From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 09:59:51 MDT
From: "Technotranscendence" <neptune@mars.superlink.net>
> With the recent guilty plea of former Enron executive Michael Kopper, it
seems that the floodgates are now officially open in the government's war
against American business. Democrats are demanding something just short of
summary executions, while Republicans and President George W. Bush are
trying to outdo the Democrats in their anti-business rhetoric, and the
mainstream news media outlets are playing the role of Joseph Goebbels in
helping to stir the whole pot of hysteria.
> ... people are being told that U.S. business officers and owners are
crooks, charlatans, and threats to a free and decent society. Of course, the
public is responding predictably, as pollster after pollster reports that
Americans approve of arrests and more arrests of these alleged miscreants.
What's the difference between these executive thugs and an ordinary
pickpocket who helps himself to some of your money? Seems to me there
haven't been *enough* arrests (and still much too much
built-to-specifications second-home-heavenly-mansion-in-the-snooty-hills
housebuilding going on).
Granted - it's all "alleged" for now. We'll see what happens. If they
executives didn't give anyone a stick to hit them with ... no problem,
right?
Olga
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