Even an idiot could look at the current government of the U.S. and see that it is more corrupt than anything that you could compare it to. Congress routinely gets an approval rating near single digits and there is a reason why. Along with nearly every government agency they have screwed the average American for decades. The SEC and the OTC are relatively transparent in their unfair treatment of the people they were created to help. They created the short selling rules so that the Wall Street firms could enrich themselves with funds derived from the destruction of small companies and from small investors.