OK, belmont and Marc, you are making my point for me. Your fear is a fear of retaliation. I am right there with you.
In order to want to be protected from retaliation, you must believe (or at least not be convinced otherwise):
a. there are trees planted by TATF
b. there are trees assigned to each person, not just some "show" trees
c. these trees will grow and at least some will have value at some point
d. TATF will at some point cut and process these trees and sell the lumber
e. and there will be proceeds from the sale that should go to you
So therefore, TATF is a real, viable company that is selling real trees. That is your belief, or you wouldn't fear any retaliation. Your tree markers can't be moved and your trees can't be "culled" unless you have some trees. You can't get less proceeds from your trees unless they have value and there are real proceeds.
The same must be true for "dupedbysteve" - who refuses to reveal his identity. So how has he been duped?
In several messages, he says
...there is more teak in the paper of the certificates than there is on the farms
...all we have is a bunch of worthless pieces of paper
...the only real thinning was from our wallets
...Steve is a fraud and probably is already in Rio with our money
My point is, duped, if that is what you believe, what fear can you possibly have of Steve, who is living off your money in Rio, retaliating against your fraudulent trees on the teak-free farms that are attested to by worthless pieces of paper? As the saying goes, put up or shut up. It can only benefit you to reveal your identity if Steve is a fraud - if you say who you are, you greatly increase the likelihood that he will buy you off to protect himself from the government hounds you have loosed against him...as you say. What fear can you have of saying who you are?
I don't believe TATF is a fraud, that is why I am currently anonymous. But what about dupedbysteve?
