“What Are My Responsibilities When I See a Super Weird Situation Like This? I Sure Don’t Want to See the People of This Country Having to Endure Yet Another Buy-and-Hold Crisis. Do You?”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

No.  “Not working out” means that your retirement plan did not go as you said it would.  Do you think it is a good thing to have a depleted retirement account when you are 60’s?  Are you not responsible for that, just like everyone else is responsible for their own situations?

I’m responsible for it. But no reasonable person could have anticipated that I would see 22 years of abusive behavior, including a number of criminal acts, directed at me because I pointed out an error in a retirement study that some guy was pushing at a discussion board at which I posted. I mean, holy moly!

Am I not responsible for posting my sincere views on subjects that I address at discussion boards and blogs? It sure seems to me that I am. I have asked responsible parties to take effective action re you Goons, I have been doing that since June 2002. This situation is not my doing.

What are my responsibilities when I see a super weird situation like this? I sure don’t want to see the people of this country having to endure yet another Buy-and-Hold Crisis. Do you? What do you propose that I do about it? My take is that I should do everything in my power to see that every internet site is opened to honest posting re the last 43 years of peer-reviewed research in this field? Does that not make perfect sense? Do you have any better ideas re how to deal with this matter?

That’s where I’m coming from re this one, Anonymous.

Rob