Sic Semper Avaritia
Finally! A
Capitalist with honor and
dignity. Greed displays a
conscience, after all. Who woulda
thunk it? Last week, J. Clifford
Baxter, a former top executive
for collapsed energy giant Enron
Corp., recaptured his lost
humanity and took his own life
over misdeeds perpetrated by,
for, and of his company. I'm
impressed. As a strong dissenter
of Enron's accounting practices,
he would doubtless have landed on
his feet following Federal
investigations, so this was no
"coward's way out". It
was human remorse. Now whether
this was as a result of the
destruction of the company or the
destruction of the lives of Enron
employees and investors remains
to be seen, but I prefer to
believe the latter. His large
cash gains from portfolio
liquidation at top-dollar prices
certainly smack of opportunism,
insider information and greed,
but conflict stops at the grave.
However, this gives me an idea.
Somehow, we convince Kenneth Lay,
Jeffrey Skilling and about
twenty-five other top Enron
executives to follow Baxter's
lead and fall upon their own
diamond-studded swords. Following
this, the hundreds of millions of
dollars of their illgotten gains
would be collected and
redistributed to all the
employees and investors who were
robbed and ruined. And at each
grave, on each headstone, at the
very top, would be chiseled the
word "OINK".
Death is a high price to pay for
greed, but such unto all swine
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