Free Jeff Skilling!!!

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<p>This is a petition to free Jeff Skilling. Please sign it.</p>

<p>/sign</p>

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<p>Woohoo. Free the guy who is unethical and screwed over the general public as well as millions of investors.</p>

<p>I hope he goes to jail. Thats where people of his kind belong.</p>

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<p>how about if we just go a little lighter on his sentence.... instead of 325 years in prison, we just give him 300 years?</p>

<p>yeah, that sounds fair.</p>

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<p>the guy is brilliant and should be rewarded, I'm glad he made millions</p>

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<p>I suggest the book Conspiracy of Fools is read. Its extremely well written and factually accurate. </p>

<p>Being brilliant doesn't mean a person should be rewarded. If brilliance is used in an unethical manner (Enron btw has led to millions of retirees, investors, pension funds to lose incredible sums) it should be punished severely.</p>

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<p>it seems to me that brilliant and corrupt/monstrous are not mutually exclusive... should society reward such people bk123?...fortunately no</p>

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<p>Jeff Skilling is a business legend; history will regard him as a hero.</p>

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<p>Business legent?! What did he do that was all that special? Hurting millions of investors, retirees, employees, pension funds and artificially causing MILLIONS of people to be without power isn't stuff that business legends are made of.</p>

<p>History will regard him as a corrupt and unethical fool.</p>

<p>Again I suggest you read the book. It shall paint a fairly realistic picture for you of what was going on at Enron. If, even after knowing all the details, you believe that Skilling is a business legend than I hope that you never succeed in the business arena because people like you hurt the reputation of businessmen, true capitalists and cause great harm to innocent parties.</p>

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<p>bk123, you're an idiot.</p>

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<p>First off, let me say that I have been browsing these boards for quite a while and this topic finally compelled me to register.


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<p>Let me say this, while you may not agree with his business tactics, you cannot deny that he is a genius. What he did required planning and tact, something you will never have "DieselBoy". Second, many of the investors were rich out of their minds to begin with. It is time that these people give back to people like Jeff Skilling. He is a business hero and history will regard him as a legend. Do not bash one's success simply because this person will be ten times more successul than you will ever be. </p>

<p>-I sign</p>

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<p>RMichaelson = Useless
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=2026789#post2026789%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=2026789#post2026789&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>And how does that matter pertain to this thread? Get back on topic... maybe you aren't too bright.</p>

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<p>Why do I feel like bk123 and RMichaelson are the same person? Maybe idiots just think alike (though I'm sure the two of them regard themselves as "geniuses")?</p>

<p>Either way, if Skilling is such a genius, why is he going to prison for the next 300 years just like every other two-bit book-cooker? It takes a lot more smarts to ethically and legally make money than to do what Skilling did. Enron did what it did because it COULDN'T succeed.</p>

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<p>We are the same person because we happen to agree about Jeff Skilling...? Come on bud, keep up.</p>

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Second, many of the investors were rich out of their minds to begin with. It is time that these people give back to people like Jeff Skilling.

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<p>Skilling didn't deserve anything because he lied and used illegal practices to take that money. That is no act of a genius, that is an act of a crook. </p>

<p>And no MANY of the investors were retirees and employees of Enron who saw their life saving evaporate due to crooks like Skilling, Lay, Fastow. These people should rot in jail.</p>

<p>Its painfully obvious that you two are the same person. Stupidity can shine through easily.</p>

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<p>RMichaelson, you're an extreme idiot...."[fraud] requires planning and tact"
haha</p>

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<p>he may have been a genius, but he didn't use that genius for a good purpose. Genius has little to do with being a legend, what makes you a legend is how you use your genius, and all he did was use it to benefit himself at the expense of others. It was a choice he made, and now he must suffer the consequences of his actions. </p>

<p>Was he a genius, he may have been. But far from a legend because of the way he used his genius. He only used it to benefit himself at the expense of others. I'd also like to point out the hipocracy of you praising him for taking money off of people who were already too rich, while at the same time criticizing anyone else saying that we're jsut jealous that he's rich.</p>

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<p>Mr. Skilling used his genius to become a millionaire. </p>

<p>What have you done?</p>

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<p>DieselBoy-
This post was a bit confusing, and I was hoping maybe you could help clear things up. I'm sure many of us are wondering what you meant by this statement...</p>

<p>"you're an idiot... [fraud] requires planning and tact.. haha"
Maybe you can explain to us how Jeff Skilling's fraudulant crimes did not require planning/tact? You are hinting at Jeff Skilling being a cruel man who didn't plan anything, being that fraud does not require any planning up front. </p>

<p>Please explain how fraudulant acts do not require planning/tact, particularly relating to this matter. Thanks in advance,</p>

<p>Ryan</p>

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<p>This is an obvious troll posting. The same person has posted under three different names--and made the same ridiculously weak arguments under all three names.</p>

<p>I strongly suggest we all boycott this thread immediately. There is no reason to allow this person to believe that he/she is somehow making any sense, or that anyone cares about his/her effort to enflame emotions;--which is obviously the only reason why this thread was ever started.</p>