I must have dismissed what the prosecutor said, just like what the judge said in the next paragraph which states:Judas Maccabeus wrote:John:JohnHurt wrote:Samuel is not a Sovereign Citizen. He is Amish.
No one was injured by Samuel's products.
Samuel's products were tested for drugs, and no drugs were found in them. This puts Samuel's products outside the scope of the FDA.
So no crime was committed, other than Samuel would not recognize the jurisdiction of an agency that did not have jurisdiction.
Here are the notes from the sentencing:
http://www.kyfreepress.com/2017/07/repo ... entencing/
and notes on the indictment itself:
http://www.kyfreepress.com/2017/01/fda- ... ndictment/
Did you read the stuff you attached?
""The federal prosecutor, Kate Smith, was given an opportunity to explain why the state wants a harsh sentence and she did not pass on the opportunity. She asked for a fine of $25,000 as well as jail time, specifically citing Sam’s “Sovereign Citizen” claims and his refusal to admit guilt. The judge made similar comments throughout the sentencing.""
This is from the notes on the sentencing from above.
J.M.
"The judge then stated, “There have been a lot of incorrect statements made about this case.” He said that it’s not about salve. It’s about refusing to follow the law. Misbranding. Interstate commerce. Jury tampering."
How Mr. Girod was able to tamper with the jury is hard to believe, just the other claims against him that he was an active member in the Sovereign Citizen movement. So yes, I must have breezed over it. "Sovereign Citizens" usually file false liens, or other false documents, in an effort to avoid taxes. There were no taxes avoided here. He just does not fit this description. But, it does taint the jury pool very well, as this allegation would equate Mr. Girod with some of the very criminal activities that the Sovereign Citizen movement has engaged in.
This man was guilty of Chickweed salve, then guilty of not letting someone enter his home. He defied the judge, and the FDA by making some claims for his home remedy - which claims cannot be proven true or false. I mean, if chickweed salve could indeed remove some topical forms of skin cancer - would that have made a difference in this case? No. It is all about power.
But if any type of home remedy or salve is really a "drug" as Josh has explained, then none of us are safe from this action. What they did to Samuel Girod today, they can do to anyone that makes herbal remedies, OR SELLS THEM.
Here is what the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution says about the jurisdiction of the FDA:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The FDA is not in the Constitution, and the monitoring of Food and Drugs is a matter to be left up to the States. And here is the proof:
In 1919, when the Federal Government established Prohibition against consumption of alcohol, they had to get a the 18th Constitutional Amendment ratified through the States, as the US Constitution does not grant them this power. When they legalized alcohol at the Federal level in 1933, they had to ratify the 21st Amendment to do so.
This is because the 10th Amendment clearly granted any power not listed in the Constitution to the States, or the people, and not the Federal government.
After WWII, Congress no longer worried about the 10th Amendment, and created all of the 3 letter agencies: DOD, FCC, FDA, CIA, DHS. None of these agencies are granted power by the Constitution, and they either need to be ratified by a Constitutional Amendment to even exist, or their power should devolve back to the States, or to the people, according to the 10th Amendment, which was part of the original Bill of Rights.
Mr. Girod's mistake was to believe that we are still a Constitutional form of government.
The FDA and the judge in this case only have "jurisdiction" because they have the force of arms to back them up.
And the 6 year sentence was not to "correct" Mr. Girod, but to scare the rest of us into submission. Six years in jail won't do anything but put a hardship on Mr. Girod's family.
What I admire about most of the very conservative Anabaptists, is that they refuse to participate in these forms of government. They won't vote, and won't hold a public office. But even then, that won't get you outside the reach of a determined bureaucrat.
I look to Christ to know how to deal with this situation:
First, you avoid them, and agree quickly with anyone that tries to take you to court, because you won't get any real justice from the court:
Matthew 5:(25) Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
(26) Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
And though you may be the children of another kingdom and not responsible to pay their taxes, you should pay them anyway, as not paying their taxes or following their rules will offend them:
Matthew 17:(24) And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
(25) He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
(26) Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
(27) Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
And if the government is printing money, and you are using money, then you need to give the government's money back to them when they ask for a return of their own possession:
Matthew 22:(17) Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
(18) But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
(19) Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
(20) And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
(21) They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
But for everything else that you do, especially as a form of free charity to other people, you don't owe them anything at all. This all belongs to God. You belong to God, as do your children, your life, your faith, the food you grow in your own garden, the animals you raise and process yourself, and everything else. If you are self sufficient and don't need their money, they you won't need to pay their taxes.
We don't bring anything into this world, and will take nothing out. And we really don't need that much. But in studying this case, it drives home the point that I owe nothing to these monsters, except to avoid them, as my King has instructed me.
Samuel Girod should have agreed with them immediately, and shut down his home business, waited a few months, then opened back up in another location under a new name, with every i dotted, and t crossed.
These bureaucrats are looking to punish anyone that opposes them. But there is absolutely nothing they can do to make you love and support them of your own free will.
This is what made the old Soviet Union fall apart. They had more rules than the FDA, and more prisons and gulags to back it all up. But the people lost faith in their government, and only served it when required, not out of love for it. The people just did not work that hard for socialism.
This case will be making a lot of people re-evaluate their love for the FDA and other Federal agencies.
All because of chickweed salve... How ridiculous.