He was convicted in US District court on Tuesday and faces up to 140 years in prison for 26 felony counts. I’ve heard the US Federal Corporation spent about a million $USD (hey they print ‘em anyway, huh?) to prosecute this case – nice priorities eh? How bout another bailout for the FDA?

Sorry – sometimes my optimism spills out some cynicism.

Anyway, the mainstream news on this will be centered on the assumption that if a machine is not FDA classified that it should fall under their jurisdiction in all cases. Fact is most electronic instruments don’t fall under FDA classification. Consider all the electronic frequency generators made by Hewlett Packard, Agilent, Tectronix, etc.

Then there’s the assumption that just because a jury convicted him that what he was selling was a rip off and there were a lot of complaints but this doesn’t appear to be the case.

This was assumed by 99% of the people that have made comments on the newspaper postings of this story where website visitors comment about placebo affects and snake oil. I guess like attracts like and if the mainstream writers like Keith Darce bias towards the FDA and the court ruling the visitors just take it as gospel.

You folks have more of a brain than that – I’m quite sure of this.

If Jim was using marketing materials that were misleading then he may have been asking for trouble and that is a shame. He will be a political prisoner and we’ll see for how long when they sentence him on May 11th.