Enron Treason

By: John Stephen Cowden

Had any other business not as politically well connected as Enron and Arthur Anderson been suspected of these crimes, the F.B.I. would have been all over them like white on rice and would have locked offices, confiscated records, paper and electronic, in a New York heart beat. Having paid off..er..bribed..uh..contributed to the right political campaigns they get an opportunity to cover up all of the sins they can before the public and politicians they don't own demand the F.B.I. do its job.

The economic sabotage that Enron et al committed ranks up there with any threat to our national security because what are we without our economic base on solid ground and thus should qualify the perpetrators, both business and political, for summary trial before the military tribunals set up for the Taliban and company. The impact of their wrong doing will have a far deeper impact on American lives than any single act of terrorist sabotage and should at the very least be treated as treason.

People's lives will be lost because their retirement money is history and they won't be able to afford health care. The fact that Enron's political facilitators are as we speak trying to destroy Social Security and Medicare in the name of privatization is only fuel on our personal funeral pyres. There has been a lot of spin by the punditry that the losers in the Enron treason are just spoiled baby boomer cry babies squalling over spilt milk but the pundits neglect to say what they would be doing if it were indeed their milk that had been spilled.

Children who should go to college won't be able to because the money will not be there, the loss to the economy will be incalculable. Kmart and other companies are now already suffering from the fall out and who knows what other unseen economic repercussions will occur. Had any foreign power tried to sabotage our economy like this we would be carpet bombing the devil out of them with in hours.

To treat Enron and it's minions with any less zeal than we use in hunting for bin Laden is unconscionable. And passing the appropriate legislation to prevent it from happening again should rank up there with national defense. Ken Lay et al should be sharing the Cuban cages with their Taliban allies right now till their trial, and their personal fortunes distributed to the one's who have lost everything.