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Show Page 8 The Utah Independent June 24, 1976 Fluoridation Under Attack by John F. McManus The Belmont, Massachusetts who want to force you to people drink fluoridated water wont tell you, but the High Court of Holland recently made fluoridation illegal in that country. The Court gave two main reasons for its ban: (1) a water supply should not be used as a transporter of medicine, and (2) there was scientific evidence linking fluoridation to cancer. If reasons like these make sense in Holland, why not in America, especially since the data linking fluoridation and cancer were compiled by Americans? (The data, from the private National Health Federation of Monrovia, Calif., have been challenged by the government-connecte- Na- d tional Cancer Institute.) Prevent Dental Cavities? The argument in favor of fluoridation, of course, has always been that it will lead to a reduction in dental cavities in children. After studying the case for and against such a contention, we find that the arguments for fluoridation are flimsy at best, and at worst are full of deceit. But you ought to check it out for yourself. For the side, contact the American Dental Association, via any dentist. For the opposing position, we recommend the book Fluoridation and Truth Decay , by researcher Gladys Caldwell and Philip E. Zanfagna, M.D. (Top-Econ ol Press, 18146 Van Owen, Reseda, California 91335, $3.50). Before getting bogged down solely in the pros and cons of the cavity issue, however, you should be aware that there are many other solid argumentsv against fluoridation, having nothing to do with teeth. Any single argument ought to be enough to stop compulsory fluoridation. Some Solid Arguments While the Dutch High Court noted the possible link between fluoridation and cancer, it said nothing about additional statistical evidence linking fluoridation to heart disease. In 1972, a' SOLZHENITSYN SAYS WEST Wisconsin nurse named Isabel Jansen charged that there was a probable causal relationship between an alarming increase in heart-relate- d deaths in her community and the introduction of fluorides into the water supply. With the help of a professional statistician, she later researched national health records and added considerable corroboration to her charge. Another argument HYPNOTIZED BY SOCIALISM against son does wherever it accumulates is still unknown. What About Free Choice? Perhaps the most compelling argument against compulsory fluoridation is a persons right to be left alone. Except perhaps in the event of a contagious epidemic that threatens everyone, the right to refuse medication should be sacrosanct. But how does one refuse what is put into water at its source? Nor is it proper to liken chlorination, which treats water, to fluoridation, which treats people. Years ago, a charge was made that compulsory fluoridation was a Communist-lik- e program because it assumed dangerous totalitarian powers. Many scoffed at such a suggestion. Years later, a Tufts University professor proposed adding birth control drugs to the water supply to control population growth. Whereupon some of the scoffing stopped. Let those who want fluorides purchase and use them to their hearts delight. The rest of us will take care of ourselves, thank you. 1976The John Birch SOCIALISM Continued from page 4 highest and be most admired and worshiped the moment before it -- The United States is not the only Western nation to have been admonished by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, that latter-da- y Jeremiah passionately warning against the snares of detente. The exiled Russian writer, who now lives in Switzerland, took the British to task in a recent lecture over BBC radio, and many were the sins and shortcomings he detailed. Not only did Britain, and all of Western Europe, countenance the enslavement of millions of their fellow Europeans by Soviet communism after World War II, whenever a new tyranny came into existence, however far in China, say, or Laos Britain was always the first to away recognize it, eagerly pushing aside all competitors for the honor. Tank columns rolled in East Berlin, Budapest and Prague, but not once did the British government recall its ambassadors in protest from any of these places. But when five terrorists who had actually committed were executed in Madrid, then the British murder ambassador was recalled and the din reverberated throughout the world. What a hurricane burst forth from the British fluoridation is based on the proponents admission that it will help the teeth of young children only. Why then force everyone to ingest it? It is further universally agreed that fluoride will lead to an effect mottling of teeth which promoters have actually praised. But many doctors will confirm that mottled teeth probably mean mottled bones. In addition, fluorides are known to build up in the body rather than pass through like most other substances. What harm this admittedly dangerous poi- CLICHES OF - - - - Isles! And what of Europe today? asked Solzhenitsyn. It is a more than collection of cardboard stage sets, all nothing v bargaining with each other to see how little can be spent on defense so as to leave more fof the comforts of life. Europe, he says, has of its own accord abandoned not only its strength and influence in world affairs but its intellectual influence as well. Modem society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal dangers it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where its coming from as it moves swiftly towards you... But the greatest danger of all is that you have lost the will to defend yourselves. Solzhenitsyn expressed little hope that the West would heed the warning voices of the oppressed peoples of Eastern Europe. Experience, he acknowledged sadly, cannot be transmitted. Everyone must experience everything for himself. In that respect, Solzhenitsyn may be less akin to the Biblical Jeremiah than to the Greek prophetess Cassandra, who carried the curse of never being believed. But Cassandra, we tend to forget, was also fated always to be right. -A- When our government allows armed criminals to roam our streets it is discriminating against Americans, but if it then denies Americans the right to keep and bear arms it is Society Features being law-abidi- ng law-abidi- ng anti-Americ- ppeal-Democrat Rationing is an enforced procedure that gives more to those who need the least and denies enough to those who need the most, penalizing the poor who cannot pay the black market prices for additional supplies. tumbles. We find in a growing statism the explanation for our double standard of morality. The same person to whom stealing a penny from a millionaire would be un- thinkable will, when the state apparatus is put at his disposal, join in taking billions from everybody, including the poor, to aid and abet his private gain or his personal compassion for those he cannot or will not help with his own resources. In the first instance, we observe the whole man as he acts and, in the second instance, the fragmented man, one whose welfare responsibility rests not with self but with the State. When there is no responsibility for self, the matter of honesty comes no more into question than in the case of an animal. Honesty is a quality peculiar to man, the whole man. This applies equally to the Golden Rule and to all virtues. Speaking solely from the material standpoint, statism is incompatible with any long-rangoal of more goods and services for more people. But natural or free ly ge market and specialization exchange, which we are also experiencing on a large scale, are consistent with such a long-rangoal. They are constructive and creative. This explains the phenomena we have observed during the past four decades: ge natural specialization and exchange, plus the greatest bursts of inventiveness in recorded history, more than compensating for the damage inflicted by statism. There could be no greater error than to conclude that the statism caused the prosperity. But specialization and how of exchange, regardless many inventions, cannot long endure except among a people more noted f or their virtues than for their vices. The first chore indeed, our only hope is to rid ourselves of immoral statism; short of this, we cannot possibly return to moral ways. Unless we can succeed in this venture, we may well witness for the first time in history the spectacle of an economy conferring more and more goods and services on more and more people right up to the point of flying to pieces. Personal morality is the cohesive stuff in an exchange economy and plays a necessary part in the good society; therefore, it is preposterous to say today, We never had it so good. Leonard E. Read out- PARADISE FAMILY Continued from page 1 While the restraining order was supposed to be in effect, the IRS still carried on its Investigation she added. Two months nfto (about February), Henderson was doing an excafating job at a service station in Paradise. Two sons were with him. !'A policman f,rouht the boys home, Mrs. Henderson related. '11iey were crying. They came lhc Policeman where he was 21? Dof J .1 d kiOW The IRS arrcstd him di only had a little more to do and he JVnSdKha.Ve'l,npished with Uiat Jb- - They (the hinj. No summons had been issued. 'nlsh and the service station e.ft with their diesel fuel supply inoperable, which is serious in a farming community. SSiLu" Its hopeless. There are other people in similar situations with the IRS. We put the marker on the front lawn because we uphold the rights given us by the Constitution. 'll: |
