Mr. Donald Nathan,
I do not have a "fixation of some sort". I have not "gone off periodically" on a "ranting attack".
You, Yi Tang, and Prateek Sampat have more than one thing in common:
You are attempting to "organize" cabdrivers.
You claim than none of the three of you give a "rat's ass" about what I think about or do.
This is an obvious lie...should I start posting e-mails and refer you to places on the Internet that prove otherwise? Why do you try to lie, Mr. Nathan?
Should I describe incidents which prove otherwise?
Why are you concerned about the "magic" of being a cabdriver? I don't get your point.
When did I ever claim that Prateek Sampat had to be a cabdriver to have concern for cabdriver issues?
Why is Yi Tang no longer a Chicago cabdriver?
When did I ever claim that "he is no longer qualified to discuss issues involving Chicago cabdrivers"?
Your suggestion that I have reveals YOUR stupidity, "SIR". If you think for a moment that the people who are paying attention don't understand what you are doing...THINK AGAIN.
Either you're not paying enough attention or you are playing games with the truth. We're not the stupid "mopes" you think we are, Mr. Nathan.
Mr. Nathan, most cabdrivers and I weren't even born when you started driving a cab. You quit in the 1970's...the business has changed so much in the THIRTY-PLUS years since then that your intimate knowledge of what being a Chicago cabdrivers means today is ANCIENT HISTORY.
The veteran cabdrivers who have knowledge of you had nothing nice to say about you when I asked them their honest opinion.
You use the phrase "recovering cabdriver", which suggests "recovering alcoholic". How sad. Is that how you view your days and nights of driving a cab so long ago? Like being an "alcoholic"?
Were you a "mope" when you drove a cab, Mr. Nathan?
Maybe this negative attitude of yours is why you are rejected by those of us who choose to remain in this occupation despite the hardships and hope to improve it for everybody involved and make it a respectable "profession". Are we "addicts", Mr. Nathan?
Could you describe just how you have "worked with cabdrivers over more (sic) than the last three decades"?
I don't think you are as familiar with Chicago cabdrivers or the issues that concern them as you claim...could you please give me some names and contact information of cabdrivers who could give you a good personal reference?
Mr. Nathan, most Chicago cabdrivers have absolutely no idea who you are whether YOU chose to acknowledge it or not. Don't worry, I intend to make them fully aware of just what kind of "lawyer" you are.
Mr. Nathan, I'd never "tout" for a dishonorable lawyer, especially one like you.
I never advocated for "Ritz Carlton treatment" for Mr. Thomas Gniadek (the guy who attacked Stanley Shen).
YOU PUBLICLY WISHED HIM TO BE RAPED AT COOK COUNTY JAIL. Don't you believe that to be an inappropriate statement to be made by an attorney licensed by the State of Illinois, especially one involved with the case? Why did you make it?
Mr. Nathan, it is you who keeps digging your own hole and I do not intend to throw you a rope (you'd only hang yourself with it).
Missed? I've been right here all along, available everyday for the "community". You've been jetting off to California wine country.
Maybe you should put your own money where your mouth is instead of a bottle...
...And pay for your own costs and filing fees for your usually errant and frivilous lawsuits and "legal work" which has more to do with your self-interests than those of Chicago cabdrivers.
Why is Yi Tang begging cabdrivers to send you money if you are here to give us "free help"? Sounds like a scam to me.
Before one can assassinate your character, Mr. Nathan, you'd need to have one.
Why am I concerned about Wolf Weiss? Because he is a Chicago cabdriver, *******.
Maybe you just don't get it.
-Mike Foulks, President, Chicago Cabdriver Organization (CCO)
P.S. Did I lie in the post where I stated my reasons for not associating with you, Yi Tang, and Prateek Sampat? Didn't think so, Mr. Nathan. Have a nice funeral. I won't be attending.
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Replying to:
Mr. Foulks:
You seem to have a fixation of some sort: you go off periodically on attacking three individuals who couldn't give much less a rat's patootie what you do or think about who all have but one thing in common: none of us is a Chicago cab driver.
Prateek Sampat never was one, but so what? So what's so magical about being a Chicago cab driver? Why did he ever have to sit behind the wheel to have concern for cabdriver issues?
Yi Tang was a Chicago cabdriver until just recently. The guy never attacked you ever. The fact that he now drives for a suburban company makes him no longer qualified to discuss issues involving Chicago cabdrivers? That's just stupid. Come on, sir. Think for a moment. Any cabdriver can understand that.
I was a Chicago cabdriver a long time ago. You were barely out of diapers when I was behind the wheel. After doing it for seven years, one of them full time between college and law school, I became a recovering cab driver - like Don McCurdy down in Texas. Having worked with cabdrivers over more than the last three decades, I'm more than passingly familiar with most of the issues that concern them, and most of the drivers know it whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.
So what is your problem? Really. What's bugging you so much? Why are you worried about who Wolf Weiss associates with?
By the by, Mr. Foulks, are you advocating for the guy who battered Stanley Shen that he should have had Ritz Carlton treatment at the County Jail? Don't you suggest what an "...honorable lawyer should do..." unless you're touting for one of the dishonorable ones - which is probably the case; you're just that type.
Out of the blue, you chose to try to assassinate my character in print, sir. Climb back into your hole, sir. You weren't missed.
Donald Nathan
Earth to Mike.....
Gone again! Off to De Nile land....
See? You buy 'em books, send 'em to school and what do they do? The tear out the pages and eat them!
Lord have mercy! A tisket, a tasket, this is why we are on our way to hell in hand basket.
