Letter to a thieving bastard

(My name and address, centered)



Ms. Amy Ridenour
National Retirement Security Task Force
P.O. Box 96465
Washington, D.C. 20077-7396

Ms. Ridenour:

I am not the person you are trying to frighten into giving her money to you, but I can tell you about her.

She is in her late 80s. She is a widow. Her husband was a World War II veteran who landed at Normandy the day after D-Day. She has a mentally challenged son who is in his late 50s and whose intellectual age is 5 or 6. She gets less than $1,500 a month from Social Security.

A nice target, isn’t she?

One of her problems is, she believes people are intrinsically kind and honest. Unless in dire need, a person would not ask her for money. She never had much to spare, nor did the people she grew up with, people who became her adult neighbors. What they had to spare, they shared with those in need.

That is what she said when asked why she sent money to charlatans such as you. “They asked for help. They wouldn’t have asked unless they needed it.”

From your picture at Wikipedia I would say you were a nice person at one time. What changed you? Or was your background always focused on frightening old people to send part of their Social Security? Perhaps your parents raised you to lie, cheat and steal. Or maybe in college you attended classes in fraud and fear-mongering.

It is apparent you believe older Americans stupid. “I am rushing this letter and Emergency 2013 Registered Retirement Survey to you in an expensive, protective shipping box out of pure desperation …” begins your letter meant to scare older people into sending money to you.

I could go on, but my comments would be in the same vein, wondering how you became a charlatan and what in your background sent you along the road of outright thievery.

I included my name and address so you can reply it you want.


(Signature)
Robert Merriman

P.S. You can find this letter at my blog, www.sgtbobittai.blogspot.com