner
The 1939 Year Book, Pages 212-213, under the title Food and Life, warned:
"It is especially important that Fluorine be avoided from birth to the age of 12 years." Parents should bear this in mind."
A number of the larger manufacturers of toothpaste warn
that it should not be used by children under a certain age. Where
fluoridation is in force, babies in arms, both directly and in
their mother's milk, ingest this poison(19), and frequently two
and three times as much as adults, because as a rule they consume
greater quantities of liquids. If it is a Toxic poison in toothpaste
where the proportion is small, and there is danger in its consumption
by children, what then happens to those children who consume it
constantly in the water supply? If it is a poison up to nine years
of age, how is it possible for it to be other than a poison after
that age?
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(19) Worst of all, and most criminal - bearing in mind what proponents
have to say about not giving sodium fluoride to children before
their ninth year, the mother-to-be where there is fluoridation,
will consume this Toxic substance all during her pregnancy when
the fetus is most delicate and impressive.
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One of the most sane, reasonable and logical articles ever published, appeared in The Freeman, July, 1956 edition, and written by Fordon B. Leitch, M.D., a practicing physician and surgeon on the editorial staff of Northwest Medicine. His views are the result of true American-spirited reasoning on individual rights and are not ideologies designed to destroy man's individual rights of free choice.
"As long as any semblance of voluntarism remains with respect to the care or abuse anyone may lavish upon one's own person, it would seem reasonable to propose that use of fluorinated water to combat tooth decay also be left to the will and judgment of each individual.(20)
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(20) Sodium fluoride does not build or preserve teeth. It is a
metallic - mineral - substance that cannot be metabolized by the
system. It is Calcium in conjunction with natural fluoride as
found principally in natural foods such as fruits and vegetables
together with the vitamins and other minerals that builds and
preserves body and teeth.
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"That means keeping fluoride out of community water supply. In the United States of America a person may use reasonable argument and persuasion to his heart's content; but it is a violation of the moral law (and certainly of the Spiritual Law) at least for one individual to try and compel or force another individual to do, or not to do, something against the latter's will.(21)
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(21) This, if accepted under pressure, is paternalism, and the
means to "ultimate tyranny because all paternalism pre-supposes
the feebleness of the individual paternalized." __George
Wendell Mayey, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 1943. The Equilibrium
Between Liberty and Government.
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"Nor is the moral law changed in the slightest if such an individual is joined by other individuals to form a committee, community, society, or a majority, bent on compelling another individual to do something against the latter's will.(22) These collective entities have no right or privileges different from those of the individuals comprising them. The moral law is not a matter of numbers.
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(22) If this is successful, it is tyranny. Wilhelm von Humboldt
is credited with the opinion: "In proportion as each individual
forgets his personal responsibilities and relies upon the helpful
vigilance of the State, he abandons to its responsibility the
fate and well-being of his fellow-citizens....The inevitable tendency
of such abandonment is to deaden the living force of sympathy
and to render the natural impulse of mutual assistance inactive."
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"The toxicity of sodium fluoride is not open to question insofar as the chemical itself is concerned. If anyone doubts that it is a deadly poison, he can quickly end the doubt - and risk doing the same with his life - swallowing enough of the white powder to cover a nickel, a lethal dose. How toxic it may be when minutely diluted simply has not as yet been scientifically determined. Claims of absolute safety are still in the realm of unsubstantiated opinion, and, to say the least, hazardous in the face of the known cumulative nature of the substance.
"In the face of the substance's known toxicity, and while the hazards and uncertainties involved in its ingestion from a community water supply remain unresolved, what can those opposed to fluoridation do to protect their rights should they be a minority without political resource? They must rely largely upon an appeal to reason. They might reasonably advocate that those wishing to use fluoride for themselves or their children utilize sodium fluoride tablets, which are available in precise dosage, or drops from a stock solution precisely compounded at the corner drug store. Or why not fluoridize salt, toothpaste, a brand of milk, or some other commodity readily available in the free market, in contrast to fluoridation of a monopolized product such as the community water supply?"Or if the majority, disregarding these readily available and cheaper alternatives, still insists upon fluoridating water, why not look into the possibility of injecting fluoride at the point where the water enters each home, thus allotting each family its choice in the matter?
"Whether to attach the fluoridation equipment ahead of or behind the water softener might be a problem in some homes. This raises another question: If the majority should insist on fluoridated community water regardless would it then be illegal for a person to install water treating equipment which would remove the fluoride from his own portion of the water supply?(23)
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(23) Most of the highest authorities questioned admit frankly
that there is no known method to remove fluorides once added to
the water.
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"Would such a nonconformist be deemed a toothless menace to the community and hailed into court for violating the law or endangering the public health?
"The role and interest of public health authorities in fluoridation should not be lightly dismissed. The Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service has publicly predicted that nation-wide research ‘will produce sooner than we think findings capable of turning public health work upside down.'
"In discussing mass application methods for preventing non-infectious disease - many alert observers consider fluoridation the trial run or pilot plant test for such mass medication methods - Dr. Leonard Scheele told a 1953 Washington conference of state and territorial health and hospital authorities that community-wide attack on ‘far more serious diseases than dental decay' probably will be forthcoming after laboratory tests have paved the way.
"Those opposing water fluoridation and other believers in the libertarian way of life might reasonably ask if there is any logical end to such public health measures.(24)
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(24) The inevitable end would be tyranny such as known in Germany,
Russia and the Satellite nations.
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"Why not public regulation of the amount of candy and sweets and other tooth-decaying foods to be allowed each person? Why not a law to assure regular brushing and other tooth care? Or is community-wide fluoridation supposed to relieve the individual of all necessity for exercising any other precautionary measures against tooth decay."
Many physicians of the highest reputation - and their number is daily increasing - are openly opposed to fluoridation of water, for a number of reasons, strongest among them that it is mass medication, and no experienced, reputable physician, will endorse any form of medication for the well, and none for the ill until after a careful examination to know, or have a plausible idea of what medication should be. The act otherwise would be worse than empiric; it would be charlatanism in a dangerous form.
Jonathan Forman, M.D., Editor Ohio State Medical Journal, and Professor of Medicine, Ohio State Medical Journal, and Professor of Medicine, Ohio State University:
"I am opposed to adding fluorine to the public water supply because:
"1. There is no evidence(25) that fluorine is essential to any of life's processes.(26)
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(25) Here we have a positive statement with which every experienced
dietitian and biochemist will agree. Fluorine, except that which
is in combination with Calcium and other minerals in organic matter,
cannot be assimilated by, and built into, any part of the human
body.
(26) The humanitarian is not as concerned with the possibility of mottling of teeth as he is with the purpose for which fluorine has been employed by Asiatic dictators, and what it will do to the nerves, muscles and above all, the minds of the American people, both old and young, incapacitating them as human beings.
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"2. Our government has no right to mottle one tooth of one child in a million,Yet all admit there is some mottling. The margin of safety between the protection and mottling levels is very narrow.
"3. Fluorine hardens other bones as well as teeth and makes them brittle.
"4. Fluoridation at best will only partially prevent tooth decay.(27)
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(27) Dietitians of long experience challenge this statement. It
is not Fluorine, But Calcium in addition or combination with natural
Fluorine and vitamin C Complex that will do this.
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"5. Even in the proposed dilution, fluorine will inhibit those life processes which have to do with the body's use of starches and sugars. It will also inhibit the function of enzymes which control the condition of nerve impulses.(28) Fluorine often acts as an antagonist to iodine(29) and substitutes itself for that element.(30) We ought to know more about the goiter-producing capacity of fluorides before we begin to drink them.
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(28) It is precisely for this reason that the foreign enemies
of mankind employed this Toxic element. Any element which has
a tendency to undermine the nerves will do the same thing to the
brain structure. In shattering the nervous system it at the same
time softens the brain so that thought, reason, and action, will
develop only to a certain degree in the young, and reduce it to
a like degree in older people.
(29) The experienced physician is concerned with the development of goiter as it affects man's physical and mental health. Every Endocrinologist is fully aware of the importance of iodine in supplying the thyroids with this very important element so essential for mental development and the normal functioning of the mind. Any thing, whether it be lack of vitamins and minerals as a result of the denaturing of food, or the addition of additives in food processing which interferes with such development, must be avoided if there is to be mental health.
(30) It was the totalitarian dictators of enslaved countries
who, so far as known, first employed Sodium Fluorides for the
purpose of making human puppets out of the people, reducing them
mentally to near morons, by bringing about mental degeneracy that
they might be easily governed. It is therefore a totalitarian
method and based on subjection which cannot be termed anything
less than tyranny. It is this phase of fluoridation that first
aroused the people against it.
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"6. To make it compulsory to take this medicine is totalitarianism.
"7. Howell and his associates used stannous fluoride painted on the teeth and obtained as great a reduction in decay as was ever done by adding salt to the drinking water.(31)
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(31) This was, and is an individual matter between physicians
and patient, and the patient is not subject to compulsion.
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"8. The sensible proposal is made to give to each family where there are children of proper age tablets with which they could fluoridate their own drinking water. this should be as effective and cost only a fraction of the present proposal.
"9. General fluoridation is not justified from the viewpoint of the taxpayer. Only about 10 per cent of the water is consumed by humans but all must be fluoridated.
"10 There are dangers. The machinery gets out of order rather often. The salt corrodes the pipes....
"11. Fluorine is not to be confused with chlorine which we now add to our water to prevent the spread of communicable disease and make it ‘pure.' This is a public health measure justified in that it protects the citizens when they cannot protect themselves against germs of disease. Dental decay is a personal and individual problem and is not contagious...."12. The method of calculating the dosage is against every medical practice. Medicine is always figured on the amount per pound of body weight or the severity of the condition. Here we are to take it without any thought to how much water we drink or the need of it, and we may be toothless. The diabetic with his great thirst and the person with arteriolchlerotic kidneys will get far more than some well person and in these cases it is counter indicated. Likewise the amount you take on a hot day will be more than on a cool day.
"13. Fluoridine is not tolerated by children who might need it most - the obese candy-eating child and the poor child living mostly on starches.
"14. People may be led into thinking their dental problems are over. They may forget that diet and lack of dental exercise still play major roles in causing decay.
"15. ....of those engaged in basic research who are opposed to fluoridation are Dr. Hart, the dean of American Nutritionists at the University of Wisconsin, and Clive McCoy of Cornell, recognized as men outstanding in dental research in nutrition; Prof. Neuman of Columbia; V.O. Hume, director of research in the Forsythe Dental Infirmary in Boston; the Drs. Taylor of the University of Texas, and Paul H. Philips, professor of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin."16. Fluorine in natural water may, if too great an amount harm the teeth, while it does not if the water that is so hard fluorine is bound to the calcium (lime) and thus is not available for absorption into the body."
Jonathan Forman, M.D.
Editor Ohio State Medical Journal
Professor of Medicine, Ohio State University
Below are late fluoridation data contained in an address before the N.Y. Advertising Club June 27, 1956, by Laboratory Director Benjamin E. Nesin, who is in charge of the rigidly-trained chemical staff having the duty of making safe N.Y. city's great water supply.
"The Water Supply profession cannot guarantee the comprehensive safety of fluoridation...No matter how carefully fluoride is introduced at the treatment plant, no one is in a position to guarantee the amount which may occur at any particular point in the distribution system, or the more varying amounts consumed by individuals.
"The discovery of fluoride in kidney stones is a very recent finding....It must be stated that the support given fluoridation by most of the endorsers has no scientific value....The intake of fluoride is at least three-fold greater - and more likely five times greater - for the individuals living in communities with water supplies fluoridated at the recommended level....
"It is indicated that an individual exposed to lifelong ingestion of fluoridated water consumes at least fifty times more than is required for the claimed partial prevention of dental caries in children....Mottling of teeth is inevitable where the water supply is fluoridated at the recommended level.
"Dr. Paul Philips, an outstanding investigator in fluoride research, says: ‘Fluoridation cannot meet its proponents' claim that is will prevent caries'....The cumulative effect of fluoride in bones leads to deformity and crippling - an established medical entity....
"It is impossible to underwrite fluoridation with a factor of safety....Our Water Dept. does not specifically recommend that any one take fluoride, since it is aware of cases where the very small quantities recommended for children have been toxic....Dr. Alton Ochsner, an outstanding physician-surgeon, states: `I am convinced that there are very few people who know much about fluoridation.' In general it must be stated that the average physician or dentist is not critically informed on the subject...."It is difficult to see how public health authorities can guarantee the safety of fluoridation....The whole concept of fluoridation is a perversion of hard-earned experience acquired in the development of safe water supply practice."
The universal question asked by those who are truly American, law abiding, health conscious, and uncertain what procedure to follow in protecting the bodies, minds and spiritual welfare of loved ones, is:
"What can we do if, against our will, the water supply
is fluoridated?"
The answer is simple, but not always easy to carry out, especially
in those districts where the sources of water are limited.
Do not use fluoridated water in the family either for drinking or cooking purposes. If fresh springs are available, go there for your water supply. If they are not then buy bottled water. It is cheaper than doctor bills for undermined physical and mental ills, and may save you hours, perhaps months or years of mental agony.
New york City held public hearings on fluoridation at which
some 700 attended. These hearings were concluded March 7th, 1957.
One of the chief witnesses was Water Supply Commissioner, Arthur
C. Ford. He charged that "at best fluoridation delays(32)
tooth decay for two years, that there is proof of fluoride damage
to persons in fluoridated communities and that concentrations
of fluorides in the city's water pipes could not be controlled."
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(32) After 55 years of practice as a Dietitian, being one of the
first men in America to maintain that diet could prevent many
diseases, and help eliminate many ailments afflicting the human
race - I repeat: It is not Fluorine that builds sound teeth and
maintains them in a health state, but organic vitamin C Complex
and organic Calcium. Vitamin D and Phosphorus is a natural associate
of organic Calcium. There are no poor teeth where a sufficient
amount of these elements is supplied the system in the foods ingested.
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The Daily News, March 8th, 1957, reported:
"Fluoridation of New York's drinking water appeared doomed yesterday on the basis of comments by the eight Board of Estimate members who sat through a heated 14-hour public hearing of the proposal. The hearing ended at 2 A.M. yesterday.
"A majority of the Board expressed serious doubts and one member, Queens Borough President James Lundy, said: ‘I am ready to vote now - and vote no. The hearing strengthened my original conviction'
"Want more time:
"Mayor Wagner and Bronx Borough President James Lyons took a cautious view, saying they want more time for study. Consensus around City Hall was that the proposal will be knifed without being submitted to a referendum, but that nothing will happen until after the fall election.
"Other official comments were: Controller Lawrence Gerosa - ‘I am gravely concerned over the long-range possibilities of harmful effects.'
"Manhattan Beep Hulan Jack - ‘We have to be sure that all the hazards are eliminated or controlled. We'd better go slow.'
"Staten Island Beep Albert Maniscalco - ‘Before the hearing I was confused. After a 14-hour bombardment of conflicting facts from both sides I am completely baffled.'"Council President Abe Stark - ‘The more I look into it the more I hesitate. It might be good to hear from the five county medical societies. Who am I to decide?'
"Brooklyn Beep John Cashmore - ‘Wait until the American Medical Association submits its re-evaluation in December. I still question the advisability of giving fluoridated water to diabetic and others with ailments'."
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