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NO F*CKING SHIT!!!
And add war crimes, crimes against humanity, and high treason to the list of
offenses! Bush needs to be sitting on death row!
If he steps down and is never punished for what he's done, I will be beside
myself.
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From: "Hank Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 9:00 AM
Subject: [pnews-news] Lay goes to prison and Bush walks
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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)
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>
>
>
> by Greg Palast
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>
> http://www.opednews.com
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>
>
> 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.
>
> --------
>
> 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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