Cent4dent Blog

This letter is a thing of beauty (even if
the language is a bit rough)..
You definitely feel the guy’s pain! An
actual letter to the passport
office…

Dear Sirs,

I’m in the process of renewing my passport,
and still cannot believe this.
How is it that Radio Shack has my address
and telephone number and knows
that I bought a cable t.v. from them back
in 1987, and yet, the Federal
Government is still asking me where I was
born and on what date.

For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by
hand? My birth date you have on
my social security card, and it is on all
the income tax forms I’ve filed
for the past 30 years. It is on my health
insurance card, my driver’s
license, on the last eight damn passports
I’ve had, on all those stupid customs
declaration forms I’ve had to fill out
before being allowed off the plane
over the last 30 years, and all those
insufferable census forms that are done
at election times.

Would somebody please take note, once and
for all, that my mother’s name
is Maryanne, my father’s name is Robert and
I’d be absolutely astounded if
that ever changed between now and when I
die!!!!!!

I apologize, I’m really pissed off this
morning. Between you an’ me, I’ve
had enough of this bullshit! You send the
application to my house, then you
ask me for my address?

What is going on? Do you have a gang of
Neanderthal asses working there!

Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin
Laden? I don’t want to dig up
Yasser Arafat, I just want to go and park my
ass on a sandy beach.

And would someone please tell me, why would
you care whether I plan on
visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I
ever got the urge to do something
weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you
me, I’d sure as hell not want to
tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, ’cause I have to go
to the other end of the city
and get another copy of my birth
certificate, to the tune of $60. Would it
be so complicated to have all the services
in the same spot to assist in
the issuance of a new passport the same
day?? Nooooo, that’d be too damn easy
and maybe make sense. You’d rather have us
running all over the place
like chickens with our heads cut off, then
find some idiot to confirm that
it’s really me on the damn picture – you
know, the one where we’re not
allowed to smile?! (bureaucratic morons)
Hey, you know why we can’t smile?
We’re totally pissed off!

Signed – An Irate Citizen.

P.S.. Remember what I said above about the
picture and getting someone to
confirm that it’s me? Well, my family has
been in this country since 1776
…….I have served in the military for
something over 30 years and have
had security clearances up the
yingyang……….However, I have to get
someone ‘important’ to verify who I am –
you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN INDIA !

Sincerely,

You Sure In The Hell Should Know Who I Am.

…………………And you want to run our
health care system?!?

Read more about mangled care: www.cent4dent.com

As BP and government leaders rush to hang a “Mission Accomplished” banner on the BP drilling disaster, troubling environmental and community impacts have not been addressed by BP, state or federal leaders. To view it, click here, or go to You Tube, and search Gulf Network or Healthy Gulf.

This episode of GRN’s Gulf Tides covers plans for over 100 miles of dredged sand berms to block oil from Louisiana’s marsh. We interview Len Bahr, Ph.D., of LACoastPost.com, the coastal science advisor to 5 former Louisiana Governors, who questions the wisdom and effectiveness of the berms, while GRN’s own Matt Rota underscores the unintended negative impacts of other decisions made in the coastal area, such as cutting oil & gas canals through the marsh.

We also spend time with Boat People SOS’s Danny Lee, who discusses the challenges the Vietnamese commercial fishing fleet has had joining BP’s Vessels of Opportunity Program to get work on the clean up effort. With many commercial shrimpers choosing to forgo the August shrimp season (which opened yesterday) due to concerns about the shrimp and the seafood markets
The Gulf Restoration Network remains committed to bringing you authentic voices and views from the Gulf’s affected communities. This episode features great local music from NOLA’s Anders Osborne, Stanton Moore and Irvin Mayfield. We are once again honored to have Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins narrate the series.

Our call to action for this YouTube episode links to supporting our campaign to make sure the story doesn’t fade once the media move one. Once you’ve watched and shared Gulf Tides, please click through and support GRN’s work with a donation!
So please watch the video, and learn more about the sand berm proposal, and the challenges facing the Vietnamese shrimping community. Then, please share the video with your friends, family or facebook.

Dr. Steve Markus, of Haddon Heights, NJ has joined forces with dental colleagues across the country to extend the following offer: ALL NEW PATIENTS WHO VISIT OUR OFFICE BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF OCTOBER WILL HAVE 10% OF THE FEES THEY PAY DONATED TO SUPPORT THIS INDEPENDENT NON-PROFIT THAT HAS BEEN OVERSEEING THE GULF FOR OVER 16 YEARS. VISIT THE WEBSITE FOR “SMILES FOR WILDLIFE” WHERE YOU WILL FIND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PROGRAM, AND LINKS TO GULF RESTORATION NETWORK.

For the Gulf, our coast, and communities
Aaron Viles
Campaign Director

Sometimes we must all pause and ask: Why do the pro-mercury dentists resist change so vociferously? Why do these protectors of a primitive, polluting product put quick-and-easy profits ahead of patient health, the environment, and worker safety? It’s tempting to say such resistance is unprecedented.

Not so.

Last week, I toured the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland. While at the museum, I bought its book about Civil War medicine: Death in the Breeze by Bonnie Brice Dorwart, M.D. Mercury’s use was so prevalent, and even then so controversial, that the author devotes two chapters just to mercury — prescribed by physicians in that era to treat soldiers for dysentery, typhoid, malaria, pneumonia, and syphilis.

Some physicians opposed pushing mercury onto unsuspecting patients. In fact, an early hero of the mercury-free movement was none other than the Surgeon General of the United States himself, William A. Hammond. Realizing that mercury should have no role in medicine, Hammond courageously issued General Order #6 on May 4, 1863, banning its use by Army physicians. But by issuing an order to protect soldiers from dying from mercury toxicity, Hammond signed his own political death warrant. Immediately, the medical establishment started calling for his ouster. The American Medical Association assigned delegates from every state to work against Order #6. On August 18, 1864, the AMA’s smear campaign succeeded: Surgeon General Hammond was court-martialed and cashiered out.

The American Medical Association defeated Hammond, but could not defeat the truth. More dissident physicians sprung up to oppose mercury, including the renowned Boston poet-physician Oliver Wendell Holmes (the father of the famous judge). Surgeon General Hammond was ultimately vindicated. Today, the Civil War use of mercury as a tonic is ridiculed. In the prologue to Dr. Dorwart’s 2009 book, Dr. H. Ralph Schumacher Jr., Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, states: “Many therapies such as purging and mercury may have hastened death.” Then he adds, prophetically: “What will our successors think of our efforts 150 years from now?”

Future generations not only will condemn the American Dental Association for implanting a neurotoxin into the human body, but no doubt they will resent cleaning up after the irresponsible dentists who polluted our planet with mercury. However, like Surgeon General Hammond, we now have the opportunity to stand up publicly against mercury abusers. Then it was the medical establishment; today it is the dental establishment.

In preparation for the hearings on dental amalgam to be held in December, FDA is accepting public comments online. Speak out for mercury-free dentistry by clicking here to submit a comment. Tell FDA about:
• your injuries caused by amalgam,
• your children’s exposure to mercury,
• how your mercury fillings were implanted without your informed consent,
• how bad dental mercury is for the environment,
• how deceptive FDA’s dental amalgam website is, or
• any other concerns relating to mercury fillings.
You might want to tell FDA, too, that the American Medical Association did all that it could to protect mercury in the 19th century, endangering countless lives. Now the ADA is doing all it can to protect mercury in the 21st century. Will FDA stand up to the American Dental Association like Surgeon General Hammond stood up to the American Medical Association, or will FDA continue to defend mercury implanted in children’s teeth?

– Charlie
Charles G. Brown
National Counsel, Consumers for Dental Choice
President, World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry
17 August 2010

For more information, visit the mercury issues pages of www.Cent4Dent.com

Thank you, Servando!

After a month-long lock-in at a Spanish hospital and a bold hunger strike, Professor Servando Pérez has won the right to detoxification treatment for his dental mercury poisoning.

As president of the Spanish amalgam-poisoned patient association Mercuriados, and First Vice President of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, Servando is a well-respected leader of the mercury-free dentistry movement. His Spanish court case established that Spain’s public health care system is required to pay for the chelation of amalgam-poisoned patients. When the hospital attempted to subvert the court’s decision, Servando refused to leave the hospital until he received treatment. Harassed and pressured by hospital staff, he declared a hunger strike last week to protest this egregious denial of treatment. People from around the world contacted the hospital administrators and the Spanish government, voicing their support for the Gandhi of the mercury-free dentistry movement.

Finally, the hospital relented late last week. Servando was referred to a toxicologist for treatment – a step hospital administrators should have taken over a month ago. While there remain concerns over the quality of treatment (there is a proper way to remove mercury, be sure to visit the mercury issues pages of www.Cent4Dent.com) he will receive, this achievement is nonetheless a momentous leap forward in the battle to help amalgam victims.

Clara Valverde, President of the Spanish environmental illness association Liga SFC, issued the following statement on behalf of Servando: “We want to thank all the scientists, doctors, associations and individuals who, all over the world, during Servando’s lock-in and hunger strike, have contacted the Spanish and the Galician [provincial] authorities to protest for Servando’s situation and who have shown support for our fight. We hope to continue to count on your support.”

Thank you to everyone who spoke out in support of Servando. And thank you, Servando, for all the work you do for this movement.

– Charlie

Charles G. Brown
President, World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry
National Counsel, Consumers for Dental Choice
3 August 2010

Dr Markus ,

After 18 to 20 years of psychiatric drugs, (which usually made me feel
worse) one deviated septum operation, and trying every supplement on the
market I was totally deflated. I am 42 and I was becoming convinced I had
early on-set Alzheimer’s. I was losing not only my vision, but also my
hearing, memory and ability to “think on my feet”.

The severe headaches were becoming common and my joints hurt so bad , I would wince in pain
whenever I would utilize them. You and your staff quickly determined, it was
likely I had heavy metal poisoning. I went to The Chung Institute at your
recommendation. Having the Mercury Laden Amalgam fillings removed by an experienced professional
(you) was the single most important step I could take to restore my health!

Dr. Shin is still working with me to remove the heavy metals. When I first
went to see him, he told me, “get all the silver/mercury fillings removed from your teeth and
then we can proceed.” A lot of people think being poisoned by your fillings
is hooey. I would like to tell them, when they come to their senses, to go
see you and get the poison removed from their mouths.

Thanks,
Geoff

Dr Markus ,

After 18 to 20 years of psychiatric drugs, (which usually made me feel
worse) one deviated septum operation, and trying every supplement on the
market I was totally deflated. I am 42 and I was becoming convinced I had
early on-set Alzheimer’s. I was losing not only my vision, but also my
hearing, memory and ability to “think on my feet”.

The severe headaches were becoming common and my joints hurt so bad , I would wince in pain
whenever I would utilize them. You and your staff quickly determined, it was
likely I had heavy metal poisoning. I went to The Chung Institute at your
recommendation. Having the Mercury Laden Amalgam fillings removed by an experienced professional
(you) was the single most important step I could take to restore my health!

Dr. Shin is still working with me to remove the heavy metals. When I first
went to see him, he told me, “get all the silver/mercury fillings removed from your teeth and
then we can proceed.” A lot of people think being poisoned by your fillings
is hooey. I would like to tell them, when they come to their senses, to go
see you and get the poison removed from their mouths.

Thanks,
Geoff