Ralph Nader, Doing What He Does Best



Demand a Say, a Big Say

by Ralph Nader



Published by In the Public Interest



The
widely televised indictment and arraignment of the hand-cuffed Enron
CEO, Ken Lay — one of George W. Bush's closest friends and funders —
should not lull anyone into thinking that this is anything but a
limited move against corporate crime in an ocean of still-at-large
corporate criminals.



With
trillions of dollars stolen or drained away from small investors,
pensionholders and workers, this corporate crime wave receives less
Justice Department enforcement money than the cost of an annual
Congressional salary grab.



To place
the defiant, media-touring, though indicted, Ken Lay in perspective,
watch Lou Dobbs on CNN who has a regular tally on how few of these
corporate crooks are even prosecuted. Ken Lay now says he did not know
what his immediate subordinate executives were doing cooking the books
and inflating the stock which increased the value greatly of Ken Lay's
stock options. He just plumb did not know. What a gas for a corrupt
energy company that collapsed on the backs of thousands of its
employees now without their jobs and without their 401(k)s!



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