Has anyone filed criminal charges against the BBC reporter? It certainly seems that it would be warranted.
On 1/8/07, D. Mindock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Stores selling vit B-17 are being shut down here in the USA too. Jim Wright > though was > shut down in a particularly mean-spirited way. The FDA has shown itself to > be capable > of the same behavior, if not moreso. Big Pharma wants to keep ordinary > people from keeping > themselves healthy by natural means without the use of unnatural allopathic > medicine. The FDA is the junk yard bulldog for Big Pharma. Vit B-17 also > known as laetrile. See: > http://www.cancure.org/laetrile.htm for more info. > Peace, D. Mindock > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Press Release: Vitamin Seller Made a Criminal > > Jim Wright, from Port Talbot in South West Wales (U.K.), ran a small > business selling natural products. Like many involved in natural health, Jim > wanted to help not only his family and himself, but also others. Jim's > caring nature and concern for the suffering of others ultimately got him > into trouble. In fact, it made him a criminal. Find out how the UK medicines > regulator, in cahoots with the BBC, set him up. This is an astonishing case > about persecution and prosecution. Yesterday, Jim received his sentence from > Swansea's Crown Court. Jim and his family have been through hell and back, > yet he's not beaten - he's going to appeal. > To download the full press release (which has this morning been circulated > to the entire UK media) as a PDF document, including the Editor's Notes that > provide more details on this important case, please click the following > link: > http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_263.pdf > > The text of the release is given below: > > Vitamin seller made a criminal > > After three years of apparent persecution by the UK medicines regulator, a > Swansea man, Jim Wright, was yesterday criminalised by the Swansea Crown > Court for selling vitamins and herbs. > Jim Wright had operated a small business selling natural health products for > some years before being raided for the first time in May 2003, then again > two years later, by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Authority > (MHRA). During these unannounced dawn raids, his stock was taken, thus > preventing him from running his business. The vast majority of his stock > comprised common garden herbal products the like of which can legally be > bought from high street health food stores across the UK. > > Emerging from the Court room, Wright said, 'I think given the wealth of > false evidence that was presented in Court, the whole thing's been a total > farce. Yet in the process they've managed to make me a criminal. The Judge > gave me a £1000 fine, £1000 that I haven't got, and 120 hours of unpaid > community service. I was accused of selling products that I wasn't selling > and we even showed the Court that the supplier of vitamin B-17, as found in > apricot kernels, was itself shut down by the US Food & Drug Administration > on 30th September 2003. They found nothing in two raids on my house. I was > set up.' > > Wright, like others who had been selling vitamin B-17 up until it was made > illegal in 2002, was made aware of the change in government policy and > withdrew the product from sale. He had always made a point of complying with > any advice or requests by the UK medicines enforcement agency. > > In 2003, the MHRA worked with BBC Wales to entrap Wright. A women and her > partner who, he was told, had a myeloma in the leg that had been operated on > and that had subsequently spread, approached Jim Wright with a view to > buying products that would help the cancer patient. The couple forced Wright > to meet them in a car park on two separate occasions to deliver a range of > natural health products. Wright thought this a most strange request, yet the > customers were adamant this is how they wanted their products delivered. > They filmed him covertly the first time, but on the second occasion, the > cameras were revealed as he passed over the products. He was devastated to > find the customers were really a BBC reporter and her perfectly healthy > colleague. > > Shortly after this, Wright saw himself on the BBC, being made out to be a > criminal, despite the fact the products he was selling were 100% legal. > About one week later, the MHRA raided him, confiscating all of his stock, > and so handicapping his small business operation. > No legal proceedings followed, but Mr Wright's stock was also not returned > even after three requests. The enforcers went peculiarly quiet on Mr Wright. > > Two years later, Wright received an order for vitamin B-17. Unknown to him, > the order was from an MHRA enforcer who, posing as a member of the public, > presented a heart-wrenching story about her husband dying of prostate > cancer. The lady was very specific about her desire for vitamin B-17, that > Wright was well aware had been banned some years earlier. Wright made it > clear that he could no longer sell B-17 and had none in stock. After > continuous pressure, however, Wright succumbed to providing a single pot > that he still had in his home office that had been returned to him by a > customer and that he hadn't yet posted back to the original supplier in > Mexico. He was given a mailing address that happened to be the accommodation > address for the MHRA. On receipt of the product, a warrant was obtained the > same day from Bow Street Magistrates and Wright was raided for a second > time, in May 2005. > Speaking about this second raid, Jim Wright said, 'They were hoping to find > a big stash of vitamin B-17 - that was what they said they were after when > they barged into my home. They of course found nothing. So they again took > all my stock, all my accounts, a folder with all of my correspondence with > the MHRA and another with thank-you letters and customer contact details. It > was frightening - and deeply disturbing.' > > Dr Robert Verkerk, executive director of the Alliance for Natural Health > responded today to Wright's sentencing, 'The Swansea Crown Court Judge took > the opportunity to condemn the natural products industry. He said the > manufacturers of these supplements are exploiting people's misery and making > lots of money out of them. Jim Wright, he said, was a victim, and clearly > hadn't made a lot of money himself.' > > Reflecting on the sentencing, Verkerk added, 'To prey on someone's intent to > help others - to set them up like this - is astonishing and deeply > unethical. Jim Wright and his family have been through hell and back - his > business has been irreparably damaged, yet no illegal products were found in > either raid. The lack of reasons given during and after the raids, and the > confiscation of legal stock that included extra virgin olive oil, beggars > belief. We are heartened to hear that Jim Wright and his legal counsel have > every intention of mounting an Appeal.' > > It is expected that Jim Wright's Appeal against his prosecution will be > launched within 9 months. > > Contact point for all media (UK and international): > Dr Robert Verkerk or Meleni Aldridge > Alliance for Natural Health > The Atrium, Curtis Road, Dorking RH4 1XA, UK > Tel: +44 (0)1306 646 600 > Fax: +44 (0)1306 646 552 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, please go to > www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=unsub > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
