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RE: Hold Jeff Berwick Accountable to his Promise of Transparency in the $10M Galt's Gulch Chile Scam by Sep 25

in #jeff-berwick8 years ago

In spite of the fact that insults were traded, I think it would be a good idea for you to send George a full "data dump" on GGC. George has often done meticulous research, and his position is often the position of a tenacious researcher. If you cooperate with him, your voice in the proceedings will be present in his analysis. If you do not cooperate with him, he will likely provide his guesses about "your voice." Though I have often seen George's opinions as "more than fair" in pointing out when he doesn't have full information, he is a capable writer, very persuasive, and most people lack a good "bullshit filter."

Moreover: If the facts truly are in your favor, and you cooperate with giving George "EVERYTHING YOU HAVE ON GGC," then there is zero chance that your doing so will leave you in a worse position than you started out in, for the following reasons:

  1. The liberty community isn't just George Donnelly, and there are others who have written about and reported on this clusterfuck, at length. These other "investigatory nodes" in the liberty network are also committed to finding the truth. They will not allow Donnelly to destroy your name if you "are transparent" with Donnelly, unless you try to stonewall Donnelly.
  2. The liberty community is also comprised of fans of "anarchast" who will reserve judgment against you unless you are opaque.
  3. The only way to clear one's name of being "a scammer" is to be totally open about the scams you're accused of. The more one's reputation is worth, the more one needs their reputation to remain "beyond reproach." It appears that Jeff Berwick's reputation is worth "a finder's fee on $10M" (the amount he convinced investors to part with). Whether Berwick made a cut or not, this is still true: His reputation convinced many investors to invest, and they seemingly lost their money.
  4. Those who communicate with investigations are seen as "acting in good faith." Unfortunately, this is often sociopaths who fully understand the limitations of investigative journalism. In this regard, Ken Johnson is fully complying with sending lots of information to Donnelly, perhaps because he's legitimate, but perhaps in the hopes that it will "keep his enemies closer" and he believes that it will either buy him some time, or postpone his outing as a fraudster while he strings Donnelly along, delaying the inevitable.

Right away, the quality of the information from Jeff will be put up against the quality of the information from Ken. Ultimately, this will happen anyway, given whatever Jeff produces to the courts.

But what if Ken actually is a sociopath, and the courts find in his favor, or are noncommittal? In that case, the entire "liberty community"(many of them your current fans) will be the final arbiter of any relevance to you.

I'm a fan of anarchast. Because Jeff Berwick is the host of anarchast, I like him. However, I hold people I invest my money with to a higher standard. Right now, it's not clear whether that standard applies to Jeff, (like it does to someone like Doug Casey).

I've recommended Doug Casey's real-estate venture to many people. I've never recommended Berwick's GGC, even before it was outed as a catastrophe.

I haven't yet told people I think Berwick is a scammer. I'm reserving judgment on that issue. I view Donnelly as being a competent investigator, and a good judge of character. I'm not saying he's perfect or infallible, but I think he tries hard to do a good job.

If I was Jeff Berwick, and my good name had been abused by a swindler, I'd love to have George Donnelly's efforts going toward backing up my story.

PS: For what it's worth, I think that every current attempt at anarcho-zionism is horribly strategically weak and more likely to fail than simply "getting intelligently involved with politics at the local level" wherever one resides. This includes the Free State Project, and various seasteading projects.

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