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Gold/Mining/Energy : ECHARTERS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Matt C. Austin who wrote (1421)	11/10/1997 4:40:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3744

Bernie is even funnier looking than than that and I will admit he is a "flaky." Totally off the wall website. primenet.com He is just another little guy and an extreme skeptic and with his mortal coil near shuffling I guess he is moral for want of a better plan. So purity of purpose is no question. Can't be the money. Some here have accused him of mental imbalance. I am not sure how they would know. The anathema he wrote about Doyle I would quarrel with in some points. Self staked claims are not a problem. Some share distributions are legal. Mostly its a matter of degree. But all in all it is a balanced and coherent and cohesive "diatribe" that describes the actions of a scam promoter perfectly and exhaustively. Such mental acuity that is required to enumerate the byzantine complexity of the particlar situation speaks more to the organization of mental faculties than of an unbalanced nature. On the other hand, impulse buying of stock and subsequent rationalization and projection of faults upon critics are common human failings which while not pointing to mental disorder are indicative of a psychological condition of mental laziness and need for approval and self justification to fill that emotional vacuum that borders on the pathological. This defensiveness about unwise purchase was lampooned by Hoffman expertly in his book "Freegold, the Story of Canadian Mining". In it he recounts the story of an American doctor bragging of his purchase of a pump and dump scam to an incredulous Canadian Mining engineer. When the engineer exposes the promoter through his other activities the handwriting is on the wall and the bluster and accusation starts. I strongly recommend to American investors who are new to these resource stock scams that they read this book that so succinctly explains the promotional game and how these stock support groups get hooked. McGraw Hill Press. The broker/promoter is in control. The stock is the hook the property/process, the bait. Guess who is the fish. No not the shorter. Guess again. Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital in a library. Perhaps we had better be nervous. The money and power and probable corruption are not in the market. Its an iconoclasts at your local library. There are no prizes for believing in every story we hear. The critical faculty is all that saves us from destruction. --------------------------------------------------