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Gold/Mining/Energy : Crystallex (KRY) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (7973)	4/7/1998 10:58:00 PM
From: Moot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

E. Charters I hope you put considerably more effort into researching your articles for CMN than you did in preparing your response to me. But then people who already have all the answers to all possible questions don't really need research at all, do they? I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind with your opening proposition but it seems to turn on some notion of 'belief'. I don't recall that belief entered into my previous post. I was offering some comments with respect to certain claims made by Asensio and advanced the argument that those specific claims were not false. Does Crystallex have the rights to LC 4 & 6? If it already has these rights, what exactly is the point of the appeal before the CSJ? As I have pointed out in previous posts, Asensio is very careful about his use of facts. He may take them out of context, present them in a manner designed to suit his own purposes, and use facts that have subsequently been superseded but I have yet to come across an outright falsehood in his statements. Do I think Crystallex is a scam, as Asensio apparently does (or at least claims to think)? I simply don't know; nor do I know what the outcome of the CSJ deliberations will be. With respect to the latter, I am at a complete loss to understand why you might think that I don't believe the CSJ is considering 11 motions to annul certain resolutions by the MEM concerning LC 4 & 6. I have made several references to this in other posts. I have also seen the same rumour regarding the 2,000 pages of briefs. Even if the number of pages is only 200, I think it should offer some indication that the matter is a trifle more complex than many would have us believe. And trying to understand the matter in a medium such as this is even more complex. How complex is it? Well, let's try to frame it somewhat. It directly or indirectly involves two Canadian mining companies disputing a property in another country. Several bureaucracies, a judicial system administering laws that most people who frequent these threads are only faintly familiar with, a host of lawyers, and a country in the midst of political and economic reform all seem to factor into the equation. Into this mix we can add a raft of tout sheet writers of varying repute, a 'journalist' from Venezuela who couldn't be a second-string reporter for a free community newspaper in Kapuskasing, several purported 'legal' authorities on the net, longs and shorts and day traders with the attendant hype of each position, and the usual assortment of gurus with 'connections'. More could probably be added. What is a person to do? Well there are a number of options: I suppose a person could simply place their trust in 'At the Right Hand' Charters; 'Da Man' Carson; 'We Win or We Win' Teddie; or some similar chosen object of blind faith. Or, a person could choose a more difficult path and try to approach the various claims with a modicum of critical attention. I choose the latter, and I think that many people who do soon come to realize that Dog S--T is being liberally dispensed in a variety of forms--some already pre-mustarded. For my own part, I'm not prepared to accept any of it without at least walking around it a few times and giving it a prod or two with my boot. Frankly, I don't care what anthem you sing, in which language, or how you cast your vote, either. If you can make money serving up your own literary delicacies, you have every much right as Carson in my book. Picky? I suppose I am. Regards.