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Schadow
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 Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:55 am Post subject: The Washington Post desecrates a corpse |
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This WaPo story is a perfect illustration of the depravity of the far left. The writer would have us believe he's speaking for us. In reality, he's just a literary terrorist.
| Quote: | Ken Lay's Last Evasion
To Some, CEO Is Cheating Them One More Time
By Henry Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 6, 2006; C01
Ah, Kenneth Lay of Enron: America hardly knew you before your trial, but learned after your big-hammer jury conviction that you had left countless suckers broke, employees cheated and stockholders betrayed.
There were also the electricity customers swindled, along the lines of Mr. and Mrs. Front Porch USA, who wanted to leave a night light on without sending Enron their whole Social Security checks for the privilege.
Many people had looked forward to knowing more about Ken Lay, especially how he liked prison.
But now that he's died of a heart attack in the luxury of his Colorado getaway while awaiting sentencing for his crimes, none of his victims will be able to contemplate that he's locked away in a place that makes the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel look like Hawaii; that he might be spending long nights locked in a cell with a panting tattooed monster named Sumo, a man of strange and constant demands; and long days in the prison laundry or jute mill or license plate factory, gibbering with anguish as fire-eyed psychopaths stare at him for unblinking hours while they sharpen spoons into jailhouse stilettos.
He will not be ground into gray jailhouse paste by listening to the eardrum-scarring symphony of 131-decibel despair that is the Muzak of penitentiaries, by gagging on the dead prison air, by choking on the deader food, by watching the blue sky taunt him with freedom over the exercise yard, and by feeling his nervous system rent by the cruel grenades of memories -- explosions of nostalgia for the days when he knew he'd be swanning forever through the comfy laps and cool lawns of luxury and infinite possibility. Sweet Gulfstreams through sweet skies, the pools, the jewels, the Maybach limousines, a life in which he didn't just pimp his ride, he pimped the entire world as he knew it.
Actually, some folks who got the news, the particularly enlightened and civilized ones, are glad they won't have to know that Kenneth Lay is going through these agonies. They may even reflect that if they'd known him personally, they would have known a wonderful father, husband and friend. Isn't that what people always say about people like Ken Lay? And shouldn't people always try to think the best of everyone?
Yes, they should, but so many people may well have responded to the news of Lay's untimely death by feeling cheated, by saying that death wasn't good enough for him, by sensing a frustrated craving for revenge burning in their backbrains like a fire in a tire dump.
Is it possible that a micron below the surface of our liberal and enlightened beliefs lurks savagery? Was the French Enlightenment wrong about our essential goodness, and were the medieval churchmen right about our innate depravity?
We should consider these things in days to come, so that Ken Lay may not have died in vain.
Meanwhile, for those who are baffled by the strange and vicious outrage that greeted news of Lay's passing, at least among some people, there is a story, an old story, a very old joke in fact, that seeks to explain it.
It gets told with many variations, of which the following is one:
Three anthropologists are taken captive by a cruel and remote tribe.
Their chief comes to their hut and informs the anthropologists that they have a choice: death or chi-chi.
The first anthropologist says: "Chi-chi, of course."
There ensues three days of screams, moans, pleadings, whimpers, then silence.
The chief comes to the hut to speak with the second anthropologist. He picks chi-chi, too.
Three more days of shrieks and begging.
The chief comes to the third anthropologist.
"Which do you choose, death or chi-chi?"
"I've heard too much," says the anthropologist. "I'll take death."
"A very wise choice," says the chief, who then adds with a sad smile: "But first, chi-chi."
That's why some of us are disappointed to know of the death of Ken Lay. Depraved as we may be, what we really hoped was that crimes of his super-size sort might bring him just a little chi-chi. |
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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I'm no apologist for Ken Lay; I cannot decide whether he was a crook, or just another highly overpaid and incompetent CEO.
But that article is just plain SICK! I'd say that even if it appeared in the lowest tabloid, but in the WaPo? Or does that say that the WaPo has now reduced itself to worse than the lowest tabloid? |
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Me#1You#10
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| What he failed to note in his cute little vignette was the nature of the chi-chi...3 days in a closed room with Cindy Sheehan. |
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Schadow
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Anker-Klanker wrote: | I'm no apologist for Ken Lay; I cannot decide whether he was a crook, or just another highly overpaid and incompetent CEO.
But that article is just plain SICK! I'd say that even if it appeared in the lowest tabloid, but in the WaPo? Or does that say that the WaPo has now reduced itself to worse than the lowest tabloid? |
I, too, hold no brief for Lay or Skilling. They are probably guilty as the jury found. It's also possible that one or both of them could eventually be vindicated on appeal.
But the visceral hatred displayed by this WaPo ghoul goes beyond anything I have read outside the kookblogs. For the paper to carry it is sad and does not serve to reverse the disrepute settling on the national media. Shame on them.
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GenrXr
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This article is disgusting and very revealing of class hatred from the left. It is this very hatred and mental unstability which enables the slide into a hellish socialist dystopia.
I would like to remind everyone that Lay and Skilling were found guilty, but not by a jury of their peers.
Another thing which noone will ever hear about is the guidelines for guilt given to the jury by the judge. You will not find anywhere within these rules for conviction must be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. More like is it possible they did it then convict. These Federal guidelines have been stacked hard against the defendant 'in order to get the drug kingpins', yet as always with the government what it starts out meant to be ends up as something totally different.
One last thing, Jeff Skilling was CEO for less then a year at the end of the companies life and he came from a division of Enron which was profitable and from what I understand not part of the funny business dealings. In one year Jeff SKilling turned the corporate climate into one of corruption? How is he guilty of the funny stuff which went on before he even assumed leadership?
There is a lot more to this story then what most people know and hopefully it will all be known one day by all.
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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Once again, a "news reporter" from the left shows the depth of their depravity. One need not have any special feelings towards Kenneth Lay to appreciate the grief his family has over his passing.
The left constantly exposes themselves as what they are. Expressions of remorse over the death of Zarqawi and such vitriol towards Lay screams of the anti-American bias they spew.
Such hatred coming from the so-called "tolerant" left is all consuming and eventually has to lead to their own self destruction. |
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dusty
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LewWaters said:
| Quote: | | Such hatred coming from the so-called "tolerant" left is all consuming and eventually has to lead to their own self destruction. |
Well, I wish that self destruction would hurry up. I'm gettin plumb tired of listening to em.
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Deuce
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Good Call, Lew and all of you...
Kenneth Lay was Navy as are many of you, and had many Army and Navy buddies at Enron who adored him. And as any good Navy Captain, went down with the ship, no one was spared...but the facts did not come out in the trial...no one lost more than Kenneth Lay, no one.
a much better read can be found here:
http://columbiamissourian.com/obits/obit.php?ID=2585
and is the only Kenneth Lay that need be rememberred posthumously.
I had the pleasure of working with Enron off and on (mostly off) in the 80's and 90's...great group of highly effective individuals.
Deuce,
just my 2 cents |
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