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For those new to the news, in the past few years, emerald traders have become the pariahs of our business, ranking right down there with terrorists, child pornographers and those who propose an increase in the minimum wage. If one reads the reports correctly, they tend to lurk in trench coats outside of playgrounds, ever ready to corrupt the morals of the nation's youth. Their weapon of choice: Opticon. By slipping a treated emerald from beneath their cloaks, they induce in their victims a permanent state of moral turpitude, leading them across to the dark side, a state of total and utter depravity. Extreme rhetoric? Perhaps, but the mere mention of Opticon today seems to induce a type of collective hysteria that borders on paranoid schizophrenia. Just why is a mystery to this writer.