What a dumb farmer this guy is… He is writing for a pardon? God, what a dumb-shit. What he needs to do is book a big suite at the Trump DC hotel, and then run up a $2000 tab every day for food, then submit his request in about 6 months.
Or he could just loan Kushner $100M if he wants faster action.
A few 'Sieg Hiel’s and a build-the-wall hashtag on the petition oughta do the trick.
The prosecutor got his scalp, an unrepresented Amish farmer who messed up. This sounds like a Hallmark movie run amuck.
The Amish are hardly dumb farmers. They’ve been organized and corporatized and rich as Croesus for a long time.
Ho’bout a campaign, “Amish Love Walls!”.
This one required a little background reading. Apparently Girod made some wild claims on his products (cures cancer) and was turned in by someone who took exception. The FDA looked into it and told him what he could do and that his facility required an inspection. Girod changed his labelling but refused entry to the inspectors. And that’s how it escalated.
Sorry that Mr. Girod’s decisions led him to federal prison, but he had other choices and decided not to exercise them. That’s where my sympathy ends.
Thee would do better pissing in the wind…
One claimed to cure skin cancer;
Here we go again, what about the 1st Amendment? I have the right to believe whatever I want and if I truly believe it cures cancer, then I should be able to say so!
Not sure why the AP is (literally) headlining this guy’s religion.
Is it relevant to the story?
Is discrimination alleged?
He broke the law; he got caught; he was convicted; he went to jail.
What does being Amish have to do with any of this?
Grifters gotta grift…
Wonder if Donnie is related to Mr. Girod? Same M.O.
AP clickbait, as learned from The National Enquirer…
How horrible can our government get? I grew up in Amish / Mennonite country of northern Indiana around Nappanee (my Dad had a Sat. office in Nappanee along with his main office in Elkhart), Shipshewana and Bristol, went to a school first 6 years with all 12 grades in one building, an old-fashioned brick township school. Wonderful folks, hardest smartest workers, totally honest, as good as the Navajos with whom I work now. The Amish are why Elkhart became the mobile home capitol of the world - mostly Amish / Mennonite workers in the beginning, brilliant in any hands-on construction and design, 100% reliable - the dream employees. My friends parents largely farmed with Clydesdales and horse drawn equipment (2 horse teams), built their huge beautiful wood barns with 20+ men putting them up together, always such work going on. So to put such a wonderful person in prison for such an obscure “crime” is just plain heartless, as usual per the courts.
True. Plus they do not vote or participate in the outside world other than to bring money into their communities.
It’s some kind of weird that he wants to be pardoned by tRump.
Here’s a thought: Don’t sell quack skin remedies that are corrosive to the skin. And really don’t sell stuff that claims to cure cancer if it doesn’t cure cancer.
It’s just kind of interesting, IMHO. Makes you stop and wonder what it’s all about. I don’t think TPM is a nest of Amish-haters or anything like that. 
Because courts have established that you can get away from complying with the law if you are religious enough (see Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores).
Besides if you are religious enough you can make any claim you want, if they give you money, you can provide health (faith healers), wealth (give seed money to prosperity gospel ) , less days in purgatory (roman catholics) entrance to heaven (all of them).
Most of what I knew about Amish farmers I learned from the various farmers’ market kerfuffles in new york. Where their booths were ultimately banned because they sold stuff that didn’t come from their farms or kitchens. They were apparently profitable enough to open a couple of storefronts instead.
So I have to wonder whether someone is trying to put something over on the city slicker.
That, in and of itself, is grounds for the sentence in my book.
Yep. If you fraudulently claim to cure a potentially deadly disease with some cheap, easy-to-use salve or other crap, you can cause all kinds of serious problems up to and including an unnecessary death. Absolutely a very serious crime that the word “mislabelling” doesn’t quite do justice.
Calling this fraud may have been a better description indeed.