They absolutely did have every right that every other American has.
Enron did not have the power to alter federal law.
We send up gas station robbers for long terms in hard prisons; Ken deserved no less.
We're not debating whether Lay deserved a good long prison sentence. We all agree on that.
My original point is that people here are expressing venom toward Lay that they normally reserve for people like Hitler or Osama bin Laden.
In other words, they've lost all sense of proportion. I mean I've seen comments here regarding his death that remind me of similar comments made when Zarqawi was killed.
How can the two be compared, really? Weird stuff.
KEN LAY GASSED SIX MILLION JEWS!
I wrote: "Enron employees did not have this liberty to the degree afforded most employees at most companies"
You wrote: "They absolutely did have every right that every other American has."
Again I will state that, unlike the rest of us, at the very moment when we found out that there was trouble in Enron and were able to pull our investments out, the Enron employees were *locked* because Lay et al. had elected to change Enron's 401k plan administrator.
Therefore they did *not* have the same freedom as the rest of us to act upon market conditions. They did have latitude prior to the news, but since we and they were both being lied to about the situation, they had no idea there was any reason to bail out. If this is "their fault" then IMO that's no different from blaming a mugging victim.
Anyway the rest of your post I agree on. I shed no tears for Lay's death but he's not a mass-murdering terrorist!