BadBassPlayer- you don't pick one shareholder and have him represent the rest. You have a shareholders meeting if you want shareholder input.
So Sterling gets the inside info and then is gagged. Then why have him up there to begin with? He is a strong tout/pumper for the company. My guess is after he is ungagged, he will be a stronger pumper and that is what CMKX is after. They are grooming their pumpers to be better pumpers. If they have to use pumpers, then they don't have the goods. A good/solid PR would do more for the shareholders then several touts pumping the bellows.
Don't forget, they were all excited about the Smeaton property. The "geologists eyes lit up like a Christmas tree". "Mt. St. Helens was getting ready to blow again".