Judge Sends Amish Man To Prison For Refusing Big Pharma Medicine

Sean Adl-Tabatabai – A judge has sentenced an Amish farmer to six years in prison for refusing to sell Big Pharma medicine to the Amish community.

Samuel Girod

U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves handed down the unprecedented sentence against Samuel Girod on Friday, justifying his harsh sentence by claiming that Girod was selling a herbal salve that hadn’t been approved by the FDA.

Kentuckytoday.com reports: Outraged supporters of the rural Kentucky farmer pledged to seek a pardon from President Donald Trump.

Girod, 57, had been making and selling Chickweed Salve for years from his farm in Bath County, a half hour drive east of Lexington. The Food and Drug Administration labeled Girod’s salve a drug, which brought it under federal regulation.

Prosecutors accused Girod of manufacturing the herbal salve in an establishment that was not registered with the FDA, and packaged in a container that “failed to bear labeling containing adequate directions for use.”

Reeves ordered Girod to pay $14,239 in restitution and another $100 per count assessment equaling $1,300. In addition to his sentence, Girod was ordered to three years of supervised release after which he could resume making his products in a legal manner.

Girod, who represented himself, declined the judge’s invitation to make a statement at Friday’s sentencing.

“I do not waive my immunity to this court,” Girod told the judge. “I do not consent.”

Carlton S. Shier, IV, Acting U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, said Girod “brazenly placed the public at risk” by manufacturing and selling homemade products to businesses in numerous states that do not comply with FDA regulations. Shier said one of his products was dangerous when used as recommended and all three products were advertised in a way that did not comply with the law.

Girod’s products were marketed to treat numerous health problems, including skin disorders, sinus infections and cancer.

Prosecutory evidence showed that a federal judge in Missouri ordered Girod to stop manufacturing and selling his products in 2013 until his labeling and advertisement of the products met FDA regulations. Despite the court order, Girod continued to make and sell his products in Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois.

As part of the 2013 order, inspections of Girod’s facility in Bath County were required to ensure his compliance. In November 2013, two FDA Consumer Safety Officers tried to inspect Girod’s facility, but they were prevented by Girod and others on his property.

The U. S. Attorney’s office said after the criminal case against him began, Girod tampered with a witness, failed to appear for court proceedings, and was a fugitive for several months.

Girod’s appointed standby attorney, Michael Fox of Olive Hill, described defending his reluctant client. “Early on, Sam told me the only counsel he would follow was from Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, when you don’t have someone familiar with the legal process, there’s likely to be a bad result.”

“I don’t think there was ill intent,” said Fox. “Sam Girod does not want to hurt anyone, and the evidence at trial was that no one was ever hurt. His punishment of six years in prison is a harsh punishment.”

Close to 100 supporters of Girod, including many in the Amish community, waited outside the federal courthouse for the results of the sentencing. Former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack was among them.

“This is absolutely insanity,” Mack said. “What is the number one thing that government is supposed to be doing in our country? Preventing injustice. And they’re the ones promoting it today. This is the FDA and Judge Reeves creating a criminal out of an innocent Amish farmer.”

Reeves said Girod would not accept responsibility for his actions and recognized no one’s rules but his own.

Speaking to Girod, Reeves said, “You refuse to listen to anyone but yourself or the advice you’re getting from supporters. And you’ve been getting bad advice.”

Judge Reeves ordered the district court clerk to file a notice of appeal on behalf of Girod, to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

SF Source Your News Wire May 2018

6 thoughts on “Judge Sends Amish Man To Prison For Refusing Big Pharma Medicine

  1. As only a senior lay American male with a minim of both formal medical and legal education (no credentials), the article above just caught my attention this morning. While still suffering diminished life and vigor due to long documented multiple food and food additive allergies aggravated with forty-two years and counting of US FDA approved food poisoning; namely added ‘common allergen’ soy and ‘cultured-free’ (can cross the blood-brain barrier) monosodium glutamate (MSG), minimally (others); exacerbated with an uncompensated (failed pro se litigation to the appellate level of the Illinois Industrial Commission Division [then] Court) partially disabling on-the-job low back injury in 1995, it immediately reminded me of two basic (to my limited instruction) determinations of guilt and/or penalties: 1) in the US Constitution; ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ and 2) in Business Law 101; ‘no damages or injury, no case’ (e.g., the cigar in the just emptied Coke bottle example).

    Then, comparing that with what I’ve known and been writing about for the past seventeen years and counting, starting with the FDA (with replies) in October of 2005 about allergies, added MSG, chronic disease and obesity (in particular), if anyone should go to prison for having “brazenly placed the public at risk” it should be everyone who’s worked for or with the AMA (medically unrecognized food allergies) and FDA (toxic additives) for the last fifty plus years. Based on personal symptomology, online medical articles and official statistics, I estimate at least half of US mortality from all causes is premature due to undiagnosed allergies, FDA approved food poisoning and related/resultant medical errors, some thirty million of us just since 1980, with innumerable cases of externally imposed not yet fatal chronic diseases and/or disabilities, with the Covid-19 ‘scamdemic,’ thus far, being far less than the ‘tip of that iceberg.’ In my lay opinion: abolish and/or reform the AMA and the FDA!

  2. Girod is a “Confessor for Christ” — a type of saint (if he dies in holiness) who was tortured for Christ, but not actually killed.
    A plant does not become a “drug” because the greedy FDA mangles terminology for the purposes of power and theft.
    This is yet another story of judicial corruption, something America is waking up to. We have let “experts” who went to an “accredited” law school and passed a “bar exam” do all the lawyering. We are beginning to realize that we have to take our power back in this field. We are not fully educated until we know how to file cases, all the Objections, etc. so we can be “pro se” (for myself) lawyers.

  3. Time to get rid of these judges that support so called FDA approved medicine, as it is a proven fact that these so called approved drugs cause over 100,000 deaths every year in the US alone. Not to leave out the cancer approved ones who have a less than 20 percent cure rate and 80% death due to the failure of there Chemotherapy and Radiation all approved by FDA. Again big Pharmacy lobby in action. Disgraceful thugs in robes, and people wonder whats wrong with our country. Its run by organised crime.

    1. There is so much we need to get rid of in the governing structures of society that we would have more positions to fill than qualified (i.e., regular, moral humans) to fill them. The corrupted thought and action are across the board – in every crevice, crack and black hole throughout the land.

      That said, housecleaning has begun at the highest levels. It will take a while but POSITIVE change has come to America, change that will remake this corrupt governing landscape into something our founders would recognize once again. – g

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