Commentary on
Toby McAdams Extortion Letter
of August 9, 2008
Toby McAdams Extortion Letter
of August 9, 2008
Note on Photographs Above:
It has been maintained by McAdams that we never
made any of our products -- and presumably we are not manufacturing
them now. The claim is a outrageous fabrication.
The truth is that Alpha Omega Labs had
extensive in-house and farmed out lab operations spread out over
our more than 50,000 square feet of commercial real estate --
which we solely owned. Many of our products were original
creations derived from patent work that had expired and
extant phytopharmacological literature. We manufactured
approximately half of the 350 or so products (including variations)
at the time of the FDA raid in Sept., 2003. The photos above were taken
of the lab area used by both Alpha Omega Labs and
one of my other manufacturing companies, PreservX, in July, 2003.
(Photos of our current laboratory operations are forthcoming).
The latter became Global
Preservatives and what little was left of the PreservX operation
not used by Global came with me to Ecuador.
(See NaturaScio.com).
The picture on the left was taken in our microbiology lab;
to the right is a picture of our HPLC station for chemical analysis. ---
Greg CatonThe letter below is an
extortion letter. [ See below . . . or original without editing or comment.So says our legal counsel in the U.S.We received it from a former distributor and self-proclaimed
FDA informant, Toby McAdams.His company has been violating our copyright and trademarks
for over 5 years -- with the help of the same renegade FDA officials who destroyed the Alpha Omega Labs
facility in the U.S.It is a felony
to extort under existing U.S. federal law . . . even if your extortion efforts
are related to working with FDA agents assisting in the theft of your intellectual property.The letter below is reproduced exactly
as we received it at the date and time indicated below. To differentiate
my rebuttal / commentary from the original email text, I have put my entries in
dark brown ---- Greg CatonEnvelope-to: support@altcancer.net
To: support@altcancer.net
From: toby@tccah.com
Subject: Alpha Omega Labs: Email
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:23:58 -0700
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Your_Comments: Seems you are attacking our company again Greg. I let it slide since you were not selling products. Now, I have an issue.
Comment:
The author Derrick Jensen says that all writers -- and perhaps we could
include people who compose email letters -- are propagandists. Since
this includes about 98% of people living in Western civilization . . .
(I don't know the exact figure, I just made that up), perhaps that
means just about all of us. In any event, there is something deeply
ironic -- and perhaps this is a sign of our times -- about someone
who has committed a breathtaking smorgasborg of felonous copyright, trademark,
and, yes, even FDA violations -- even if he's getting a pass from the
Feds because his associates, George Ackerson and
Kevin Trudeau, were
so helpful in their goal of temporarily destroying Alpha Omega Labs --
and posturing himself as a victim.It stretches the limits of credibility.The main thing is . . . Toby McAdams
cannot hide his crimes. This very week,
he changed the name of his product
from Cansema® to Cancema -- that is, he replaced an "s" with a "c," thinking that
if the name of his product sounds exactly like ours but is spelled different,
he can erase 5 years of trademark violations.He cannot.His exact replication of our web pages,
artwork, trademarks, medical claims -- everything that was Alpha Omega Labs --
has been immortalized on the Wayback
Internet Archive for both RisingSunHealth.com
and BloodrootProducts.com from 2002
to 2007. (Even a modest comparison to
the archive for
Alpha Omega Labs leaves no question as to the originators. In fact, Alpha Omega Labs
was first online in September, 1995 -- well before most of the existing internet archiving
efforts were even in existence.)The complicity of the FDA is obvious on many fronts.
As it is, in a "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" gesture,
the FDA sent a "Warning Letter" to McAdams in April, 2006,
not only did he ignore it until this very month (August, 2008), but the bandaid
changes he made to his site allows him to keep the essence of his offenses intact.We live in an Orwellian age where Doublespeak
has replaced the language of common sense.Rather than passing on these absurdities,
we are asked to take McAdams seriously. I leave it to the reader to judge whether
my assessment is just counter-propaganda.So here is the option. Below is what we will put on our sites (25) and our affilliate sites on Monday. I will not push the issue with the FDA or Washington on how you can still sell products when you were banned and that what does it take before something is done, Someone must die first.
Comment:
People without experience in this business will not
interpret this as a veiled death threat -- (even though
the only other interpretation is that my products are
out there killing people, which is even more proposterous).But let's put death threats -- or perceived death threats -- aside.The opening paragraph, like the rest of the letter, is peppered with
astonishingly inaccurate statements. When the FDA closed us down, a politically motivated hit that
I address in over 300 pages in my upcoming book,
Meditopia®, we had 350 different products.
The FDA used two of them to come up with criminal charges and let the rest go. Sure, they destroyed our
lab, confiscated all the products they could find, pocketed all the cash in our home, threatened to put
my wife in prison -- but the Fed does that to nearly everyone it gets an indictment on.It's now routine.
"Truth is the plea bargaining
process's greatest casualty. Yet, the justice system's movers
and shakers -- prosecutors, judges, defense lawyers -- show little
concern for truth. This is apparent from how the plea bargaining
process works. Terror, not truth, is its hallmark." (p. 86)
Paul Craig Roberts Former U.S. Asst. Sec. of the Treasury |
What the FDA didn't do was put a ban on ANY of our products.
It never happened. The charges weren't against the products. They were against the claims that
we made on two of our 350 items.
The fact that they were true and provable made no difference to the FDA. (It never does).
Comment: I just love this."John" is, of course, John Armand -- the FDA's
point man for the destruction of Alpha Omega Labs, whose office is in Covington, Louisiana.This confirms what I have been saying
all along . . . namely, that the FDA has been working with our competitors --
individuals they have contacted who have no problem making an inferior product
and selling it under the name of the true trademark owner, whose superior
attributes are a problem for the FDA's true employer, the pharmaceutical
companies.
". . . the prognosis
is terminal. There can be no recovery of a system that
is infected with this much criminal activity. There is no
fixing this, especially by voting, which has degenerated
into widespread electronic fraud . . .What will happen
is what is happening now. The nation is collapsing
into a criminal police state, where the only thing that
counts is how much the payoff is. No matter how noble
or honest individual sheriffs or legislators are; they're
going nowhere against the massive web of corruption
now strangling the life out of our once sincere
republic.The Constitution
is gone and America is dead. Most people haven't
noticed because they're spiritually and intellectually
dead themselves. Too much TV and bad schools. Too many
life lessons that taught it was not profitable to
be honest.You won't read
about this in the newspapers, or hear it on TV.
Honest analyses of what's really going (on) are
bad for business, not conducive to the marketing
of all these unneeded and deceptive products.In conducting
America's autopsy report, there was a fundamental
rule to be followed: If it was good for business, it
was bad for people. This is why the disease of greed
was fatal. Our leaders stopped telling the truth a long
time ago, and when the time came when telling the
truth became essential for our survival, they
just couldn't remember how.Because they
were paid not to." (p. 135-6) |
As for the threat, Toby, to work even more
with the FDA than you already have and enlist others in your effort, I'll do you one better -- nearby
is Mr. Armand's business card with all his contact information
-- click to enlarge.
John Armand is a renegade of such unparalleled proportions -- even by FDA standards --
that in a recent civil court action in the U.S. -- totally unrelated to anything having
to do with the FDA -- where I acted as an expert witness, Armand
attempted to have my affidavit excluded -- with no legal basis for this action.Armand feels, like so many enforcement agents
in the U.S. these days, that he is above the law and above the Courts . . . that,
essentially, he can do anything he wants. When Federal Courts fail to rein in this
kind of behavior, you end up with out-of-control governance. You end up with
something close to Jim Marrs' depiction of the current American Republic --
(see The Fourth Reich).
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"And all the time we do things that we don't believe
in, and you probably have heard me say under the Catholic vernacular,
what I'm about to do is going to cause me to burn in purgatory
for a long time. It ain't right, but it's the law, and that's
the oath I took when they gave me this wonderful job."
U.S. Federal Judge Tucker Melancon |
And this brings to the forefront a much larger
issue -- namely, the attack against effective alternatives under the pretense of law.
The position is that what makes effective alternatives dangerous is that they
don't have the imprimatur that pharmaceutical drugs have. Those alternatives that
DO get the support of the FDA tend to be those that are weak, ineffective, or
are otherwise of no threat to pharmaceutical drug company profits.
It is probably worth noting that the greatest
crimes against humanity were committed under the pretense of law. In the aftermath
of World War II, German guards were asked how they could have partaken in some of
the most horrific acts imaginable -- to which they replied, "We were just following
orders."Their arguments weren't moral or ethical -- they were legal.
And under the narrow confines of German law at the time, there were few
concentration camp guards who weren't well within their right to say,
"Everything I did was legal. I was just following orders." Or . . . to
use the phraseology of my sentencing judge, Tucker Melancon, they were doing what
was necessary to conform to the dictates of their "wonderful job."Unfortunately, the verdict of history
has not been so accommodating.We live in similar times today.I am of the opinion that my sentencing judge
attempted to be as fair and compassionate as he could under the constraints of
current U.S. law and the way it is routinely executed.
In everything he did he attempted to demonstrate his conscientiousness.But the law as it is applied in the U.S.
today isn't designed to protect the conscientiousness of men like Tucker.
It is designed to compromise it.This is why we must apply another
method of evaluation to health care -- simply because the Holocaust of the
Second World War pales in comparison to the modern holocaust of the
Medical Industrial Complex -- in audacity, atrocity, longevity . . . and body count.Alpha Omega Scam Update:
Recently Greg Caton reopened Alpha Omega Labs. Here is the problem, Mr. Caton is a fugitive of the law in the US. The FDA is after him for violating a plea agreement and they also want the $950,000. Kevin Trudeau would also like to get his 10 million dollars that he won in a court of law against Mr Caton.
Comment: I believe I am listed by the
U.S. Government as an SR (Supervised Release)
violator. At least, I think . . . I don't know for sure.
I was allowed to travel back and forth under court order
to Ecuador from July, 2006 to October, 2007, where I set up a passion fruit oil extraction facility
in the northern part of our province (see www.ecuadorpassionfruit.com). While here I encountered
a kidney problem that temporarily prevented me from flying back to the U.S. last October (2007). On or about
that October 13, I was kindly alerted to a conspiracy involving the same FDA agent who had charges filed on me in the
first place, Agent John Armand. I had a court date of October 25, 2007, to have my Supervised Release
reviewed by my sentencing judge (Tucker Melancon) so that I could have the rest of my probation discharged.
I paid attorney, Lawrence Billeau of Lafayette, Louisiana, $4,000 just to earn the right to get
that stupid hearing.My argument was that my wife and son were already living in Ecuador --
and I wanted to live with them . . . not an entirely unreasonable request for a husband and father.
Wanting to live in Ecuador seemed to negate the very purpose for which I was on probation.
After all, the entire purpose of the Supervised Release program -- in theory
-- is to integrate "criminals" back into society.I didn't want to be inserted back into the Borg Collective
that has now replaced traditional American life.And I filed a petition with the federal Court in Lafayette to politely say as much.Quite fortunately for me, I had a former employee, Crystal Leslie,
who was annoyed because she didn't get everything she felt she was entitled to when my
wife and I sold one of our other manufacturing companies (Lumen Foods or soybean.com, which I founded
in 1986 and sold on
March 15, 2007). Why was this fortunate? Because Crystal -- reflecting just how much joy,
pleasure, and love of sheer audacious truth-twisting she was sharing with her new-found
friend, FDA Agent John Armand,
spilled her guts under oath and revealed the entire
conspiracy to turn my probation release court hearing into a probation revocation hearing.
(There were so many provable lies in her October 10, 2007 sworn deposition, initiated by
a phony workman's comp claim, that I had to compose a Rebuttal /
Commentary
to that transcript, too.) Two other employees were being coerced to swear under oath to events
that never even occurred so that the coup d'etat would be complete.This made my choice, my wife's choice, and that of
my 11 year old son, easier.For the record, I never violated my plea agreement. The
U.S. goverment is not entitled -- even under their own laws -- to any more money. My former
business associate, Kevin
Trudeau, did come after me for writing MLM Fraud (1991)
and probably for cooperating with the Wall Street Journal in an expose
story they did (Fri., Jan. 19, 1996, pg. B-2).
He went to court, got an interlocutory judgement in Chicago for $10 million
for libel or slander -- I can't remember which. The funny thing is,
the very things I disclosed about Trudeau -- which are the basis for his phony $10 million judgement --
can now be read / heard by anybody, anywhere, in his entry
on Wikipedia, not to mention YouTube --
and are regarded by average American consumers who are familiar with Trudeau and his antics as factual.But this is all largely irrelevant to the crucial
issues at hand.To use the term "fugitive" in an attempt to
paint a man's reputation pejoratively is to reflect a lack of understanding of the word
(from L. "fugere" -- to flee).
The United States is a nation of fugitives -- most of them descendants of places where the
political, social, or economic conditions of their homeland became intolerable. So they
made a decision to move somewhere which, in their time, offered greater freedom and opportunity.Some Russians moved out of Russia under Stalin.Chinese out of China under Mao Zedong.Germans out of Germany under Hitler.I moved out of the U.S. under Bush.Comment: LOL . . . This is ridiculous. The FDA regulates
the sellers of products that fall under their jurisdiction -- not the buyers, who they ostensibly
exist to protect. I have never
heard of the FDA going after the CUSTOMERS of a company they don't like. Just the company.
Scare tactics should have some basis in reality.
Comment: There is not a single sentence, or even
subordinate clause, in this tirade that is factually correct. The "problems with the FDA"
didn't start with H3O. We didn't even carry H3O until we discovered its original manufacturer
in California in 2001. The problem started when Kevin Trudeau -- the infomercial celebrity
who wrote "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About," but in actuality works
with the FDA for the purposes of uncovering manufacturers and practitioners who do things
they don't like -- began to make trouble for us all the way back in 1991. My second book,
MLM Fraud (see picture on my personal web page)
contained an entire chapter devoted to Trudeau's criminal activities, to which I was an
eyewitness: charging people's credit cards for goods and services that never existed.
(The picture at right was taken in happier days -- it shows Kevin and I partying in
New Orleans for Mardi Gras in 1987).Getting a $10 million judgement in Chicago through
a lawsuit where I wasn't even served notice wasn't good enough. Trudeau began reporting
to federal authorities that I had MILLIONS of dollars in unreported income in
offshore bank accounts. As proof, he offered up Alpha Omega Labs, which at that
time, really did have an office in Nassau (Bahamas). To a normal, thinking person with a
three-digit IQ, it's a non sequitur that having an offshore office means you must
necessarily have millions of dollars in unreported income in offshore bank accounts.But not to the geniuses at the IRS and FDA.Strangely, I didn't even have an offshore
bank account. I placed Alpha Omega Labs in the Bahamas so that my international herbal
activities would be less likely to irritate the FDA -- the same reasons I had DSHEA
disclaimers on every product page on the web site.From May to September, 2000 -- five months --
I had a full audit from the IRS, wherein IRS Special Agent Keith Monroe camped out
at my CPA's offices (Jude Hilliard in Lake Charles, Louisiana) doing everything he
could to find out where those millions were.He never found anything and the IRS did not
ask for a single penny in additional taxes. (Something that -- last time I checked --
only happens to 22% of those who undergo a full audit).I am sad to report that Agent Monroe didn't
find the money because I'm just so damn good at being an income tax evader.
He didn't find the money because it never existed.Trudeau had lied to federal officials the
entire time.Three years later, FDA Agent John Armand,
whose agency doesn't even handle income tax issues,
had the audacity to tell a friend in Chicago (fellow herbalist Carl Manconi)
that, among other things, "Your boy, Caton, is going up the river for a long,
long time for having millions of dollars in offshore bank accounts. We're
nailin' this guy for tax evasion."There is only one person I know who
could have continued peddling that story . . . the one who created it in the first place.Nonetheless, these pale in comparison to
the other lies in the passage above -- lies that came from federal officials themselves.
Anyone who has ever purchased our H3O (we have our own made now in South America,
but this goes as well for the product we purchased and repackaged back in the States)
can test it. The "concentrate" has a pH of between 0.0 and 0.3 -- and yet amazingly, except for
some mistaken lab samples I made in Lake Charles in 2007 which were never sold --
it is non-corrosive and non-caustic to animal tissue. No one need take my
word for this. They can test it themselves.Truthfulness, however, has little meaning
to federal authorities. Claims were made about H3O in Court for which I had
lab reports showing the falsity of what federal authorities were reporting.
People don't understand how serious this is.When Truth has no meaning -- ultimately,
the Law has no meaning. To truly understand this is to understand why
the United States is a dying republic. It isn't about deficits in the budget
or in international trade -- which are just by-products.
It's about deficits in truthfulness and moral character.Addressing the next lie: Our H3O is not battery acid.
The only relationship it has with battery acid is sulphuric acid plays
a role in the manufacture of both. But they have entirely different
properties.Addressing the next lie: H3O in our salves.
We have NEVER used H3O in our salves. We used it in Cansema Tonic III
as a preservative, as well as four of our mixed healing clays.
It works incredibly well in the tonic application,
even though now, for reasons of perceptions, we do not employ it
for this purpose in our current tonics.Addressing the next lie: it isn't
dangerous; in fact, as result of my study of the work of Russian
medical scientist, Vladimir Volkov, I drink diluted H3O every
day to improve digestion and improve my longevity prospects.Addressing the next lie: H3O
does not "penetrate fast." Toby McAdams obviously knows nothing
about it. In fact, it doesn't have any transdermal properties whatsoever.Addressing the next lie: H3O
doesn't damage the skin or the kidneys or the liver . . .
or the . . . (since Truth has no bearing here,
I'm was waiting to see if Toby could name
any other organs of the abdominal cavity . . . )Comment: . . . and with this Thunderbolt . . . I, Zeus,
King of the Gods on Mount Olympus . . . LOL . . . LOL . . . The reader will have to judge for himself
as to my omnipotent power to single-handedly cause a U.S. agency with
a $2 billion a year budget to institute an anti-alternative medical
policy.The recent "attack list" is a routine
operation, similar to "Operation Cure-All," which was conducted in 2003.From my understanding the FDA will even go further. Alpha Omega is selling products that are tainted and have caused serious damage to people.
Comment: Tainted?Not even the FDA itself ever claimed that
my products were tainted. Their attack line was that the claims on our web site,
in spite of the use of DSHEA disclaimers for U.S. users, were in violation of FDA law.Comment: . . . LOL . . .
Toby McAdams needs to get someone from the FDA to improve his extortion letters.
This copy is awful . . . The simple fact is that no other company of which we
are aware has the curative track record, told in the words of our own customers,
on our web site and on hundreds of other web sites, that Alpha Omega Labs has.
In fact, the FDA let you take the testimonials on our website and put them
on your own as if anything you ever made or sold had anything to do with those
very testimonials. We had to deal with angry letters from our customers,
telling us, "Why is the FDA letting this guy getting away with this fraud?
I don't even know him, but he is using my testimonial."The part about our being a reputable
company in the past, but not now . . . I have news for Toby -- Agent
John Armand's newest lap dog: our reputation has not diminished.
It has improved as a result of my imprisonment.
More than one practitioner has called us and said, "You know . . .
your stuff must have really worked and helped a lot of people
or the FDA would not have gone this far." Comment: First of all, we were never
banned from selling products in the U.S. This appears NO WHERE in my
plea agreement or any of the other 100 or so legal documents that comprise
my criminal case in the U.S. We provide a
Comparable Products page so people know where they can
get our best products from other U.S. suppliers . . . well . . .
for two reasons . . . first to show that we respect U.S. laws,
however ridiculous it may be that the U.S. Goverment can't
follow them itself (see Federal Judge Andrew P. Napolitano's
"Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government
Breaks Its Own Laws"), but secondly, because we are so well-known
in what we do internationally that even after having been closed
for 5 years, we can survive successfully on sales outside
of the U.S.We didn't leave the
U.S. just so we could go to another country and thumb our
nose from 2,000 miles away -- hell, U.S. Courts act like they
have jurisdiction over the entire planet anyway -- (see
"Chaos," p. 7).We left for the same
reason that America's ancestor fugitives emigrated to America
in an earlier era.The earlier statement
in this passage is even more ridiculous.
What you are told is: "You have to buy my adulterated,
misbranded product, instead of the original product -- which really works --
or it could hurt our industry and the FDA will ban numerous products
as a result."Readers will have to
determine for themselves how much of this cognitive
disonance they can tolerate.Comment: We've reopened and
we're selling product . . . okay . . . a truthful statement.Damn . . . this is unbelievable . . . I can't believe it . . .
The FDA wants Mr. Caton and they will do what is needed to catch and arrest him, so if they need to track products people purchased products from Alpha Omega labs in the United States, they most likely will.
Comment: The FDA isn't tracking
anybody down in this neck of the woods. Our President, Rafael Correa, who's
had enough interventionist nonsense to last the next 50 years
has told the U.S. that the Manta
base lease will not be renewed. Occidental Petroleum got kicked out of
here for cheating on its taxes . . . these are not examples of
anti-Americanism. These are examples of South American countries
exercising their sovereignty and demanding the unthinkable -- namely,
that their laws be respected by foreigners -- especially those
who don't follow their own laws.As for areas of life that DO
fall within the FDA's purview, Ecuador is a farmer's market of alternative
practice. Many of them are personal friends . . . people like Dr. Robert
Wickman, D.O., Dr. Gary Young, Neville Solomon -- they are all successful
in their practices, they've all been indicted in the U.S., they all have
droves of Americans coming down here who don't want to be murdered
by conventional medical doctors back in the States, they've all
been here for years . . . and they all have no intention of ever moving
back to the U.S.For the life of me, I can't understand why.As for the suggestion that
the FDA is going to track people down, like dogs, who have purchased our products.
What nonsense.
Alpha Omega labs could possibly, by their actions force the US congress to change and add new dietary supplement and alternative health product laws. We do not need this. If people or companies purchase products from Alpha Omega labs and Alpha Omega labs keep in business; alternative health products could and possibly will become regulated or banned. If this happens, don’t complain. Supporting Alpha Omega Labs is a serious issue, they have been banned from selling in the US. You can get the same products from other companies that follow the FDA rules and are providing products in the US legally. You can believe a Fugitive of the law in Greg Caron and Alpha Omega Labs or companies that are presently conforming toe present laws to alternative health products are available. If someone sells or offers products from Alpha Omega Labs go someplace else to get your products.
Comment: . . . and I . . . Zeus, King of the
Gods on Mount Olympus, do further declare . . . LOL . . . LOL . . .(I had no idea I was this powerful! . . . LOL )
Again, Alpha Omega Labs
was never banned from doing business in the U.S. The charges stemmed from product claims.As for getting "the same products from other companies
that follow the FDA," this wouldn't apply to Toby McAdams anyway for the many reasons
cited above.Comment: Yes, yes, yes, I know . . .
if someone would only die.Will it help, Toby, if I write a
letter to the FDA myself and ask them to assist you in continuing
to put out adulterated, misbranded products using our
copyrighted and trademarked materials? Oh -- that's right, I forgot,
they've been deliberately doing that already for the past six years.Comment: Of course --- only
in the profession for money . . . despite the fact that the company you condemn
is the very company you have fought so hard over the last six years to imitate,
and whose copyrights and trademarks you have freely used to "cut and paste"
for your own web sites. We get it.And unfortunately for you, so do
the readers who have read this rebuttal.
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