Tuesday, January 10, 2006
daily overdosing via
daily overdosing via the tap
27/12/04
Dear Editor,
As the old Year draws to a close, most of us do a little reflection, and wonder about the year ahead. One thing that is a surety in the Hastings in 2005 is that unless our Councillors show civil responsibility to residents, as have Kempsey Councillors, we will have our drinking water supply polluted with the industrial grade Sodium Silicio Fluoride straight from the factories of China.
Then, all Hastings residents will be exposed to daily overdosing via the tap, no matter what precautions we take. Unless we have a Reverse Osmosis water filter, which is expensive, we will drink artificially fluoridated water; cook with it; give it to our pets; shower with it and water our gardens with it. Every cup of coffee drunk in town, at friends or relatives places and every meal cooked in local restaurants will be polluted with artificial Fluoride, which the Health Department tells us is so good for us all.
We have found that there was no point in writing to our Mayor with our concerns as when finally he answered us, we were told to talk to John Irving from the Health Department. It is apparent that John Irving now speaks for our local Mayor and Councillors. A sad state of affairs.
Port Macquarie M.P. Rob Oakeshott’s response to this important question and the large package of information we supplied him with, was just an acknowledgement of receipt. Easy does it Rob. M.P. Andrew Stoner responded by saying it was all outside his jurisdiction and suggested, “if we were still dissatisfied with Council’s actions and or response to go to the Local Government Association, or the NSW Ombudsman”. A bit late Andrew but thanks anyway. We’ve already done that and apparently its not part of their jurisdiction either.
So just who is responsible to the people?
It doesn’t bode well for 2005 that we have three easily led leaders who dodge accountability on such an important issue for Hastings residents. Will they be filtering their family’s water so that their babies or grandchildren are not overdosed by 400% each time they drink bottled milk?
Remember how wrong the Health Department was about the Privatisation of the hospital. Remember it was the ordinary people, not our leaders, who exposed so much of the skulduggery that went on to force Privatisation upon the Hastings. Remember the referendum in 1992 we had that said a loud “no” to Privatisation of the hospital. They went ahead and did it any way.
Remember the referendum on Fluoridation in 1991 which said “no”, but enough about that one; no one seems to want to talk about that. There is a time limit on democracy in the Hastings.
We live in a community where we have ineffectual leaders who bow and scrape to the first ‘circus of experts’ that come along. No one listens or talks with residents. It amazes us that our two State MP’s can so easily ignore the results of the 1991 referendum, and wash their hands of the whole shameful issue. Don’t they also represent us and live in the Hastings?
Just because its all gone quiet, only means that the machinery, which will implement Artificial Fluoridation, is grinding closer and closer to “Poison on Tap” day in November 2005. It was this quiet just before the last Council Elections also, when all involved such as the present Mayor knew what the Health Department intended.
If the day comes and the “experts” add a known toxin to our drinking water with no consultation, with no action from our two State M.P.s and we allow this then it will be remembered as a shameful day and another notch in the belt of bureaucratic dictatorship that is overriding our fast diminishing democracy.
Rob Oakeshott and Andrew Stoner have a duty to find out what the hell is really going on; delve into the curious manner this all came about; do their job properly and make noise on our behalf, and represent us, as it is obvious that our Mayor Rob Drew represents only himself and the Health Department.
On closing it must be noted that none of the proponents of Fluoridation, such as Councillors, the Mayor our State M.P.s or the Health Department, although invited have bothered to attend any of the three public meetings held to discuss the Fluoridation issue.
Yours sincerely
Therese Mackay
# posted by Middle Child @ Tuesday, January 10, 2006 
