Jesse,
Sorry about using the terms traitor and deserter since they are imprecise. I also never accused you for being a pump and dumper. I have defended Dew on the yahoo board after posters there have started calling him. If anyone calls you a pump and dumper, I will defend you as well.
I don't care why you or anyone else sold, or bought for that matter. Everyone makes his or her decisions based on their own emotional and financial status, and it is none of my businees why they make their decisions or what those decisions are. What you keep missing is that the way you casually mentioned the sale deep in the body of a message, after being so public about having some kind of inside connections was kind of unsavory. I guess I wll have to use an allegory.
Say there was a plant called Cox from a country called transgenica. The plant grew well in many climates and had a lot berries called goatsberries. The berries have high nutritional value and almost no flavor so can be used in a whole range of food products, and are very cheap to maintain so Cox plants have the prospect of greatly reducing food costs. A group of farmers decided form a company called GTCB, which imports and grows Cox plants. They started growing them well before the USDA decided if they will be allowed for usage in food because Cox plants take 10 years to mature.
The company fortunes ebbed and flowed, as many startup ventures do, and at town meeting, the merits of the project were discussed. Some people dropped out and others joined in. There was one person, Captain Jesse, who claimed to know how the USDA worked, and had connections to insiders, which he often talked about at the town meetings. This soothed people when times were tough. Capt Jesse also claimed to be a big shareholder, although nobody knew for sure. Still his words sounded reasonable so nobody had any reason to doubt good old Captain Jesse.
One day the town was celebrating as the USDA decided to approved the sale of goatsberries and to allow them to be used in some foods. There was rejoicing in the town. People were celebrating in a bar with a band. Captain Jess orders a beer and then says quietly to the bartender, well I don't think goatsberries have a chance because food companies don't like to think outside the box so even though costs could be greatly recuced and new foods made that were previously too expensive to be mass produced can be made. So I sold off and I am going to leave town. He had already packed his bags and put them in locker at the airport.
Another GTCB shareholders happened to be at the end of the bar and just barely heard Captain Jesse's comments over the band and reacted with surprise. So when the band died down, this other shareholder said in a loud voice everyone could hear, Capt Jesse, did you really just sell? Captain Jesse said oh yes, see I don't think goatsberries have a chance because food companies don't like to think outside the box so even though costs could be greatly reduced and new foods made that were previously too expensive to be mass produced can be made. Another shareholder, Major Vin looked at Captain Jeese with real disgust. He said, you know Captin Jesse, that was pretty low of you to be such a public and fervent booster of GTCB for a long, long time. Then when you sold you didn't have the decency to announce it to all with the same loud voice and gusto you used when you were espousing the merits of gooseberries. Now I don't care what you did, nor do I care why you sold, it just seems mighty underhanded and sneaky. Goodbye and good luck to you, but you have lost a lot of my respect.
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