Reply #3: + it is impossible to rec this enough times

[Tansy_Gold]

Don Blankenship is the veritable symbol of all that is evil and unholy about American corporate enterprise. His face should be plastered on every utility pole in the country, with a big huge MURDERER stamped across it.

If anyone should bear the mark and curse of Cain, it is Don Blankenship.



"What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." (Gen. 4:10–12)



I can't help but compare this to the cases from A Civil Action and Erin Brockovitch. Ed Masry is gone, but Erin Brockovitch is still with us and Jan Schlichtmann.

I've been outraged by a lot of things lately, from Enron and Baghdad and Rumsfeld and Libby and Palin and AIG and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. But the evil that is Don Blankenship is something beyond even Cheney and KBR. There's a detachment to the Cheney evil. He, and all those others like him, exist in a carefully constructed bubble that isolates them from those whose lives they so easily discard. And that bubble likewise protects the Wall Street thieves from the lives of the real people that are destroyed so Dimon and Fuld and all the rest of those whose names escape me at the moment can live like mythical sultans.

With Don Blankenship, there's no such separation. His greed is direct, his disdain for the workers is direct, his evil is direct and palpable and hot-blooded.

Damn him. Damn him. Damn him.




Tansy Gold