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David faces up to Goliath in the fluoride arena.

Totton and Eling Town Council challenges Health Authority over the legitimacy of water fluoridation.

Doug Cross, 5th April 2011

The arrogant members of the Board of the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) are determined to defy overwhelming public opposition to fluoridation. They have just confirmed that they have ordered Southern Water to fluoridate the public drinking water supply to 190,000 people in the City of Southampton.

The SHA had been stalled in its ambition to fluoridate Southampton's water supplies by Mrs Geraldine Milner's High Court attempt to challenge the process that it had carried out its autocratic 'public consultation'. But when this was rejected in February, the SHA moved with indecent haste to order Southern Water to prepare to impose fluoridation on the City's population of 190,000.

But it became apparent that some of this contaminated water would spill over into the water supplies to the satellite towns of Totton and Eling, on the western side of Southampton Water. So now, the Totton and Eling Town Council, with 30,000 souls under their care, last week announced that it is standing up to the SHA bullies.

The Council will work with other local Councils to challenge the very foundation of fluoridation, by arguing that fluoride administered in this fashion must be classed as a medicine, as Lord Jauncey ruled in the Court of Session in Edinburgh almost three decades ago.

The basis of the challnge - fluoride is a medicine, and subject to medicinal law.

The fundamental legal issue with fluoridation is its legal status as a product - is it a food or a medicine? The Council is demanding a judicial review to examine the incompatibility of fluoridation law with that of preexisting and superior medicinal law.

And if the Court agrees that fluoridated drinking water is no longer ‘water for human consumption’ - a food - but is indeed a medicine, then the government will be forced to strike out all legislation on fluoridation. Medicinal law demands that any such product must be subject to pharmaceutical-grade quality appraisal, licensing and manufacture. And all medicines must be supplied in a fully labelled container, so they can't just flood unrestrained out of your domestic tap!

Case law is on the Council's side

And they have an excellent case too, because case law precedents have been set in the Scottish, European, and even the Australian Courts on which this plucky Council can rely. The EC’s Drinking Water Directive sets out the quality of potable water, but states at the outset that ‘medicinal waters’ are not coverted by the Directive, and must be regulated solely as medicines.

So if fluoridated water is not drinking water, then pumping it through the pipes to people’s homes provides consumers with a different, and largely unwanted product. This practice is called product substitution, and customers are not obliged to accept or pay for a product if it is not what they expect or require.

This is likely to give Southern Water a bit of a headache if it complies with the SHA's order. And if a customer subequently experiences any form of harm from drinking the product - not an unlikely event, given the overwhelming scientific evidence available - then the government’s offer to indemnify water companies in such actions is worthless. It was provided under the Water Industry Act of 1991, but that only applies to the product drinking water, and not to a medicine!

The legal implications of supplying an unlicensed medicine to people expecting drinking water are too alarming and complex to set out in detail here. But if this brave Council is successful in its day in Court, then a large number of officials in both the health and the water sectors may find themselves facing some very serious charges.

No just a little local disturbance

This ‘David and Goliath’ confrontation to protect the future welfare of our children is of enormous importance, not only here in the UK but around the world, in all those pariah States that indulge in deliberately poisoning their children.

This is the first legal challenge to the practice of fluoridation since the Scottish case in 1983. Lord Jauncey tested the product's legal status inder the defienitions included in the Medicines Act of 1968, which applies to the whole of the UK.

His ruling set an important precedent that is relevant universally, even beyond the shores of the UK. He said that fluoride 'in whatever form it is ultimately purchased' must be classed as a medicine. This is a decision in law, and over-rides any political or administrative refusal to recognise the product as a medicine or drug.

Yet here in the UK this key ruling has been perversely and deliberately ignored. This is the sole foundation on which this discredited practice has been permitted to continue. So Totton and Eling Town Council’s stand could crack the government’s defence wide open, leading to the decision that we have all been waiting for.

If this challenge fades away or fails, and the poisoning of Southampton’s children is allowed to begin, then the Dept of Health will have established the precedent that it craves - one that will enable it to impose the same discredited practice on the constituents of Councils throughout the country.

It is an open secret that the Health Police aim to fluoridate 40% of the national water supplies. The battle for the safety of the children of Totton and Eling is no less than a battle to protect all of our children from the madness of the Nanny State.

Ramping up the pressure - the abolition of Council powers to control public medication

The government’s fluoridation ambition also targets Scotland and Wales, where it has long been blocked by prudent Assemblies. The Dept of Health desperately needs this new precedent if it is to be able to expose more people to this quack medicinal practice. The Southampton project needs to be recognised for what it really is - an attempt to set the necessary precedent for expansion on a national scale.

In 1988 Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council set up our organisation, as NW Councils Against Fluoridation. To the fury of the bureaucrats and the frustration of the Dept of Health we and our Member Councils have been instrumental in stopping fluoridation in the North-West, Yorkshire, Northern Ireland and elsewhere for more than twenty years.

So in the past, Councils have had plenty of clout in deciding whether or not to permit water supplies in their areas to be fluoridated. But the days of our Councils having the power to stop this clinical assault on the public are coming to an end. They will soon be sucked into the centralised public health policy machine of Whitehall, powerless to control its unwelcome policies even in their own backyard. Here’s how it will work.

The public has no right to withhold consent to medical assault

The Water Act of 2003 gave SHAs the power to order water companies to fluoridate, but first they had to ‘consult’. Unfortunately, it turned out that this 'consultation' did not appear to include a requirement to seek the views of the general public! Then, only last month, the High Court confirmed that SHAs only have a duty to invite people to comment, but they aren’t actually required to take any notice of what the people then say - truly a case of "Nanny knows best!"

They can ignore even the most overwhelming public opposition. So after a public poll in Southampton last year, that found that 72% of respondents rejected fluoridation, the SHA simply dismissed public opposition to its plan. It claimed that it considered people to be too ignorant to hold a valid opinion on what was good for their own health, and went ahead anyway.

As far as water fluoridation is concerned, consultation is a completely cynical charade, a sham. But if a judicial review now finds that fluoridated water is indeed a medicine, then its administration becomes an illegal clinical intervention and a gross medical assault on the public. And that most emphatically is not an issue on which the public can be consulted in an attempt to obtain 'consent'!

The new framework - taking power back to Whitehall

From next year a new body, Public Health England, will supervise all new fluoridation projects. Councils will become ‘responsible’ for the preparation for new schemes, although it looks like they won't have any say at all in challenging existing ones. This will be under the supervision of this unelected quango, and the Dept of Health will at last have the power it has craved for years. It will finally be able to ride roughshod over the wishes of the people and those whom they elect to represent them.

Our Councils will no longer have power to resist imposed policy from Westminster, no matter how ill-founded and dangerous that policy may be shown to be. Instead they will only be permitted to carry out pointless sham consultations under close centralised supervision, before the Health Police move in and order the contamination of the water supplies to begin.

Why this Council deserves your moral support, regardless of where you live.

The courageous move by the Totton and Eling Town Council to call for a judicial review of the fluoridation legislation is a vitally important development. It aims to establish that in a democratic society a State cannot impose mass medication, either with or without consent of the public.

Whilst the local Councils in Hampshire will need to join together to bring an action, they deserve the moral support from Councils everywhere in the UK. They deserve to know that they are not alone, and that Councils all over the country are with them in their fight to protect the health and welfare of their children, and the public for whom they speak.

Global significance deserves global support

And because this is of global importance, the Councillors also deserve the support of Councils around the world that are fighting against this State-sanctioned form of mass poisoning. If our little English Council can get a clear judicial ruling that fluoridation is indeed the illegal drugging of communities, then it will have fought a David and Goliath battle and inflicted the most significant and crippling blow against this gigantic medical hoax.

A successful ruling can be relied on in Courts around the world, so if you can persuade your own Councils to send a message of support to our colleagues in Totton and Eling, then please do.

The more Councils we can get behind them, wherever they may be, the greater will be the incentive for others to follow in their bold footsteps. Only by enforcing the law that stops States exercising such arbitrary power will this obscene practice finally be defeated, and our children protected from the lunatic fringe of quack medication.

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