Dear Ms. Bear and Mr. Quirk,
It is evident that you both expended considerable time and resources pulling together the complaint against Health Discovery Corporation (HDC). You have obviously engaged a reputable law firm, and the attorneys representing you are clearly professional and have done their best to prepare arguments supporting your complaints. Based on this, something isn’t adding up, so I thought I’d outline it for you.
One would think that in hiring counsel to represent you, one of your primary obligations is to act in good faith and divulge all relevant information for them in an honest fashion. Yet, this doesn’t appear to be consistent with the manner in which the two of you have presented the information to HDC shareholders. Again, particularly since the law firm representing you is reputable, didn’t you have an obligation to be forthright with the firm’s attorneys on all fronts relative to your efforts?
Obviously, it doesn’t stand to reason that the two of you have organized this entire complaint process by acting alone. Particularly in light of the fact that there is no guarantee you will prevail, coupled with the fact that even if you were to prevail there is no direct return to you of the legal expenses (unless, of course, your goal is to pilfer the company). In other words, it simply doesn’t make sense that you would pay for these expenses out of your own personal pockets just to show other shareholders that you are interested in success for all of us. You’re clearly not that nice. Let’s look at this another way. If you were honest in divulging to your legal representatives the other individuals who have been financially supporting your efforts, then why have you publicly portrayed, via message boards, to other HDC shareholders that you are somehow acting on your own?
Additionally, an obvious component of your strategy has been to personally and/or with the help of others engage in a campaign over the past few months to continually post on message boards in a manner that is detrimental both the company and to its shareholders. Many shareholders are fully aware that it is not a coincidence that posters, whom we have never heard of over the years, have miraculously popped up, sometimes changing aliases, for the sole purpose of smearing the company and the current leadership team.
Do you know what the said part about this complaint process is? Not only have you been totally disrespectful to HDC shareholders, but you have also been disrespectful to the very attorneys representing you. Since you are keenly aware of my position, you obviously know that I do not at all support your legal representatives’ arguments. Yet, they are doing their job, and there is absolutely no reason for me to disrespect them and their professional obligations. On the other hand, given your actions, you should be ashamed of yourselves for not being fair to those representing you. If you disagree, then let’s play this out with a hypothetical discussion between you and your attorneys.
Your attorneys: Have you provided us with all relevant information in an honest and forthright fashion?
You: Absolutely. And, by the way, as part of our strategy, we are going to set up a portal, download the legal documents for other shareholders to view on message boards, and include a letter from poor Ms. Bear, who will portray that she was somehow shocked to learned things that most shareholders already know, even though she’s been around since 2006. Of course, we will make sure Mr. Quirk won’t sign it, even though for over two years he has been relentless in his desire to get back on the HDC board and has reached out to shareholders to ask how many shares they own. Plus, we will use a guy named “James”, who will pop up out of nowhere, to post it on message boards and ‘say the right things.’ And, even though all this will cost a lot of money, we will make it look to all other HDC shareholders as if just the two of us paid for it out of pocket, even though that doesn’t make any sense. Further, we have already been getting the support of other individuals to post negative messages continually, and we will even change the alias a number of times to make sure it looks like there are more shareholders than there really are who are expressing concern about the company. Oh, and by way, even though we will push hard for an emergency shareholder meeting for the sole purpose of electing a new board, we won’t give other HDC shareholders ample advance notice of whom the individuals are that we want elected. In other words, it will be neat to give them very little notice, because we don’t want them informed.
Ms. Bear and Mr. Quirk, how do you think your legal representatives would have responded to you if they had known all the details about your message board strategy, and who might be behind it? Do you think they would have responded as follows?
“Cindy and Bill, all this is a really cool idea, and we especially love the manner in which you intend to deceive the other shareholders. The two of you are absolute masterminds, and we especially like the fact that Mr. Quirk won’t have the balls to sign the letter, which makes it even cooler because the other shareholders will be tricked into believing the poor little Cindy story. Oh, and your intention to provide very little notice to shareholders about the slate of candidates you want on the board is an unbelievably perfect strategy, since you don’t want to the others really knowing anything. By the way, even though it stands to reason that others are helping to fund this approach, let’s keep it our little secret. It’s more powerful when the other shareholders think you are laying out tons of your own money because you want them to be genuinely represented. Oh, and that approach whereby you are using others to post ongoing negative messages, not to mention the changing of aliases, is an absolute scream! You guys are too much!!! We love you, and we love this approach, so GO FOR IT you rascals!”
Somehow, Ms. Bear and Mr. Quirk, I don’t think they would have responded in this fashion, which reinforces that the two of you have little to no respect for anyone but yourselves. Please go away, tell your friends to go away, and leave the company alone. You’ve done far too much damage already.
