Leave Jackpot Jimmy Alone!!!!

"Jackpot Jimmy" is the moniker given by the New York Post to AIG executive James Haas, who, per the terms of his signed contract, got a big bonus. The problem is that AIG has been bailed out by the government -- by the taxpayer -- so big bonuses for this failing company strikes most of us as wrong.

Many executives received bonuses; Haas and two others have had their names made public. In protest, the Connecticut Working Families Party organized a bus tour, one that would take of tour of these executives' Fairfield County homes.

Organizers called it “Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous” — a bus tour of the Fairfield homes of two A.I.G. executives. It was organized by the Connecticut Working Families Party, a coalition of labor and community groups. For the participants, the tour was street theater or sorts, bringing the public outrage over the bonuses to the doorsteps of A.I.G. employees.

Luckily, things didn't get ugly.

In the end, the outrage was left on the bus. Outside the executives’ homes, there was only civility on display, and awkward but polite exchanges with stone-faced security guards. Ms. Huguley left her letter in the black mailbox at Mr. Poling’s home, and Mr. Dziubek read his letter and slipped it into the mailbox outside the residence of James Haas, another A.I.G. executive who lives in Fairfield.

“It was never the intent to have any sort of mob action,” said Jon Green, the director of the Connecticut Working Families Party. Mr. Green and others aboard the bus said they did not feel that they had crossed a line or infringed on anyone’s privacy or property. Mr. Green said the two executives were chosen — they had wanted to visit a third but ran out of time — because their names had been reported. “We felt that given the climate, we didn’t need to be outing other individuals,” he added.

Still, something about this makes me nervous. While I think that with the way things are in this world, for people to make millions of dollars is both sinful and obscene. But I worry about crazy people, about angry crazy people.

They're out there.