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To: LPS5 who wrote (10087)	4/30/2002 3:09:02 PM
From: KymarFye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

"That doesn't get me any closer to understanding why, or how, not personally believing - and moreover expressing that personal disbelief - in an advertised product or service is or should be illegal or cause for punitive action, let alone surprising." Maybe the issue is what the brokerage is actually selling. Most customers believe that the brokers are selling advice and access, not the given financial instruments themselves - just as a travel agent isn't selling airplanes or casinos. Brokers are supposed to be brokering - acting as "honest" brokers or middlemen (er, middlepersons?). They certainly don't advertise themselves as the manufacturers of companies or of equity interest in companies, though, admittedly, Blodgett and all the mini-Blodgetts may certainly have stepped over that line, among others.