En Ron Hubris: Lay, down, speaks up.
In lieu of rumors that formal charges are eminent, former CEO of Enron Corporation, Ken Lay, broke his silence after a long period of strategic 5th amendment quiet in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

Rightfully so, Lay is heaping all the blame on scapegoat, er, turncoat, Andrew Fastow, Enron’s former Chief Financial Officer. What is disheartening is that Lay is speaking at all. Mr. Lay, you are rich, once a celebrated CEO and one of President Bush’s best friends. Need we remind you? Aside from an exceptional fraction of prosecutions important to uphold the "intergrity of the markets," the rich and powerful in this country go free.

You will not be indicted nor charged. All of these rumors are mere formalities to quench the commoners’ blood-lust. It is heresy to think that those same commoners will be allowed to lay judgment upon you, a rare occurrence the statistical equivalent of lighting striking a gold coin twice in the same pocket.

Let your money do the speaking for you. As CEO of Enron, we celebrated your skills in perfecting complicated layers of foolproof PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY. Those well placed cards are now playing out nicely in the Justice Department. So eat a little crow for public consumption if you must, but please don’t get any on the floor, these types of stains don’t come up and set a bad precedent for the rest of us.



- posted by Monet Oliver d'Place