Um, dude, he didn’t commit suicide. He died of a heart attack. He may have escaped punishment, but he didn’t chose to.
He’s dead. I don’t know what was in his heart, but he ruined a lot of innocent people’s lives with his negligence and deception. Was he evil? Personally, I don’t see evil as much as I see greed and criminal stupidity. Of course, it’s easy for me because I wasn’t personally harmed by him.
It does bug me that he was allowed to vacation in his Aspen home a few weeks after being sentenced. He should have been handcuffed and shipped off to jail like other convicted felons.
In any event, I was shocked to hear of his death. It shouldn’t have been surprising given the (self-imposed) stress that he went through following the collapse of his company, but I was shocked nonetheless.
As far as justice goes, I think that dying at the age of 64, well ahead of the time he probably would have died had he (or his underlings) not pulled all those shenanigans. So I’d say justice was served. Death is a pretty damn severe repercussion.
More like, his brain stem suddenly realized there’s no way out of this legal circus, he’s gonna do time, never mind that it’s at Club Fed (a better life than most of us manage to sustain by WORKING for a living) and his five kids & 12 grandkids can visit every week…but who cares about them? He’ll never be able to truly enjoy all that money he stole. Might as well check out now, leave everyone else behind. After all, God loves him. God will forgive him. :rolleyes:
Watch the documentary. Lay was an idiot…his whole vision was, if you’ve got an idea, you should profit from it RIGHT AWAY, before you put the idea into practice. Basically, it’s like I’ve got an idea for a movie, so I should be paid $50,000,000 right now, though it’s not even written down yet. Seriously, that was Enron’s business plan. It was outright fraud from the very beginning. Watch the documentary.
Not only is Kenny Boy cheating the jailor by kicking the bucket. His timely death may make it much more difficult for his victims and the Feds to recieve recompense. According to the NYT
I can’t believe some of you are sayin “Yes, he was eevil, but you are just as bad for celebrating his death.” BULLSHIT! The sorry fuck and his cronies screwed thousands of people out of the best years of their lives.
The American Dream, work hard, have kids, buy a house, move on up, and then retire with a decent pension, get a house on the lake maybe, sit on the porch with the grandkids. That’s not a lot to ask out of life is it?
But no, this greedy, sleazy evil bastard took it all away, and whined to the end with no remorse. I would celebrate his death except I wish he could have spent HIS retirement years in a 5x9 concrete cell.
Rot in Hell Ken Lay, you sorry, evil fuck. I hope you suffered horribly before you died.
Yep, maybe sleeping there. Last I heard, (and this is subject to update, I could be wrong) 20,000 ex-Enron employees might get a check for $3500 each from some insurance funds that apparently weren’t looted.
Hell of a retirement there. Probably doesn’t even pay the monthly wages of all the hired help in the Aspen house Lay died in.
In my view, no. The very labelling of a person as “evil” automatically smacks of self-righteousness. The question immediately becomes: if (fill in the blank) is evil, how pure are you?
“Imperfect, but less evil than (fill in the blank)” you say?
If you can admit to being imperfect yourself, you have no position in the judge’s seat.
