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The added expense and difficulty to legally short sell development stage securities in a sense should add protection to these corporations that are relatively defenseless during their particular stage of development in these “corporate incubators” known as the PinkSheets and the OTCBB. It is also true that these circumstances could foster and promote “pump and dumps”. The concept that abusive naked short sellers justify stealing the funds of today’s investors in order to hasten the demise of corporations in order to protect future investors in that (allegedly) “scammy” corporation from being defrauded by corrupt management teams represents a pathological mindset beyond comprehension. At the very least, these criminals should carry some form of billion dollar “malpractice” insurance when their diagnosis that “X” U.S. corporation is a “scam” proves to be unfounded.