The 50-year-old battle to get fluoride(s) out of the Irish water supply kicked into high gear this summer as (impromptu) strippers thronged St. Stephen’s Green in support of a Sinn Féin bill, which is currently before the Dáil, to ban the controversial practice.
Leading the campaign is Aisling Fitzgibbon, a 26-year-old nutritionist from Tralee, who is taking the government to court. She has more than 8,000 supporters, including musicians Paddy Casey and Christy Moore.
Aisling has been stripping in public to highlight how the Irish government’s forced fluoridation policy puts her health at risk – by stripping her of her right to drink unmedicated water. Her mother Martha, who is a teacher, suggested the campaign might get more attention if Aisling took her clothes off, after her earlier attempts to highlight forced fluoridation as a human rights abuse in Ireland, were largely ignored.
If you think water flouridation does anything but make kids' teeth better, you're a goddamn idiot.
I have heretofore never remotely imagined that I would have ever had a cogent, sober reason for advising anyone to keep their clothes on in Stephen's Green.
I hate these people.
As a counter-protest, I recommend people keep their damn clothes on as a means of saying "we want our kids to have healthy teeth." Then when the loonies leave, everyone gets comfortably nekkid and happily boozed at a fantastic public party to which the nitwits are not invited.
Honestly. I should be in charge of this shit.