Just dissolve that sucker
It’s interesting that one way to poison people for $$$ is to tell them you’re a church. God and poison in one easy visit, hurrah!
A Florida man and three sons who used a business masquerading as a church to sell more than $1 million of a deadly bleach solution that they claimed was a “miracle” cure for Covid-19 and other diseases were each sentenced on Friday to several years in prison, federal prosecutors in Miami said.
Mark Grenon, 66, of Bradenton, Fla., and one of his sons, Joseph Grenon, 36, were sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to defraud the government, while the two other sons, Jonathan Grenon, 37, and Jordan Grenon, 29, were sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for defrauding the government and contempt of court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a news release.
“The Grenons poisoned thousands of people with their bogus miracle cure, which was nothing more than industrial bleach,” Michael Homer, an assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, said in a statement. “They targeted vulnerable people who were suffering from life-threatening illnesses and who were desperate for a cure.”
Prosecutors said that the Food and Drug Administration had received reports of people requiring hospitalizations, developing life-threatening conditions and dying after drinking the product.
Drinking bleach. It’s hard to believe. Bleach dissolves stuff.
The sentencing capped a three-year-long case in which the Grenons were accused of selling the treatment, named “Miracle Mineral Solution,” online under the guise of a church called Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, which Mark Grenon had co-founded. The product, they claimed, could cure Covid-19, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, H.I.V.-AIDS, and leukemia among other serious diseases, prosecutors said.
How about fentanyl addiction? Any good with that?
This was also supposed to cure autism. Imagine preying on parents so desperate you convinced them to make their child drink bleach.
The family that preys together gets convicted together?
It adds a whole new dimension to the concept of Holy Rollers; ie of rolling in bullshit. And of lust as well: that is, of lust for gold; though the plain old other kind has probably worked its way in there as well. Food for thought as the hoosegow time ticks slowly by.
I guess if they can get people to handle venomous snakes to prove their
manlinessfaithfulness, it’s not a big leap to drinking bleach.“The family that preys together gets convicted together?” — Trump and his get too?
I suspect that the reasons that they formed a ‘church’ were tax avoidance and lack of oversight; the latter enabled them to avoid prosecution for years, despite numerous complaints, injuries and deaths.
Because of the abuse of autistic children, there were a lot of campaigns from autistic advocates over the years; but the wheels of justice were clamped until governments finally made it illegal to administer the specific ingredients to children.
The ‘church’ had got away with it by handing out the ingredients and then giving unrecorded spoken instructions to the ‘congregation’ which, when followed, turned the MMS into a powerful industrial bleach.
Parents enthusiastically shared photos in online groups of the intestinal lining passed by the poor abused children, claiming that they were ‘parasites’ and which were ‘causing’ the autism. Children were forced, often daily, to drink MMS solution, bathe in it, and have MMS enemas. The parents were told by the ‘church’ that more the children objected, the higher the dose was needed; until, immensely sick and exhausted, the children gave up. The monstrous adults then saw that as a sign that the treatment was working, and maintained the dosage.
How do we cure autism? We don’t. How do we integrate autistic people into society? By teaching us the social skills developed by the non-autistic majority because they’re easy for non-autistic children to pick up, and giving us logical reasons for following them (even if the ‘logic’ is just “Other people prefer us to behave this way, and your life will be easier if you do so too”).
Jeeeezus.
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Disclosure: I have a grandson who is on the autism spectrum. He is also a very good cricketer, and wrote his first novel, entitled The Quest of Doom at the age of 10 years.
His family are very proud of him.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539373/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20standard%20criteria,with%20any%20form%20of%20autism.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/signs.html#:~:text=Autism%20spectrum%20disorder%20(ASD)%20is,%2C%20moving%2C%20or%20paying%20attention.
https://thespectrum.org.au/autism/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7JOpBhCfARIsAL3bobdO3Dq2YqiNfb7U0gDp1_VxjlYAjxPq2DMVQQ1cQ3EJMUl-O7PHt8MaAoXtEALw_wcB
What exactly does “masquerading as a church” mean? IMHO There can be no definition of a “real” church without taking a position on “real” religions.
This is why tax breaks for churches make no sense, I believe that tax breaks should be attached to purpose and action, the way that a charity in the uk can get get special treatment. If a charity fails to act in accordance to its public purpose, it can be challenged.
I assume that charities in the US and elsewhere also have similar accommodations?
Putting about a 0.1 ml of bleach into 1 liter of water is about right for killing microbes that would make you sick if you drink some of that water. Let the water sit for a while before drinking.
I Googled to find precise instructions and found this.
https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthlinkbc-files/disinfecting-drinking-water
Precisely that question came up when the IRS denied Scientology standing as a church, not allowing them the deduction. Scientology won.
Judges should not have to determine what constitutes a “real” church. When they do, they usually go with long-standing tradition, which is hardly fair since all the new churches have as much reality in them as the older ones…which is to say, they are all nonsense.
Churches should not have tax deductions. That forces the rest of us to pay for a church we don’t attend and don’t believe in. And it violates the US Constitution, though I imagine at least six people on SCOTUS disagree with that, and maybe all nine.
“autism” isn’t all Einsteins and Musks… For every one of them there’s ten barely functional (if that) individuals that are an enormous burden to care for. I sympathize with the desire for a magic bullet to solve that.
Unfortunately selective abortions are probably the only real answer…