I have been sending numerous e-mails to people, letting them know about my article reporting on The Silencing of Academic Researcher Wade Pfau by The Buy-and-Hold Mafia.
Friday’s blog entry reported on my correspondence with Robert Savickas, Associate Professor of Finance at the George Washington University School of Business. Set forth below is the text of the e-mail that Robert sent to me in response to the e-mail of mine described in the earlier blog entry:
Hi Rob,
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So, if you time you critiques of buy-and-hold right, you could be a much-listened-to guy…
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Rob,
The Pink Unicorn says
” If you broadcast your non-standard views too loudly, you get labeled as a nut, and then nobody listens to you, so you eventually disappear in infamy.”
That warning came about 11 years too late when it comes to Rob.
Rob Bennett says
That’s pretty much what I said in my response e-mail, which I will report on here tomorrow, Pink.
I’ve been called a nut. I’ve been called a loser. I’ve been called a mental case. I’ve been called a stalker of women. I’ve been called an alcoholic. I’ve been called a druggie. I’ve been called a troll. I’ve been called a bad husband. I’ve been called a bad father. I’ve been called a dumb ass. And on and on and on.
You know what?
It’s always been Buy-and-Holders calling me that.
Do you know what would hurt worse?
It would hurt worse if it were my own conscience calling me disloyal to all the friends I have made on the internet.
I’ve played the cards I have been dealt, Pink.
And I’ve never experienced a moment of remorse for the choices I have made.
I am sad that you are going to prison. If I could wave a magic wand in the air and call for a do-over, I would do it so that you could be spared the pain. I am 100 percent confident that you would leave me with different choices if you had the option.
But that’s not the way life works, as we both know.
So we struggle on the best we can, given the options that are available to us in the real world.
I certainly wish you all the good things that this life has to offer a person, in any event.
Rob, the Fellow Without a Magic Wand
The Pink Unicorn says
And you are called those things because of what you say/post. It is all because of your own doing. Just look at this last post in which you yet again make unfounded prison threats.
The Pink Unicorn says
Tell you what, Rob. Maybe you can at least gain back some level of respect. The first thing is to get honest and make your “I was wrong speech”. After that, you can start on your long list of apologies starting with Wade, Jack, John, Bill and so on.
No better time to start than now.
Rob says
I’m not asking you for anything, Pink. I’m happy with the cards I am holding.
You are the one doing the asking.
That tells the tale.
My warmest wishes.
Rob the Good Card Player
The Pink Unicorn says
I am not asking Rob. Just trying to help. As for the cards you have, we know that you are not playing with a full deck.
Rob says
Thanks for trying to help, Pink.
My best wishes to you.
Rob, the Fellow Who Is Satisfied to Have Less Than a Full Deck
what says
Who called you an alcoholic or a druggie? That seems weird.
“Dumbass” – I can see that one.
Rob says
There’s no sense talking all nicey nice to me now, What. It’s a little late for that sort of thing at this point in the proceedings.
Take good care, man.
Rob the Non-Alcoholic Dumbass
The Pink Unicorn says
Proceedings? Perhaps you can direct our attention as to what legal action has been filed.
Rob says
Perhaps you had better come clean before the next price crash so that your prison sentence does not end up being longer than you have already assured it will be as a result of your thousands of acts of financial fraud over the past 11 years, Pink.
Just saying’.
Rob (aka Captain Obvious)
The Pink Unicorn says
So, Captain Obvious, there are no legal proceedings.
Just saying
Rob says
As of today, there are no legal proceedings, Pink.
You’ve got me re that one.
My warmest wishes to you and yours.
Rob, the Fellow Who Has Been Nailed Yet One More Time by the Greaney Goons