Enron Billionaires Cheer as Lowly Millionaires Take Their Place in Prison
According to a report in the July 12, 2004 Sunday New York Times, former assistant treasurer of the Enron Corporation Lea Fastow will move into the Federal Detention Center, where she will serve a one-year sentence after pleading guilty to tax evasion. After reading the harrowing prison experience that awaits her, my fellow Elites should breathe a collective sigh of relief that we have such willing minions to take the fall for us when we need them.

After all, that’s what scapegoats are for. Thank our billions that it only costs millions to buy these corporate lackeys who are willing to put up with such dreadful conditions as windowless, “closet-sized cells,” and using the toilet “under the gaze of cellmates,” so that our brethren, the likes of Ken Lay & company, can go free without even having to face the common-folk hassle of being charged.

Being suspected is a heavy burden to bear, but at least it doesn’t change our magnificent lifestyle any. Could you imagine trading our gold plated abodes for a stainless steel hole under the auspices of a sweaty, bulging bunk mate named Lefty? No, No, No, we are Billionaires, and have invested many large fortunes in the George Bush White House to keep our names out of the legal system. All we have to do every now and then is throw in a few sacrificial legal lambs like this Fastow couple (yes, her husband, Andrew, is going away too,) and we keep the commoner’s thirst for justice quenched.

Yes, it’s a good day to be a Billionaire when the Millionaire under you takes your bullet.
We should send a fruit basket or something; I hear prison food is deplorable.

- posted by Monet Oliver d'Place