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vox
9th May 2002, 04:44
"WASHINGTON - May 8 - In light of a memo indicating that Army Secretary Thomas White’s former Enron division was involved in market manipulation and price-gouging during the California electricity crisis, Public Citizen today called for White to resign immediately and the Justice Department to initiate a criminal probe.

"The internal company memo describes how White’s division, Enron Energy Services, lied to California officials, enabling the company to charge prices far higher than should have been allowed. As a direct result of his division’s fraud, White is a multimillionaire and California consumers still are paying far too much for their electricity."

Read More (http://www.commondreams.org/news2002/0508-14.htm)

Part of my ongoing series of posts about the criminality which is so prevalent, and so richly rewarded, in the capitalist system. One might even say it's necesarry to maintain the status of the ruling elite!

vox

Solzhenitsyn
9th May 2002, 14:28
So, murder millions and keep your job as the chief of the NVKD. But criticize the socialist government and get shot or sent away to Siberia for a couple of decades. Who is more immoral?

El Che
9th May 2002, 17:53
Laws dont really apply to the capitalist elite. Because laws try bring some ethical limits to capitalist practices, and lol, that is the very thing that is contrary to the nature of capitalism.

And Solz that has got to be the most pathetic thing ever said in defense of Enron.

Moskitto
9th May 2002, 21:30
I remember I wrote a massive essay about Solz which explains why he is what he thinks a communist is.

I Will Deny You
9th May 2002, 21:39
Many people on Bush's various anti-terrorism task forces are contra veterans. To paraphrase The Nation, their idea of dealing with terrorists is feeding them cake.

Damn, I wish I could remember the name of the Reagan cabinet member who got addicted to coke and went to the Betty Ford clinic while poor people who did the same thing rotted for 25 to life.