kakki wrote:

> Randy wrote:
>
> > I can pretty much guarantee you that, should this become a
> > big national issue
>
> Why should it?

You mean, if our president has a criminal past, why should we
make an issue of it?

I guess my quick and easy response to your analysis of the
question is that I have a fundamentally different view of the whole
question. I don't see Enron as some abberation, I see it as the
tip of the iceberg. They just got caught, that's all. They were
conducting business as usual. We have a caste system, and the
billionaire corporations are generally above the law. Enron executives
won't go to jail. They'll get to keep their money. A guy robbing a
liquor store will have to pay for his crime (as he/she should). The
notion that a 'get tough' speech by Mr. Bush or the hopes that the
SEC is really on the job preventing this stuff does not reassure me,
anymore than watching the machinery of massive destruction flying
over me, nukes strapped to their bellies. I have to remind myself
that our 'protectors' were warned repeatedly that something like
9/11 could happen, and they couldn't (or wouldn't) stop it. They
were aced by psychos with box cutters. No, I am not reassured.
I remind myself that the only thing that may have stopped a jet
from slamming into the White House was a group of brave
citizens. There you have it.
RR

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