Poor Tollmans, who have crossed the line that lies between the Good and Bad. Your poor background of European immigrants who left their village of wooden shacks located on the outskirts of Europe, one of the typical “bourgade” as the French would say, at the end of the 19th century in search of a better life in South Africa has triggered in you a greed for power and wealth. Maybe by doing this you have tried very hard to erase your mediocre past but this stain has proven to be resistant to time as much as the blood stains on Lady Macbeth’s hands. A typical colonial syndrome reminescent of Albert Memdi’s “Le colonisateur et le colonise” - the mediocre Europeans who migrate to the colony to oppress the indigenous people in order to enrich and elevate themselves. In this struggle for wealth and social status, they forget about their own dignity and more elevated human values, use ruthless politics, deceit and pursue the power by any means like Macchiavelli’s “Prince”.

The irony is that you have become the colonized yourself. Your immense wealth cannot erase your thick South African accent and you feel alienated in the London higher society as you will never be treated as the British but some despicable foreign “nouveaux riches”. That’s why you feel more at home in your Belgravia ghetto with neighbours such as the Russian mafiosos - Abramovich and other corrupted soulmates of yours. Class cannot be bought with gold. Human dignity, enlightment, being civilised is not part of a social status, but of one’s soul and one’s desire to pursue wisdom and overcome human nature.

In fact, to overcome our human weaknesses, we don’t need money or high social status - something that has never occurred to you and probably never will.

Tony Sypa is like many others that you have stepped upon to acquire power and wealth. He is right in saying that you will rot in hell. However, the hell already exists in this dimension. You may already have bad consciousness but are too scare to admit it. You may be looking at your image in the mirror and feel disgust for yourself. Bea and Stanley - you are getting older and older. You will die soon. You cannot take your riches with you but will rot in the ground like all of us. And maybe that’s why you have overacted by wishing Tony to lose his job in these hard times for the global economy.

I also believe in justice. The Buddhism talks about the cause and effect. You are already collecting the seeds that you have sown.

Nam-myoho-renge kyo!

lg .. i’ve been doing some writing lately , specific to Trafalgar and my time there .. i’ll share it with you when done, but i see it’s gonna take a while ….

hmmmm … yeah , madoff should/will rot in hell too.
I’m not trying to insult the family .. i’m merely hoping that there be some justice , if not on this earth, then through the god i believe in. i take it your some sort of family member or friend to get so insulted, but a fact is a fact .. they are a family of thieves, they hurt many people along the way , and i believe that when a person sins in the eyes of god, and are not repentant for it, they go to hell. brett is the only one i’ve seen be a stand up kinda guy and be repentant …. the others deserve their trip.

as for my family rotting in hell .. well since they lived honorable lives and never swindled any banks or cheated on thier taxes , well sometimes i can feel their angelic presence watching me. and i’m surviving the crisis nicely btw thank you very much. money is not my god.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS !

Insulting the family is trespassing a line you shouldn’t .
I hope your family rots in hell , and doesn’t survive the crisis .

Christmas greetings as well to EB and Tony Sypa. Happy Hanukkah to LG.

This was not a very productive year for this thread, but apparently the wheels of justice have been favorably greased for Stanley.

—TNT