The following information was reported on Facebook this morning.
So good to see a innocent person be finally released from the Hell that he never should have experienced in the first place!
The tyrannical Government which has irresponsibly incarcerated more innocent people than virtually anywhere else in the World has to be called into rein.
Amish farmer Sam Girod is coming home to his family!
ADDRESS TO SEND CARD: 409 Satterfield Lane, Owingsville, KY 40360
The FDA prosecuted him for mislabeling a harmless chickweed salve that his family made and sold for over 20 years. He’s been in federal prison since July 2017 and had 3 more years on his sentence!!!
Sam is my neighbor and a charming, boisterous, outspoken, freedom-loving American. He refused to roll over when the FDA unlawfully threatened and lied to him.
Here’s the story if you don’t know it, please send him a card. He and his family would appreciate that! bit.ly/freeamishsam
Graphic from Owen Yoder, thank you to Carrie Long for sharing the good news with me!!!
(Please read and follow the link to sign petition for a man who has been unjustly jailed for charges which originated with a labeling infraction that led up to him being incarcerated. It is unbelievable that our Country has gone so far as to incriminate this man! Just read the story by Sally Oh. Smkrider)
“Help us get a presidential pardon for KY Amish Farmer Samuel Girod!”
The FDA successfully harassed,indicted and convicted 57year old KY Amish farmer Samuel Girod for charges stemming from an innocent labeling infraction!
Sam is now serving 6 years in federal prison. Sam has lived his entire life in the Amish tradition: no electricity. That means no lights, no running water, no electronic sounds, no cell phones, no internet, no planes, no driving cars. He’s a farmer and lived on a farm all his life.
He’s now in prison about 7 hours away from his family — his wife Elizabeth, their 12 children and 25 grandchildren. He is now surrounded by steel with armed guards, bells and whistles, loudspeakers, warnings, cement and little access to the sun.
UPDATE 4/16/19: Sam has been moved several times and is now in Big Sandy which is 120 miles from home. There are no fences and fewer than 100 people there. It is not home but it is not hideous either. His family visits every two weeks and he even gets to see his grands!!!
Sam has never harmed anyone. There are no victims of the 3 herbals salves he made and sold for over 20 years. He made the mistake of mislabeling one of the salves.
The story of his persecution is practically unbelievable.
Except that I live a few minutes from Sam and met him in 2015. By now, I have met scores of people who’ve known him for many years, if not their entire lives. All of us witnessed the entire goings on firsthand. You could not make this up!
— follow the links in the left sidebar for “Condensed” story. You’ll also find links to the 3 days of the trial and Sam’s sentencing as well as all of the court documents.
At this point, Sam’s only hope for release is a presidential pardon. Please sign this petition, then share it with your friends and family.
Besides signing the petition, please feel free to send letters, emails, and make calls to seven (7) Kentucky legislators and President Trump. Details, addresses, sample missives at KY Free Press — follow the links in the left sidebar
(It doesn’t take long — I contacted everyone via tweet, FB post and email in less than 20 minutes!)
At the very least, our elected representatives must know that PLENTY of people — at least 30K of you with more signing everyday — care about an Amish KY farmer being railroaded into prison by an out-of-control federal agency!
Here’s a video explaining the entire thing, transcript with links below.
Let’s be clear about a couple of pertinent facts:
1. The FDA made up arbitrary rules, then accused Sam of breaking those rules.
2. There are no victims. Samuel Girod has hurt no one.
3. FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs kill 1 person every 19 minutes. Merck’s FDA-approved Vioxx killed over 68,000 people. Nobody in Big Pharma goes to jail. They pay out billions in fines (after making billions in profits.) No companies close, nobody goes to jail. Nobody. Even after killing and harming 100s of thousands of people.
4. Sam Girod and his products have hurt no one.
The Story of the FDA v Samuel Girod
Samuel Girod and his family have been making and selling 3 all-natural herbal products for nearly 20 years. In all those years, one woman had a bad reaction to a salve (which Sam made right and the woman was fine).
No one has ever been harmed by the products, the Girods have pages of testimonials and scores of repeat customers.
The 3 products are: Original Chickweed, a beeswax, essential oils and olive oil salve; Sine-Eze, a blend of essential oils; and To-Mor-Gone, an herbal bloodroot product in a base of beeswax and olive oil aka “black salve”.
All of these products are currently ALSO made and sold online worldwide (including on Amazon) by other people using these same basic ingredients. The recipes are online as well, you can make them in your kitchen.
HOW IT STARTED
Sixteen years ago, in 2001, an FDA agent visited Sam at his home in IN and informed Sam that he could not claim his products could help skin cancer. At that time, the chickweed salve label said: “[g]ood for all skin disorders. Skin cancer, cuts, burns, draws, and poison ivy.”
According to the FDA, when you make a medical claim about a product, that means the product is a “drug. Therefore you have to do years of testing, costing millions of dollars to prove the claim.
Sam had to change his label or do the testing.
So Sam changed the label, removing the reference to skin cancer.
He asked the agent to get back to him on what label would be acceptable to the FDA. The agent said she would within three weeks but she never did.
The label now said, “[g]ood for skin disorders. Dry skin, cuts, burns, draws, and poison ivy.” No skin cancer reference.
Between 2001 and 2004, Sam was visited several times by FDA agents. When he asked the agents what was acceptable on the label, none would give an answer.
Sam did not receive any further communication from the FDA until 2012.
In Jan 2012, someone called the FDA and reported that a store in MO was selling Chickweed Healing Salve and that medical claims were being made.
The FDA confiscated the products from the store and opened #Case 4:12-cv-00362-GAF on Sam. You will find a link to the complaint and a link to Sam’s answer in the transcript below.
The FDA is trying to put Sam in jail for 58 YEARS for a labeling infraction. Please sign and share this petition far and wide. His trial is 2/27/17 and we need 100,000 signatures to get Trump's attention before then!
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