[wizzler]

I can't summon up much sympathy for her. From what I understand it is the covering up and not cooperating that is nipping at her heels.

Thing is, she was being pursued for something ("insider trading") that is not wrong, and that is based in terrible law. Anyone who values liberty, capitalism and the free market SHOULD have sympathy for her.

[mewzilla]

Anyone who values liberty, capitalism and the free market SHOULD have sympathy for her.

Wiz, insider trading is antithetical to all of the above.

[RightWhale]

the free market

The market isn't free if there is insider trading.

[sheltonmac]

Anyone who values liberty, capitalism and the free market SHOULD have sympathy for her.

Or at least have sympathy for what this might do to others in the future as a result. The fact of the matter is that "insider trading" laws are just plain wrong. It allows the feds to stick their noses where they don't belong. Anyone who thinks these laws serve to help the free market doesn't understand the concept of a free market.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

So, seeing as I am ignorant of the law to which you refer, you are saying that if all the posters here own stock in a company and 5 of us are on social terms with the CEO and board members, that it is just astute business for the 5 who are on the "in" to receive information about the stock's upward or downward movement that will net them an increase in capital and that the rest of us will just have to suck it up and deal with the results of being kept in the dark, for reasons of personal gain by the 5?

You never took the time to think this through, really. Or, you have been brainwashed and are beyond redemption.

[Doompieyashick]

Thing is, she was being pursued for something ("insider trading") that is not wrong, and that is based in terrible law. Anyone who values liberty, capitalism and the free market SHOULD have sympathy for her.

How can you say it is NOT WRONG to steal from others?

When Martha makes a killing overnight with insider knowledge, SOMEONE ELSE looses money. Perhaps some soon-to-be retirees in their pension funds.

When Hillary miraculously turned $1000 into $100,000 on cattle futures, SOMEONE ELSE had their $100,000 instantly reduced to $1000.

If Hillary did anything illegal or unethical in that trade, she effectively STOLE $99,000 from a fellow citizen.

It's not quite as black and white with Martha, but she was STILL STEALING from others based on an uneven playing field.

[Bush2000]

Thing is, she was being pursued for something ("insider trading") that is not wrong, and that is based in terrible law

BS. Insider trading is a corruption of the capital markets. It shouldn't be tolerated.