The Health Vine

DESLEY BOYLE AND THE CRISIS OF WESTERN PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY

Open Letter by Brent Melville (journalist) Gold Coast. 14 December 2009

Cairns Post (Dec.8, 2009): Cairns MP Desley Boyle, who was in Brisbane yesterday, acknowledged the protesters, claiming their feelings were as strong as those within the community who wanted fluoridated water. "I know the difference in the dental health of NSW children compared to Queensland children. "I lived up here for ages and I don’t see and believe there is any evidence of damage to the people of Mareeba or Townsville who have long had fluoride in their water supplies." She said the State Government was proceeding with fluoridation of water supplies because it believed it reflected the majority view.

Dear Mrs Boyle:

Sorry to use you as an example, but your cleverly deceptive comments (technically not lying) about fluoridation of water and the dental health of Queensland children epitomize a rottenness in western parliamentary democracy that people are becoming less and less willing to tolerate.  States are also becoming less tolerant of dissent and more totalitarian in their approach.

Are you aware Mrs Boyle, that Queensland bureaucrats were caught falsifying dental statistics and a detailed complaint about this was made to the Crime and Misconduct Commission? An investigation, only released after an FOI request, found “incorrect” interpretation of data in regard to tooth decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas.

Also Mrs Boyle, why do you so carefully deceive your electorate about ‘the majority who support fluoridation’? Did you have a referendum? Isn’t it true Mrs Boyle, that the Bligh administration simply pulled the fluoride referendum provision out of the legislation? Isn’t it also true Mrs Boyle, that you and other State Labor MPs  voted to change the law to allow yourself and other elected representatives to lie to Parliament? Did you consider, Mrs Boyle that lying to Parliament is lying to the people of Queensland?

Today’s enforcers of fascist state power operate by sophisticated propaganda, ever-increasing bureaucratic harassment and raw power via SWAT teams. Mussolini’s blackshirts looked quaint by comparison.

Mrs Boyle, you say you “don’t see or don’t believe” there is evidence of people being harmed by fluoride. Well, have you even looked for evidence Mrs Boyle? Do you and the Bligh administration even care about fluoride depositing in children’s brains, bones or pineal glands that peer-reviewed scientific studies warn of?  The Europeans ban fluoridation but our politicians (including the State Opposition Leader) give it glowing approval. What logical explanation can there be for this, Mrs Boyle? Is this just a matter of following orders from above? Do you realise Mrs Boyle, that you are employed by the people who elected you, and lawfully, you should not be taking orders from anyone else?

Is it not sadly true Mrs Boyle, that the Bligh administration only pretends to listen to people and then practically spits in their faces by refusing to listen or act upon objections to fluoride and refusing to follow plebiscites on local government amalgamations?  Is it not true Mrs Boyle, that you and the Premier actually follow commands issued by the “Directors General” and the “Co-ordinator General” of the State?  Is it not true that these chief bureaucrats in turn take orders from UN agencies and global corporate-government think tanks that serve the interests, essentially, of global banks and corporations? Is it not true Mrs Boyle, that your own Labor Party members know this, which is why many of them so strongly oppose State asset sales?

Mrs Boyle, why do you think Americans are shouting down politicians at town hall meetings? No, it’s not nice, it’s not polite but do you agree that represents a deep frustration at the subversion of the western parliamentary system by these forces of “global corporate power”?  Is it not true Mrs Boyle, that merging government and big business is historically a trait of fascism? Isn’t it true Mrs Boyle, that Mussolini’s black-shirt fascism (above right) was relatively quaint compared with what you now represent – a modern state, enforced at one level by scientific and systematic propaganda, at another level by bureaucratic harassment (eg the new enforced Sustainability Declarations, parking tickets, water fines,   pet registration and microchipping, mandatory this and mandatory that) and at another level by armed physical intimidation by black-uniformed SWAT teams?

I’m actually not particularly partisan when it comes to party politics Mrs Boyle and I know most politicians want to do the right thing, but my hat goes off to the Liberals who voted against the ETS on principle, because their constituents were demanding it. In fact was a revolutionary act! Politicians carried out the will of the people as they are lawfully, and constitutionally obliged to do.

So Mrs Boyle, will you:

(1)   Reveal to us who ordered, advocated or lobbied the elected representatives of Queensland to fluoridate the water supply?

(2)   Reveal to us why the European decision to ban fluoridation apparently has no substance?

Would it not be unlawful for you Mrs Boyle to disregard these questions? In such a case, would not the people of Queensland be justified in seeking your removal from office as a rogue politician?

Regards,

Brent Melville