"And of course, that poster, while he/she thinks it might be illegal for a lender to short the stock of a company they lent money to, he/she never bothered to post a link that shows that it is in fact illegal"

Locke I'm afraid I can't find the link in your posts where it shows it is in fact legal. But just like the ihubbers they can say whatever they want and expect everyone to believe whatever they say is true when in fact it isn't. While when we point that out we're always told to provide a link to prove it and even when we do they still twist that into something else.

In other words if you says it's legal for the lenders to short the stock of a company they lend money to, lets see your link to prove it is. Otherwise it's nothing but your opinion wrong as that may be.