How Serious it is.

[marano35]

Last weeks coverage of the Enron trial got me thinking again. What we heard about the trial was that Skilling and Lay were convicted. We heard over and over about how they bilked investors, yes investors ( people with a lot of money that they use to make a lot more money )how it affected employees of the company, how they lost their pensions which were privatized to begin with 401ks which they were not allowed to diversify. What we did not hear was that they were not charged with any crimes against us the people when it was the people who were paying the manipulated prices for energy that the company was pushing on the people. That is where the massive amount of money came from that these people were stealing and putting into offshore accounts where it is still waiting for them. We did not hear about that. We did not hear that their real crimes were against us the people but instead we heard about how they hurt the investor class with a side note about the employees. Last week Martha Stewart was on David Letterman. She talked about how rough Federal Prison is, how their was no walls, no lock downs, pretty much a country club. We have not heard that is exactly what these two men face when they finally pay some price for what they have done. This is one of my points. In our great country there exist two justice systems...one for the haves and one for the have nots. If one of the regular people in this country steals a pack of steaks, a carton of cigarettes, and $3,000.00 he can expect if convicted to go to a much worse place... a place where he will share living accommodations with rapist, murderers and child molesters.... a place with bars, lock downs and miserable living conditions. Why... because he stole from the investor class, the rich, the Skillings and the Lays.

On an even more important note we did not hear about how Lay and Enron was tied to the President and the Republican party with obscene amounts of money donated to both. We did not hear about the President used Lay's personal jet to whiz around the country while campaigning and how Lay was involved in helping the Repubs with assets during the recount in the 2000 election. These are things they do not want the public to know....connections they don't want the public to make... which brings me to my next point.... the media, what many on here refer to as the mainstream media or MSM. I see many complaints on here about how the MSM did not cover this or that, how they ignored one story or slanted the story, how Tweety did or said this or that and hear people wondering when they are going to wake up. THEY ARE AWAKE...THEY ARE NOT GOING TO WAKE UP. The fact is that they have been bought off. When you are watching the National news on any channel watch the commercials. The people of this country do not advertise on these channels, not the me's and yous, not the small business that you constantly hear that President and the Repubs talk about caring about. No what you see during the National News are Citibank commercials, could Levitra be right for you, how you should ask your doctor if Nexium could be right for you, how you could have restless leg syndrome, and even more importantly how Zoloft can get you back on track. What I am saying is that waiting to see the truth on the MSM is like waiting for the cheerleaders of the opposing team to deliver the playbook of their team to you before the big game. There are still some reporters who would like to tell the truth, but they are just like you and me. They are victims of the same system that you and I are. If they don't keep their mouth shut they will lose their job and they have families to support just like we do. So we are not ever going to see stories about how the credit card companies helped write the bankruptcy laws, or the energy companies created the administrations energy policy, or how they divided the oil in Iraq even before the first troops hit the ground.

We now at this point in time are being ruled by Corporate America, we are being told only what the super rich want us to know. They are not going to tell us that these Networks are contributing just like Enron to the same people who have sold us out to the rich. They are not going to tell us that the same electronic voting machines that they want, the ones without paper trails are owned and sold by like minded people who support the same people we have been sold to. WE ARE FUCKED. To add to the problem the majority of Americans have been sold on the idea through education, formal and informal, that politics and economics are too complicated for the average person to understand and educated that there is little that they can do about their plight. So what do they do. They watch Nascar, American Idol, Tyra Banks... whatever drivel is on the tube and keep slipping further into the grasp of the rich. It will not get better until something like the Great Depression comes and I fear that the next one will make Great seem minor, happens and they find themselves not worrying about gas prices but how they will get their next meal. I think its coming fast. As a matter of fact if they can get enough jack-asses to vote for them in November and in 2008 I think we will get there before the next Presidential term is over. As a matter of fact I think with the election process finally in their hands I don't have a lot of hope for either of the upcoming elections. I think that it will have to get a lot worse to move the people to take the country back and I don't think it will happen by voting.

[drduffy]

1. I hope you don't mind my replying but

I have few gripes with anything you have said. My bet is that many of the on-going 'concerns' - which I get as embroiled in as much as anybody (at least they are distracting sometimes) - are not too relevant to what we are gonna eat in a couple of years. The news from around the world seems to support Michael Ruppert's writers - in their analysis/predictive sense - on his web site more than any other single source I know. I really operate usually in the mode of, 'Things are really gonna hit the fan and I better figure out how my 12 year old son and I am going to survive and to enable him to grow into a man and have a chance of surviving.' And frankly, that is a whole lot different from my concerns of 5 years ago which were, how can I plan for retirement and pay for his college. Things are completely different now. And it IS freaky - in the sense of scaring the sh*t out of me.

edited for spelling and last line.

[grasswire]

2. how did Enron get relegated to the business page?

Even here in the town where the power company was bought by Enron and its pension funds looted and power prices driven up. The trials were only on the business page.