Nigel Smetham writes a deeply flawed analysis of Southern Water's role in potential water fluoridation (The Argus, June 13).
Since no one sane or senior can be forced to take medication, the propagation of fluoride through the public water supply is truly immoral illegal, even, since the 2003 Water Act was rubberstamped by biased politicians. Along with other water companies, Southern Water has sought legal indemnity against criminal proceedings should customers (I guess we're all customers, not citizens, nowadays) sue over health or civil rights issues following fluoridation.
If there is no problem, why ask for an indemnity? If there is, why should customers take the risk? This is no matter for customer referendums since one citizen-customer cannot dictate the bodily ingestion of another. I cannot demand Nigel Smetham takes compulsory medication, yet that is what he asks of me.
He also asks it of every reader of this paper, their friends, families and colleagues.
It is high time Southern Water revised its corporate policy. It should stand up to a Government hell-bent on this crazy policy.
-Peter Poole, Brighton
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