It seems to me that there's a lot of "I hate
Advanced Nutrients, so I believe these allegations are true."
That's pretty evil if you ask me. That's basically saying you're hoping a little girl was abused because that vindicates all your evil feelings towards a particular company.
Maybe you don't know anyone who's ever been falsely accused of something like this. I honestly hope not, because it destroys the real victim's life (the one falsely accused) regardless of whether they're found guilty or not. There are no real consequences for lying about something like this, which makes it an easy way to destroy someone you want revenge against. Look at the Duke Lacrosse case. Think those guys will ever be completely free of that stigma? No.
It doesn't matter whether Gino is innocent or guilty, or whether a mountain of evidence proves he's innocent. Certain people here will always believe he's guilty because they WANT him to be guilty and for no other reason than to "prove" they were right all along to hate
Advanced Nutrients.
To that point, let's have a little example. Imagine your best friend gets accused of something like this. Is he/she actually guilty? Of course not, right? Or are they? If you're any kind of a decent friend to them you'll stand by them and insist they're innocent. If you don't, they and you are not a good friend. Now if they're found guilty and there's conclusive proof... sure, I wouldn't defend my closest relative in that case. But until that point most decent human beings stand by their friends and defend them. Partly because they're decent human beings and that's what decent human beings do for their friends, and partly because they don't want to believe someone they called a friend is capable of such an act.
Now, let's say your closest friend turns out to be guilty of this kind of horrible act. Does that make YOU a bad person for being their friend? Of course not. It simply means they were able to hide that part of who they were from you. Bad people do that every day. If they didn't, they'd all get caught right away. If you stood up for them and defended them before you learned they were truly guilty, does THAT make you a bad person? Again, no it doesn't. It makes you a good person who stands up for their friends and believes in their innocence until they're proven guilty.
There is absolutely no difference between this scenario and what's going on with Gino and
Advanced Nutrients. Maybe he's guilty, maybe he's innocent. But
Advanced Nutrients is right to stand up for him and defend him until it's proven one way or the other. That doesn't make AN evil. Even if it turns out that Gino was guilty of this that doesn't mean that AN knew anything about it. Bad people keep their darkness hidden from everyone else, that's how they protect themselves from the good people in the world.
Using this as an excuse to hate
Advanced Nutrients is like using Adam Lanza as an excuse to hate autistic people.
It's additionally worse given the very real likelihood that this whole thing is probably just an attack on Gino and/or
Advanced Nutrients.
And shame for saying they deserve something like this for trying to help the poor in Bulgaria. What kind of a demented mind thinks that it's just for a man's life to be destroyed because he was naively trying to stop a bad government from continuing to oppress people without "bringing a gun" to the negotiation?
Warning: This email is about a false allegation of an adult nature.
Moreover, because of the subject matter we thought It's important that you see and hear this directly from us.
Straight to the point, several months ago Gino and myself were viciously attacked and ended up victims of an attempted political character assassination by a Bulgarian political organization using their government connections to destroy us. Let me explain...
It all started with our Holiday Hero's campaign. It's a campaign that feeds needy Bulgarian families, refugees and orphans during Christmas and Easter. We fed 2,000 families (10,000 Bulgarians) this Easter.
Why did we do it? Because there was not one organized corporation charity program in the whole country of Bulgaria, I am not kidding, NONE. So we decided to start one.
Unbelievably we got HUGE resistance, regardless we pushed on and did what we had to and it was a phenomenal success. We got massive national media coverage.
Not only that, we also started lobbying and pushing the Bulgarian government to change their tax laws on charitable giving. Like other E.U countries already have.
Shockingly, right now it's cheaper for a Bulgarian business to throw product into the trash than to give it away because when a company donates it has to pay 20% value added tax for the products it donates, so it's cheaper to throw it in the garbage.
To make matters worse... because of this law 125,000 tons of food is needlessly thrown in the trash every year instead of feeding those hungry families trying desperately to survive. Absolutely sickening isn't it?
Furthermore, it's a known fact, Bulgaria is the most corrupt European Union government. I'll get back to that in a moment.
Meanwhile, Holiday Hero's received a Nobility Award voted by journalists in Bulgaria, it is the same as a Humanitarian Award in the states, it was the first year awards like this were given out and the feeling was euphoric.
I gave a speech about Bulgaria's extremely corrupt government when accepting the award.
Reality is... it made us sick to see what is going on here in Bulgaria and how it has, and continues to harm, the Bulgarian people. We couldn't stand by watching and hearing about these injustices any longer. So we started a political party to replace the current government. Tentatively new elections will be held this spring 2014.
It started as a movement on Facebook called
PoliticalChangeNow.bg and has now turned into a full blown political party called Nova Bulgaria translated it means New Bulgaria.
Here's the really scary part, so to stop us they concocted a set-up and made Gino the fall guy and tried to take us both down in one-fell-swoop. So to counter this false attack we went on national TV Sunday morning on Bulgaria's most watched TV show. The Luba Show. On that show we clearly explained what was happening to us, for all to witness.
Now, I have to warn you, when you
watch the Luba show the topic is of an adult nature and very emotional for both Gino and myself because of the horrific Machiavellian scheme they tried to perpetrate on us is probably the worst thing that can be done to another human being short of torture or death.
In fact, businessmen came up to me after they watched the Sunday Luba show and said "most people would have packed up all their bags, called it quits, and immediately left the country." Well like the words in the immortal Tom Petty song, "you can stand me up at the gates of hell but I won't back down."
In addition to that, right now our political movement has huge support from hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians including massive support from celebrities. We have a group of fresh young minds that know how to make the right changes in this country and are making the blueprint for a long term meaningful change.
Better yet, the leader of our party and potentially the next Prime Minister of Bulgaria is a 36 year old assistant dean of the Technical University of Sofia Bulgaria. And our parties second in command is a 34 year old who teaches for Harvard Business School here in Bulgaria.
Both are brilliant, highly intelligent, razor sharp and want to see real change take hold of the country they feel such strong love for, and so do we.
One last tid bit of info to leave you with... we also started and maintain a medical site for the last couple of years, and have
been on national TV shows talking about and debating this issue, in a country that has seriously demonized this way of healing yourself for the last 50 years.
Well those are the facts and I thought it was important you saw and heard firsthand for yourself what happened to us over here, straight from us, and not some second hand source.
Thank You For Your Time,
BigMike
