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  1. This is a story that is such a tragedy. Madoff’s victims, his family, and now the spinning of myths about it all. Soon some will see hiom as a kindly old gentlemen who, through his desire to help people got caught up in his own web of deception. Oh, sure!

    Madoff is truly a sociopath. He seems to have no sense of shame or guilt over the damage he caused to all his victims or to his familly. He is now basking in the celebrity of his prison milieu and how safe and worry free he feels. The story illustrates that for many prison is not punishment. For madoff it is merely a pleasant place to rest and feel safe. Hard manual labor with very plain food and no entertainment coupled with having to periodically face one of his victims and apologize might be provide some modicum of punishment. Putting him in stocks daily on the corner of Braod and Wall might help him understand what he has done. It must be heartbreaking to his victims to hear him say he feels safe and well cared for in prison.

    Madoff is just one in a long line of white collar criminals who are more dangerous to people’s material well being than any second story burgulars. The lesson to be learned is that anyone who offers a return on assets that seems too good to be true is likely to be a shyster. No one, no one, cares as much about you and your money as you do.

  2. Madoff is loose change mingling with lent in a bum’s greasy pocket compared to Greenspan, Paulson, Bernanke, and Geithner.

  3. And you’re right, of course. What was that book: “The Stranger Next Door” about how crime reporter Ann Rule was a friend of serial killer Ted Bundy whilst being unware of his heart’s calling?

    I also note that the man who wrote a book on human gullibility “invested” with Madoff. And lost.

    OTOH, Ruth benefitted. That morally compromises her.

  4. Madoff’s talk, about how he feels safer in prison than outside, not having to make decisions, feeling well-cared-for and no fear, is eerily evocative of the Left’s ideal life situation! Feeling safe, cared for, free of fear and decision-making…This is what the Left is constantly telling us we should want in life. Even to the point of echoing the two more dubious of FDR’s “Four Freedoms,” Freedom from Want and Freedom from Fear.

    How appropriate – and how vindicating of conservative, or I should say, American, principles – that those goals can best be realized in the ultimate absence of freedom – that is, in prison.

    That should somehow be made into an RNC ad…

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