Archive for October, 2007


Oct 23rd, 2007

Crossing the Ron Paul Bridge

I was initially a reluctant Ron Paul revolutionary. Having always voted for a democratic President, this was the first time I’d crossed that bridge. But now, I’ve taken my ‘Rono-Paulism’ to an all new level. My ‘Paulite’ is soaring and the innate freedom-loving beast within is growing stronger while the Paulonian Liberty is beginning to overflow into all aspects of my life…including my family. Now that said, I would never want anything for my family but the true and right. We all use some critical thinking and intuition - or that gut feeling - to determine what we think and feel is right or wrong. And our parents and others in our lives have taught us the difference between the two. And Ron Paul is right for my family - and I feel this deep-down, and now, since diving in head first and learning and understanding the message behind the man, I know he is right for us, America and the world.

Besides our daily chatter of the Ron-Paul-media-o’ the day around our dinner table, or enthusiastically attending Ron Paul rallies, or hawk-eying the donations and debates, or ensuring that my children understand the constitution; now my son is an accomplice in the freeway blogging effort for the Ron Paul grassroots campaign. We took it upon ourselves to fix a distressed sign that was dangling from a bridge in the darkness last night.

On our way home from the scout pack meeting (in which I wore my Ron Paul hat of course), I decided it was the time to fix the sign that had dangled so dangerously from one plastic anchor for weeks. The fact that nobody else had fixed it for the sake of safety at least, but also for the sake of conveying the message that lay in a wrinkled mess all that time (didn’t our parents teach us not wait for someone else to fix it if it’s broken). It was hung on the outside of the chain-link fence enclosure on the pedestrian bridge over the Bangerter Highway in Riverton Utah. So it made for a challenge to keep it from falling to the highly traveled highway below us. My son, dressed in full Cub Scout uniform, used his dexterity, determination and small hands to reach through the chain-link and re-align the sign that reads, in home-spun stencil: Ron Paul 4 President 2008.

We shimmied and secured the sign taking only 15 invigorating minutes. My son, without fear of public retaliation or the police, danced around the bridge in excitement - the first time he’d ever been on a pedestrian bridge. The lights of the cars zooming below us made for a serene moment, but after I spotted a couple of Sheriff cars I grew more nervous. But I imagined explaining to the officer that we were simply trying to make the existing sign safer. How could a law enforcement officer not agree with a dad and his son, in uniform, exercising our rights to do good deeds for public safety?

I kept feeling the need to fiddle with the sign to secure it so it wouldn’t fall down again. Then I turned and scuttled along the bridge, 30 feet up in the crisp night air, as my son was investigating the clean cut of the plastic clips that had held the sign. ‘If only the people that made the cuts knew what Ron Paul means to America’ I thought. I felt it was time to go as the adrenaline was coursing through me. We strolled down the ramp back to earth and talked about how we did a small part in what will continue to be a gigantic effort to help Ron Paul get elected. Like the small part we’ve made by donating to the campaign, and talking to family and friends about the freedom and peace message, and wearing our Ron Paul garb, and the bumper stickers on our cars and the yard sign, etc. Yes, my children know what freedom, peace and prosperity are and my goal is to keep it that way.

The grassroots campaign is strong and effective and the revolution is in full swing in the minds and hearts of the people. Money continues to pour into the campaign with incredible projections. The patriot movement is growing and good folks are braving-the-bridges everyday to get the word out. I am proud that we climbed onto the freeway blogosphere and crossed that bridge in the night sky.


Oct 18th, 2007

EPA: Fluoride is Hazardous Waste

“any person who drinks artificially fluoridated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically.”
-Charles E. Perkins, Chemist.

Is fluoride a health risk? Especially for our infants and young children? The NRC says to rub it on the teeth only of children and adults, yet it is continually added to water and other consumer products - even bottled water for babies. Fluoridation is a medical experiment. Without any solid proof that ingesting fluoride is beneficial for our teeth-and with no safety tests conducted to determine its potential effects on the rest of your body - the government moved forward with the mass medication of the country’s water supply.

Some water districts are discontinuing the practice of adding fluoride to the public water based on mounting research and data. Just because we’ve been doing it for fifty years,should we continue adding medicine to our water? The National Research Council believes young people are getting 3-4 times the dose as adults, and the ADA now warning mothers not to make formula with fluoride water because of fear of dental fluorosis. Will it take patients on dialysis and people with borderline kidney damage and hypothyroidism. A Nobel Prize winner and scientist - Arbid Carlson - and a large group of EPA scientists have called for banning of fluoride in water. Why hasn’t the state department figured this out yet?

As of October 15, 2007, FAN (Fluoride Action Network) released a statement signed by over 1,075 professionals calling for an end to fluoridation and a call to legislators in fluoridating countries to hold hearings to determine why, after the release of the landmark National Research Council report in 2006, aggressive promotion of fluoridation continues.

As of October 15, 2007, the signers include:
• 170 Dentists (DDS and DMD)
• 152 PhD’s (includes DSc, Doctor of Science)
• 148 MD’s
• 117 DC’s (Doctor of Chiropractic)
• 70 Nurses (RN and BSN)
• 68 ND’s (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine)
• 23 Lawyers (JD and LLB)
• 22 RDHs (Registered Dental Hygienist)
• 13 DO’s (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine)
* 11 LAc’s (Licensed Acupuncturist)

According to Dr. Paul Connett, the Executive Director of FAN, “What we are seeing here is the judgment of professionals across the world, not trapped by a ‘fluoridation belief system,’ that the information on the health effects contained in the National Research Council report of 2006, together with a growing number of peer reviewed studies showing that fluoridation has only weak or no benefits, leads to one conclusion: the meager benefits do not outweigh the serious risks and fluoridation must be stopped.”

Connett adds, “Now our task is to get health officials, regulators, and the media to exercise due diligence in this matter and seriously examine the information presented in the Professionals’ Statement. Fluoridation will only end in the US when officials in the Oral Health Division of the CDC are forced to defend, under oath, their zealous promotion of this practice. They appear to be oblivious to its ineffectiveness and the dangers it poses to the American people – and people in the handful of other fluoridated countries.”

FAN has organized an ONLINE ACTION PETITION to Congress allowing citizens to add their support to the Professionals’ Statement and the call for new Congressional Hearings.

Update: Water Fluoridation has hit the main stream media. After decades being brushed aside, the Scientific American released an article about the dangers of fluoride if its overused, revealing that it’s almost impossible not to overuse it.

 

FACTS ABOUT FLUORIDE

- An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages children’s liver and kidney functions.

- In 2005, a study conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health found that fluoride in tap water directly contributes to causing bone cancer in young boys. “New American research suggests that boys exposed to fluoride between the ages of five and 10 will suffer an increased rate of osteosarcoma - bone cancer - between the ages of 10 and 19,” according to a London Observer article about the study.

- Fluoride is a waste by-product of the fertilizer and aluminum industry and it’s also a Part II Poison under the UK Poisons Act 1972.

- Fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in both PROZAC (FLUoxetene Hydrochloride) and Sarin nerve gas (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl FLUoride).

- USAF Major George R. Jordan testified before Un-American Activity committees of Congress in the 1950’s that in his post as U.S.-Soviet liaison officer, the Soviets openly admitted to “Using the fluoride in the water supplies in their concentration camps, to make the prisoners stupid, docile, and subservient.”

- The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany’s Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride’s supposed effect on children’s teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people in their concentration camps into calm submission. (Ref. book: “The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben” by Joseph Borkin.)

- 97% of western Europe has rejected fluoridated water due to the known health risks, however 10% of Britons drink it and the UK government is trying to fast track the fluoridation of the entire country’s water supply.

- In Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg fluoridation of water was rejected because it was classified as compulsive medication against the subject’s will and therefore violated fundamental human rights.

- In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) advised that parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water.

- Sources of fluoride include: fluoride dental products, fluoride pesticides, fluoridated pharmaceuticals, processed foods made with fluoridated water, and tea.

- “Today almost 60 percent of the U.S. population drinks fluoridated water, including residents of 46 of the nation’s 50 largest cities,” reports Scientific American’s Dan Fagin. Fagin is an award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.

- The Scientific American study “Concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid — the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism.”

- The report also notes that “a series of epidemiological studies in China have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ.”

 

 

Click here to find out if your water supply is poisoned with deadly fluoride.


Oct 16th, 2007

A Ron Paul American Republic: Imagine all the People


Imagine all the people, the men and women of the United States military under a Ron Paul presidency, on a day that our troops from around the globe are ordered to march out of these nations we occupy and just come home to defend our country. And just like they marched in - with our heads held high and plans with hope for the future, but minus the “Desert Storm” or “Operation Enduring Freedom” fighting words and gunfire and lies. And then imagine all the people, the citizens of these occupied nations - some of these countries under long-term occupation - cheering in their streets in celebration and waving their flags as they are no longer under siege by the American Empire. That is a certain victory and sending a message of peace.

Imagine all the people in America with their yellow ribbons and the good old red, white and blue flags waving proudly to welcome home our troops…again in undeniable victory and sending a message of peace and hope and in the humble example we are capable of displaying to the world. The ideas of peace and liberty will do more to mend our strained relations with all nations than bombs and bullets, the threats and rhetoric. So why are all the other candidates talking about preemptive strikes against Iran and leaving all options on the table? The men and women of our military clearly support Ron Paul’s proposed humble foreign policy and have donated more money to Dr. Paul’s campaign than any other candidate. They are saying NO to endless war and the continued war propaganda.

72% of American’s want our troops sent home from Iraq - in what many say has already descended into a civil war. Even Dick Cheney said in 1994 that it would be a quagmire to invade Iraq. It was a mistake to go, and it’s a mistake to stay. And now many, including Greenspan and Kissinger and also allied nations such as Australia, are admitting that is was a mistake and that we actually went to war against a sovereign nation over oil. We spend trillions of dollars to maintain our empire overseas and secure oil and wrestle for power. We spend countless lives to counter terrorism, thus the 100 year war as termed by the Bush Administration, since we can never really win a war against this enemy without a nation - the modern day bogeyman.

In Ron Paul’s words:

“We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars!”

“All initiation of force is a violation of someone else’s rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it’s supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.”

“How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don’t police the world. That’s conservative, it’s Republican, it’s pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution. ”

“I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.”

“I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we’re fretting day in and day and night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force. ”

“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”

Imagine all the people…living life in peace…in a Ron Paul American Republic.