He should have been jailed for looting workers pension funds, or conning controlling shares of his first corporate acquisition out of senile widows. Instead he was a beloved figure among Canada's fiscal and media elite - they loved his unvarnished contempt. But then he pushed it a little too far, got a little too arrogant. He ripped off the wrong people and now he faces up to 35 years in prison. American prison.
The Canadian media elite have gone into shock - see the Globe and Mail's outraged squeals. Consequences are for the little people.
Friday, July 13, 2007
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What I find strange about all the butt-kissing of Black by the media is that the guy is such an obvious nut case. Not just his slimy business dealings which are indicative of a sociopathic nature, but his need to live in insane opulence and the whole ridiculous thing about getting a seat in the House of Lords. These aspects simply shout to the skies that he is very insecure and shallow as a child's wading pool. A secure person does not need to prove anything to anybody and thus can live modestly. A person with any depth knows that obsolete (and bought) titles mean little and that a lot of fancy surroundings do not make you a superior person.
And then there's the sad pretension to literary genius and pontificating intellectual superiority when he's clearly just a blowhard with a thesaurus.
I have a friend who's an auto-didactic expert on 20th century century history. He's says Connie's actually a pretty good writer.
A lot of good books have been written in prison.
Urrrr... just flashed on Babs pressing a withered dug up against the glass in the visitors room like in Midnight Express... have to go throw up my soul now.
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