Lead, Arsenic, Hydrogen Fluoride, Silicofluoride in Drinking Water

From: James Robert Deal <JamesRobertDeal@jamesdeal.com>
5th Nov. 2011

JAMES ROBERT DEAL ATTORNEY PLLC
PO Box 2276, Lynnwood, Washington  98036-2276
Telephone 425-771-1110, Fax 425-776-8081
James@WashingtonSafeWater.com

QUESTIONNAIRE TO CANDIDATES
REGARDING LEAD-ARSENIC-SILICOFLUORIDE CONTAMINATION
TO DRINKING WATER

 Word Version: http://fluoride-class-action.com/wp-content/uploads/questionaire-to-candidates.doc

Dear Candidate,

I write on behalf of www.WashingtonSafeWater.com, www.Fluoride-Class-Action.com, www.FluorideDetective.com, Mothers of Fluoride Sensitive Children, Medical Doctors against Fluoridation, Dentists against Fluoridation, and Americans for Liberty.

We are writing to ask you to make a commitment to consider our issue open mindedly, to put it on your regular agenda, and to conduct hearings and listen to experts on all sides of the issue. We feel this is a reasonable request.

Seattle, Everett, and most of the larger cities in Washington fluoridate their water using silicofluoride – the cheap, industrial, toxic waste version of fluoride, which contains a significant amount of lead and arsenic and small amounts of many other heavy metals.

All the assertions I make in this Questionnaire are supported in the documents linked to below.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/50-reasons.htm

http://fluoride-class-action.com/hhs/report-card-for-hhs

http://fluoride-class-action.com/hhs/comments-re-lead

http://fluoride-class-action.com/seattle/notice-of-liability-to-seattle-8-8-2011

http://fluoride-class-action.com/hempfest-2011

http://fluoride-class-action.com/notice-of-liability-to-seattle-10-11-11

http://fluoride-class-action.com/occupy-seattle-flier-10-10-11

http://fluoride-class-action.com/sham

http://fluoride-class-action.com/speeches/tetraethyl-lead

http://fluoride-class-action.com/candidates/snohomish-county

The human body is not good at excreting lead, arsenic, or silicofluoride. A healthy adult retains 50% of all fluoride consumed – in bones and other calcium rich organs and glands. Infants retain 80% and can only excrete 20% and so are much more vulnerable. Those with failing kidneys excrete fluoride poorly. Babies, diabetics, farm workers, physical laborers, and athletes drink much more water than most people and so have more fluoride buildup. Blacks, Latinos, and the poor in general are much more susceptible to the ravages of these toxins. Fluoride, lead, and arsenic poison some slowly and some quickly, but eventually it poisons everyone.

Silicofluoride leaches lead out of brass pipes and fittings, much more so than sodium fluoride – which was the form of fluoride originally used. New brass pipes and fittings contain around 8% lead and older pipes and fittings contain as much as 30% lead. In 2004 Seattle newspapers reported lead in drinking water in old school at up to 1,600 ppb, that is 1.6 ppm, a frightening level, higher than the fluoride level.

The problem has not been resolved. Seattle is spending large amounts of money replacing pipe in old schools, however, even if all the pipe in all the old schools were replaced, the problem will not be solved. High concentrations of lead can still be expected to occur in the drinking water in any old house, old apartment building, old office building, or old factory. When fluoridation stops, the lead level in water drops and the lead level in childrens’ blood drops.

Studies posted on the CDC web site admit that the way fluoride reduces tooth decay is through topical application, not by systemic consumption.

Studies posted on the CDC web site claim no more than a 17% to 25% reduction in tooth decay from drinking fluoride. Other credible studies show no reduction at all. Yes, tooth decay has dropped in the US, but it is illogical for the CDC to jump to the conclusion that fluoride caused the reduction. The rate of tooth decay has declined just as much or more in non-fluoridated Europe as it has here. The probable cause of the reduction in both areas is better nutrition and better oral hygiene (and arguably the topical use of fluoride), but definitely not the oral consumption of fluoride.

The big difference between the US and Europe is not decay rates but dental fluorosis rates. Dental fluorosis is at epidemic levels in the United States but not a problem in Europe. Studies posted on the CDC web site admit that drinking fluoride causes 41% of kids age 12-15 to have some form of fluorosis, 8.6% to have moderate fluorosis (brown spots), and 3.6% to have severe fluorosis (brown spots with pitting). Dental fluorosis is a sign that the entire body is getting too much fluoride.

Even if fluoridation reduces tooth decay 17% to 25%, is it a fair trade to fluoridate and give 41% of our children dental fluorosis?

Naïve pro-fluoride dentists still support fluoridation. They believe somehow that the fluoride we drink goes directly and only to the teeth. To the contrary, lead, fluoride, and arsenic affect organs and glands throughout the body, gradually sickening us, and shortening our lives.

Lead, arsenic, and silicofluoride in any amount are harmful to health in many ways. There is no safe amount of silicofluoride which may be taken internally. The effect is cumulative because the body stores away the fluoride it cannot excrete.

The groups I speak for are right and left, conservative and liberal. We are members of different parties. The thing we have in common is that we all believe in liberty. We all say that we have a right to water that is “just water”, water that is as free of additives as possible. We all want to be able to set the amount of the toxic waste silicofluoride drug which we consume. We cannot do that when silicofluoride is in our water and therefore in the food we cook, restaurant food, our bread, our cola, our coffee, our beer, and our showers.

Those who wish to swallow fluoride can buy Gerber Baby Water containing .8 ppm fluoride and drink that – all their lives if they want to. Or they can swallow some of their toothpaste. I would not advise doing either, but one who does so at least is not consuming added lead and arsenic.

All the groups in the coalition support the termination of fluoridation with all types of fluoride, but especially with silicofluoride – because silicofluoride contains lead and arsenic and leaches lead from pipes.

Some of our members are even pro-fluoride, in the sense that they believe that fluoride applied topically may help to prevent tooth decay, although they have come to the conclusion that taking it internally is ineffectual and unhealthy.

Supporting a moratorium NOW is the responsible thing to do. Everett has been fluoridating since 1989 and Seattle since 1969. When fluoridation was instituted, elected officials and the public did not understand the pros and cons. Alcoa and the Public Health Service rammed fluoridation through, using pro-fluoride dentists as their front men, and without approval of the type and concentration of fluoride used by the FDA or by any other federal or state agency.

The damn burst in 2006 when the National Research Council, the top research agency in the United States, released its report on fluoridation. Highly credible new evidence flooded out. The 2006 NRC Report on Fluoridation contains a wealth of information about the many ways that fluoride harms our health.

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11571

We are asking for a one-year moratorium, but even a six-month or three-month moratorium would de-politicize the issue and allow for a more open discussion of the issues.

We oppose holding a referendum on this issue. Our Supreme Court recently voted 5 to 4 that fluoridation was a mere procedural matter like chlorination and as such that the people did not have the right to demand a vote on such an issue in a referendum. The opinion was riddled with legal error, as attorney Gerald Steel made clear in his motion for reconsideration. (Which I will post soon right here.) The minority opinion on the other hand is well written.

If there is a referendum, pro-fluoride dental groups will flood the campaign with money and bombard the airwaves with ads. There will be a lot of pressure on candidates.

There should not be a referendum because this is a constitutional issue. The majority does not have the right to decide by majority vote to force the minority to drink dilute toxic waste.

Note that if Everett or Seattle placed a moratorium on fluoridation, that would not mean that fluoridation equipment would be dismantled. It would just means that the fluoride valve would be turned off for some period of time. No fluoridation supporter is going to claim that turning off the fluoride temporarily will ruin children’s teeth. Besides, we ought to turn the fluoride off for a few months at least so we can do before and after tests on lead levels in blood and lead levels in older buildings that have older pipe.

Favoring a moratorium is the balanced position. It will defuse fluoridation as a political issue and allow for open discussion.

You are a candidate for public office, and because you are we have the right to ask what you think about this issue and how you intend to deal with it. So we asking you the questions listed below.

Foremost, we ask that you be open minded. When I visited the state capitol, legislators literally ran away when they found we were talking about fluoridation. Probably they are afraid of the pro-fluoride dentists, who are well organized and well financed. Oddly, many elected people ignore our letters and presentations and pretend we do not exist.

We ask you not to accept campaign donations from pro-fluoridation groups. There is a high likelihood that this money comes indirectly from silicofluoride producers and is “dirty money”.

And we ask you to spend a few hours following the links above and reading the documents posted.

Please answer Yes or No to the questions below. You do not have to answer all questions. Please send your response to James@JamesRobertDeal.com. We will post your answers on our web sites. We believe that if you indicate you will consider the issue fairly that this will help you to be elected or reelected. You will certainly have our help.

Yes or No:

________      I am open minded on the subject. I am willing to spend at least three hours reading the above documents, more if I find the articles credible and interesting.

________      I have decided to vote in favor of a putting this issue on the agenda, holding hearings, and listening open mindedly to experts from both sides.

________      I have studied the evidence, and I am satisfied that fluoridation may be ineffectual in reducing tooth decay and may be harmful to health.

________      I have looked at the evidence well enough that I have decided to vote in favor of an immediate one-year moratorium on fluoridation.

________      I pledge not to accept any campaign donations from any pro-fluoridation group during this campaign.

________      Take me off your mailing list. I am not willing to read anything you suggest I read on this subject. The CDC says fluoridation is safe and effective, and that is good enough for me. I intend to support continued fluoridation.

For representatives of agencies which have no direct control over adding fluoride to drinking water:

________      The city or district I represent does not control the adding of fluoride to our water. However, I am in favor of putting this issue on the agenda, holding hearings, and listening open mindedly to experts from both sides. If I decide that fluoridation is unhealthy or ineffectual, I intend to petition the water district which supplies our water to provide us with water which has no fluoride added.

Sincerely,

10-15-11

Friends,

We should be gathering email addresses of candidates and sending notices to them.

See this document:

http://fluoride-class-action.com/notice-of-liability-to-seattle-10-11-11

In every district in the US, Canada, and Australia, we should all be sending out notices like the one above.

Write your own. Copy mine. Pick and choose. Put it on your letterhead.

Who do we send it to? Every single elected office holder and every single candidate, and every single appointed professional working for water districts. Thanks to email, we can send notices to all these people fairly easy. The we ask them to pledge at least that they will put the issue on the agenda and consider it open mindedly and conduct hearings with representatives from both sides.

I am working on a questionnaire. This is a first draft: http://fluoride-class-action.com/wp-content/uploads/questionaire-to-candidates.doc.

The thing that is holding me up is the tedious process of going online and collecting the email addresses. Usually you have to copy and paste the email addresses one at a time. It has to be done. Maybe you can call someone in your area and ask if there is a plain list with the addresses separated by semi-colons or on an Excel spreadsheet.

For example, it would help me a lot for someone to go through the King County Washington candidate page and copy and paste all the email addresses into a word document with addresses separated by semi-colons or an Excel document.

http://www.kingcounty.gov/elections/archive/2011/201108/candidatefiling.aspx

If you can’t give money, if you can’t deliver speeches, please go to work cutting and pasting those email addresses.

After you do it for King County, you can do it for other counties in Washington. If you are in another state, put the email addresses together and if nobody else will do it, I will send them out in your name.

This is the election season. This is the time when people are thinking about political issues. The media is looking for a new story. Make every candidate take a position. Send a questionnaire to every elected person and candidate. Ask them to pledge not to ignore the issue, but to read about it, to vote to put it on the regular agenda, to listen to testimony, and to give this issue the consideration it deserves. Just ask them if they are willing to be open minded.

And this is the time to be attending county and city council meetings, water district meetings. Copy a few paragraphs from www.fluoride-class-action.com that you like and go read them.

Activate!!

Rouse ye!!

Occupy!!

Petition your government!!

Warn of litigation!!

Threaten litigation!!

Deliver copies of the Maryland and San Diego federal lawsuits.

Deliver lawsuit papers – without filing them. That rachets up the pressure without racheting up the legal fees.

Sue – but only after you build up a large war chest and consult with the experts who have already brought cases like this.

Sincerely,

James Robert Deal , Attorney

Silicofluoride contains lead.  The EPA maximum contaminant level (MCL) for lead is 15 ppb, and the maximum contaminant level goal (MCLG) is zero. Lead permeates all cells in the body, reduces IQ, and causes kidney disease and high blood pressure.

In 2004, the Seattle papers reported that lead at up to 1,600 ppb was found in drinking water in old Seattle schools. Silicofluoride, more so than sodium fluoride, leaches lead out of brass pipes.

New brass pipes contain around 8% lead and older pipes contain as much as 30% lead. All old schools, old homes, old apartment buildings, old hospitals, old office buildings, and old factories can be expected to contain brass pipes with high lead content, which silicofluoride will leach out. If water districts stopped fluoridating with silicofluorides, lead levels in water in old buildings and in blood would drop dramatically.

Seattle commissioned some early reports on the subject. Not one report even mentioned the possibility of a connection between lead levels and fluoridation! It is politically dangerous to oppose fluoridation so nothing bad can be said about fluoride. Seattle government embarked on an expensive program of replacing pipes in schools – at enormous expense. Even if this solves the lead problem in schools, it will not solve the lead problem in old homes, old apartment buildings, old hospitals, old office buildings, and old factories. Terminating fluoridation would stop most lead leaching much more effectively than replacing pipes and at no cost.

Fluoridation exists within a blindspot. It has become an article of faith. The ADA tells dentists that they need not try to understand the science behind fluoridation. They need only believe the mystery and spread the gospel of fluoridation. Dentists have been excommunicated for questioning it. A politician who opposes fluoridation will have to contend with the wrath and bottomless war chest of the pro-fluoride dental lobby, who probably get their money indirectly from the silicofluoride manufacturers. The chemical and toothpaste companies donate money to dental and medical colleges, so the colleges pressure dentists to support fluoridation.

Silicofluoride also contains arsenic, a confirmed Type 1, Class A human carcinogen. For arsenic the MCL is 10 ppb and the MCLG is zero. A zero MCLG for lead and arsenic means that there is no level of lead or arsenic which can safely be added to drinking water.

Silicofluoride has not yet been proven to be a carcinogen, but it is recognized as a poison. As little as seven grams of silicofluoride or sodium fluoride, the weight of seven paper clips, can kill a 70 kg adult. It would take a half pound of calcium fluoride to do the same. The one milligram of silicofluoride per liter which our cities add to drinking water is of course not immediately fatal, however, a healthy adult is only able to excrete half of all fluoride consumed, while the body retains the other half. Fluoride seeks out calcium and is retained in calcium rich areas of the body. Once in our bones, fluoride can never be removed.

Kidneys at best only excrete half the fluoride we consume. The effect is cumulative. After a decade or less of drinking fluoridated water, our bones can be around 5,000 ppm fluoride, and as a result we feel stiff and lethargic. In our 50s and 60s, bone and other tissues can be up to 12,000 ppm fluoride, depending on water hardness and one’s diet, making bones brittle. Fractured pelvises are twice as common in fluoridated areas. One who drinks fluoridated water all his life will be less healthy as he ages and may have a shorter life span.

Silicofluoride affects bones, joints, and tendons and exacerbates arthritic symptoms. Silicofluoride is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and a general enzyme inhibitor. It denatures proteins. It slowly but surely attacks the thyroid, pituitary, pineal, and other glands. Fluoride builds up in the kidneys and prevents them from functioning normally and hastens death by kidney failure. Those on kidney dialysis may find that their kidneys would heal if they would stop drinking fluoridated water.

Silicofluoride breaks down in such a way that the fluoride ion binds with aluminum. Aluminum fluoride passes the blood-brain barrier, delivering aluminum into the brain, which is believed to cause or worsen Alzheimer’s disease.

Blacks, Hispanics, and the poor in general are more sensitive to lead, arsenic, and silicofluoride than the general population. Alveda King, Bernice King, Andrew Young see  fluoridation as a new civil rights issue. http://fluoride-class-action.com/alveda-king-andrew-young-against-fluoride.

Babies are most sensitive because their cells are still dividing, because they drink so much fluids relative to their body weight, and because their kidneys are not mature and excrete only 20% of fluoride consumed. CDC, ADA, AMA, the surgeon general, and others have advised that formula not be mixed using fluoridated water. But the poor are unable to buy and haul fluoride-free water home or filter it out. Only an expensive filter or distiller can remove the tiny fluoride ion. This is an admission that the poor are definitely being harmed, poor babies in particular.

Athletes, hard laborers, and those with diabetes and kidney disease are highly vulnerable because they drink up to ten times as much water as typical people. The dose cannot be controlled.

In all of Western Washington, we are especially susceptible to the slow but certain ravages of fluoride because our snow melt water is exceptionally soft and contains little calcium, which would bind with and tie up fluoride.

The silicofluoride used is the unfiltered and unprocessed scrubber liquor from the smoke stacks of phosphate fertilizer plants in Florida, Louisiana, Mexico, and China. It contains trace amounts of nearly every element on the periodic table. It is not pharmaceutical grade. Silicofluoride has never been approved by the FDA, EPA, or any other federal or state agency for consumption in public drinking water. Fluorides have been approved for topical use, as in toothpaste, but the fluoride is to be spat out. If it is swallowed, one is to call poison control.

The National Sanitation Foundation – NSF – is a chemical company trade association, funded by EPA to certify silicofluoride fraudulently to approve its use. Washington and some 42 other states require that only NSF 60 fluoride be used. NSF claims on its web site and in the NSF 60 book that it obtains health and toxicological studies, however, this is a lie. NSF operates as a sham FDA.

One small Office of Drinking Water within the CDC pushes fluoridation, but the CDC has no authority whatsoever to approve or disapprove fluoridation. The CDC, EPA, and the surgeon general all endorse fluoridation. The CDC claims it is one of the ten greatest health achievements of the 20^th Century. However, endorsements do not prove anything. One must look at the science. Following release of the 2006 National Research Council Report on Fluoridation, it is clear that fluoridation is instead one of the ten greatest frauds of the 20^th Century.

Cities buy silicofluoride scrubber liquor by the tanker truck load and pour it at a steady rate, day after day into our water. Fluoridation is expensive. Silicofluoride corrodes equipment and shortens its useful life. Hazmat suits must be worn to handle silicofluoride. When the liquid is spilled on concrete, it burns a hole through it, as it will do to steel and glass. In this era of declining tax revenues and budget cuts it is hard to justify adding dilute toxic waste to drinking water. For every ton of silicofluoride added to water, one must add a half ton of sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate. That’s right, we are adding Draino® and soda ash to our drinking water.

Silicofluoride is not a mere additive such as chlorine, which is added to kill bacteria. Chlorine evaporates out of water overnight if left in an open pitcher. Silicofluoride is intended as medication and delivered without prescription, without inquiry into preexisting conditions and contraindications or conflicts with other drugs being taken, without informed consent, and with no control over dose or duration of use.

Silicofluoride is added allegedly to reduce tooth decay, however, documents posted on the CDC website claim only an 18-25% reduction in tooth decay. Other credible studies show no reduction. Tooth decay has dropped just as much in non-fluoridated Europe as in fluoridated United States, so fluoridation cannot be the causal factor.

Documents posted on the CDC website admit that the effect of fluoride on teeth is topical and not systemic, but strangely, CDC still endorses drinking fluoride. Documents on the CDC website admit that 41% of children 12 – 15 years old have at least mild fluorosis (white spots), while 8.6% suffer from moderate fluorosis (brown spots), and 3.6% suffer from severe fluorosis (brown spots and pitting). Fluorosis can be ugly. Fluorosis should not be forced on people just so tooth decay can allegedly be reduced and only slightly. The way to cut tooth decay is to quit eating junk food and drinking pop.

Seattle and Everett have been served Notice of Potential Liability in connection with the lead, arsenic, and silicofluoride which they add to drinking water. Cities should consult with their insurance carriers to confirm they will be covered when the class action and mass toxic tort actions come. Cities can reduce their liability by instituting an immediate one-year moratorium on fluoridation, thus showing good faith after all these years of fluoridating unquestioningly and without understanding the science. Failure on the part of these cities to look at the science regarding fluoridation will constitute reckless indifference to the harms caused and expose them to liability.

Smaller towns, those which must buy fluoridated water from larger districts should demand that the pipe to their city carry non-fluoridated water and that in the meantime they be held harmless from liability.

Clean and pure water is a fundamental human right. It should not be the responsibility of consumers to remove toxic waste from their water. Water departments should stop adding it. It violates our constitutional right to privacy to have a drug forced on us.

What you can do: Write or email the Everett City Council or the Seattle City Council or whatever city council. Demand that they put the silico-fluoride issue on the agenda and put a moratorium on fluoridation.

Send Freedom-of-Information FOIA requests. Attend city council meetings and make three minute speeches during the public comment period. When they fail to reply to your letters, write another letter pointing out that they are failing to do due diligence. Send a fluoride questionnaire to all elected officials.

Recruit attorneys to work on this project on a pro bono basis and send Notice of Potential Liability. (Attorneys will work for free to start with, but fluoride lawsuits will turn out to be lucrative.) Attorneys can quickly put the Fluoride Class Action documents on their own letterhead and make a big impact.

More reading: Letters to HHS and EPA:

http://fluoride-class-action.com/hhs/report-card-for-hhs. http://fluoride-class-action.com/hhs/comments-re-lead.

Tetraethyl lead, foisted on America by the same Kettering Institute which conned America into fluoridating.

50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation

Print this flier in quantity. Hand them out. You will find the Word version here: Modify this them if you want. Hand them out. Forward them to other Occupy groups.

To follow links, read this flier online here.

James Deal is a brave man – Just marching into the city council meeting and presenting on the topic of fluoride. When he announced he was doing this, I decided to join the ranks and speak up too (as long as I wasn’t doing it alone). I figured that people would see us as whakos – and to a certain extent I may have been right. However I didn’t FEEL that while we were there.

I did feel like there was opposition – planted opposition to speak the pro-fluoride agenda and they definitely wanted us to feel icky (like outrightly laughing at some of our public comments). The council as a whole seemed receptive to our message. That was a pleasant surprise.

I didn’t want to lose any progress made so I went home and made a short video of my presentation to the council and posted the speech on my website (http://fluoridedetective.com/2011/07/28/speak-your-mind/).

People can glance at them and get ideas for their own presentations to their city council. I’m planning on doing the same thing for any presentations given to city councils. That probably means making a special section on Fluoride Detective for city council presentations – eventually.

I’m not supposed to say this, but . . . but I feel discouraged with the fluoride fight – and I’ve barely begun. I do very much appreciate this Fluoride Poisoning group to help to keep me marching on.

Thanks to you all!! Your words are valuable and supportive to all of us out here.

Golda Starr
www.FluorideDetective.com