Trueman Tuck - Tyranny of the MindTrueman Tuck, defender of natural health products vendors and former paralegal is still at it. After being slapped with a $16,000 fine in a Belleville, Ontario court in July 2008 for practicing law without the proper credentials, Tuck decided it was time to sue on his own behalf. To see what this is all about, you've got to order a subscription to our latest newsletter.To order Trueman Tuck - Tyranny of the Mind. Subscribers will receive regular newsletters about important court cases and other activities. BIE Health Products sues the worldTrueman Tuck told to shut up and get a lawyerOn Monday, December 10, 2007, a box containing 4 huge legal binders, each of them about about 3 inches thick arrived in my medical office while the waiting room was full of patients. I thought that the Canadian Process Server was going to have a hernia. The binders were Trueman Tuck's feable attempt to stall for more time in the BIE Health Products case.He refused to back down after the Department of Justice's Shain Widdifield asked Tuck to get a real lawyer for his client. The court in Belleville, where the original case was filed, took many months to render a decision in the BIE lawsuit, and then ordered that Tuck be replaced with a real barrister. They appointed Toronto lawyer Paul Starkman to represent BIE Health Products. Then, in early July 2008 the venue for the trial was finally changed to courts in Toronto. As well, they asked for updates for the Statement of Claim to be filed by Starkman, and Statements of Defence by the defendants that will be due later this Fall. During the negotiations in the Spring and Summer, it was clear that several defendants were never properly served by Tuck with the proper papers, and so the court ordered them to be dropped from the suit.
Richard Beemer is represented by health freedom guru Trueman Tuck
Richard Beemer, the proprietor of BIE Health Products, appeared before the Standing Committee on Health on May 9, 2005 to pitch his position that selling what I would consider to be bogus products is okay.
He left a distinct impression that Health Canada and their employees were nasty little men and women who are out to get him. Of course who would come to his rescue but Trueman Tuck, the health freedom advocate and launcher of a "thousand" anti-government web sites. Okay, it's not quite a "thousand", it only seems that it is. On July 21, 2005 I received two packages from Tuck via Purolator. Each of them was about an inch thick, but up here in Canada, it's really 2.54 cm. Tuck had just returned from the Codex meetings in Rome in early July. It was reported that he attended the meetings with Carolyn Dean, who can no longer practice as an MD in Ontario, and Peter Helgason from Strauss Herbal products. I guess that their influence probably led to Codex coming down hard on the nutraceutical industry in Europe. I know that he is foaming at the mouth just waiting to get even with the rest of the world. I have scanned in his lawsuit that names just about everyone of interest in the Canadian government, Health Canada, major media outlets, and professional organizations, etc. Tuck has a knack of associating himself with some controversial issues, and has also helped spread misinformation about me, much of it courtesy of Tim Bolen who you will note below is not the kind of person you'd like to take home for the holidays. Tuck's publications include Health Freedom Update. It's jam packed with nice pictures of politicians who he favours. It will be interesting to see what happens with this nuisance lawsuit. If it turns out like the previous lawsuit he launched on behalf of Nick Jerch from Bell Distributors, I wouldn't bet on a victory before any judge or jury. On November 26, 2003 Jerch refused to comply with Health Canada actions. He marketed the Magicc Bullett, which was an unregulated supplement that contained the active ingredient of the drug Viagra. Then a short time later he was cited again for yet another product that contained the active ingredient found in Cialis. And don't forget the Bell EZEE Slimming Patch scam that marketed fraudulent weight loss patches through major drugstore chains. BIE Advertising continues
Full page advertisement in Maclean's Magazine- January 19, 2009 page 63
Despite a raging lawsuit against the media and myself, somebody placed an advertisement in Rogers Communications owned Maclean's Magazine, Canada's largest circulation news magazine. I've contacted Maclean's and they haven't responded to my questions.
Why have the Health Canada warnings to consumers to not use the BIE Health product years ago not closed them down? The most recent ad appeared inside the back cover of a magazine called Live-It! - Canada's Health and Wellness Magazine. Fall 2007 issue.
The publishing company is a division of Torstar's Metroland. It was
BIE's standard ad from 2000, i.e. full page in colour. The magazine was
delivered with my Saturday Record here in Waterloo.
Latest ad compared to earlier versions
The company and their agents have attacked Health Canada viciously and threatened a lawsuit against them for years. Why has this been allowed to continue? |
 Despite actions taken against BIE Health Products over the years, and their bogus lawsuit against the media and myself, the company continues to market their products in Canadian media. In the latest scam they bought space in Ezra Levant's Western Standard Magazine. Its placement was aimed to have maximum impact because it showed up on page 11, in the March 13, 2006 issue. Western Standard was the magazine that published the Mohammed cartoons in the February 27, 2006 issue that created a great flurry of publicity.
Click on the advertisement to read. Note that the copy was actually written in 2000, and is similar to the other bogus ads that ran in other magazines. The same advertisement was repeated on July 3, 2006 - page 41. It's obvious to me that neither Health Canada, who is being sued by BIE Health Products, nor the publishers of The Western Standard magazine are going to anything about this. They have little power to enforce the law, nor integrity to do what is right. Click to read another BIE Health ad from the U.S. Its on page 12 of this California Legion Magazine. The U.S. company also placed another full-page advertisement in the January 31, 2005 issue of the "National Review". In that ad they again made bogus claims that their product would help the following conditions. Of course, anyone who believes that any of the following conditions could be helped must have a major problem with reality.
History of BIEHEALTH web sites and domain registriesActions against GHR and HGH marketers
GHR Old and New Marketing Sites
Health professionals who sell GHR type products
Dangerous and misleading information-- this crap is being passed off as a steroid replacer..... Guess what?Trueman Tuck's other clients and linksIf you are a mental health care professional and had to evaluate the historical evidence and were then given the privelege examining Mr. Trueman Tuck, it might be vital that you know about his other activities. Some of them are of a social nature, while others are just meant to annoy politicians of every stripe. Tuck is a true Libertarian. But, interestingly enough, rarely does Tuck tell the whole truth about his successes and failures, especially when communicating with officers of the Court across Canada.
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