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To: Jeff Jordan who started this subject	4/8/2002 5:45:36 PM
From: Frederick Smart	of 102

Notes From the Front..... This was shared by a "Fred" recently.... ================= All the meetings, testimony and trials of business versus the government is in one word, rhetoric. We claim that we have an open society and our government is available to protect the people. Government itself is a closed system. How can one closed system, the government, where deals are made behind closed doors, control for the public interest the excesses of business, another closed system? How does the public control the excesses of government and business? Forget government controls on any every aspect of business. Dysfunctional businesses fail as do governments. There is no reason to have Congress involved in Enron. Congress provides nothing to resolve the excesses at Enron except a public forum for politicians to beat their self righteous chests. If civil rights have been violated, laws broken, it is a matter for the courts. When the average citizen calls any federal or state regulatory agency with rare exception the regulators claim to protect the interests of all citizens which in essence is to collect fines, censure and impose jail time while leaving the victims wondering why they asked the government for assistance in the first place. We are not protected by Congress or any other legislative body. It is much like an appendix. When it becomes inflamed it can kill us. So it would seem that rather than call the Enrons of the world to account we the people should ask that our government become totally transparent and accountable. No behind doors deals. No sealed court records. No government hearings without cameras and full sound. There should be cameras and sound in all government offices with total access to the public. No legal proceedings behind closed doors. The public should decide what is good for it and who should represent them in real time. We have the technology to do it all but does the government trust us? Just who is the government? How did Enron get to do what it did in the first place? Where were our regulators? As for business, well run and managed businesses succeed; bad ones eventually fail. Forget regulatory bodies, they are a waste of taxpayer's money. Provide access to the courts for all to afford when there is a dispute; allowing the lawsuits to fly. Turn the cameras on and the sound for all to see if they care to. Let America vote in real time with their money, public opinion and referendums. Dispose of control models such as a money system where the lenders provide money at no risk to them yet earn interest in perpetuity. An open society is open for all to see not just the select few. What possible difference would it make to rein in Enron to the ordinary citizen? The pensioners and the investors in Enron were greedy until they were burned. Why should anyone protect me or anyone else from greed? Free markets and total transparency build trust and prosperity. What is the alternative? It certainly is not a government that does not trust its citizens to act in their own best interests. ============== 119293!!

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