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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: StockDung who wrote (92489)	9/15/2005 6:35:14 AM
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Royer said. Royer followed up by stating “that it is standard procedure for FBI agents working with undercover informants.” But what about the Investors? What good is a legal system if the enforcers break the same rules as the criminals? Obviously nietzches advice on not turning into monsters is not possible for a mere human. Why did Vader turn to the darkside? He was such a cute sweet kid when he was young. Oh there goes that damn SITH LORD reference again - darn :( Since humans cant help but become evil sith lords when they get emotional enough - what is a better solution to the problem? Obviously putting mere humans in to do battle with sith lords only turns them into sith lords too - it is a structural problem - like the hooker that tells my indian friend about all the crooked cops that make her have sex for free if she doesnt want to go to jail - hehe. How do we keep overstock guy from becoming the SITH LORD that he battles? He seemed like a raving mad sith lord to me on CNBC last time. In it all, it is Former FBI Agent Jeffrey Royers own words that is the most disheartening. His desire to quash securities fraud was fueled by his own losses. His method to quash the securities fraud – commit the act himself and make more suffer. Now there is a class act. So we have a vigilante going to save the little guy - breaking the rules that he feels are not working - I can empathize. I can even root for the little guy john henry style. Look we all have faults and failures - how do we fix the ails of crooks scamming the little guy and not become a SITH LORD as seems to be what happened here with Elgindy and friends? http://www.investigatethesec.com/aboutUs.html The opportunities for the next Microsoft may never be felt as naked shorting snuffed out that creativity before it was ever brought to fruition. Lets say bill gates and CO got in a plane wreck on thier meeting to license the OS to IBM for the first PC - does anyone really think the PC industry would not have taken off without him? Come on! I remember marconi and others fighting over radio technology a long time ago - if marconi had got in a train wreck and died would we all still be using tin cans and string? Come on! Out of 6 billion people is the loss of 1 person really gonna massively set things back for the rest? Even 1 company? If overstock goes out of business tomorrow - are there not many online retailers to fill the void? Come on! Did anthony getting arrested set back the efforts of people trying to uncover internet scams? I am for transparency and honesty - but for honestys sake - not because tomorrow if overstock ceases to be there will be no alternative. Mclean sang about the day the music died, I liked buddy holly - but the music didn't die - there was still lots of great music by many other people and I even have some mp3's of Holly. Come on! Of course I knew some girl that believed that, she committed suicide - what was life without any more buddy holly songs coming out?