Good analogy. In the resourse sector, the stealing has been accomplished by the intimidation of fear.

How does someone get something from another person when that other person doesn't want to part with that something?

I'll tell you, you scare them into parting with it, whatever it may be, or you just physically put a gun to their head.

Our rights as shareholders have come under attack. The blame has to be focused on the regulators because they have allowed all the stealing to take place by the naked shorts. Why does a new investor in the Canadian markets have to enter the buying and selling arena with a shotgun and a bullet proof vest?

It's juat like in some of those old western movies, the town crooks own the sheriff. Just like so many times in those movies when the town folks aren't going to take it anymore, it's time for a change and it's time to be pro-active. Hunched over a bar stool complaining doesn't solve anything.

The only way to solve the problem is to dig out the cancer that is eating us alive.