They are the weak link is the leasing daisy-chain. The Central and Bullion banks are just as guilty, but the short-selling miners are easier targets. GATA should initiate legal proceedings against those miners short more than one year's production, like Barrick Gold. Miners who sell more than one year's worth of production are dumping on the market, pure and simple. The fact that they have borrowed the material being dumped, makes the case more airtight.
People intuitively understand the concept of dumping.
It is not a complex concept. There has never been a clearer case for dumping, than exists in gold and silver. GATA has distinguished between the super short-sellers and the miners who rely on mining, but more support for GATA will develop from the non shorting miners, as it becomes clear that they were seriously harmed by the dumpers, like Barrick. Companies who dump product, lowering the price of that product, and then acquiring other producers valued on the artificial product price, are clearly guilty of predatory pricing and unfair business practices. GATA should dump on them.