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Show Page 2 The UTAH INDEPENDENT April 28, 1972 The Independent Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free." J. Rmm Hunter Editors Outlook Fluoridation by Force they want to. Why not let each person decide for himself instead of fluoridating everyones drinking water? Why J. Reese Hunter Even though their i as to fluoridate the water supplies have been turned down by a vote of the people, and even though the state legislature has refused time and time again to legalize fluoridation, the fluoridationists are still alive and active. Their present leader, Dr. Harry L. Gibbons, Director Health Department an appointed and therefore not elected body , has arrogated to himself and the Board of Health powers that previous fluoridationists dared not assume. It is his claim that he, under the direction of the Board of Health, already has the power to put fluoride into the public drinking water whether or not the people give their consent. According to him, the issue does not need to be voted upon by the people, nor are they even required to hold a public hearing. No fluoridationist has heretofore claimed such power! In this instance, Dr. Gibbons stands head and shoulders above his predecessors and represents the epitome of bureaucratic arrogance. Instead of exercising the proper police power to protect peoples rights our government now wants to exercise the powers of a police state to take away their rights. In a police state the individual has no rights and thus no power of appeal. Dr. Gibbons described the police state perfectly as he outlined what he erroneously thought were powers belonging to him and the Board of Health. Where do the dentists stand on this issue? Generally, the dentists believe in limited government with freedom of choice. On this one issue, however, many of them follow the dictators path. Unfortunately, some of them agree with the thinking of the dentist of Salt Lake City (who shall remain anonymous) who had the following true conversation with your editor: of Health of the City-Coun- ty not let them have the freedom of choice? Dentist exact quote J: Because the people are too stupid to know whats good for them! Editor: Those are the very same words used by every socialist would-b- e dictator who ever lived to justify totally controlling the lives of other people. There are those today who also advocate, putting birth control medicines in the water supply if people dont voluntarily limit the size of their families. If some people want larger families, according to the birth controllers, they dont know whats good for them and the rest of us. Their basic reasoning is the same as yours, doctor, which is that they know what is good for other people more than the people do themselves. Furthermore, they intend to use force to get people to do what they think is good for them. Dentist I laughing!: Well, the millenium will be here in ten years so we dont have to worry about the birth control problem. The next meeting of the Board of Health when fluoridation will be considered is on Thursday, May 4th at 7:30 a.m. (in the morning). The location is the County Health Auditorium, 6 1 0 South 2nd East. The people of this area who value their rights as free people should fill that hall to overflowing. Lets let them know that if they try to literally force fluoridated water down our throats they are not only going to hear our voices raised in protest, they are also going to find out that they have a bearcat by the tail. TERRIFYING 1984 SIGHT Editor: Doctor , why not give people the fluoride tablets to put into their own drinking water? Dentist: They wont do it. Even in my own family they wont do it. For example , I gave my own daughter fluoride tablets for her family and she never came back for a refill! Indicating she did not use them.! Editor: Im not opposed to people using fluoride if - Independenf The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Friday at 1399 South 7th East, Suite 9, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105. Yearly subscription rate is $4.00 per year by surface mail in the United States. Send change of address forms and correspondence to Do you recall seeing on your TV screens last month, during the presidential visit to Red China, that snow storm in Peking? Thousands upon thousands of Chinese swarmed into the streets to sweep the snow away. Time magazine said that Americans there, witnessing the scene, received a startling lesson in social cooperation. And Time was not above misleading us a bit when it added that the visitors detected a civic spirit and camaraderie that are spectacularly missing in U.S. The word camaraderie implies good the present-da- y fellowship, happy banter back and forth, etc. However, a TV newman remarked that this sight was the most vivid of any he had seen in Red China some 200,000 Chinese sweeping snow in complete silence. Is Time kidding anyone but itself when it speaks of civic spirit in almost the same sentence in which it admits that citizens who neglected their duties would be severely chastised? And that complete silence so among many thousands may indicate camaraderie to Time, but the real explanation is very different. In the March issue of the magazine New Guard , there is an interview by Mike Thompson with a Chinese who escaped from the mainland only a year ago. Mr. Thompson asked him if there are any freedoms allowed to the people in Red China. He answered that they do not have any kinds of freedom to travel or to read or to speak. He said: Nobody can whisper to one another nobody can talk on the sly one If another. among you whisper you may be suspected of something harming to the communists. So, people are not allowed to talk or whisper. That is why we witnessed the terrifying 1984 sight of 200,000 Chinese .sweeping streets in, goipplete silence. Time then voiced a. thought echoed ,by several others among our advocates of cooperation with comfnunis that In the long run, one of the.most important questions about the U.S. and China will be just how much the two countries can learn from each other. No matter what Time thinks we lack in civic spirit, is this what we want to learn? Americas Future 27-year-- . - - -- 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest-Growin- g Subscription Weekly - - ReeidoFS' miftlook Success in Tennis Dear Editor: Recently, I read an article on abortion in the Deseret News. The tennis star, Billie Jean King, was quoted as saying she had an abortion before one of her most successful seasons of tennis. She felt a woman has the right to choose whether or not to have a child. I agree with this stated right; however, I think Billie Jean had the opportunity in several different ways to choose whether or not to become pregnant. Once she does become pregnant, a new individual has also gained rights. Most important to this unborn individual is the right to live. I believe that in this abortion, Billie Jean admitted her career was more important to her than a human life. Neva Borden Salt Lake City Compliance Officers Dear Editor: If the businessmen and farmers of America dont rise up with a roar at the trampling of their rights as free men by the Occupational Safety Act (OSA) enforcers, Ill be disappointed. If they dont stand up and oppose the tyranny now being imposed on them by the attitude and acts of the OSA, then we are done as a constitutional republic and as free men. You who are at the guns muzzle, dont you know there is nothing constitutional in the entire spectrum of activities of the OSA compliance officers? Have you forgotten that you dont have to be a witness .(5th against yourself Have Amendment)? you forgotten that every man has a right to freedom from arbitrary Continued On Page 3 |