USA - Fluoridated water: Are we slaves to the state?

In the 1997 movie Conspiracy Theory, tiny actor Mel Gibson plays Jerry Fletcher, a New York City cabbie who runs an internet conspiracy theory website. The film is full of quotable gems like: “The Vietnam War was fought over a bet that Howard Hughes lost to Aristotle Onassis,” and another about fluoridated water where he says: “It weakens your will, destroys your capacity for free and creative thought, and makes you a slave to the state!”
Okay, maybe not. But the issue of fluoridated water has come up in Greensboro and it bears some discussion.