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To: d:oug who wrote (70923)	5/31/2001 8:45:38 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

"... the man has lost it... madness... God help us. MIDAS May 31 Me hoping to see the following, groups.yahoo.com ... 'Midas' commentary for May 31, 2001 - GATAComm@... ... for in my opinion the "Smoking Gun" has been found, and its not the smoke from that gun that has already delivered destruction to a free gold market, as these guns that have for many years now shot down any rise in the gold price are in themselves only weapons to guard and protect a "Smoking Gun" that is more of a gamble by Powers that Be using the support of those in governments to obtain wealth & riches the like heard about in stories where kings had rooms full of valuables that exceed imagination. The gun is not a weapon, but a ill gotten situation using the corrupt and criminal activity of many that have obtained from their services a degree of ill gotten power and influence. This gun can not project anything of value to others outside the involvement, but it can explode if not managed, like a huge bomb that will level and take down innocent people close and far away. Smoke from its blow-up will be more like that radiation from an nuclear bomb, to spead and fall and remain with a long half life. Rather than look for a smoking gun it might be better to view the forest of manipulation, and when one cannot see the forest because there are too many trees in the way, then look for not a smoking tree, but the biggest & tallest tree and see if those smaller and shorter trees surrounding it were created to hide and protect that single tree which was planted first and then seeded those trees to surround and hide it and keep it view low key and out of the attention using those zillion small trees bushes and weeds to tangle and slow anyone from an approach to see it. [start.] Le Metropole Cafe The James Joyce Table Gold, Commodities, Midas du Metropole Topic du Jour May 31 - Gold $265.50 down..... ... inmates are running the asylum. ... to do what they have done to gold and then argue for a J.P. Morgan/Chase to regulate their own 16 trillion dollar interest rate derivative book is madness. God help us. MIDAS

To: d:oug who wrote (70923)	5/31/2001 9:02:27 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

Subj: Reg Howe Responds to Alan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary O'Neill Date: 5/31/0 From: LePatron@LeMetropoleCafe.com "... can be read at his goldensextant.com web site." Civil Action No. 00-CV-12485-RCL Reginald H. Howe, Plaintiff v. Bank for International Settlements, et al. Defendants. PLAINTIFF'S QUALIFIED OPPOSITION..... ... MOTIONS TO DISMISS Argument I. THE O'NEILL MEMO TRIES TO OBSCURE THE BASIC LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE, WHICH IS WHETHER THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY CAN USE THE ESF TO MANIPULATE GOLD PRICES. With respect to... ... the plaintiff does not rest his claim ... simply on his use of the ESF "to deal in gold" ... under certain circumstances... may be permissible ... but on his use of the ESF... of manipulating gold prices. Nor does the plaintiff assert... ... the Constitution does forbid... Far from questioning "the power of Congress to regulate the dollar value of gold" (O'Neill memo at 3), the plaintiff affirms this power. He asserts:..... ... because of these actions by Congress, the President and the Secretary of Treasury lack... authority to use..... ... for the purpose of manipulating, suppressing or otherwise affecting dollar gold prices (CO 27-29). The O'Neill memo does not address any of these points, and its silence on the last point is particularly significant. Neither Secretary O'Neill nor the DOJ appears willing to argue publicly in unambiguous language that former treasury secretary Summers had authority, or at least a reasonable basis to believe that he had authority, to use the ESF to manipulate the free market price of gold. This argument, could it be convincingly made, would undercut the plaintiff's damage claims against Mr. Summers because executive branch officials have a qualified immunity for actions taken in a reasonable though mistaken belief that they are constitutional (CO 24). Failure to make this argument, however, supports the plaintiff's assertion that Mr. Summers knew or should have known that he lacked authority to manipulate gold prices (CO 29-31). BILL MURPHY CHAIRMAN GOLD ANTI-TRUST ACTION COMMITTEE Le Metropole Cafe All the best, Bill Murphy Le Patron www.LeMetropoleCafe.com