Alex, I vote this post of yours as the best, #1 of all posts to touch on the reason that created a need for GATA. MONEY and POWER, to be obtained by those unable to create wealth or rise to a position of power when done so on a level playing field.
There is one additional reason I should add to the above, and it has a really bad smell and repulsive nature, so I will be brief. There are some people that are in a position to make decisions that are very big in consequence, and most of these persons are decent law abiding and church going, but with a most serious flaw of the nature of coward or shortsighted or easily to be con'ed by bad people, and being unable in nature to be honest and fair.
Most are not really bad people, but they cause trouble and leave a mess behind that is hard to clean up. Its their nature or weakness in character that has to be pointed to, as they are really unable to change.
A simple example is Bill Clinton, the President of USA, who can lie to the American people with a clear conscience, because he really really does not see what he does as a lie, but only a form of self defence for survival. When you see Bill Clinton apology and ask for forgivness for his "lieing", he is only doing what is necessary to push away the issue, it is not what he holds as whats real.
But the most vile of persons to me is connected to the article in your very important post. It is those persons inside the mechanism of that which controls the supply and movement of gold who go along with the bad persons doing the damage as per GATA, and they are part of the problem without trying to obtain money or power, but thru fear and cowardness they help those do the deeds they know are wrong. Their punishment is automatic, as from the point they help the criminals they have a burden of guilt to carry, forever.
doug |