From: lynne whitley [lynnewhitley@rogers.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:50 AM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: RE: File No. S7-25-03

I support reform initiatives to protect small-cap OTC stocks..  Naked
shorting has done far too much damage to
job-producing and growth-generating startups.   Would asia's
growth-and-innovation- dependent economic Tigers like Japan, Taiwan,
Malaysia, Indonesia etc. allow
this sort of destruction to ravage their startups?  This situation has
been described as economic terrorism, wherein
people , even foreigners, can PROFIT on destroying their competitors.
It is long since time this was changed.

Lynne Whitley