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Think any of them will have trouble maintaining a commissary? Yeah, right.
I'll be quite surprised if they get sent to anywhere but a country club
prison. They need to do their time with the rest of the prison population.
Let them see what it's like to be down and out, to eat the slop prisons call
food, and to have to watch their back 24/7 against the predators.
I don't think Bush and Lay should be anywhere close to each other. Too easy
to plan other shenanigans.
Skywolf.
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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and
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service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go
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or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect
to all people and grovel to none.
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living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in
yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools
and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not
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their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their
lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a
hero going home."
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Bush is every bit as guilty as Ken Lay. Lay ought to go to prison for
life. The son-of-a-bitch is guilty of financially ruining tens of
thousands of lives and living high. Bush gets to walk and even tries to
distance himself from Ken Lay. The liar-in-chief ought to have the
adjoining cell.
Hank.........
LAY CONVICTED, BUSH WALKS (AND AHNOLD GETS LAY'D)
by Greg Palast
http://www.opednews.com
Don't kid yourself. If you think the conviction of Ken Lay means that
George W. Bush is serious about going after corporate bad guys, think
again.
First, Lay got away with murder - or at least grand larceny. Like Al
Capone convicted of failing to file his taxes, Ken Lay, though found
guilty of stock fraud, is totally off the hook for his BIG crime: taking
down California and Texas consumers for billions through fraud on the
power markets. Lay co-convict Jeff Skilling and Enron did not act alone.
They connived with a half dozen other power companies and a dozen
investment banks to manipulate both the stock market and the electricity
market. And though their co-conspirators have now paid $3 billion to
settle civil claims, the executives of these other corporations and banks
get a walk on criminal charges. Furthermore, to protect our president's
boardroom buddies from any additional discomfort, the Bush Justice
Department, just days ago, indicted Milberg-Weiss, the law firm that
nailed Enron's finance industry partners-in-crime. The timing of the bust
of this firm - the top corporation-battling law firm - smacks of political
prosecution, and is a signal to Big Business that it's business as usual.
Lay and Skilling have to pay up their ill-gotten gains to Enron's
stockholders, but what about the $9-plus billion owed to electricity
consumers? The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Bush's electricity
cops, have slapped Enron and its gang of power pirates on the wrist. Could
that have something to do with the fact that Ken Lay, in secret chats with
Dick Cheney, selected the Commission's chairmen? Team Bush had to throw
the public a bone, so they threw us Lay and Skilling for the crime - note
- not of ripping off the public, but of ripping off stockholders - the
owner class. This limited conviction, and the announcement of only one
more indictment - of the crime-busters at Milberg-Weiss - is Team Bush's
"all clear!" signal for the sharks to jump back into the power pool.
That leaves one question: If Bush's Justice Department let Ken and
company keep the California loot, what about that state's own government?
If you want to know how Californians' $9 billion went bye-bye, read on...
When Ahnold Got Lay'd
Peninsula Hotel, Beverly Hills. May 17, 2001. The Financial Criminal of
the twentieth century, not long out of prison, meets with the Financial
Criminal of the twenty-first century, who fears he may also have to do
hard time. These two, bond-market manipulator Mike Millikin and Ken Lay,
not-yet-indicted Chairman of Enron Corporation, were joined by a selected
group of movers and shakers - and one movie star.
Arnold Schwarzenegger had been to such private parties before. As a young
immigrant without a nickel to his name, he put on private displays of his
musculature for guests of his promoter. As with those early closed
gatherings, I don't know all that went on at the Peninsula Hotel meet,
though I understand Ahnold, this time, did not have to strip down to his
Speedos. Nevertheless, the moral undressing was just as lascivious, if you
read through the 34 page fax that arrived at our office.
Lay, who convened the hugger-mugger, was in a bit of trouble. Enron and
the small oligopoly of other companies that ruled California's electricity
system had been caught jacking up the price of power and gas by fraud,
conspiracy and manipulation. A billion here, a billion there, and pretty
soon it was real money - $6.3 billion in suspect windfalls in just six
months, May through December 2000, for a half-dozen electricity
buccaneers, at least $9 billion for the year. Their skim would have been
higher, but the tricksters thought they were limited by the number of
digits the state's power-buying computers could read.
When Ken met Arnold in the hotel room, the games were far from over. For
example, in June 2003, Reliant Corporation of Houston simply turned off
several power plants, and when California cities faced going dark, the
company sold them a pittance of kilowatts for more than gold, making
several million in minutes.
Power-market shenanigans were nothing new in 2000. What was new was the
response of Governor Gray Davis. A normally quiet, if not dull, man, this
Governor had the temerity to call the energy sellers "pirates" - in
public! - and, even more radically, he asked them to give back all the
ill-gotten loot, the entire $9 billion. The state filed a regulatory
complaint with the federal government.
The Peninsula Hotel get-together was all about how to "settle" the legal
actions in such a way that Enron and friends could get the state to accept
dog food instead of dollars. Davis seemed unlikely to see things Ken's
way. Life would be so much better if California had a governor like the
muscle guy in the Speedos.
And so it came to pass that, in 2003, quiet Gray Davis, who had the
cojones to stand up to the electricity barons, was thrown out of office by
the voters and replaced by the tinker-toy tough guy. The Governator
performed as desired. Soon after Schwarzenegger took over from Davis, he
signed off on a series of deals with Reliant, Williams Company, Dynegy,
Entergy and the other power pirates for ten to twenty cents on the dollar,
less than you'd tip the waitress. Enron paid just about nothing.
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On June 6, Penguin Dutton will publish Greg Palast's new book, Armed
Madhouse: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Class War, from which
this is taken. Armed Madhouse includes the Project Censored Award-winning
story of George Bush and the Enron chief, "Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb
in White House." Order it today.
Palast, an internationally recognized expert on Enron and electricity
market manipulation, is co-author of Democracy and Regulation, the United
Nation's guide to control of the utility industry.
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