President Bush called Lay, who was a friend of the Bush family and a large donor to the president’s campaign, “a good guy” after learning of his death.
Uh…no, Mr. President…Mr. Lay was not a good guy.
Enron’s bankruptcy, the biggest in U.S. history when it was filed in December 2001, cost 4,000 employees their jobs and many of them their life savings. Investors lost billions. And Ken Lay was in charge and responsible for all of this.
A good person doesn’t ruin the lives of thousands of people, and then buy a $200,000 yacht for his wife’s birthday party, despite claiming to be $100 million in debt. On the yacht purchase, Lay glibly told jurors it was “difficult to turn off that lifestyle like a spigot.”
His obvious contempt for people beneath him and his own unquenchable greed make Ken Lay the antithesis of being a “good guy”.
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Regardless of my personal disdain for Mr. Lay, and all that he stood for — I have no respect for the maggots who are overjoyed by his death.
I’m a proponent of the death penalty, and write about it on these pages often. But the death of even the most brutal of animals never brings me joy. And I’m a bit disgusted by people who can find joy and laughter in Ken Lay’s death — like these dirtbags:
Harold M. Clemens at ghetto uprising:
I started smiling from ear to ear when CNN broadcasted news this devil (Ken Lay for those of you who live under a rock) died. Does that make me a bad person?
Yes, Harold. It does make you a bad person.
Heather Hansma at MortalGoddess:
I laughed out loud in the office yesterday when I found out Ken Lay died of a heart attack…I am sort of upset he won’t get raped in prison and a movie is made about it, however.
You and Harold should hook up; you worthless pieces of shit deserve each other.
Sometimes I wonder if Bush is losing his mind or if I lost mine when I voted for him. Course I wouldn’t vote for Kerry under any circumstances. I’m getting disgusted with just about the whole lot of our “representatives”.
The bloggers you mentioned above are nobodys wanting to be somebodys .. trash.
There is always a chance that this scumbag didnt even die and faked his own death.
You are HILARIOUS!
Yes I am happy he died. I do wish he got raped in prison, and I think the mother fucker got off light by dying before his conviction. In fact, I am a misanthrope. I’ll be happy when you are all dead. No really. I really hate humanity.
Why did you choose my personal LiveJournal to quote, sir? Why do you act like I’m a journalist publishing to CNN? You are a worthless piece of shit for acting like your opinion matters more. Good job for finding random LJ and Blogspot posts and blasting them.
Oh, and sorry Harold. I’m aready taken by the biggest, most beautiful bull-dyke you’ve ever wished you could have (but can’t, ’cause she’s all mine, bitch).
Well, with the way the world is today, you should be glad mother fuckers like this are dead. When a corp has the ability to ruin the lifes of thosands for their own welfare, i think our country has taken a turn for the worst. whats wrong with being happy someone dies? are you not happy the cow died so you can have your hamburger? Hell, I’ll probably do cartwheels when my grandmother dies…
Dear Mr. Robbie. We all feel relief when certain people die. It’s inevitable, rational, and most importantly, it’s okay. Perhaps we would rather they completely changed into a totally new person, but that’d be just a bit far fetched.
I’m not a proponent of the death penalty. The death penalty is very silly and has no obvious advantages (though significant disadvantages) over life imprisonment. So before I continue I do not mean to say that I call for the death of anyone if it can be avoided. I’m also fully aware that my position is completley created by my experience (largely cultural) and that if I were close to Ken Lay I would be upset about his death. But the fact is that I’m not someone who is close to Ken Lay. Honestly, my feelings are mostly just “eh”. He wasn’t going to do the world I live in any more harm from prison, but NPR would likely periodically comment on the state of his prison life and that would bore me. So “eh”.
There are, however, other people who do continue to effect my life in ways I don’t like. And when the negative significantly outways the positive, and when I have little reason to imagine them changing, I will be a little more comfortable when they die. And my point is Robbie, that you are the same way. Unless you have some unhealthy, neurotic and symbiotic sympathy for all people at all times, which you don’t, you feel similarly to the way I do when I hear of more deaths on the news. If it doesn’t affect your life in any tangible way, or if it makes your life a little more comfortable, though outwardly you may preach your sadness and horror, inside you still feel “eh”.