Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:
“ It’s definitely my job. It’s definitely your job too, Anonymous. And it’s definitely everyone else’s job.”
No, it is only your job as we choose our jobs. You chose your pathway, now it is your job to set people straight.
My conscience is clear, Anonymous. I feel that I have done my part and then some more on top of that and then some more on top of that. If you took a poll of the American people and described the situation and asked “Has Rob Bennett worked this hard enough?” I am 100 percent confident that 90 percent of the population would say that I have worked it too hard and too long, not too light and for not a long enough time. I know that because of what friends and family members tell me. People think that I have traveled too far from the herd. That’s virtually a universal opinion.
I don’t regret anything that I have done. Someone had to do this so that as a people we can come to terms with what we have done to ourselves when we have experienced the ocean of human misery that we will experience when the next price crash arrives. I couldn’t live with myself if I knew (as I did indeed come to know) that millions of people were going to get hurt as a result of continued promotion of the Buy-and-Hold stuff and I did nothing about it. It would be like knowing in advance of the 911 attacks and just keeping my mouth shut out of fear that I might suffer personally in some way for speaking up in defense of my country. I cannot go there. So I did what I had to do given the cards that were dealt to me.
But I am not Superman. This is not a one-man job. If we are going to as a society advance in our understanding of how stock investing works, we are all going to need to play our parts in getting the word out about the last 39 years of peer-reviewed research and in asking good questions and all that sort of thing. It’s silly to think that one person could pull off what I am trying to pull off all by himself or herself.
I will always be available to help. If I see in the days following the next price crash that there is a greater willingness on the part of the Normals to stand up to you Goons, then I am certainly going to do what I can to help the good guys advance the ball. Obviously. But I offer no apologies for not offering to get my head bashed against a wall on a daily basis anymore. I have said what needed to be said, I have done what a reasonable person could do.
My goal of opening the entire internet to honest posting re the last 39 years of peer-reviewed research is a goal that benefits every investor on the planet, If we don’t get more people involved, we are not going to achieve that goal and we will all suffer the consequence. If we get more people involved, we can make huge strides in a very short amount of time. I’ll be there on the front lines when the time comes when progress can be made. But I have been involved in enough of this lone soldier stuff to last 20 lifetimes. Everyone has a limit and it took a lot longer for me to reach mine than it did for most others. But I have a limit too , and, when it comes to the lone soldier stuff, I crossed that point some time ago.
It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
I naturally wish you all good things.
Lone Soldier (But No More!) Rob
Anonymous says
Is this the post that you say was a death threat made to you and your family?
https://boards.fool.com/sydsydsyd-theyre-taking-them-down-as-fast-as-we-18207722.aspx?sort=postdate
It is a post on personal protection and gun safety. Further, it says nothing about you and your family. How, in the world, is this a death threat? It is nothing even close to that. Why do you make things up like this?
Rob says
The members of your jury will decide the matter, Anonymous. That is how it is handled in our system.
I do wish you all good things, in any event.
Rob