Rogue Agent?

[dieseltaylor]

The US seems to have a strange view on crime:

Greg Caton, a U.S. citizen and legal Ecuadorian permanent resident operating a legal Ecuadorian business selling medicinal herbs to customers around the world, was arrested at a road checkpoint in Ecuador. A few days later, against the demands of an Ecuadorian judge, he was involuntarily placed onto an American Airlines commercial jet where he was flown to Miami and put in a federal holding facility.

The entire story is here:

http://www.naturalnews.com/027750_Greg_Caton_FDA.html

Now what may seem strange:

1. apart from violating Ecuadorean legalities

2. is the cheapening of Interpol

When the FDA realized Caton had moved to Ecuador, they went to work to try to have Caton arrested internationally. In order to accomplish this, they needed to have Caton listed as a wanted fugitive with Interpol, the international police database headquartered in Lyon, France.

Interpol is normally reserved for listing serious criminals: Murderers, rapists, terrorists, international money launderers, war criminals and the like. NaturalNews contacted Interpol to inquire as to how Gregory Caton, an herbal formulator violating nothing more than probation, could have been listed with Interpol as a wanted international fugitive with a so-called "Red Notice" -- Interpol's highest alert level. This is the kind of alert level someone like Osama Bin Laden might normally merit with Interpol.

We were told by the U.S. Interpol office (under the DOJ), "those individuals placed on a Most Wanted List are the ones who have allegedly committed the most heinous of crimes for a very long period of time."

In other words, the Interpol "Red Notice" designation -- which was applied to Greg Caton's listing -- is never applied to people who merely skip probation. The Greg Caton listing with Interpol, NaturalNews learned, was off protocol. Someone, it seemed, had managed to exploit the DOJ / Interpol system to get Caton listed as an international fugitive when he was merely guilty of skipping out on the last 18 months of his probation.

Now the really rally strange part is that if you are a white collar criminal in a major drugs house and lie about the dangers of a widely used drug nothing nasty happens to you.

Pfizer also is paying 1 billion to Medicare and other government health insurance schemes to reimburse those organizations for over billing for this drug. ... CEO’s are bent on a “profit at any costs” as the drug company representative testified in court. Thanks to honest people who still do exist in this world Mr. John Kopchinski an ex-Pfizer sales rep was told to push Bextra at “all costs for all symptoms” and he just could not do it. He said this drug put people’s lives at risk and he just could not do that as he testified in court he has probably saved millions of people from strokes and possible deaths.

http://politicolnews.com/pfizer-drugs-fined-billions/

Wyeth Drug Company is in trouble for lying about breast cancer risks on Prempro and Hormone Replacement Drugs. Wyeth is also being investigated for hiring ghost writers to falsify reports from professional endorsements from retired professors and doctors. Wyeth dictated to these endorsers what to say and how to describe the drug’s effectiveness which was all false information.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aqJRir.wj8Qo

I only added the remainders of the drug co.'s positions as the effort for going after a single man compared to what goes on in the "regular" industry is laughable. I do also think that the cheapening of the Interpol A list is extremely dangerous in that it will become overwhelmed and useless unless it is responsibly used.

The FDA are going to look very stupid over allowing a probation jumper to beplaced on the list. It will do the US no favours whatsoever.

[dieseltaylor]

Oh I forgot this

http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10002084/docs-say-merck-placed-their-names-on-ghostwritten-vioxx-articles/?tag=content;selector-perfector

And fancy inventing a medical journal to pump your product - how ethical is that.

[costard]

It is turning out that the only way we can guarantee a competitive drugs industry is to remove patent protection - then the management of those companies won't have the time or money to play counterproductive legal games with people's lives.