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To: tool dude who wrote (90048)	1/26/2005 9:12:42 AM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 122087

You're missing the point of the criminal trial. It's irrelevant that 90%+ of his calls were from hard work. If you do a crime one time, it's not excused that you went to work every day at the factory and cleaned the grease from the machines. (I'm not talking about sentencing, where almost everything is relevant, good and bad.) Many of us do a lot of the stuff you talk about and I agree it is hard work. However, nobody hands the typical investor a secret FBI file and most of us don't have a cadre of followers being charged big bucks, which followers can be "trained" and pushed in a direction, a direction which the guru and other insiders may not necessarily be trading in. I imagine that very few of us tell CEO's to give free or discounted shares to call off the crowd. It's really a lot simpler than you want to make it. Nobody is out to get anyone. The goal should be a level playing field so we have honest markets. The personal attacks from the self-styled short crusaders are just as abhorrent as the attacks made by touts. It's easy to "smoke asses" as you say if you stack the deck.