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To: Janice Shell who wrote (3537)	4/19/2005 3:13:18 PM
From: olivier asser	Respond to of 5425

And just because the law mandates disclosure, do you think that's going to stop racketeers? If you're risking 20 years in prison racketeering, then it seems to me that non-disclosure will by the criminals be scorned as a relative peccadillo. (Kind of like why Berber and Rea have no problems committing blatant perjury in the Courts: considering that every ill-gotten penny they have is at stake, it's to them relatively no big deal at all.) What? If you're paid for commenting on a specific stock for pay, you need to make disclosure. Makes no difference whether you're pro or con. Like everyone was aware of the AP RICO conspiracy going on right out here in public? Give me a break, LOL. And I think if it were going on, I'd be aware of it.

To: Janice Shell who wrote (3537)	4/19/2005 4:52:19 PM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 5425

Janice, with all due respect, and it is with respect, the fact that you have not been approached to bash for cash, does not prove that there are no paid bashers. You are too well known. However, we are speaking about a very broad and rapidly expanding universe, one that has changed even from the years where you did much of your crusading work. Hedge funds have taken over a lot of this world and very few can speak for what they do or do not do. A basher getting paid to post, directly or indirectly, is not going to declare that fact on a message board. It's naive at best to think it. Touts, admittedly paid, do not declare themselves on a message board. You know that, so why should we think that paid bashers would do it. In an effort to stifle the debate, the "trust us" used to work. There were big bad gurus, well-organized, with many, many followers, who could accomplish much with their WORD. A lot has changed for the better. The relatively new world of hedge fund manipulation may have taken "leap frog" steps but the public is starting to get educated. Although I don't wish it, a nice bear market, a crash or two, would get our friendly Congresspeople involved and accomplish much of what I have advocated by way of investigations. The hedgies ought to keep that in mind and perhaps start root, root, rooting for bull markets LOL......

To: Janice Shell who wrote (3537)	4/19/2005 5:29:03 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5425

Janice, when "we" first started saying various companies smelled like scams, vapid retorts from us like "are you denying that there are no such things as scam stocks" were not even an option. No, it was put up or shut up. We put up the proof, the SEC shut the companies down, and the woefully misinformed touts were the ones who shut up. One wonders if this new generation of "are you denying that..."ers is incapable of doing real research or simply lazy. In either event, how sad. - Jeff