A crisis of legitimacy?

[joanna bujes]

Yesterday, a major witness against Sharon gets blown up by a car bomb. 
Today an Enron exec commits "suicide." As a friend observes: It's a little 
known fact that most suicides drive their cars out into the street and stop 
in a turning lane as a convenient place to blow their brains out. Right!

Could we be heading for a little/big crisis of legitimacy here?
Cooperative witnesses killed? Auditors cheating? The president stealing an 
election? This is all very well for a Sopranos episode, but is it good for 
business?

If the American people begin to see that business as usual is an endless 
collusion between the rich, the powerful, and the criminal, what exactly 
will they go to war to defend? And, even more fundamental, how can you have 
business operating when you cannot distinguish between your bank, your 
employer, and an armed thug. There is not even a pretense of legality 
remaining.

Socialism? Barbarism?

Joanna Bujes