To: Gino Gambino who wrote (7073 ) 7/12/1998 10:30:00 PM From: E. Charters Respond to of 26850
So who is on trial in Sicily and made their famous escape recently? The Cub Scout Pack of Tarranto? Biggest laugh I ever had was this Italian businessman who said in an advertisement that foreign perceptions of Mafia plagued Sicily were exaggerated, that only 1% of the people you met in Sicily were in the Mafia. That was quite a relief! Oh I think there are a few guys in some kind of social club in Italy and here too that is somewhat related. The Kefauver commission seemed to think so too. They kept Al Capone in Alcatraz completely incommunicado so he could not send coded messages to his associates. Those big meetings in Cuba and in the Catskills, Las Vegas, the FBI tapes, Joe Valachi. Maybe a bit overdramatized, but they were real. They push a bit of money around too. That can be seen, So who cares? They do not effect me either. No pressure to join their ranks. To tell the truth I have never seen a situation that was effected by them. I think the sociology of it is that those kind of group no matter how cohesive (and I don't think it is possible that they are that cohesive)will exist. What boggles my mind is how they could exist for all these years and not get stamped out or more of their members arrested. I have come to the conclusion that they cannot be anymore criminal than city hall to get away with stuff for all these years. That leaves city hall as fairly sahdowy by comparison and that is probably true. I did not find the tone of your last letter really threatening. I think Graystone is a little jumpy. But you certainly are cocky. You have to be careful what you say on SI directed at people. There is a little innuendo in what you say here and there, vaguely. I think Graystone has put a shot across your bow. Perhaps you should just look out for reefs and navigate as best you can. ============================== I take a certain opinion. I know it is controversial. It may in this rough and tumble world of money, and sometimes big money on the line, be dangerous. People have attacked my credibility. They want the dream to continue and they certainly don't want anyone who knows what he is talking about to burst their bubble. But I ask them: what if a 12 year old kid read all this SI crapola and sat down at a keyboard and told us exactly what he thought of all the pros and cons and made us ashamed of the wild eyed speculation and we then could see "the emperors new clothes?" The point is my friend that is the mining play is real it will stand a little flack won't it? That is what I am. Reality. If no one can deny I know my mining then they had better listen occasionally. What is apparent is their promotion. My cynicism in this case is not so apparent. SI is a unique forum. It cannot exist outside the rarefied atmosphere of the net. It is totally divorced from reality. At brokerages the norm is closer to what I say. Doubt, naysaying and depression. You don't hear those cheerleaders buying stock in the brokerages and shouting down negative opinion. So who are these stock supporters here? I would say a type of IR for the company. Unrealistic shareholders who think that some disparaging comments to a doubter can undermine his position. But it cannot. The point is made. The cat is out of the bag. I have no worries whatsoever. Time is on my side. If you cannnot see what is between my lines that is not surprising. A lot was hid in Bre-X too wasn't it? EC<:-}