SAN DIEGO'S HISTORY OF FLUORIDATION, THE LAW AND YOU

HISTORY OF FLUORIDATION IN CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO LAW REGARDING FLUORIDATION



Dr. David Kennedy speaks candidly.



"Resistance to forced fluoride in drinking water has a long history in San Diego. Back in 1952 the city council voted to begin adding fluoride to our public drinking water. At that time there was not one single scientific study valid by anyone's standards that has shown this practice to be either safe or effective. Today all of the broad based blinded studies of humans show delayed eruption of teeth (crooked teeth), increased dental fluorosis (41%), a dramatic increase in blood lead levels especially in minority children and no significant difference in tooth decay.

Citizens united along with the Chiropractors and other health oriented consumers to fight this intrusion into our rights to safe water.

They took the issue all the way to the California Supreme Court who ruled in the city's favor. In their conclusions the court told the petitioners they have three choices. They could either remove those from office who had voted for the new ordinance, enact a new ordinance themselves.

So in 1954 they gathered the appropriate number of signatures and put the issue up for a vote and the new Ordinance 67 passed with something like 68% of the votes.





SECTION 1. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person, including the
City of San Diego and for its elective or appointed officers or employees, to
use in or add to the water supply of this City any Fluorine, Sodium Fluoride,
Sodium Silicon Fluoride or any Fluoride compound, or to treat such water
supply with aforesaid chemicals before delivery to the consumers thereof.

Do you see that even back in 1954 they knew that water fluoridation did not use fluoride but silicofluoride or hydrofluosilicic acid as it is not called. This is a very unusual aggressive manmade molecule that sucks lead out of brass and into the bodies of everyone who swallows it. It causes disproportionate harm

Some years later the city council again put this issue up for a vote to try and overturn the citizen’s ordinance. It failed miserably. In the 70’s thedental society tried to gather signatures but that again failed to even get on the ballot.

Our situation was not unique out West. California in 1995 was 48th in fluoridation out of the 50 states. Hawaii and Nevada were 49 and 50th. Hawaii remains the only state with no fluoridation except of course on their military bases. The pentagon ahs demanded that all bases fluoridate and the Bureau of Indian Affairs also demands that all reservations be fluoridated. Where this is impossible they often fluoridate the school at 4 ppm. A level which is well known to cause nausea and other adverse health effects including neurological impairment.

Davis California has rejected fluoridation on 8 occasions. In Modesto after the city council ignored the voice of the people and voted to fluoridate they removed the offending politicians from office and immediately reversed that decision. In Santa Cruz the city council passed a rather weak ordinance that would require a vote of the people before fluoridation began. Citizens were not reassured so they passed their own Safe Drinking Water Ordinance which I will paraphrase:
Nothing can be added to the public drinking water for the purpose of
medicating the population unless the actual substance is first approved by
the Food and Drug administration for the full range of dose water users
might experience and furthermore the actual substance added may not contain
contaminants that exceed the public health goals.
So in the early 90’s the California Dental Association funded by generous donations from industry set out to thwart the will of the people. They established the California Fluoridation Task-force (CFT) and the state generously funded their activities. They spread substantial amounts of money generously around Sacramento and reportedly gave $100,000 to then governor Pet Wilson (San Diego’s former mayor) in order to secure his pledge to sign a statewide mandatory fluoridation bill carried by Jackie Spier and Willie Brown AB 733.

The bill was a series of compromises in order to achieve the political goal of appearing to force unwilling communities to add the chemicals the state demanded. To avoid the effects of an unfunded mandate the state promised that all funding would come from outside private sources and use NO TAX dollars. The minutes of the CFT reported that the supplier of hydrofluosilicic acid would privately fund all of the injection equipment necessary to use up their hazardous waste.

Citizens of California passed Proposition 10 and enacted a law now known as First 5. This set up commissions throughout the state to spend the enormous amount of tobacco tax money from cigarette sales to benefit children in the first 5 years of life. It is clearly tax money and their only charge is to benefit children yet today this same money is being used to ostensibly trigger AB733 the unfunded mandate to demonstrably harm the very children they are charged with helping. It would be gross malpractice for any licensed physician or dentist to prescribe as much fluoride as an infant on tap-water-formula receives. The claim by San Diego City Council and the City Attorney is that this is not tax money and thus triggers the mandate. If you’ve got unlimited funds then go sue the ba****ds but if you do not have unlimited funds then join us in protesting this terrible intrusion into out right to choose what chemicals we swallow."

Dr. David C. Kennedy, DDS, the former head of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology. For more information about the history of fluoridation and its health effects check out this article- http://mediaroots.org/the-fluoride-facts.php