On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 08:56:00 +0200, Tilman Hausherr <tilman@berlin.snafu.de> wrote:

>Scientologist David P. Amrein and his "Dr. Clark Research Association"
>have made a temporary agreement with the FTC:
>http://www.drclark.net/info/TROstipulation.pdf
>Here is what the FTC wanted:
>http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/01/drclark.htm

>So to me, it seems that the FTC got everything it wanted, except the
>money.

This kind of thing is disgraceful. Regulatory agencies are left near bankrupt by a corrupt presidential administration more interested in ensuring a constant flow of corporate donations than safety. Thus hobbled, they can only go after the most egregious offenders, and even there, they simply don't have the budget to litigate hard, which is what a crook like Hulda Clark demands. Her dead victims demand it. This is essentially an agreement to quit committing crimes. Meanwhile, she gets to waltz off with the money she stole from now-dead cancer victims she swindled with fake promises of "cures" with her quack bullshit.

With this money, she sues the very people who warn of her quackery.

This is what you get when the regulatory agencies which should be protecting the citizenry are deliberately crippled to the point of uselessness. Another example of this kind of uselessness would be the SEC's "investigation" of Slatkin in January and February of 2000. That, similarly, occurred in a near regulatory vacuum, with a similarly corporate presidency, similarly so enamored of a high flying stock market that an "anything goes" mentality took over. Slatkin went on to steal millions more.

Yet another Scientology-related example would be another similar agreement reached with Bryan Zwan after the DIGL fraud covered at http://digl-watch.com At least the settlement with Haney left him without the money he tried to swindle.

I'm not at all impressed, though, with SEC and FTC agreements not to commit more crimes. One supposes that if they get caught committing more crimes, they will make them sign another agreement not to commit more crimes, but sign it "and this time I mean it, really."

Frankly, that quack Dr. Hulda Clark and her dipshit sidekick David P. Amrein don't belong anywhere but behind bars. Swindling AIDS patients and cancer patients, especially when there are effective treatments for both conditions, is despicable and should be treated as murder when it leads to loss of life. -- Home of the Buttersquash Conspiracy http://buttersquash.net Save America. Vote Dean. http://www.deanforamerica.com

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