Reply #18: Funny how the elite's loyal servants feel they'll find favor with their masters.

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They don't know or have forgotten how fast Kenny Boy Lay threw the ENRON big shots under the bus.

Larry Chin puts class war into perspective, another operation by Capitalism's Invisible Army:

Enron: ultimate agent of the American empire

by Larry Chin
February 2002
Online Journal

Contents

* Cold Warriors in suits

* Extorting and racketeering in America

* The looting of Harvard

* Enron's past overseas adventures: collusion and exploitation

* Enron, the Bush administration, and the Central Asian war

* Enron, Halliburton, Bush and bin Laden

* The cover-up that no one is talking about

In portraying Enron as a "scandal", and as an isolated case of
overheated capitalism and "unusual political influence", the
mainstream American corporate media and congressional
investigators have studiously hidden the truth: Enron, like many
multinational corporations, has long functioned as an operational
arm of the US government, the ruling financial elite and as a
weapon of economic, political, and territorial hegemony.

The Enron scandal, arguably the biggest financial and political
crime in modern history, exposes a terminal malignancy at the heart
of world politics, and global capitalism itself.


Cold Warriors in suits

In a "free market world" in which (1) the goals of the state,
corporations, world financial bodies (World Trade Organization,
World Bank and IMF) and the national security apparatus
(intelligence agencies and military) are indistinguishable, (2)
these groups plan and conduct operations cooperatively, and (3)
government and business elites (linked by longtime social ties)
move seamlessly between public and private sectors, the hydra that
is Enron is nightmarishly uncontroversial --- and quintessentially
American.

Consider the company's leadership:

* Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was a Pentagon official during the
Vietnam War, and a friend of the Bush family for decades.

* Frank Wisner Jr., a board member of the subsidiary Enron Oil
& Gas, has intimate CIA ties, and is the son of former CIA
deputy Director Frank Wisner Sr., who was present at the
creation of the CIA.

* Board member and finance committee chairman Herbert "Pug"
Winokur is a long-time Washington and Wall Street insider,
intimately tied to military and intelligence communities.
Winokur is the CEO of the private Capricorn Holdings.
Capricorn is the lead investor of DynCorp. He was the
chairman of DynCorp's board of from 1987 to 1997, and remains
a DynCorp board member and chair of its compensation
committee. Winokur's Capricorn Holdings was used as an
investment vehicle in NHP, which from 1987 to 1997 was linked
to massive HUD housing fraud and money laundering.

Enron's symbiotic relationship to the CIA/Pentagon-based
Bush/Cheney oligarchy is well documented. As a pioneer of energy
deregulation during his administration, George H.W. Bush virtually
created Enron, and paved the way for its meteoric growth. And, as
David Walsh wrote, "to speak of `connections' or `intimate ties'
between Enron and the Bush regime nearly misses the point. To a
large extent, the present administration is an extension of the
Enron board of directors".

CONTINUED...

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Those who are connected to the Empire think they will do all right. And the closer they are to the Emperor, the better they'll do. Like us, We the People who are the cannon fodder and the taxpaying mopes left holding the bill, they're only safe as long as they're of use.