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61. Ban the use of Fluoride in Public Drinking Water and Other Beverages: American indoctrination of fluoridation is thoroughly ingrained. When you tell most people that fluoride is bad for you, they simply can not fathom this truth. Fluoride only has a very small topical benefit to teeth, meaning only marginally beneficial as fluoride passes over the teeth. Ingesting fluoride has absolutely zero benefits what so ever. The below sections only cover a fragment of the data on fluoridation. The best website that I have found is www.loveforlife. If you the reader still has a doubt that fluoride is harmful in any concentration, please visit the before mentioned website and read for yourself. Fluoridation must end, and those who have passed laws allowing this to happen should be indicted for the deaths of millions of Americans.

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Short history of fluoride use. American soldiers who entered Germany at the end of World War II made the liberating of POW camps a priority. Camp after camp, they found stockpiles of fluoride stored near the water supply. When they asked what the fluoride was used for, they were told that the Germans used the substance as an additive to the prisoner’s water, to make them docile and inhibit the questioning of authority. This is the first known incidence of intentionally fluoridating drinking water. (Cristian, 2007)

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“In 1943, researchers from the US Public Health Service examine the health of residents of Bartlett, Texas to see if the 8ppm fluoride in the drinking water was affecting their health. It was checked again in 1953. They find that the death rate in Bartlett was three times higher than a neighboring town which contained 0.4 ppm fluoride.” (Valerian, 1997)

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From 1952 to 1956, the cities on the "fluoridation list" began to fluoridate their water supplies. As the process of water fluoridation continued, the cancer death rate of the fluoridated cities began to far exceed the rate of the unfluoridated cities. (Valerian, 1997)

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As early as 1959, the knowledge existed that the presence of fluoride in human bodies hastens the absorption of radioactive substances present in the environment. In a report to the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine entitled "The Metabolism of Alkaline Earth Metals by Bone" by F.W. Lengemann, professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee on March 23, 1959, it was scientifically shown that the presence of fluorine and other environmental substances such as lead and cyanide in the human body increased the ratio of strontium 90 to calcium in bone - caused the body to absorb radioactives. (Valerian, 1997)

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In 1960, the American Dental Association issued a pamphlet for public consumption called Fluoridation Facts: Answers to Criticisms of Fluoridation. In defense of the use of toxic fluoride compounds in public water supplies (which is a grievous crime against humanity, since it means mandated involuntary public medication), they used the logic that "people have been known to live to a ripe old age" in areas where the water supply is fluoridated. Unfortunately, they neglected to mention that the addition of fluoride to the water supply correlated directly with the number of still births, mongoloid children, brittle teeth and enlarged dental root structures, adverse spinal conditions, osteomalacia (softening of the bones) and osteoporosis (abnormally porous and spaced structure inside bone) in the medicated population as opposed to control populations that were unmedicated. People die young "at a ripe old age". (Valerian, 1997)

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The Federal Drug Administration bans fluoride pills for pregnant women in October 1966, according to Drug News Weekly. The FDA ban was accompanied by the statement that "fluorides use did not impart stronger teeth or prevent tooth decay in the newborn" and that "there is scientific debate as to whether fluorides might aggravate mental retardation and Mongolism in the offspring". Prior to this ban, millions of fluoride supplement tablets were used by pregnant women on recommendation of the Public Health Service and promoters of fluoridation. (Valerian, 1997)

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The November 12, 1971 Framingham, Massachusetts News Local carried an announcement from the board of health. Fluoridation was stopped in order to cure a green hair problem which had cropped up, due to the fluoridation chemicals leaching out copper from the pipes. It would be necessary to add another toxic chemical, sodium hydroxide, to counteract the problem. (Valerian, 1997)

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A study on the physiological and behavioral effects of Sodium Fluoride is published on October 12, 1994. The study is done by Mullenix, Denbensten, Schunior and Kernan, from the Toxicology Department, Forsyth Research Institute in Boston, the Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, the Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Eastman Dental Center, and the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Iowa State University. According to the study, published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology, Vol 17, No. 2, pp. 169-177, 1995, while fluorides have a great number of effects on the body, the effect on the brain and central nervous system structures were examined, and it was found that fluorides affect the hippocampus, which is the central processor which integrates inputs from the environment, memory, and motivational stimuli to produce behavioral decisions and modify memory. Note: Now it can be seen why the Nazis and Soviets used fluorides in the prison camp water supplies to reduce the will to resist and make the prisoners docile and not tend to question authority. It is the primary reason it is added to water supplies, since there is no credible scientific evidence it exists in the water supply for any other purpose. After several years, we have found no credible evidence, only anecdotal reviews by groups with a vested interest in keeping toxic fluorides in use. (See 1957, Montreal Neurological Institute, and the case of H.M). This 1994 study also showed that "effects on behavior relate directly to plasma fluoride levels in the brain, and fluoride accumulation in the brain, establishing that long-term accumulation of fluorides in the brain does occur, even with minimal doses. This 1994 report also stated that "overall, the behavioral changes from fluoride exposures are consistent with interrupted hippocampal development. Although this study was done on rats, according to the report "a generic behavioral disruption is found in this rat study can be indicative of a potential for motor dysfunction, IQ deficits and/or learning disabilities in humans, and that substances that accumulate in brain tissue potentiate concerns about neurotoxic risks. This is the first laboratory study to demonstrate that central nervous system functional output is vulnerable to fluorides that is publicly released, although decades of studies have been done, but not released, by the Mellon Institute and various agencies, who keep the results to themselves for the last 50 years. (Valerian, 1997)

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Neurotoxicology and Teratology, Vol 17, No.2,p.169-177, "Neurotoxicity of Sodium Fluoride in Rats", Meullenix, et al, 1995, reveals that fluorides are cumulative in the brain , humans are exposed to plasma fluoride levels as high as those given to rats , fluorides interrupt normal brain development in babies and children , and fluorides affect the hippocampus, the "central processor" in the brain which integrates inputs from the environment, memory, and motivational stimuli to produce behavioral decisions and modify memory. This firmly establishes that mass fluoridation affects the behavior of society, in that it undermines the capacity for people to make decisions and become motivated to act against abnormal environments (such as that present in tyranny). (Valerian, 1997)

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Only the U.S. and a few other countries continue to add fluoride to public drinking water. China discontinued the practice after finding that fluoride in the water lowers the ability of children to learn. There is also scientific evidence that osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and other aluminum related diseases are caused by fluoride. (Cristian, 2007) Fluoride allows aluminum and silico-aluminate to penetrate the blood/brain barrier, which subsequently causes dementia. Aluminum in the brain probably is also heated by cell phone emissions, causing damage by heating nearby brain cells. (Cristian, 2008)

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Sodium fluoride is a toxic waste-product produced in aluminum and nuclear industries. “Major sources of fluoride in American tap water originate from chimney stack waste by-products and fertilizer industries.” (Carnie, 2002) Only in America would we take a toxic waste product, mark it up 20,000 percent, and sell it to public water systems. Fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in Prozac, Sarin nerve gas, a host of anti-depressant drugs, commercial insecticides, anesthetics, and hypnotic and psychiatric drugs. Independent scientific evidence over the past 50 plus years has shown that sodium fluoride shortens our life span, promotes various cancers and mental disturbances, and most importantly, makes humans stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one neat little package. (Cristian, 2007)

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Most of the citizens of the United States of America have never known a chemical free thought in their entire lives. Those lucky few who have grown up on farms with well water are the only citizens not mentally castrated by fluoridation. I fight each day to learn something new. I suffer from attention deficit syndrome. I do not subscribe to the popular believe the medication is the answer to all ills. The root cause of most illnesses is the food we eat or the water we drink.