I contacted Richard Halpern for comment and this was his response:
"Since 1982 everything I've said, written or done has been for the purpose
of protecting plaintiffs
- I don't believe that factoring (which Hindert supports), adequately protects a plaintiff against spendthrift proclivities
- I believe that excuses for factoring are made by people who are not selling products or solutions that solve all of the problems for plaintiffs
To the extent my personal belief overlaps Hindert's structured
settlement credo is purely coincidental. I believe in a sense of right and
wrong.
It is ironic that Patrick Hindert has chosen to adopt "Good People and Bad
People", a phrase of segregation, at this time in our history, a day of
celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King on the eve of the inauguration
of Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States and
possibly the first black leader of any industrialized nation. As someone who
personally knew and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King I remember when there was
an attitude of "good people and bad people" and that African Americans were
considered "bad people" (not by me). If that is the consideration to be bad
person then I am proud to be considered a "bad person" by Patrick Hindert.
Barack Obama has said "there is no red state America; there is no blue
state of America; there is the United States of America". The word "bad" should
be reserved for rapists, murderers (and possibly Bernie Madoff) not for
ideological differences.
As someone who believes in his country, I respect that a man is entitled to
his opinion, no matter how misguided I may think he is. I would even fight to
protect his right to express such a ridiculous position"
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