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A Plea To The Gold Community
Let's End the Infighting
James E. Sinclair, Jan 5/03
Infighting among the gold community is nothing new. But recently, a low jab from one website to another took this practice to a new low and a thoroughly unproductive level. There is no doubt that the gold community should argue, debate, and discuss, but we should not attack one another. Difference of opinion can be very healthy and productive and helps us grow and expand our knowledge. But there is a real difference between name-calling and productive debate. What good do lowball attacks do for anyone?
In order to achieve success, we must have a unity of purpose. There must be an unspoken code of conduct that we, as the gold community, all have to abide by if we are to succeed. This ridiculous and unnecessary infighting only weakens our cause as a whole. What good did infighting do for the Plain Indians? If the Plain Indians had spent less time fighting with one another and more time fighting against their common enemy as one unified force, I'd venture to say that the U.S. would end at the Pennsylvania border and the next country or state would be from Ohio to California, called Indian-ia. But we’ll never know, because they could not get beyond their petty problems with one another to join together as a whole.
Using the Internet, which is the only free and democratic press that exists today, as a medium to call each other names is completely self-defeating. This public infighting only dilutes both our purpose and our actions. The recent display of public lowball name-calling was obviously not intended to be productive. We, as the gold community, should have no tolerance for this kind of immature and unproductive behavior.
I want what is best for gold. I want to see gold back in the monetary system and to see the market for gold free of manipulative interest. Stop the madness, get a grip, and see beyond your petty grievances to the greater goal we all have. Let’s work together, in a unified fashion, to raise gold back to its splendor and scrub away all the tarnish of sleaze.
© 2003 James E. Sinclair
