A crisis of legitimacy?

[rhisiart at earthlink.net]

At 05:06 PM 1/25/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>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?

their fantasies.


>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