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This is just one of several posts about my current conflict with vengeful billionaire hypocrite Foster Friess. For an overview of the situation and chronology of posts go here...
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This is just one of several posts about my current conflict with vengeful billionaire hypocrite Foster Friess. For an overview of the situation and chronology of posts go here...
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Dear Mr. ********* (One of Foster Friess' Assistants):
If you want to talk, please send me an email. I don't like the phone. I prefer less vaporous forms of communication so I know exactly where things stand. My address is maxmogren@yahoo.com.
I have no personal problem with you. I don't know you. I see you as another guy like myself but doing your job as a representative of Foster Friess.
I'll tell you my personal gripe with FF, so you know exactly where I'm coming from. Hopefully we can work to resolve this conflict.
I find it unethical and offensive when a powerful man attempts to cut off a working person's livelihood because they spoke their mind. Your Boss did this to me. I know FF didn't do the dirty work personally in pressuring both my employers to terminate me, but member(s) of his staff certainly did. There is no doubt about that.
I find it shockingly offensive that FF's staff tried to pressure an employer who was in no way associated with the situation. That direct and completely unjustifiable attack at my livelihood made things very personal for me. Fortunately, only one of my employers buckled to FF's pressures.
The internet is full of criticism of public figures, so FF shouldn't feel entitled to squashing it. That, Sir, is Un-American.
If FF has a problem with me and my opinions, it would serve his interests to deal with the situation in an up front manner instead of attempting to intimidate and bully me through underhanded attacks at my basic needs.
Tactics like that go completely against the public persona he wishes to convey. They also fuel my discontentment, and leave me with only two options:
1) Submit and retract my opinions.
or
2) Keep coming up with creative ways to express my criticism of FF's ideology, hypocrisy, and personal attack on me.
I couldn't live with option 1, and it would take a bullet to stop me from embracing option 2. Frankly, I would prefer a situation with more options.
If FF acknowledged my right to Free Speech and apologized for attacking my livelihood, I would certainly pardon him for the personal offense. That would take a lot of this fire out of my belly.
My original problem with FF was a lot less personal than this has become. For the sake of clarity, I will explain my opinions that got me blogging about FF in the first place.
Foster Friess' outrageously expensive, four day long, 70th birthday celebration seemed grossly inappropriate to me at a time when most Americans are struggling to get by. This disparity disgusted me, as did the conduct of some of his guests, so I wrote about it.
To a poor person like myself, the whole event reeked of hypocrisy because Mr. Friess had put together an elaborate (and expensive) four day celebration to showcase, his own generosity.
He capped off the celebration with a showy flourish by giving each party guest $70,000 to contribute to the charity of their choice. At first glance this seems like a lot of money, but by my calculations the total amount donated comes to less than 1% of FF's considerable wealth.
To me, it looks more like a tax write-off than a sincere charitable event. To me, it looks more like a PR maneuver than a heartfelt attempt to make a positive difference in these exceptionally troubled times. To me, it looks like FF's excuse to bring the good ol' boys together to plan their next global power play.
In my opinion, true philanthropists give a significant portion of their wealth to charity, and the most exemplary ones do so anonymously or at least with a minimal amount of showmanship. A good example is once "Richest-Man-In-The World" Warren Buffett who has pledged 99% of his wealth to charity and, along with Bill and Melinda Gates, has started an initiative urging all American billionaires to commit at least 50% of their fortunes to the needs of this planet and it's people.
I urge you to read the story just linked to before continuing further. Afterward, I'm sure you'll agree that Mr. Friess could learn a lot about true philanthropy from Mr. Buffett's example.
After studying FF's online personality, I find what I take to be a lot of partisan misinformation and fundamentalist quackery that he expects readers to swallow. He washes it all down for them by promoting himself as a generous, caring, maverick defender of freedom. I see through this facade and am calling him out on it because I think it is the right thing to do.
In my opinion, people like your Boss are flushing not only our Nation but the entire planet right down the crapper. I, for one, am sick of it.
Sincerely,
Max Mogren
