Once again the issue of fluoridation is rearing its ugly head so that we who value our right to safeguard our own physical and mental well-being are needing to fight for our freedom.

This time the Government and pro-fluridation bodies are hoping to legislate so that not only will everyone in this country be given mass-medication via our water supply but those responsible - water companies and strategic health authorities - will be protected by an indemnity if sued by the public.

For God's sake, wake up England, if you do not want our beloved country to become a police state. England, Eire and two per cent of Spain are now the only European nations to embrace this scandalous method of ridding the fertiliser and aluminium industries of their toxic waste.

Evidence of the fluoridation-cancer link was published in the USA by the science director of the National Health Federation, Dr John Yiamouyiannis and Dr Dean Burk more than 30 years ago, yet still the scientific evidence and concerns about dangers arising from the use of fluorides are largely ignored. Medical ethics and human rights are also being flouted by the protagonists.

What can we, the general public, do to protect ourselves and our health against the power of those elected to serve us who have betrayed our trust by their bullying tactics to make us submit to their whims?

People Power is the only peaceful way forward. We have to voice our concerns either singly or in groups, by writing to our MPs, health authorities, water companies, the media and all whom we pay to protect our welfare and quality of life.

We, the ordinary people, with our fund of wisdom and common-sense drawn from down-to-earth values and life experience must now make a stand to protect our very lives and the freedom which our forefathers sought to preserve by their great heroic sacrifice in times of war.

Terrorists are not the only threat to our nation - our own complacency will suffice. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

-Thelma Brown, Durrington