The Very Latest – in Reverse Chronological Order:
Hempfest Fliers. Fliers are being handed out at Hempfest, August 20, 2011.
Questionnaire to Politicians. The purpose is to get candidates for all offices to state their position on this subject.
As of August 8, 2011, Fluoride Class Action put the City of Seattle on Notice of Potential Liability for Water Contamination.
As of July 20, 2011, Fluoride Class Action put the City of Everett on Notice of Potential Liability for Water Contamination.
Fluoride Class Action responded to the HHS and EPA request for comment regarding fluoridation.
The Latest in Chronological Order
On June 9, 2011, I send this Notice of Potential Liability to the City of Everett.
On July 29, 2010, I made a presentation at the Fluoride Action Network conference in Canton NY in which I outlined an action plan to end water fluoridation. The issues are ripe for suit. The missing ingredient is a $250,000 war chest to finance the suit.
Our sister organization is Washington Action for Safe Water, known as WASW.
Dr. Bill Osmunson and I have been very busy writing, reviewing, re-writing, re-reviewing, and submitting proposals to the Washington Board of Health and to Governor Christine Gregoire for administrative rule making. Our proposed rule would require that if water districts fluoridate that they use pharmaceutical grade fluoride which has been approved by some government agency. Read the proposals here.
Fluoride Class Action presented an Amicus Letter in support of the WASW rulemaking making appeal to Governor Gregoire.
Fluoride Class Action sent a letter to the Seattle City Council and to Mayor McGinn regarding silicofluorides and lead in Seattle water.
There was a press release regarding this issue released on September 23, 2010.
A divided Washington Supreme Court issued its decision in the Port Angeles case on September 23, 2010, deciding 5-4 that citizens on the municipal level do not have the right to vote by way of initiative or referendum on fluoridation because it is a merely administrative issue. Read the majority opinion. Read the dissent.
Click here to find out if your community water is fluoridated.
@Derek Glasser
Are you kin to George Glasser, the investigative reporter who has written about fluoride? I quote George Glasser quite a bit on my web site, http://www.Fluoride-Class-Action.com.
The sentence: ” They have a genuine inerest in hampering fluoride toxicity and should not be forgotten in your considerations” should mean; “… genuine interest in hampering fluoride toxicity RESEARCH…”.
Two important sources are overlooked and a lot of work is spent to keep them covered: general nutrition and inhalation anesthesia. The FDA is investigating evidence that one year mortality of patients after surgery is correlating to the depth of anesthesia during the procedure ( http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/content/100/1/4.abstract ) . In addition children even ten years after procedures have lower performance ratings in school as those without anesthesia in childhood. (http://www.anesthesiazone.com/featured-news-article.aspx?id=29896 ). The main anesthetic used in children is XXXX-FLURANE, which was renamed recently into XXX-RANE to avoid associations with its fluoride content (C2H2F5) . Pilot studies investigating non-fluorinated against fluorinated anesthetics had already found linear relationship of cerebral damage parameters and depth of anesthesia using fluor compounds. Presently the application of (non fluorinated) iv-anesthetics by intermittent and continous application is compared to each other (http://clinicaltrialsfeeds.org/clinical-trials/show/NCT01198639) Scientifical nonsense which will deliver the desired results: no influence of “anesthesia” on cerebral cell damage. The greatest opponent of all studies is NOT one of the fluoride producers but industry producing phosphates for nutritional additives. Those phosphates contain fluorides (they are limited in fluoride content of the material but the content is not declared). Phosphates, which are added everywhere from Cola to the sausage therefore always carry some fluorides, entering human organism on this unknown entry path, the amount depending from nutritional habits. The effect above therefore is obviously an additive toxic effect of water+ nutrition (+anesthesia) related fluoride intake. In addition phosphate producers are the largest providers of fluorides to fluoride product producers. They have a genuine inerest in hampering fluoride toxicity and should not be forgotten in your considerations.
I tracked you from the fluoride poisoning yahoo group and am pleased and proud to know you work in the same city that I work in. Let me share a thumbnail sketch of why I oppose fluoride after thoughtlessly being sucked into the party line for 50 plus years:
Less than a year ago I found out I was in 3rd stage kidney disease. That’s when I began finding out about the health effects of fluoride.
I quit drinking fluoridated water and quit all green and black teas (high in fluoride) and in four months my kidney function had improved by 90%. Because of fluoride, I was headed straight for kidney dialysis. I’ve been a medical social worker for over 20 years and have watched hundreds of people take the plunge into kidney dialysis and not ONE has ever reported to me when I’m assessing their needs, including dietary restrictions, that they have been told by their doctor or other health care provider to stay away from fluoride. My doctor didn’t tell me, either. In fact, my doctor told me she had no suggestions to improve my kidney function – until the kidneys declined to the point of needing dialysis!!
Why are kidney patients not being told to eliminate fluoride? The National Kidney Foundation stated that people with reduced kidney function should avoid fluoride. In 2006 the National Research Council said that people with lowered kidney function should avoid fluoride. Doctors don’t tell their kidney patients this information.
People with sensitive kidneys and kidney disease deserve to have water that isn’t toxic to them, water that won’t throw them into kidney dialysis.
If people want fluoride they can add it to their own personal water without any problem. However those of us that it is killing deserve to live.
My kidney-fluoride story is at: http://fluoridedetective.com/kidneys/
James, are you working with Daniel Stockin? He’s working on some similar angles.
Hello All,
Glad to see that we are now honing in on their only concern: money.
I’m currently working on a plan that will allow for users (water drinkers) to pass back the cost of filtration to the supplier. The plan is to have a GREAT MANY people endorse this scheme and to hit them in their pocket-book.
A negative ramifications could be for them to cut off our water, but, then again, they might be obligated to provided water that is toxin free. Here’s the beginning of the challenge that needs a more legal write-up. The below is a Canadian take, but I’m thinking the US approach would be similar…
A Legal Challenge to The (Municipality, City, Ward, Region…)
WHEREAS the Region has accepted the task to provide it’s constituents with drinking water as dictated by the Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA)
WHEREAS as a constituent, the Region has entered into a contract with it’s constituents to provide drinking water that conforms to the standards of SWDA
WHEREAS the Regions water is being delivered with a chemical agent that is intended to work as a drug to cause a medical effect within my body
WHEREAS that we have a choice whether to accept this medication, as defined by the Health Care Consent Act
WHEREAS we do not consent to this medication
WHEREAS the Region is not supplying a secondary source of HFSA-free water as an alternative to the medicated water
THEREFORE our recourse is to remove this chemical from the Region’s water supply at the point of consumption
THEREFORE be it known that we will be purchasing mechanisms to remove this drug from our drinking water
BE IT KNOWN that each constituent will provide an original proof of purchase to the Region showing an itemized list of labour and products that are directly related and associated with the removal costs in order to bring the drinking water up to the standard as dictated by the SWDA
FURTHER we will be holding back from our Regional water utility bill the ongoing costs associated with the filtration and removal of Fluoride from our water until such time as the Region provides Fluoride-free water
End…
The effect of fluoride on health is the most important reason to oppose fluoridation; however, even after local community politicians have received all my information, they may not do sufficient reading to withstand the raving of local dentists. But, they really understand and are very concerned about budgetary issues involving a waste of tax money. I tell them how angry the citizens will be when they learn about this waste.
Following is a letter I use with considerable success. Please feel free to use it or modify it as you wish.
__________________________________________________________________
To: ____________________City Council
From: James W. Reeves, Ph.D.
Retired Professor of Civil Engineering in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
No doubt you know about the vast profits resulting from selling the industrial toxic waste, Hexafluorosilicic Acid, to use in community drinking water, together with its contaminants of arsenic, lead, radium, etc. It is no wonder it adversely affects children’s teeth, brains, and other organs, resulting in a lowered IQ.
You also know that fluoridation is totally ineffective for helping children’s teeth and that it causes cancer, brittle bones, thyroid destruction, etc., (see http://www.fluoridealert.org).
Every council member should be aware that it is also an absolute waste of tax money. I am a retired Civil Engineering Professor (over 30 years), so I am professionally qualified to offer the following information. You can certainly confirm these facts with your water department.
People drink only 1/2% of the water they use. The remaining 99 ½% provided by the community goes directly down the drain.
For example, for every $1000 of fluoride chemical added to water, $995 would be directly wasted down the drain in toilets, showers, dishwashers, etc., $5 would be in water consumed by the people, and less than $0.50 would be consumed by children.
We are told that the whole reason to add this chemical to drinking water is for children’s teeth. So even if it were effective for children, distribution by drinking water is the most wasteful method. How is it possible that you can justify delivering 50 cents for each $1000 of added chemical?
That would be comparable to buying 1 gallon of milk, using six-and-one-half drops, and pouring the rest of the gallon in the sink.
Can you think of a more wasteful government program? Giving away fluoride tablets free to anyone who wants them would be far cheaper and certainly more ethical.
I can barely walk anymore, and Im only 49/ Im so angry. I started doing research and all the dots are connecting. If you are suing, I want in. Im too young to look and feel so old.
My teeth hurt and are pitted and have spots, I have calcification on my ligaments at my achilles. bi laterally. Im crippled and ache all the time. Im sure I also have Mercury poisoning as well, as I had so many silver/mercury fillings removed inappropriately before I knew any better. Im so furious. Please help me seek justice.
Greetings from Maine,
My name is Joel Oyer. I am going to begin a campaign to change the laws in Maine
to effectively remove and ban the further use of fluoride in the municipal water supply
statewide. There are a few actions on the local level to remove the chemical from local water
districts. That is currently the only path available. I intend to change this. I would appreciate
your thoughts on this matter. Any advice you can give or support you can lend would be
greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Joel Oyer
I wrote this and began this group before finding your web-site.
I feel that myself and many other American citizens especially children have been harmed by water fluoridation. I wish to begin a class action suit against those involved and one of the members of our group mention you. I just started a Facebook group Fluoride Class Action Lawsuit http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_157745504274027
Here you can find many videos and info on fluoride.
I am forming class action lawsuit for EVERYONE who has been affected by water FLUORIDATION. This lawsuit will be against all parties involved in water fluoridation including the industries involved, American Dental Association, American medical Association, and United States Government. Anyone wishing to be a part of this class action lawsuit please contact me. Lawyers wishing to be a part of this class action lawsuit are VERY welcome. WE HAVE A VERY STRONG CASE!!
I am behind this 100%
@Gerald Marsch
It took me 4 years to get all the fluoride from anti-depressants and toothpaste out of my system. I feel so much better, but what I went through is a crime. I suffered with fatigue, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression and other metabolic problems due to fluoride. Even worse, the local police found my problems highly entertaining.
Damn right they should be sued. There are 18 good studies on the dangers of fluoride. There is a book that just came out from Second Look and a Harvard-educated doctor that proves that fluoridation doesn’t do squat for the teeth, but causes all these other problems. They have a section on the fluoride-containing anti-depressants and other drugs that shows how these drugs cause thyroid and other problems.
Fluoridating the water only compounds the other problems. Let’s SUE.
John Percival DDS MSc. DiHom.
jpercival@fairpoint.net
66.243.193.184
2010/10/27 at 1:25 pm
Dear Mr. Deal,
I am an epidemiologist, semi-retired dentist and homeopathic physican who has been engaged in the bellum fluoricum for many years, having done research, published, and spoken publicly about this megatoxin. I came across your website through an email from Cathy Justus, who lives in Pagosa Springs, CO, about 2 hours away. (The lady whose horses were poisoned by her town’s fluoridated water). We have spoken on the phone. I’m tired of trying to convince my closed-minded dental peers of the morbific effects of fluoride through sound science, and so it thus seems that the litigious route is the only one remaining to garner their full attention and effect true changes in water fluoridation protocol by holding the purveyors of fluoridation at all levels of involvement, liable.
Thank you for your recommendations on establishing a modus operandi for lay people and professionals for holding municipalities legally liable. Although my small town does not fluoridate, neighboring ones do. Bit by bit we need to etch away (much as fluoride does chemically) at the “industry’s” stronghold. I was sorry to read of the Washington Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in support of fluoridation, because of the public’s supposed and mandated non-involvement in administrative affairs.
Although not a litigious person by nature, I sincerely hope that more tort suits are brought by patients for not only dental fluorosis but the unseen accompanying systemic effects that fluoride has caused and continues to cause. We need to reach the hundredth monkey threshold, if you know what I mean. Spoke to Dan Stockin of the Atlanta Project @ the Lillie Center in Atlanta yesterday for first time, telling him that a national database of individuals affected by fluoride needed to be established. He apparently has been doing that to some extent in the Atlanta area. I told him I would like to see a national campaign set up via a non-profit which would act as a database exchange for claimants. It could initially be funded by grants/donations and then be hopefully sustained by awards/donations from lawsuits and/or from attorneys for the plaintiffs. A businessman or attorney I am not but i wanted to get your input on the feasibility of this idea.
Thank you for your continuing efforts in this battle and look forward to hearing from you at some point.
Sincerely,
Dr. John Percival
P.O. Box 688
Crestone, CO 81131
To all the FOOLS in this country.
Any one who thinks they are immune from alzheimer’s is a fool. Alzheimer’s is a combination of fluoride and dehydration. Fluoride is every where. A person can not avoid it. It is a known poison and it is accumulative. The more ingested the more accumulation. The fluoride warehouse in the body gets fuller and fuller. No one can control or even knows their bodies dehydration point. As people get older they drink less water as their body starts to shrink. The brain has water priority and how much fluoride is in the water that the brain will use or where in the body will it come from — Only God Knows—–
The most important part of water fluoridation that no one pays attention to is the fact that the fluoride put in drinking water is hydrofluorosilicic acid and is ( 100 % soluble. Once in the water it is every where. It is impossible to avoid it.
He who thinks they can avoid fluoride is a bigger fool than he who thinks they are immune from alzheimer’s.
Gerald Marsch
Hi Mr Jim,
Talking baby food. Gerber’s ( GRADUATES diced apples packed in white grape juice from concentrate ) I am allergic to fluoride. I make it my business to read the small print containing the list of ingredients. In my opinion it is what I consider loaded with fluoride. I could not eat it with out blowing up my prostate. It is ( 01.++
Mr Deal,
Just wanted to thank you for your excellent legal efforts. Had spoken to you in the past a couple years ago. I am impressed with your progress on the issue. I also think litigation will drive this issue home to all cities when it happens effecting their pocketbook. Most just want to hear from trusted dentists and health departments for reassurance they are right.
Seems like the infant formula people should give some warning on the product can or bottle. Years ago I contacted them all and only Nestle would say it was a risk and to avoid fluoridated water. This was only if asked and was posted nowhere. I called all the makers of formula. Only Nestle would admit not to use fluoridated water. WIC, Health start and most all health departments all were in denial of any risk.
I had gotten my Dentist Mayor to post web site warning for our city after the ADA Nov 9 egram. It also went out in a newsletter, and then later on cable TV official city warning to the entire county. Very few are aware still.
Thank your for your talented effort with Bill Osmunson DDS and the lawsuit.
I also like the iaomt.org web site with Doc Kennedy and the Mercury and fluoride message. Until several court actions the ADA and dental boards fined and took licenses when dentists mentioned mercury toxicity issues anywhere. Now at least outside the dental office they have the right to speak but it took several ACLU actions to have the gag lifted. Iaomt and Hal Huggins and other dental sites talk about this issue.
http://www.dentalconfessions.com is an interesting site
A Bremmer in the northeast is the dentist who sued to speak on mercury toxicity and won. He has a site also. Charlie Brown and Robert E Reeves both have done excellent legal work on the mercury issue.
Five of nine members of the Washington Supreme Court decided that cities and counties have no right to vote in a referendum or initiative on whether to fluoridate or de-fluoridate. They ignored the science on the subject. The five a conventional thinkers. They believe the dental lobby – which represents only the unthinking dentists. There are a growing number of dentists who have studied the science and oppose fluoridation. This decision could affect our right to hold a state-wide referendum on water fluoridation. All this underscores my contention that the only way out of this mess is by filing suit.
Mr. Deal,
How can this possibly be defined as a “merely administrative issue”? Do we the people have no legal recourse?
What a fascinating and informative website. I’m glad I discovered it. I am going to link to it through our soon-to-be-added Reading Room page. Meanwhile, the Reading Room can be found by its “back door” address: http://www.orgsites.com/tx/fluoridefreeaustin
I am 74 years. My wife and I were both fluoride poisoned in 1998. We turned to fluoride free bottled water. After two days our arthritis symptoms left our body. I have spent 10 + years researching fluoride and how to stop this bull shit. I believe I have found the answer. It is all about money. Think money, not sickness. File a law suit against the municipality that adds fluoride. The water department is over charging some of their customers. Fluoride cost money and if fluoride is added at ( 1.0 ppm per gal every one pays the same for fluoride in the water unless some one gets a cheaper water rate because they use more water than the average home owner. Like industry. The more they use the cheaper the water. Every gallon has the same amount of fluoride in it.( 1.0 ppm. They are paying less for the water so they are paying less for the fluoride. They are not paying for water with less fluoride in it. Who is paying for all of the other gallons and gallons of fluoridated water being wasted. Fire-department, street cleaning etc. Look around at all the free loaders. Once fluoride is added it is no different than ay other commodity and should be treated as such.
I will be glad to answer any qustions.
Gerald Marsch