Linda, you must not live in Port Angeles or on the peninsula to think the majority of the fluoride opposition group here is libertarian. Perhaps you don't understand what the term means though since nobody who would self-identify as a libertarian would claim the right to deprive anyone of the choice to put a substance in their own body or use force to add any against their will.

Water in it's natural state, free of contamination such as lead and arsenic is healthful and essential to life. Water supply source points can contain harmful levels of lead, arsenic, copper, sulfur, fluoride and more from naturally occurring conditions alone. Water providers or those on a private well filter out excess harmful contaminants at the source point. The city is knowingly adding some of the impurities mentioned above by fluoridating.

Nobody wants to deprive anyone of fluoride if they want it. Numerous freely-available oral care products contain it, as well as rinses by prescription from a doctor.