[Oblivion437]

Just to avoid misunderstanding, I'll say how I REALLY feel by copying a rant I wrote somewhere else...

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I do agree that it may be somewhat...Oh hell, I'm not going to kid myself, insider trading is so morally bankrupt that the producers of Salo would want to party with these assholes. I don't want to get off on a rant here, but how you can ■■■■ somebody out of their honestly earned multiple millions and not feel at all bad, is so far beyond me that I won't even try to comprehend a kind of greed so virulent that it belongs in a Frank Norris novel. These people spend three years in a resort and then they're out of the box, and free to ■■■■ someone else. Insider trading breaks just about every ethical code in the world, except for theirs...Anyone who would actively defend Martha Stewart's position knowing full well what she did deserves to be locked in a box with very hungry rats.

Is it so much to ask that she tell her fellow stockholders that things were about to turn sour, and maybe tell them to pull out while the money was still good? I'm no advocate of forced civic duty, I've voiced multiple times here and elsewhere how I feel about that sort of thing, but I think she was obligated to do that much. She knew something that, by her inaction renders her complicit. That she actively profited from it lends her first-position culpability.

[ 07-19-2004, 02:45 AM: Message edited by: Oblivion437 ]