Thursday, October 24, 2013

HEALTH FRAUD STORE VICTIMS SPEAK OUT


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“ALIVE AND WELL” VICTIMS SPEAK OUT
“They Killed My Baby!”
Maui News Time has uncovered a failure of consumer protection that, along with the priority given by the Maui county government to its personal vendetta against a whistle-blowing quack buster, has had tragic consequences for the victims of a long-running health fraud enterprise. It is clear that the politicians have been protecting the criminals rather than the public, and upholding their “right” to endanger people and rip them off rather than the quack buster’s right to free speech.
For more than a decade the Alive and Well Health Emporium in Kahului, Maui, has been running a criminal scam, claiming to cure dozens of serious and deadly diseases, including HIV/AIDS, advanced cancers, and Alzheimer’s. Maui News Time has heard from some folks who the store’s owners – Dennis, Mona and Darren Jones – do not want you to know about. These are the kinds of people the Joneses have been getting wealthy off of. Here is a sampling.

“They killed my baby! They said the supplements we bought from them would cure her very severe epilepsy, so we started the vitamins and herbs and stopped the medicine. After a day and a half she got terrible seizures, so bad I couldn’t get her to swallow the medicine. I called 911 but she died, poor baby.”   L.B., Lahaina
My wife died of breast cancer thanks to Alive and Well. We should have stuck with the medical treatment and stayed away from Alive and Well.”   S.J., Kihei
My grandfather had a heart attack and died because of the Joneses. They had him taking about a dozen vitamins and herbs and convinced him the statin would kill him, so he stopped taking it. But they killed him.”    B.H., Paia       
“We wasted 10 thousand dollars on Alive and Well garbage before we came to our senses.”    S.C., Makawao
“My brother had a stroke because the Joneses convinced him that his hypertension medicine was worthless and he stopped taking it. F---ing quacks!”    A.W., Kahului
“They said they could cure Mom’s Alzheimer’s. Believing their lies cost us thousands of dollars and didn’t help Mom at all.” C.M., Kula
“They get you in a little room and hit you with a sales pitch that’s hard to resist. I bought $300 worth of pills that didn’t help at all. In fact they made my problems worse.” P.L., Kihei
“My AIDS came back full-blown because those quacks at Alive and Well convinced me that I should go off my prescribed medicines and take their vitamins and herbs. I got pneumonia and almost died – stupid bastards.” D.K., Hali’imaile
“Our little girl got whooping cough because the Joneses told us the vaccine was dangerous. She caught it from another kid whose parents also believed Alive and Well lies about vaccines. She suffered so much. I’m really angry.”     F.R., Pukalani
“I broke a hip because they told me to take lots of vitamin A. Turns out too much vitamin A causes brittle bones.   Some experts!”   A.G., Wailuku


A LICENSE TO MURDER
The Maui Case that Will Live in Infamy


For ten years the Maui county government has been running a protection racket for Alive and Well Health Fraud Store, and waging a war on Kurt Butlers First Amendment right to criticize and expose the store’s dangerous criminal frauds.
   This case is typical of the Injustice System on Maui and its cynical, ruthless ways. The County’s criminal actions will ring a bell with hundreds who have been subjected to its arbitrary, capricious, dishonest, unethical and corrupt behavior and contempt for constitutional rights.
   The full story of the License to Murder Kurt Butler, issued by Maui County to the owners and employees of Alive and Well Health Fraud Store, is available at SueMauiTyrants.blogspot.com;  
and MauiFascism. Blogspot.com, and the blogs they link to.  
   The License to Murder Kurt Butler has never been voided: if one of A&W’s thugs kills Butler, there will be no prosecution even if police officers witness the crime.
   The sad truth is, Maui is becoming a gangster- police state. The rule of law barely exists here. Violent conflict is inevitable because the people won’t tolerate tyranny forever.
   This case provides more evidence that the predictions made in the prophetic flash novel
Barbarians In Paradise – Terror Comes To Maui
are already being fulfilled.
The book is available in paperback and e-book at Amazon.com.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Open Letter to Governor Abercrombie

Dear Governor Neil Abercrombie:

For about 15 years County of Maui and State of Hawai'i have knowingly allowed, aided and abetted a lucrative, harmful and violent criminal enterprise to flourish in Kahului and online. The county has gone so far as to allow the criminals to use violence against me to stop my lawful demonstrations that expose the scams. There is now an extra-judicial ban on my lawful demonstrations, a ban enforced by potentially-lethal violence and threats of murder. Details are provided in previous posts on this blog and my blog www.suemauityrants.blogspot.com.

The motive of the governments is clearly financial. As long as the business and its criminal owners pay their taxes, those who have sworn to uphold the law will look the other way. They are, in essence, running a protection racket for the criminal enterprise.

It is dangerous and illegal to claim to have OTC cures for HIV/AIDS, advanced cancers, heart disease and whatever else might ail you; and to claim to have safe and effective substitutes for "dangerous and deadly" vaccines while urging people not to get their children vaccinated. But this business, Alive and Well Health Emporium, does these things every day with impunity. The owners have no credentials in any health-related field, but they've been getting rich marketing their fraudulent miracle cures in hour-long radio infomercials for a decade and a half.

People assume that if the government allows such claims they must be true. The state's stubborn refusal to investigate my complaints makes it complicit and possibly liable for harm done to victims of the frauds.

The buck stops with the Governor. If you don't instruct the Department of Health to do its job (see HRS 328-3 and 328-6), you will be personally complicit in the ongoing swindles, and you will show that the state's utter disregard for consumer rights and the rule of law, so prominent during the Lingle years, continues as unwritten policy.

Please do the right thing and put a stop to this despicable racket.

Sincerely,

Kurt Butler

Links to my other blogs: www.KurtButlerblogs.blogspot.com