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To: Praxeus
Mass criminal is pretty much self explanatory.

No it isn't. It's a meaningless phrase you invented.

Mr. Lay did his crimes on a mass scale in that his crimes affected masses of people.

His crimes seem to have noticeably affected a small group of people, consisting entirely of the subset of Enron employees who refused to plan their retirement intelligently.

His crimes cost me some money, but I wouldn't victimologize myself as a person "affected" by Lay's malfeasance in any significant way.

Mr. Lay in no way paid for his crimes in this life just because he went to the next life.

He lost his good name, his fortune and the stress apparently put him into an early grave. He probably would have preferred 10 years in prison to the coronary.

336 posted on 07/05/2006 9:36:28 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: wideawake

Ken Lay the Victim?


339 posted on 07/05/2006 9:41:10 AM PDT by H. Paul Pressler IV
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To: wideawake
His crimes seem to have noticeably affected a small group of people, consisting entirely of the subset of Enron employees who refused to plan their retirement intelligently

Pretty much everyone in Corporate America dealing with Sarbanes-Oxley was affected by Lay's shenanigans.

340 posted on 07/05/2006 9:43:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: wideawake

"It's a meaningless phrase you invented"

Meaningless to some perhaps..

Adjective: mass mas

1. Gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole
- aggregate, aggregated, aggregative

Noun: criminal krim(u)nul or krimin(u)l

1. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
- felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor

"I wouldn't victimologize myself as a person "affected" by Lay's malfeasance in any significant way"

Our justice system decided differently.

"He lost his good name, his fortune and the stress apparently put him into an early grave"

That's what happens to criminals sometimes. He still did not pay his debt.

"He probably would have preferred 10 years in prison to the coronary"

Then he should have come clean at the beginning and saved himself the stress. Instead, he lied and tried to hide his crimes.

He took his chances and lost the game.


348 posted on 07/05/2006 9:54:31 AM PDT by Praxeus
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