Subject: File No. S7-08-09
From: DOUGLAS M COOK
Affiliation: RETAIL INVESTOR - RETIRED

May 4, 2009

I am NOT in favor of any form SHORT SELLING. The negative practice of borowing stock
to profit by distroying U.S. companies should be illegal.
Unfounded rumers by the press to create panic and fear
to benifit Short Sellers must be stoped if we are to servive as a nation.

DOUGLAS M COOK