Ken Lay dies
Updated below
I'm a bit disappointed that he didn't get to enjoy life in prison, but what can you do?
The early stories on this attributed it to a massive heart attack, but the family is not confirming this, which leaves a lingering question as to the real cause. Not that it matters much, but suicide strikes me as a real possibility under the circumstances.
I'm a bit disappointed that he didn't get to enjoy life in prison, but what can you do?
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who was convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy for his part in the Houston-based company's collapse into bankruptcy in 2001, has died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Colorado, a Houston television station reported on Wednesday.Update:
The early stories on this attributed it to a massive heart attack, but the family is not confirming this, which leaves a lingering question as to the real cause. Not that it matters much, but suicide strikes me as a real possibility under the circumstances.
posted by walldon | 10:38 AM
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Sigh. I note that he died at his vacation home a month after his conviction, and mostly wish I wasn't wondering how exactly that worked. I am sure a lot of convicts would like to spend time on vacation after their conviction.
Not that I begrudge him his (last)vacation, nor that I am happy for his death. But once again we see that there is no particularly consistent or genuine sort of justice in this country.
How is it that he still owned a vacation home after all his employees and stockholders lost their shirts? Justice would have been better served by restitution than imprisonment or death.
But I'm happy so long as illegal aliens get no amnesty. That's what counts.
Oh, and the flag not being burned.
And the NYT editors being burned.
And gays being locked out of marriage.
Chitom, you're just sick.
Dow--
Response A (snarky): yeah, there's a lot of that going around.
Response B (non-snarky): live by the snark; die by the snark. I am not sure if you were snarking or not about my being "sick": if so, thanks. :) In case you were not, I was (I thought obviously) snarking in the last lines ("I'm happy..."). My main issue is the sickness of both our current sense of justice and of our so-called system of justice.
Was I not sufficiently sensitive to the human tragedy of Ken Lay's death? Perhaps not-- though I would wish to be, and for that I would express regret if called upon. Yet I would also insist that there have been a lot of untimely deaths in the past years (and forever, for that matter), and all of them deserve more respect than the diminishing amount they seem to get these days. I value the meditation of John Donne that includes the phrase, "any man's death diminishes me", and I find it hard to run the gauntlet of my anger at those who seem not to care about this (declarations of Jewish/Christian/Muslim faith notwithstanding), and the tendency of my own, oh-so-righteous anger to bring me down to that level. If you were trying to haul me up short from that, I also thank you.
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