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To: Sloth
So, because it's unfair that other people know stuff that you don't, they should go to jail?

If those other people have illegal insider information, and make a profit on that information, and then try to hid their actions ..... yes.

If my good friend robs a bank, and gives me the money, and I keep that money knowing it was from a robbed bank, and then lie to the cops about how I got the money, then I become a defacto accomplice to the crime.

It is very similar here. I think people are letting their affection and admiration for Martha and hatred for the govt. get in the way of their logical common sense.

96 posted on 03/03/2005 8:35:38 PM PST by Edit35
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To: MojoWire
I think people are letting their affection and admiration for Martha and hatred for the govt. get in the way of their logical common sense.

I have no affection for Martha, although I do despise the gov't generally. I just deny that 'insider trading' ought to be illegal.

106 posted on 03/03/2005 9:07:40 PM PST by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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