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Australia - Free Country?

November 14, 2008, 9:38 am

Note the excerpt: posted on

FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK

http://www.FluorideAlert.org

FAN Bulletin 1009: Southampton, UK: Fighting on a tilted playing field

Nov 13, 2008

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Below we will be discussing how both Australia and the UK attempt to thwart genuine democracy on the fluoridation issue. First, let me thank all those who kindly offered to translate the Professionals’ Statement into other languages. We already have offers under way for Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Russian translations. So if you have friends and colleagues in any country speaking one of these languages please get your appeal letter ready for sending. We will post the translations on our home page as they appear.

Thwarting democracy.

We saw in the Nov 4 referenda in the US, as well as previous votes, such as in Juneau, Alaska, that when citizens are treated to a fair hearing of both sides of the fluoridation issue they tend to vote against the practice. This is why pro-fluoridation governments are very reluctant to give citizens this choice. They know it is highly likely that citizens will reject this outdated practice at the ballot box. Thus, it is interesting to see the different ways that pro-fluoridation governments circumvent the public’s right to vote on this matter. Here I will compare the Australian approach and the UK approach.

Australia’s blunt approach

State governments in Australia, especially in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, are very blunt about it. They simply deny the right of citizens to vote at all. In various ways they tell their citizens: “You are getting fluoride in your water whether you want it or not.” They accompany this with the usual tactics:

– They give solo presentations behind closed doors, but refuse to defend their position in open public debate.

– They mobilize the medical and dental lobbies to provide their clockwork endorsements.

– They put out fluffy propaganda brochures (nearly always blue and white with smiling children gracing the cover).

The astounding ignorance of these state governments is only matched by their arrogance. The most gross example of that arrogance was shown by Premier Anna Bligh of Queensland who came storming into her “appointed” position with mandatory fluoridation at the very top of her agenda. Hopefully, when citizens in Queensland get the chance to vote at the next election they will remember the way their democratic rights have been treated by this individual. ”