From: JJackjc@aol.com
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 10:20 AM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: SHORT SELLING

Dear Sir:

If you are looking for ways to return confidence to the stock market and do 
away with corruption, eliminate short trading. This has no place in the 
equity market and destroys confidence. Stocks are being manipulated by mass 
selling of borrowed stocks and rumors are then being used to depress stocks.  
When you can check and see that the shorted stock amounts equal two or three 
days of normal trading you know the stocks have been manipulated.  Any hedge 
fund can start a panic by selling large amounts of borrowed stocks and then 
buy back when the stocks hid bottom.

I have sent the same message to the congress and hopefully you can work 
together to get the crooks out of the market.

J. C. Janus
1413 SW 50th Street
Cape Coral, FL 33914
239 945 5083
JJackjc@aol.com