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Deep13

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8. It's called, "false pretenses."

Reply to atreides1 (Reply #6)

Wed May 22, 2013, 02:37 PM

May 2013

He is lying to convince marginally intelligent people to part with their money "voluntarily."

He promises what he cannot deliver by threatening damnation. It is bad enough when someone actually believes what he is preaching, but Roberston, I am convinced, is a cynical, dyed-in-the-wool con artist.

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