Should Thomson be alloud to buy Reuters?

I found Robert Barr’s story “Thomson, Reuters agree on merger terms” interesting. Reuters has a well respected reputation for being one of the world’s most renowned sources for news and financial information, therefore, I find it my duty to enlighten them as to who is purchasing their company.

Thomson Corporation was sued by me: Todd M. Dobson after I did the first Boston to New York AIDS Ride. I worked for a small company that Thomson owned called SandPoint, LLC. One person – Bob allowed his prejudice to terrorize me for the months before and after the ride. After four months of hell, I was fired even though the Director of Human Resource (HR) promised just seven days before that he would quit his job before he allowed anyone to fire me for being gay.

I did everything I was supposed to do. I had numerous meetings with the Director of HR and documented the abuses. After I was fired for breech of security, I filed a claim with the Massachusetts Commission against Discriminations (MCAD) to appeal my wrongful termination and Thomson’s blatant homophobia.

My claim with the MCAD infuriated the Thomson Corporation and they set out to discredit me in every way possible. After the first two MCAD hearings completed with two separate magistrates strongly directing the Thomson Corporation to settle the matter, the Thomson Corporation hired the largest HR related law firm in New England to fight me. What I didn’t know until after I lost my case against the Thomson Corporation was that they hired a private investigative (PI) firm to shadow my every move for the remainder of our legal battles (five years). The Thomson President’s office received regular 24 x 7 status reports on where I went, who I was with, when I had sex and what I did. This information came to me after I worked with Donna at another large company in the Stamford Connecticut area. Donna was the Executive Assistant to the President at Thomson Corporation. She had to condense the monthly PI notes down for the President of Thomson Corporation. During my legal battles against such a huge aggressor I knew I was being wrongfully persecuted by the Thomson Corporation, but I received great satisfaction when Donna apologized to me for any role she had in the agonizing saga during this part of my life.

Donna told me that Thomson spent more than one million dollars fighting me even after they admitted internally to wrongfully terminating me for the greater moral of the SandPoint offices. She explained that the President of Thomson Corporation refused to allow as he stated, a “FAGOT” telling him what they could or could not do.

The Reuters Corporation should know the skeletons in Thomson’s closet before the ink is dry on any merger agreement. It begs the question; does Reuters really want to have their stellar reputation besmirched by a company like the Thomson Corporation?