Dear sir or madam,

Thank you so much for your numerous compliments in this post of yours that I am responding to. I appreciate it greatly and want you to know, that it is posts like these, (professionally written with a degree of academi), that let me know that I am doing a good job. Usually the pawns and a little higher up come out to play, but when I call out a prestige such as you, well it just makes my day! Thank you so very much!

I thought about breaking your post down in sections and replying to it, trying to help you see more things, but I believe I will just generalize the whole post because of contradictions and numerous attacks on me and my credibility.

I am so very glad that you presented yourself to the board as a perfect example of what the post was about and titled, that you replied to, "perception". So lets look a bit at your perception, shall we? The metality of your post seems to be acceptive of a market that takes advantage of retail investors. So, by being acceptive of such a pratice, you are condoning this action and accept it as right and just, do you see anything wrong with that dipiction? So, you say that I am wrong in trying to help change a market that functions this way, do you see anything wrong when you say I am wrong? Do you know that your post really does show your true colors and what you believe in, perhaps as one of your quotes suggest, "The system you are dreaming of is Socialism, and no one gets rich in that system,"? Doesn,t this quote suggest that getting rich is more important to you than sharing and treating your fellow man with equal respect and appreciation?

I detect a lot of distaste in your missive of me, I feel that you consider me a threat to your acceptance and line of work. You havent taken the time to examine why my writing skills are such, you critisize them at face value, when that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. I am impressed that you picked up on the flair and style though, but totally not impressed with you that you did not look at the reasons why I scribe the way I do. I could perhaps go off on complex legal like writings, but I have seen over the years, that writing skills like that sometimes even confuse lawyers themselves. Don,t you think it better to communicate in laymans terms on this forum, especially in the early days of DD here? If you consider me and other investors here low life, why must we introduce dignity into our communication, no prestige read these boards, do they,(smile)? Frankly, its none of your business how any posters here write and it only shows your own arrogance and ignorance to suggest such.

On your suggestion that retail should all have brokers, have you not seen many of these firms collapse and are involved with ponzi schemes that leave thousands if not millions of innocent investors getting nothing back from their investments and even losing the principal? My God, wake up and look at what you are suggesting. You are so blatantly obvious with your intentions, perhaps rob every last little guy standing, but I ask, when you have robbed them all, who do you rob then? You don,t care, rob,rob,rob, so that you can get and remain rich. Dont care about the poor innocent person that you may have just taken everything they had, away from them. Walk into the sunset with pockets full and jingling, while the one you robbed lies dying on the desert sand. If thats your understanding and teaching of compassion, I believe the majority may not agree, but I guess that depends on perception, doesn,t it. Teach your children well my friend, sleep well at night also, someone loves you.

And my dear friend, your perception is clouded, the greed has disabled you from seeing beyond an illusion. You are a symbol of the very problem we are up against and can,t see that you are caught in a downward spiral as well.

I hope this post has some value and helps you see outside the box, a birds eye view is one of the best perceptions, I am told, ;).

I am very sorry for the demeanor of this post, I came on strong because I believe it may take something like this to help you. I try not to be too judgemental of anyone, only when I am trying to help, but of course, it is always ones own choice.

Love Rick