Being Sunday, and a fine morning, I took myself off into the cliffside woods above my house. While my dog mooched around and ineffectually chased squirrels in the far distance I sat on a log (much praised for educational purposes by Mark Twain) to read the business supplements. In the quietness around me where I could hear a woodpecker drilling, twigs falling and mysterious scurryings in the undergrowth, I hope it is understood that I was in a calm frame of mind when I suddenly came to an extreme conclusion.
In a Sunday Times article where the authors had mentioned the arrest of John Rigas and his sons who had plundered Adelphia, I read the following: <<<< But what struck many observers about the Rigas arrests was not the magnitude of the charges but the dramatic response. "I can't imagine that John Rigas really needed handcuffs," says John Cox, law professor at Duke University and a legal adviser to the New York Stock Exchange. "He doesn't look like he's going to take a swing at anyone. But I think the feeling is: it's time to subject these people to some humiliation." He says public anger needs to be assuaged, leniency is not an option and that the political stakes are getting higher. "Often people in white-collar cases don't even bother turning up in court to hear their sentences. With the Rigases and others, a clear signal is being sent that things have changed." >>>> There is little doubt from what Paul Krugman and others have written that Bush and Cheney have been much implicated in illegal share dealings in the past which made them a lot of money. It would be in the greatest interest of America in particular, and for democracy in general if, after due process of investigation, Bush and Cheney could be arrested and placed in handcuffs even if only momentarily. Photographs of their humiliation would probably do more for the public good than any number of years in the clink. So those were my calm thoughts this morning in the quiet of the woods. Keith Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
