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In July 2022 the Director-General of Health (DG) sent directives to 14 councils around New Zealand to start fluoridation by a given timeframe or face serious financial penalties – $200,000 plus $10,000 a day for every day thereafter. But at a court hearing yesterday the DG’s lawyer stated she has no intention of seeking these fines. Councils are being tricked into making a decision they otherwise wouldn’t make.
Over the past couple of months, the DG has sent letters to a number of councils advising them that their request for an extension to the start date of fluoridation, until there was more legal certainty, had been declined. The letters reminded them that “Under Part 5A contravening a
directive is an offense, and the statute provides for potentially significant penalties”. On this basis, the Waitaki District Council decided to go ahead with fluoridation, now due to start next week, and Rotorua council voted to accept Ministry of Health funding and embark on the procurement process.
This is in stark contrast to the lawyer for the DG claiming “that there is no indication that the Director-General would take enforcement action in relation to the directions”.
So, it now transpires that these were empty threats designed to push councils into complying with an unlawful directive, that is massively opposed by their communities, which they otherwise would not have done.
These 2022 directives were originally challenged by non-profit group New Health New Zealand and a High Court ruling in November last year found the directives were unlawful because the DG had failed to consider the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (BORA). This was despite a Supreme
Court Ruling in 2018 found that fluoridation was “compulsory medical treatment” and engaged Section 11 – our right to refuse medical treatment.
In February this year the High Court ordered the DG to complete the BORA analysis but allowed the directives to still stand.
The DG has appealed the November decision but is still required to complete the BORA analysis. It stands to reason that no council should be forced to start fluoridation until this analysis has been completed.
Justice Radich made clear in his ruling yesterday that there is no need for him to quash the directives as the DG has indicated she does not intend to take enforcement action against any council that refuses to start fluoridation, and if she did the Council could simply seek an interim injunction against the DG.
The ruling in February requires that the BORA analysis considers the plaintiff’s views that fluoridation poses an unreasonable risk to the health of New Zealanders, particularly the development of children’s brains.
Since 2017, 10 US Government-funded studies have been published that show fluoride damages the brains of children exposed to fluoride at exposure levels caused by fluoridation. Recent major
studies (LOTUS and CATFISH) funded by the UK government have found fluoridation has very little benefit to teeth and is not cost effective once implementation costs are included. And on top of that there are alternatives to dental public health, with school toothbrushing schemes in Scotland and other places having been hugely successful.
It appears unlikely that the DG will ever be able to provide a robust analysis of BORA where she can show that violating New Zealanders basic right to refuse to undergo medical treatment is in any way “demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society” as is required in section 5 of
BORA. Moreover, it will ultimately be decided in the New Health NZ case when it finally goes to Court, not by the DG.
All councils who have been threatened with fluoridation should be confident that the DG will not seek legal retribution as the DG is in no position to do so. They need, therefore, to be aware that any decision to start fluoridation, such as Hastings did in April this year, is on their heads. They are the ones responsible for now damaging the brains of children in their community, brain damage being only one of the adverse effects known to be caused by fluoride.
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Excellent summary. The continued bullying and harmful poisoning of New Zealanders (think Bloomfield & mandatory Covid ‘vaccines’) by these nefarious Director Generals of Health, immorally relying solely on fraudulent science and hiding behind inappropriate Parliamentary Acts, that bestow way too much power to the DGoH, must stop immediately.
Dismiss this current Director General Diana Sarfati. A person of this persuasion should not ever hold such a position in any Government in fact they should not ever be allowed to hold any position in Government. Get rid of this Sarfati person and good riddance.
Is this agenda originally from the WEF I wonder? All part of the world depopulation plan!