Posted on 07/10/2017 2:59:42 PM PDT by Ray76
Samuel Girod is a farmer who belongs to the "Old Order Amish community" and a father to twelve in Bath County, Kentucky. According to Ricochet, the 57-year-old Girod got in trouble with the government after selling homemade herbal remedies, like:
... a salve made of chickweed, rosemary, beeswax, and olive oil. The label said it was to treat skin disorders such as “dry skin, cuts, burns, draws, and poison ivy.” Girod also handed out pamphlets touting the product’s effectiveness in treating skin cancer, diaper rash, and fungal infections.
When a Missouri resident filed a complaint, the state health department demanded he remove the language. Girod changed the product’s name to “Healing Chickweed,” agents said the word “healing” was verboten, so he renamed it “Original Chickweed.”
When Girod missed a hearing in August last year, the government went to his family farm and arrested "the fugitive."
Girod was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison, "three years supervised release following that, $1,300 in fines, and more than $14,000 restitution for his victimless crime."
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Well, this is about #20 in a list of 20 things people want me to press Trump on.
I'm guessing not.
ML/NJ
Meanwhile Hillary and her gang aren’t in prison.
The law is the law. Buck it at your discretion.
I bet ole man snake oil will think twice about peddling his $hit now
Yes, let’s just keep obeying ridiculous laws and regulations. That’s the ticket. What a good obedient managed slave you are.
Let’s pray President Trump pardons this gentleman and cleans out the whole FDA of Big Pharma loyalists and their freedom-robbing regulations.
Yep, shame on me for wanting science and proof that his back room bull$hit concoction actually does what HE claims it does.
>>Yep, shame on me for wanting science and proof that his back room bull$hit concoction actually does what HE claims it does.
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Exactly. shame on you.
Calling his “concoction” “backroom bull$hit” is a load of it in and of itself.
If a person doesn’t recognize the clearly labeled ingredients, and take personal responsibility for agreeing to buy exactly what was on the label, yes, shame on you.
Dependence on Gov’t to wipe your butt contributes to regulation overload. I suspect not many liberty lovers would want to live in your socialist hell. I prefer to live in a Free Republic.
Me, I prefer that bunnies and beagles are sacrificed on my behalf in the name of quality.
>>Hey, if you want to smear amish horse dung on your body because doctor feelgood says it will cure all your ailments, be my guest.
Me, I prefer that bunnies and beagles are sacrificed on my behalf in the name of quality.
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Hmmm. I must have missed “amish horse dung” as a listed ingredient.
>>Be my guest.
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I guess that is the point. I view it as one’s personal choice whether to believe claims, like “Buyer Beware”.
Remember in the old movies years ago when the traveling snake oil salesman would go from town to town touting the cures of the “miracle cure” he was selling?
If some were duped into buying it, that was their choice. But the most that would happen would be that the guy was run off out of town, not 6 years in a Federal penitentiary.
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