Since many of you have inquired as to GATA's
progress, I thought I would take this quiet time
to give you an update.
The GATA Committee is pleased to report that we
have now received $42,670 in contributions from
shareholders in gold companies around the world.
We also want you to know that we are making significant
progress towards initiating an investigation into
those that we believe have colluded to hold down the
price of gold.
All of us would like the process to move more swiftly,
but it is important that you know that we are
coordinating many facets of this rather imposing
effort. It takes time. Henry David Thoreau sums it
up best:
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his
dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has
imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass
an invisible boundary: new, universal and more liberal
laws will begin to establish themselves around and
within him; or the old laws will be expanded, and
interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he
will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the
universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not
be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not
be lost; that is where they should be. NOW PUT THE
FOUNDATIONS UNDER THEM."
That is what The GATA Committee is doing- building a
foundation that will support the necessary effort required
to take on such formidable adversaries. Even so, we expect
that we will be able to announce to you very soon that we
have retained Berger & Montague ( one of the premier
anti-trust law firms in the United States )and that
our official investigation has commenced.
Part of that foundation is being laid by Boudewijn
Wegerif of Stockholm, Sweden. BW, as I call him, has
really created a stir with his:
egroups.com and his
go_gata@hotmail.com emails.
We want to make sure all Cafe members are aware of his
efforts on all our behalfs and take a look at what he
is doing. There are many postings at his forum by
very well informed indivduals from all over the world.
BW will be instrumental in carrying GATA's message to
a very large audience.
Have a Happy Easter BW and thanks.
You might like to know all of our efforts are starting
to kick in. I was told today that Bema Gold has
received many emails urging them to support GATA and it
has made quite an impression on the top executives
at Vancouver based Bema. Iamgold told Le Metropole's
John Brimelow ( unsolicited )that GATA was creating
quite a stir in Toronto and that we are both being
noticed and taken very seriously.
Part of the foundation I was referring to was the
orchestrate of a plan to contact all the gold
companies by shareholders ( a la Bema ) via a PR campaign.
Many of you have ordered the fine art limited edition
GATA print created by Absolut Vodka artist, Alain
Despert. This brilliant image of the GATA spirit can be
viewed at gata.org for those of you that have
not seen it. This limited addition, signed and numbered
by the artist, will be shipped out to GATA contributors
on April 12 that have sent us $500 plus the cost of
shipping ($25 US and Canada and $50 overseas ).
All the best,
Bill Murphy
GATA Chairman
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