As I recall, there was another terrorist group that fought the British, circa 1775 up to 1783 or so.

What were they called again?

We here in the Northern Dominion forget so many things.

I often read Paul Steinberg’s excellent and scholarly book “Beguiling Heresy” published by the Dickinson School of Law of Penn State in 2004 (and available in the Peace Library) and always learn something new from its pages. It was written, I believe, for law students and the legal community but Paul indicates that he gives it to prospective clients, as well —which may work against his own interests to earn a living much of the time.

Paul is very scholarly and complex and often scolded me on Blue Mau Mau for my faulty interpretations of the law which he expected, I believe, because I have not been schooled in the law. He tried to teach me that the law is about the law and that fairness and morality is not always the goal of the law but nevertheless the “rule of law” rules the day.

“Beguiling Heresy” is truly “full disclosure” of the often abusive relationship that is enabled by the boilerplate and standard self-serving contract that accompanies the government disclosure document and its process, as well as a look into case law that surrounds franchising and which generally protects franchisors and their adhesory contracts in the courts.

I would hope that the sitting judges as well as the law students and the academics in law and economics would all read this book. I think that it was in this book, Beguiling Heresy, that Paul mentioned that after a seminar on franchising for law students, the law students agreed on one thing they had learned, i.e. this was “to never buy a franchise.” Maybe this is one of the reasons Paul Steinberg and his co-author wrote “Beguiling Heresy” because Paul Steinberg was a franchisee of Subway and wrote “Beguiling Heresy” from his point of view as a franchisee and an attorney. And, it was an attorney also who wrote NOLO’s TEN GOOD REASONS NOT TO BUY A FRANCHISE that appeared in Forbes.com.

The Franchise Times reviewed “Beguiling Heresy” somewhat unenthusiasticly which is no surprise and I’m sure Paul wasn’t honored by the IFA and the ABA for his contribution to an understanding of the franchise relationship and the law surrounding franchising.

I respect Paul Steinberg and I have always liked him, even when he chastised me on Blue Mau Mau. He never lied to me and he was one of my teachers.

I respect Don Siegnowski and Sean Kelly and Ryan Knoll who all try to bring readers to understand that there are good reasons to buy a franchise and good franchisors. I admit it is too late for my family but not to late to WARN others that there is cooperation (a conspiracy?) and a status quo to hide the high rate of failure of franchises from the public who buy them. This status quo is rationalized by government as serving the “greater good.”

Obama is half Kenyan, and in 2009 will take over the government (including, ahem…the FTC!).

Obama is one of them A-Rab names, and Sniegowski is a Russki-Polock name.

A-Rabs and Russkis write in that funny writing that no one can understand. FDDs are written in funny words that no one can understand.

Obama spends a lot of time in Washington. Sniegowski recently visited Washington. Matt Shay is in Washington.

There is a vast franchisor conspiracy at work here. The banning from the Internet is a sign of the depth and breadth of this conspiracy.

Thank God that at least Sean allows me to post and does not prevent me from telling you the great hidden secret of the Franchisor Cabal. Just between us, the truth is that

You are the fraud here.

While franchisees are investing in the franchisor in one sense, they are primarily investing in what the franchisor is selling to them and the FATAL FLAW of regulation is that there is almost NO information concerning the franchise itself that is required to be disclosed under regulatory policies. The new targets of franchisors are the VETS and their families who can get “quickie” loans through the SBA Franchise Register and use the Patriot Express Loan Initiative introduced in 2007 to do so. VETS and their families are not going to get true disclosure of the risk of the investments they are encouraged to make when these slick salesmen who wear flag pins in their lapels offer them the FRAN/ VET discount on the franchise.

I know everyone has given up on trying to change the regulation of franchising and the ugly status quo of the FTC rule and Federal Regulatory policy that IN PRACTICE AND REALITY does permit franchisors to SELL their franchises to the public without disclosing the risks and the rewards of the investment in terms of profitability and survivability as KNOWN to the franchisor — and with apparent immunity under the law and regulatory policy for franchisors.

I thought Blue Mau Mau and Don Siegnowski was interested in making franchising better for franchisees (he indicates that this is why he started Blue Mau Mau?) but I, personally, don’t think franchising can be made better for franchisees unless the FTC decides that “earnings claims” should be mandatory and that franchisees should, at least, have access to the unit performance statistics that are in the possession of the proprietor of the Brand, the seller of the franchise. Don of Blue Mau Mau apparently disagrees with me and I agree that he and the others who operate websites have the right to ban my comments if my comments displease them. In the beginning, I think Don was happy to have my comments because the controversy did bring readers to the Site and those on the “inside” in franchising tuned in to see if there were negative comments and even came into his site to defend themselves. He has done excellent “investigative” work and provided interviews that haven’t been available anyplace else in the franchise world. He is to be congratulated.

I especially thank Sean for his offer and I will take him up on it. I thank Ryan Knoll, also, of Franchise Pundit who believes in free speech. Both he and Sean never defend indefensible positions with untruths although they have accepted that after almost 30 years, ten of which were spent on the NEW Rule, there will be no changes to federal regulation and that the IFA and the FTC with the help of the ABA will remain safely in bed with each other.

I don’t critizize Don of Blue Mau Mau for banning me but I critizize him for cutting off my computer so that I can’t even read the stuff I wrote on Blue Mau Mau that is referenced in Google Searches. He could have stopped me ONLY from posting but he stopped me from BOTH posting and reading with NO WARNING and no opportunity to CURE the situation and I think this was unfair and unAmerican.

I can’t even read my Memorial Article written on Blue Mau Mau on the first aniversary of Bob Baber’s death (QUIZNOS victim) to see if my understanding of governments complicity is even greater today. Don told me that I could write this article and that he would publish it and he even registered me under the name of “Carman” to write this article and I will admit that I misled him to believe that this would be the end of my posting.

Yeh! And what kind of subversive name is Blue Mau Mau anyway? Wasn’t there a song called —Blue Mamoo ——00

She always says complimentary things to the forum ‘leaders’ until you disagree with her or ban her and then say that you have to keep the zors happy for advertising money like she was saying about Don in multiple posts on pundit. She even stated on BMM that she’d happily leave if asked and then once she was banned decided to bash him.

The problem is, she’ll post on every comment board the same thing, even though she doesn’t get that without offering a solution to the problem no one will listen to her.

Unlike those fascists and know-it-all attorneys over at Blue Mau Mau, Franchise Pick is not an enemy of the First Amendment of the Constitution.
At Franchise Pick, we simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor those who criticize redundancy.
A famous person once wisely warned:
First, they came for our redundancies… then they came for our oxymorons… they then came for our similies, metaphors, and superfluous details… And finally, they came for our redundancies…

I propose this: Write your views about earnings claims and the FTC Rule into a single, finely tuned article and I will post it as your bylined article. You can then link to it as many times as you would like, and these guys can’t say a thing about it. I’ll give you the link, and you can put it in the URL field any time you leave a comment.

Carol: I don’t think you have to worry about franchisees not getting profitability figures about Noble Roman’s. I believe unit volumes are available from the individual bankruptcy filings. Anyone who buys into this fiasco could not be helped by more disclosure. Many could be helped by Hooked on Phonics, but not more disclosure.

1) She was banned from BlueMauMau for saying the same thing over and over again, and really didn’t add much to the conversation, because she only ranted about the same thing over and over again. Now she criticizes BMM for banning her because he decided to regulate his own board, and it’s only been better conversation since she left.

2). She’s doing the same thing at Franchise Pundit where one of the more neutral posters decided that it just wasn’t worth it to post anymore, because she ruined it for them. Even the pro-franchisees got tired of her and started a poll as to whether she should be banned from the forum.

3) She says that she wants unit performance statistics, yet her husband (who was a UPS store franchisee) never turned in his own financial statements to the corporate office.

4) Even the good posters like Webster and Steinburg on the other websites tried to do her own research and even led her as to what to do, but she won’t do it.

She’s a bitter person that can’t see that her husband got sold a name and never really did any work on the front end, and now she believes everyone in franchising is evil.