Criminals.

Editor.

People who are not inclined to plunder, like Alan Greenspan, for example, or the NYT Editorial Board, tend to ascribe a moral system that is based on a common sense of decency to people who actually do plunder, who really are thieves, who have no compunction about killing or robbing whoever has a nickel in their pocket in order to get it into theirs.

If any good comes from this latest financial debacle, not to mention from the utter destruction of the country of Iraq by cruel monsters similarly lacking in compassion and empathy, or fascist pigs willing to steal the presidency from everyday good-hearted souls, it will be that well-meaning people in this country finally wake up to the fact that criminals are not nice people and that they do not know better. The behavior of criminals is indeed exactly what you see, and they make no apologies for it.

re: "Loans? Did We Say We’d Do Loans?" (10/29/2008)