Floride and the brain:
www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/
Flouride and the Pineal Gland:
www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/
Fluorides used to modify behavior and mood of human beings:
www.mdvventures.com/flouride.htm
www.propagandamatrix.com/article...dity.htm
www.sonic.net/kryptox/history/perkins2.htm

SOURCE: www.proliberty.com/observer/20060818.htm

I'm not against this possibility: that the people in power are employing sodium fluoride in drinking water to dumb us down, keep us docile.
However, having done my own research on this issue, I would like to add some other implications to this discussion:
First, sodium fluoride is an industrial waste product. It comes from aluminum processing and the chemical fertilizer industry, to name to well-known sources.
"The most common substances now used for fluoridation are hydrofluosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride, which are waste products that are captured in scrubber systems of the phosphate fertilizer industry. The resulting toxic waste can not be diluted by 1 million or even 3 million or 10 million to 1 and dumped in the ocean or river or landfill, nor allowed to escape into the air because it would kill all the plants and animals and people. And it can't be given away because it would sill be classified as Class I toxic waste and have to be neutralized at the highest rated hazardous waste facility at a cost of $1.40 per gallon, or more depending on how much cadmium, lead, uranium, and arsenic are also present.

But if destined for a water district that will pay $0.35 to $0.45 per gallon for transportation, the 23% solution in industrial waste water is magically pronounced benign and shipped, untreated, to be mixed in our water." (keepers-of-the-Well.org)

So cost is the first issue, and corporate irresponsibility. The second issue is credibility. The American Medical Association, the American Dental Association, and the Centers for Disease Control maintain the official position that fluoride in water, up to 1.0ppm is not only safe, but preventative of dental cavities.

"The featured Cover Story of the July 2000 Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) is a 13 page article authored by John Featherstone, M.Sc., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Preventative and Restorative Dental Sciences and Department of Dental Public Heath and Hygiene, University of California, San Fransisco...Following in the footsteps of 16 other cited articles that he has either authored or co-authored, Featherstone reminds the reader (in this case dues-paying members of the American Dental Association) that fluoride's preventative action is topical rather than systematic." He spoke the same message at the 1997 Canadian conference on controlled-dose fluoride supplements. (Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, Keeper-of the Well.org)

Consider also that dentists have no medical jurisdiction in any of the human body save the mouth. They can damn ingesting drinking water CONTAMINATED with industrial fluoride waste, but it would take the American Medical Association or the Centers of Disease Control to "whistle-blow" on the disasterous medical side-effects of long-term fluoride ingestion. There a piles and piles of studies on this, on lab animals and people, done around the world, not just in the United States.

Assistant Director of the Department of Environmental Health for the American Medical Association Joseph E. Flanagan, Jr., in 1965, wrote, "The American Medical Association is not prepared to state that "no harm will be done to any person by water fluoridation."
The American Medical Association has not carried out any research work, eaither long-term or short-term, regarding the possibility of any side effects"

From the NorthCoast Journal Weekly, "Fluoridated water has been hailed by the Centers for Disdease Control and Prevention as one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century, reducing cavities for pennies on the dollar by 30 to 60 percent in children and 20 to 40 percent in adults". (October 19, 2006)

I reasearched this issue following the let-down that my city voted against a ballot measure to "prohibit the introduction into the City of Arcata's public drinking water supply of any substance that is not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where the purpose of the additive is to treat physical or mental functions rather than to make water safe or potable."

I couldn't understand why my city was against examining whether their water was healthy or not, because this is one fucntion of the measure, the other was to regulate any future additions to water. This was about public safety.

The conclusions I reached from this event, and from my subsequent research, is that Doctors have authority that people believe, and 'children and the poor' pull the voters' heart-strings; this was the tactic of the people who campaigned against water purity, and won.

This is, for me, an issue of money, power, and unaccountability. Sure, water fluoridation causes a whole host of health effects, including an alzheimer's-like DEMENTIA, which would make people more susceptible to mind control; but honestly that's SCARY. It's easier, in my opinion, to remedy a problem such as this if we can imagine the culprets are not EVIL over lords whom wish to torture us and bend us to their will; that's the military. The culprets are fearful doctors who will suffer a MASSIVE loss of accountability and quasi-relidious authority for having backed a toxic substance as safe; the politicians who have supported this (or probably not), and corporate criminals.

The problem must be digestibe and comprehensible in order to solve it. But a part of me agrees also with the mind-control arguement. ADVERTISING. We are mind-controlled. We owe a lot of our medical advances to Nazi doctors (what's that say about doctors?).

if used improperly. As long as the food particles are removed by proper brush strokes all is well. A good dental hygienist instructs the patient how to best utilize dental floss and a toothbrush. A machine is not necessary nor do I recommend that anyone become dependent on one, however it may produce great results too. The most important thing, we probably agree on, is the importance of keeping the teeth, tongue and gums clean and healthy.