Re: Ca owner on trial

Posted by Keyser Soze (64.12.96.205) on September 30, 2003 at 17:47:32:

In Reply to: Ca owner on trial posted by observer on September 30, 2003 at 12:04:26:

Dear Mssrs. Observer and Info;

As ever you serve as long range frequency agile radar for our benefit. Your kindly providing these articles re Herr Bartmann is most appreciated, blissful reading for sultry Florida monsoon season evenings by the fire.

"As ever, Dr. Lecter looked for patterns."
c. Thomas Harris, "Hannibal",

Mr. Bartmann perhaps illustrates the adage that habits' chains aren't felt til one tries to break them. So, he meets his wife when he's fourteen and she's eleven? Touchingly sweet, good for about twenty years in this state whether or not you agree with the principals and law. While making no statements or inferences relating to Mr. Bartmann, some have likened coercive behavior patterns of 'collections professionals' to that of paedophiles.
Mr. Bartmann as youth gang member served as set-up artist, luring unsuspecting men of greater stature than he into fisticuffs whilst a pack of thugs lay in wait for the cheapshot ambush. And to think, some have been so cruel in their analyses as to call 'collections professionals' predators. How insensitive.
Mr. Bartmann experiences the horrors of collection thugs yet stages a business rebound not by avenging but by taking predatory injustice to yet more outrageous levels of organized predation. This was his fatal decision. Mr. Bartmann could have worked to truly end abusive collection practices, perhaps helping debtors.
Instead he ventured down the ditch, doing unto others as others had painfully done unto him. This is a special mindset, a particular type of character about which much can and has been written yet still it defies description. Perhaps Dante Alighieri as quoted by kind old friend and personal physician H. Lecter M.D. will suffice: "Avarice, hanging, self-destruction. I made my own home be my gallows."(Judas as example)
(c. Thomas Harris, "Hannibal")
Imagine that when set upon by thieves instead of defending yourself and reporting this to the authorities you form a cartel emulative of their behavior for same purposes. Defies description. Though fully appreciative of the pain caused you by predators you become one yourself, venturing yet further by extolling the virtues of this act.
Mr. Bartmann's sweetness & light approach is all bullshale. The vile substance of his organization clearly showed through the kinder & gentler velvet fist veneer of phony verbage. Reading of his company's approach to debtors reminds one of torture prison doctors who always ensure victims remain alive lest they miss a moment's fun at the hands of tormentors. Goody goody.

"Here I am, Ma! Top of the world!"
Cody Jarret, "White Heat" c. 1949

In like fashion does Mr. Bartmann crow about his wealth, stating he could burn much of it and never notice any substantive change. Famous last words. Note as well his description of of his inner processes upon encountering former employees. Expressing no real empathy for their plight instead he frets over what they might think of him. It's all about him. Dismissive of others emotions instead he demonstrates vanity abundant, in effect saying;"My concern for these people extends only as far as my public image."

"Heart warming, I'm weepy."
- Det. Jeff Rabin, "The Usual Suspects"
c. 1995, Chris McQuarrie & Brian Singer

Small point, newfound wealth inculcates no ability to dress appropriately for business. This does mean something. Actors well know the costume completes the character. Dress like a slob, surely one will find a slob business. Mr. Bartmann brags of his intentional inappropriate grooming. Men with any sense posess sufficient humility to ask their wives' advice.
This is fine news of good portent. Mr. Bartmann was the front runner. His business tactics are those responsible for the Silverado Collapse of the eighties, something Inc. Magazine missed. Companies making shell trades with one another to fool investors out of their money.
Incapable of new learning or gleaning insight, Mr. Bartmann perhaps took his dubious skills to a new carnival ground. As he was progenitor of this scurvy predatory thug-ridden 'industry', perhaps as we provide lively resistance to their machinations more of these three-cent billionaires will go the way of Bill Bartmann. Good riddance to bad cess.

"The wheel of the mill grinds slowly,
but it always grinds fine."
- Nana ______________. (name
withheld to preclude identification
and association.)

"As with the foundation so falls the spire."
- anon.

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