THE RILEY FACTOR
Councilman Chris Riley
This coming Tuesday, August 9, the newly-reconstituted Committee on Public Health and Human Services will hold its first meeting since Chris Riley replaced Randi Shade alongside Mike Martinez and Laura Morrison. It is natural to speculate on what he will bring to the table.
Riley has positioned himself as a green councilmember. He voted against WTP4, pops up at environmental events, rides a bicycle for transportation as well as pleasure, and doesn't even own a car. One would expect such an avid cyclist to be keen on health and wellness issues. But not this one.
Riley suffers from hypothyroidism, an underactive-thyroid condition he himself will bring up in conversation. Hypothyroidism (which is skyrocketing in the U.S. today) is well known to be exacerbated by the presence of fluoride; indeed, fluoridated medication was at one time prescribed to treat overactive thyroid. He says he drinks unfiltered tapwater at home. Is it possible that after nearly three years of education by Fluoride Free Austin he hasn't privately looked into this himself?
We can't answer that. What we do know is that he has thus far expressed no interest in bringing to public light any negative information about the fluorosilicic acid pumped into our water system daily. If such exists, he doesn't want to know about it.
In other words: Don't Look, Don't Find.
His position appears to be that if one doesn't know everything there is to know about a subject (symbolized by a university degree), one can't possibly know anything at all about it, and it's useless and presumptous to try. He's made it clear that he requires the permission of "mainstream" medicine and dentistry before he can sign off on removing the poison. And what exactly is "mainstream?" That's a story for another day.
Here it is:
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Posted by M. Rae Nadler-Olenick at 8/14/2011 1:50 AM 
Categories: health wellness environment
Tags: fluoridated fluorosilicic public health human services austin activism chris riley
Categories: health wellness environment
Tags: fluoridated fluorosilicic public health human services austin activism chris riley
I understand that Chris Riley is also a director of Capital Metro and Lobbies City Council on behalf of CapMetro when CapMetro wants the City of Austin to pay legal fees and judgments on behalf of CapMetro when they commit wrongs against the people.
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