Liveliest Berkshire Hathaway meeting ever:
Disclaimer — I do not endorse Mr Flaherty’s commentary. As I have stated before, human trafficking can mean a lot of different things- believe it, “you’re next.” Instead of flinging around these accusations, and I’ve already said why – I wish someone would “modify their behavior” for what they’ve already done right under our noses.
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Activist investor arrested at shareholder meeting after criticizing Warren Buffett’s funding for Bill Gates’ woke philanthropy and ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
- Peter Flaherty was arrested after refusing to leave Berkshire Hathaway meeting
- He criticized Buffet’s funding of Gates and linked latter to sex trafficker Epstein
- Video shows him being grabbed by police officer and dragged out of the venue
By MILES DILWORTH, SENIOR REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:24 EDT, 9 May 2023 | UPDATED: 16:35 EDT, 9 May 2023
An activist investor was arrested at a shareholder meeting after slamming Bill Gates‘ ‘woke‘ philanthropy and meetings with Jeffrey Epstein.
Peter Flaherty, chairman of conservative NGO the National Legal and Policy Center, was cut off by Warren Buffet while speaking in favor of a proposal to have the business mogul removed as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.
Flaherty condemned Buffet’s funding of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation but was arrested halfway through his allotted three-minute speaking slot after highlighting links between the Microsoft founder and Epstein.
The shareholder, who has regularly confronted bosses of America’s largest corporations, later decried his unprecedented arrest and said Buffet had ‘no right to silence me’.
‘I was treated like any other criminal, fingerprinted, handcuffed,’ Flaherty said. ‘I’ve always been courteous with decorum at the annual shareholder meetings. I didn’t raise my voice. I was not disruptive.’
Flaherty, 66, from Arlington, Virginia, was listed as an attendee at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting on Saturday, where Buffet is chairman and CEO.
He had been speaking as the sponsor of a proposal to have a separate chair and CEO and argued that doing so would mean Berkshire ‘would be less identified with Mr Buffet’s personal political activities’.
Flaherty said Buffet had ‘donated tens of billions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’, adding: ‘If “woke” culture is a disease, then philanthropy is the virus. The Gates Foundation bankrolls the teaching of Critical Race Theory around the country, including that math is inherently racist.
‘The Gates Foundation offers a Gender Identity Toolbox which asserts that gender is the result of ‘socially and culturally constructed ideas.
‘This is a lie. Gender is not a cultural construct. It is a genetic and biological fact.’
At this point, he appeared to be interrupted by Berkshire official Cathy Woollums, but Flaherty insisted he would not be ‘censored’ and appealed to Buffet that he be allowed to continue.
Buffet agreed but reminded him of his three-minute limitation.
Flaherty replied ‘of course’, before continuing: ‘We know how much Bill Gates cares about children. He met and traveled with Jeffrey Epstein many times after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.’