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BACKLASH!

Doug Cross, 5th March 2009

The Department of Health finally got its fluoridation 'precedent' -
but now the people are making it plain that
'No! means NO'!

The ruthless rejection of public opinion against fluoridation in Southampton last week by the South Central Strategic Health Authority provided a savage reality check. It at last convinced people that, in the Brave New World of Mr Brown's Britain, democracy has been officially abolished. Now we know just how far these deranged extremists will go in their attempts to force everyone to consume their quack medicine, regardless of medical opinion, scientific evidence, or even the dictates of the law itself.

But the SHA - and of course, the Department of Health itself - have bitten off very much more than they can chew by their arrogant dismissal of the democatic process. The resentment of the rigid burocracy that has been simmering quietly, not just in Southampton but across the entire country, is developing into outright rebellion, as a furious public prepares to take a stand and say, with force if necessary, that "No means NO!".

The crumbling regime of this sad British Government has taken leave of what little common sense it ever had. Over the past couple of decades the Health Sector has gone from an apparently benevolent provider of assistance to the afflicted to an arrogant, dictatorial and lethally incompetant bully. Where once we had the listening State, now we have the listing State, addicted to surveillance, targets, goals and quotas that have no relationship to the needs of the people, but are designed purely to preserve the status quo of an over-blown and incompetant administration.

And now things are turning very ugly. The first target of the people seems to be the Water Company, but Southern Water is the wrong outlet for public fury. It is no more than a fly caught in the web of Government deceit and corruption. The cynical 'Consultation Programme' always was no more than a charade, an excuse to allow the State to promote the illusion that it recognises the right of the people to influence public policy.

Allowing SHAs to order private Companies to make and supply to the public an unavoidable and illegal product merely deflects public anger and media attention away from the real promoters of this discredited practice, the British Fluoridation Society, whose members have been quietly dripping their misinformation and distortions into gullible politicians' ears for decades.

But this madness goes far deeper than even the blandishments of these small-town fanatics. The confrontation in Southampton is only part of the global

obsession to protect at any cost the holy brand name 'FLUORIDE'. Its cynical commercial promotion is totally out of control - the brand is now so over-stretched by its universal use in dental products, and the inevitable damage to health that results from over-dose, that it is now impossible for the proponents to back off and admit that less may indeed be better.

This irrationality is a global disaster, affecting otherwise sane politicians and health professionals, mainly in English-speaking countries, right around the world. Be under no illusions - if rejection of water fluoridation here in the UK throws a shadow on 'fluoride', then the brand, in its many forms and presentations, will take a global battering from which it will never recover. It happened to asbestos, it is happening now with mercury dental amalgams (also endorsed by the dental profession), and now it's starting to happen with fluoride.

As the evidence grows that indiscriminate misuse of fluoride is leading to a pandemic of chronic fluoride poisoning, the disclaimers from the fanatical proponents become ever more strident and ridiculous. The fiasco of the Southampton 'Consultation' may seem to be just a little local disturbance, but it has at last exposed to an astonished public just how far the extremists and apologists for this discredited practice are prepared to go to impose their irrational and - for some at least - deadly illusion on a mainly disbelieving public.

The civil disobedience now boiling to the surface in Southampton will grow more strident and insistent as the Government attempts to bluff out this round with its pathetically weak hand. And it is already spreading rapidly, as people elsewhere in England wake up to the realisation that the Department of Health's treasured precedent in Southampton has suddenly become relevant to them and their families, unavoidably and immediately, across almost the entire country.

For weeks now the Government has been quietly preparing for the new assault on the public, from Essex to Somerset, Hampshire to Yorkshire. The Southampton charade provided diversion for covert preparations across the country, and we will now see a sudden escalation of new proposals, already half-prepared and ready for rapid imposition on frustrated - but no longer complacent or ignorant - people. The real confrontation between the British public and the tyranical State has only just begun. It will not end until the principle that the State is the servant of the people, and not the master, has once again been established.