http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_976.shtml Bring me the head of “Kenny Boy” Lay: Another convenient death invites new investigations of Enron-Bush crimes
Kenneth Lay, world-class Enron criminal, long-time Bush family friend and crime ally, was pronounced dead on July 5, allegedly of a heart-related condition.
Lay’s name can now be added to the list of dubious Enron-related deaths, which include the alleged 2002 shotgun suicide of Enron Vice Chairman Clifford Baxter (also see analysis here, and here).
Lay’s hasty exit, which comes as he faced 45 years of prison for conspiracy and fraud charges (the barest tip of the iceberg of his true crimes), has sparked rampant speculation. Initial mainstream reports on the cause of death have been confusing at best: “heart attack," “heart failure," and “heart disease” are distinct and different conditions.
Lay, who was reportedly depressed and embittered, has now been conveniently removed before receiving punishment (elite criminals rarely get what they deserve). Charges against Lay and his estate may be conveniently tossed (leaving his squirreled assets available for new uses). The Bush administration, and Congress, is conveniently protected from any possibility of a damning testimony or revelation.
Lay’s supposed demise, however interesting, is ultimately irrelevant. Far more important is the fact that Enron is still an open criminal case: the true crimes of Enron remain unaddressed.
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The Enron players hiding in plain sight
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the article ends with:
In The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, Robert Payne wrote, “Dictators deserve to be hanged in the market place in the sight of the people they ruled and corrupted. This is why the hanging of Mussolini upside down in a Milan gas station was, in human terms, so eminently satisfactory, while the obscure suicide of Hitler, in a bunker fifteen feet below the surface of Berlin left so many of his victims with the sense of being cheated. Hitler himself was perfectly aware that he was cheating and he rejoiced in his last act: once more he had outwitted his enemies.”
Ken Lay has cheated the world, too. So did Richard Nixon, former CIA Director William Casey and other elite criminals who slithered away without suffering the punishment they richly earned. No doubt the Bushes, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, the Clintons, Henry Kissinger, and others are planning similar contingencies.