Walker, from the contents of your tirade against Alice Sybrandy, the only transplant that is evident here is your brain. It is obvious that the operation ended in tragedy. How dare you attack this lady without having done the slightest bit of research into the subject of her letter? Maybe you should put down the bottle before you grab the keyboard.
Not only is your bizarre commentary about people from Spain and England out in the ozone somewhere, your knowledge of government, chemistry, and physiology is clearly nonexistent.
Her reference to “transplants” was aimed at all of the out-of-town corporate interests that invaded the B-E cafeteria on June 26th. The purpose of that meeting was for the PUD Commissioners and management to hear the concerns of ratepayers. It was not intended to be a platform where insurance industry personnel and so-called medical/dental professionals could look down their noses at the “unwashed masses.”
Two years ago, even the American Dental Association was forced to come clean and admit that fluoridated water is not “safe and effective” for everyone. In the November 2006 issue of Mothering Magazine, the ADA was quoted, “Infants less than one year old may be getting more than the optimal amount of fluoride if their primary source of nutrition is powdered or liquid infant formula mixed with water containing fluoride.” At the PUD meeting, there was one man who spoke with a Latin American accent. He was concerned for all of the low-income families who will not be able to afford bottled water with which they can safely mix infant formula.
For all of the people whose health will deteriorate should the water supply be fluoridated, it is not a matter of a minority imposing its will. Our form of government actually protects everyone from a tyranny of the majority. We do not live in a democracy, where anything goes provided that a slim majority approves. In this country, there is something called the Bill of Rights, which guarantees certain unalienable rights to the individual. One of them offers protection from being deprived of life, liberty, and propery without due process. Evidently, people who have an allergic reaction to peanuts receive more consideration than do those who are documented as intolerant to fluoride. A claim by Citizens for a Healthy Skagit that there is no such thing as an allergic reaction to fluoride is a bald-faced lie.
Besides, fluoridation was not approved by a vote of the people. Proposition 2 was an advisory ballot, not a binding one, created by two impostor county commissioners. It squeaked by at 52 to 48 percent. Not only that, a significant number of “yes” votes came from returned ballots that were handed out to non-ratepayers. PUD customers who were denied ballots could have turned the vote in the other direction. The point is, there was no mandate as claimed by pro-fluoridation zealots.
Yes, Walker, you owe an apology to Alice for your misguided ravings. You probably drink Coppertone, believing that it’s one way to prevent sunburn! Yeah, let’s hear it for the kid with rotting teeth who was “protected” by the fluoridated water in Prince George’s County, Maryland, in February 2007. He died of oral disease. Use your head, Walker. It either works for everyone or it doesn’t.
