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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (76)	7/30/1999 8:31:00 PM
From: ISOMAN	Respond to of 193

I agree. Even the Mel Brooks part.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (76)	7/30/1999 9:00:00 PM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Respond to of 193

absolutely agree. this guy was on the road to insanity a long time before anyone ever heard of internet trading. The market was just the last station on his particular nightmare.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (76)	7/30/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 193

Precisely correct. Ya take a drunk horse thief and sober him up. Whaddya got? A sober horse thief. The underlying character (mania?) is still the same.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (76)	7/30/1999 11:46:00 PM
From: Brander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 193

Agree, this guy was mentally compromised, and day trading certainly was not the culprit. However, I hope you are not suggesting that the physician or prescription drug contributed. If he was not on psychiatric medication, chances are that he should have been. Proper administration of psychiatric medication has been shown, under scientific scrutiny, to decrease the rate of suicide, violent, and impulsive behavior. There has never been a scientifically valid study showing that properly administered psychiatric medications increase these rates.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (76)	7/31/1999 12:37:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 193

> Day trading is not gambling. Day trading is day trading. < You betcha.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (76)	7/31/1999 12:39:00 AM
From: Blue On Black	Respond to of 193

You don't understand the media.... The only thing that you have to know is... It's not my fault.... It's somebody elses fault. He was brought up to be a murder and a lousy daytrader. Can't you understand that? We don't have to be responsible for our actions....It's not our fault... And I have never had sex with that woman... It's not my fault, lee

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (76)	7/31/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 193

If you want to blame any particular human emotion for Barton's acts, I think it simply would be greed. Apparently he took out a 600K life insurance policy on his first wife and she and her mother were dead within a week. It's hard for me to understand the type of greed that would motivate a person to such extremes, but it is obviously a very powerful motivator. Also greed and jealousy go hand in hand. We live in a society where we hear the "success" stories of people who win millions in lotteries, jackpots in Vegas, IPO's that quadruple in a day, and I think human nature being what it is , a person lacking core values will begin to look at such situations with extreme jealousy. Unchecked jealousy and greed can become a lethal combination. We all know the "bears make money, bulls make money, pigs get slaughtered" axiom. It looks like this pig of man was a literal manifestation of that concept. It's just unbelievably sad that he took so many innocent lives in the process. My thoughts are with the victims and their families. bp