Those rules are very true...but you can't expect all of your...

Those rules are very true...but you can't expect all of your shareholders to understand the 'manipulation' and underhanded markets. This is why I think it is important for management to take an active role when this type of thing happens. Most publicly held companies want shareholders who will stick around for the duration and leave their money invested in the stock. It doesn't serve the companies purpose to have speculators and manipulators rape their stocks and their shareholders. All the philosophical pining and list of reasons as to how they intend to screw you is not what the investment markets are about. They are about producing a product and doing it in a professional manner and keeping the confidence of your shareholders throughout the process. By letting these 'manipulators'...'short sellers'...and other entities who are in a position to write articles and poison the air, and take advantage of your stock is not beneficial to anyone except the 'pirates' who are robbing the shareholders. So when your stockholders start believing that the game is rigged and you are doing nothing to protect their interests...in this case letting the stock devalue through manipulation you are not fostering confidence in investors...you are essentially explaining to them why and how they become victims. If a stranger called your sister a prostitute and you didn't say anything in her defense...in time...the whole town would start to believe it. So it becomes incumbent on the brother, or the spokesperson in this case to speak up and clear the air with a bit of truth....quite simple in fact. That is, if you value long term investors...