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 Fluoride: The Freedom Fight, by Dr. Hans Moolenburgh

 This is the story of how Dr. Moolenburgh led a successful campaign to end fluoridation in his native country, The Netherlands. He was at first reluctant to argue with Backer Dirks, the foremost promoter of fluoridation in The Netherlands.

MOOLENBURGH'S SUSPICIONS

 There was a story prevalent in post war Holland that the Nazis had experimented with fluoridation because a secret research study had found that fluoride made people more docile and thus more accepting of dictatorship. A Mr. Perkins, an American, was alleged to have discovered right after the war that the I.G. Farben Company had discovered that this effect of fluoride was caused by damage to a particular part of the brain. This was the kind of bizarre story that never made it into the history books because no one could ever document it. The story may seem credible to some because fluoride is a component of many high strength tranquilizers.  Although this story was never used in any of Dr. Moolenburgh's anti-fluoridation campaigns, it probably did a lot to sway public opinion against fluoridation. 

 A similar story was told by an eye witness who said that during the war he shipped fluoride to Russia and when he asked them what they were doing with it they said they fluoridated the water in POW camps to keep the prisoners calm. The same witness had lived in a part of Ireland where the water was fluoridated and it seemed to him that the children were quieter and more subdued under its influence. 

 
CHOLINESTERASE

 A medical student, Mien Bulthius, wrote a neurology dissertation on cholinesterase in which she presented evidence that fluoride inhibits the nerve enzyme cholinesterase. The Chief Inspector of Health in her country tried to dissuade her from publishing that part of her dissertation. 

"Imagine that you want to pick up a pencil. In your brain the thought is translated into action and an electrical impulse shootsthrough your nerves down to your hand. Now, somewhere along the line there is a gap in the transmission of this impulse. One nerve ends and, a little distance away, another nerve begins and picks up the impulse. The energy shooting throughthe nerves is electrical, but the gap between the two nerves is different. When the message to lift up the pencil has arrived at the first nerve ending a substance called acetylcholine is secreted and when that reaches the second nerve, the electrical impulse is set into motion again."

 "So, to discontinue the impulse when the pencil has actually been picked up, there is an enzyme called cholinesterase which neutralises the acetylcholine." Now the Perkins story didn't sound so crazy after all. 

 Dr. Moolenburgh's research group of doctors tested the effect of drinking fluoridated water on the blood levels of cholinesterase in healthy volunteers. The tests showed that ordinary fluoridated drinking water interferes with cholinesterase. 
 "A severe disruption of the cholinesterase function was demonstrated in each case. In a normal person cholinesterase shows a sort of slow, undulating pattern, but in the fluoridated individuals chaos prevailed. There was also a definite inhibition in the cholinesterase activity." 

FREEDOM

The fluoridation lobby posed as "the great benefactor of humanity," but later, when promoting fluoridation became disreputable, people who had rode on the fluoridation bandwagon began "quietly slinking away and saying: 'Well, perhaps it was not such a good idea after all.' Dr. Moolenburgh had this judgment for them: "In my view, the fluoridation lobby should be isolated from the rest of the population as people who are wrongdoers, as people who should repent before we take them back again in our friendship and our trust. Perhaps some of my friends will be shocked. They perhaps will say: 'Is that a Christian attitude?'

 "I believe a wrongdoer should be called a wrongdoer. There is no excuse for what the fluoridation lobby is doing and these people should be shown clearly and unequivocally that they have to keep their hands off our personal rights." 

Dr. Moolenburgh met with scientists from the United States in 1973 at an anti-fluoridation conference. He realized then why the anti-fluoridation campaigns in the United States had been not as effective as they would have wished:

 "These men had in their hands material that was pure gold in the fluoridation battle and yet where resistance was concerned they still had something to learn: they had no clear idea of how to fight a real guerilla war. 

Note: An adviser to the US Government on hypnotism or psychological behaviour control, Dr George Estabrooks, later became Chairman, Department of Psychology, Colgate University. Internationally, Colgate was and remains the most ardent producer and advocate for the fluorination of a domestic product - fluoridated toothpaste.
 
 "That is why I have written this book for you: not to tell you how we did it in the first place, but to increase your awareness. Freedom is a blessing that is acquired with great difficulty and lost with great ease. Fluoridation is one of the ways of taking that freedom away. There are many other ways and most of them are infiltrating the free democracies of our day, but when you have learned to recognise one, you will recognise them all." 

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