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All we can do is to do things to try to hasten the day

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:31a PT Sunday, June 5, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our friend Todd writes:

"Guys, I admire your mission, but year after year nothing really changes.

"What exactly is being done to change this deplorable situation with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, investment banks, and U.S. government? How long does this nonsense go on? Is there anything that we can do other than write a check and go with the flow?

"I just get so sick of reading about the Comex's supposed imminent collapse year in and year out while the price of precious metals drops in the morning, struggles, and drops in the afternoon with funny-paper sales. Judging status quo, nothing can be done and nothing is being done.

"It's the most enduring untenable situation I've ever seen -- untenable but also shameful and deplorable."

Your secretary/treasurer replied:

"Thanks for your note. GATA shares your frustration, but when we get discouraged we review the long-term charts of gold and silver. They've been rising steadily since GATA was founded back in 1999 -- not that we claim to be so responsible for that. But the price suppression scheme is being found out and markets are reacting to this knowledge. The price suppressors are losing. The charts show it.

"GATA's work has been and remains largely a matter of two things: publicity and litigation. We aim to expose the market rigging and thereby discourage people from trading in rigged markets, particularly the futures markets. Rather, we urge people to take possession of real monetary metal and store it outside the banking system, where it is always at risk of being commandeered for market rigging.

"Second, we litigate against the manipulation, as we recently sued the Federal Reserve and won, demonstrating that the Fed has gold secrets and that some of those secrets involve market manipulation.

"We don't know exactly how or when the manipulation will end. But the tipping point in the markets may come suddenly, or there may be an overnight official international currency revaluation that incorporates revaluation of the monetary metals. All we can do is indeed do things that may hasten the day. As we've had some success, we hope for more and are grateful for your support."

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.



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