To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (85146 ) 8/8/2003 11:28:28 AM From: Edscharp Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 122087 "THe son cannot be guilty for the sins of his father" I agree with this, but this is hardly the case. When you are the leader of a loosely affiliated syndicate whose object is to make a profit the nature of your responsibility changes. Everytime one of your followers uses innuendo, guilt by association, or out and out distortions on a message board you profit along with them. You have a vested interest in remaining silent. People are not blind to this. They see it for what it is, a self-serving interest to play fast and loose for the purpose of making money. I don't doubt that you've targeted many a corrupt company that deserved their pink-sheet fate and I congratulate you for it, but I have also observed first-hand many of your followers making personal attacks upon company officers with thinly veiled unproven accusations. I've seen the insulting rhetoric they've used against other posters, which ironically, more often than not, were the very people who were being duped and if anything deserved your sympathy. It's the heavy-handed 'pile-on' method that people resent. And the truth is you would've made money short-trading these corrupt companies without resorting to those methods, you just wouldn't have made it quite as fast. Mr. Elgindy, you're a smart guy and I don't believe you need me to explain all this to you. You know how the game works. There is nary a soul on this thread that doesn't. I've come to believe that you really could've been a great man, but you chose greed and expediency over deliberation and service to others. Had you chosen otherwise you could've made a pile of money and acquired a degree of prestige that few ever hope to achieve in their professional lives. Instead, you now face an uncertain fate which hangs on the testimony of others. I don't envy you.