From: Tim Fuhrmann [sailingbum@writebyte.net]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:23 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: S7-23-03:

I've been reading your comments page on proposed rule changes.  I'd like to add 
to the many well written and well thought out responses that I am yet another 
small investor who's future has either been flat out stolen or at the very least 
is still held hostage by the lack of enforcement on short sales.  If the SEC were 
to step up to the plate and do its job, I might yet be able to recover some value 
from my small cap portfolio.
 
Please, meet your mission statement objective and stand up for the small investor.  
Change the rules to have some teeth.  Enforce the changes.  Stop the systematic 
thievery currently taking place in small cap stocks and especially in pink sheets.  
Anything less is collusion and treason, in my opinion.
 
Thank you.
--
Sailing is Life
Everything else is just details
 
Tim Fuhrmann