Now look.
Obviously the cold blooded murder of a CEO in the cess pit of self interest that is the American Insurance Industry demands tears from us all and a great gnashing of teeth.
Brian Thompson was only paid $10million last year the poor poppet.
Imagine all those millions of Americans his greedy industry deny coverage to every year while he is on over $10million a year.
We should weep. Poor Brian.
However, maybe, just maybe, the ongoing assassination of CEOs might be a good thing for us all?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not justifying the assassination of Brian, I’m just casually observing maybe it would be better regulated.
Like each December we have a purge pf CEOs rather than just picking the odd one off.
A Season of CEO Purge.
I’m feeling festive.
100 Companies produce 71% of CO2.
Those CEOs don’t give a shit about the damage they are doing and clipping the ticket to Armageddon.
Maybe they would give a fuck about the damage their product causes if there’s an annual purge of CEOs each December when it isn’t illegal to shoot them?
Like Christmas Eve each year for 24 hours we can hunt CEOs of corporations linked to human misery.
If they can profit causing pain for selfish venal reasons, let’s spend 24 hours a year annually hunting them for payback?
Again, not supporting the murder of CEOs, just suggesting we could better regulate it better.
I’m being facetious of course, but the real elites, not the culture elites promoting woke dogma who distract you, I mean the REAL elites are terrified by the out pouring of support for Luigi because the moment the people become conscious and revolt against the systems of exploitative capitalism, the real elites can’t control the narrative.
The elites WANT a culture war.
The elites WANT a race war.
The elites are AFRAID of class war.
The elites are AFRAID of solidarity.
Make the elites afraid, celebrate Luigi!
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You are justifying murder. And, btw, Luis Mangione is also rich. No health insurance company denied him anything. You also cannot prove Thompson ended anyone’s life. This is irresponsible. Use facts to back your claims.
While I only support peaceful ways to solve problems the shooting by Luis Mangione compared to the Saudi doctor (Taleb A) in Germany show completely different ways to resolve their anger. Mangione selected his victim and did not physically harm anyone else, Taleb A seems to have wanted to kill and injure as many people as possible with no evidence available to show that he had specific people to target.
While Martyns article is provocative it certainly does not inspire me to want to murder anyone and the outpouring of support for Mangione along with what is public knowledge about the US health/insurance system would suggest that you are out of touch with reality with the claim that you cannot prove that Thompson ended anyone’s life.
@ karen
“You also cannot prove Thompson ended anyone’s life.” In the role he was in, the one he was paid $10 mil U$A to do, can you prove he didn’t?
You, are likely one of Them so fuck off.
A great idea @ M.B.
Seen this film?
The Purge.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/
Whooosh.
I suspect your whole mindset is only equipped with a capitalist’s bag of macros essential for survival. Thre is no alternative understanding.
Just as a matter of curiosities, where are you and where were you.
And as for the @Bonnie and @ KillerWhite above – believe me! It’s pointless even trying to engage
“The arc of history may be long but it bands towards justice”
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“….maybe, just maybe, the ongoing assassination of CEOs might be a good thing for us all?” M.B.
I would disagree.
But Luigi Mangione has made us conscious of one simple truth. Which is this;
The people who commit these massive crimes, have names and identities.
But extrajudicial killing them?
Where would that stop?
The CEOs have the power and the money to recruit effective heavily armed and professionally trained killing machines and keep them on their pay role indefinitely. Think about that.
One day, when climate change, is ravaging the planet and millions are dying in extreme weather events, and no one is safe, there WILL be a legal Nuremburg process set in place to identify and prosecute those individuals responsible.
I have long advocated that these individual CEOs names be collected now and collated and put on a public register, for the day when those prosecutions and arrests begin. Maybe the thought, that one day they and their accomplices will be held accountable for their actions in the present, some time in the future, might slow them down a bit.
Whether individuals if found guilty in some future court for crimes being committed now, should be sentenced to death, as those found guilty at Nuremburg were, should be left up to the courts.
Personally I think prison and stripping of all the fabulous wealth accumulated by them and held by their families be totally stripped from them, to used to compensate their victims and remediate their damage.
We are all guilty and all victims of global warming .Just being alive means you add to the use of a diminishing resource and to live and support yourself and others depending on you adds to the problem. Many things done to reverse global, warming turn out to be ineffective like wind turbines and poor recycling.
The Nuremberg trials are not a good model for us to follow. Those who could have been found guilty of crimes but were useful to the victorious states (Gestapo and SS officers, rocket scientists and such like) were not put on trial and vast numbers of lesser criminals escaped justice altogether.
We should not even be contemplating trials of the supposed leaders in the manifold crimes of global capitalism, for two reasons. Firstly because such planning is ludicrously premature. Secondly because, just as was the case in Nazi Germany, most of the population have some degree of complicity, either by act or omission, in those crimes. To single out ringleaders for trial, to make them scapegoats for the crimes of pretty well an entire people, would be to gloss over that important though uncomfortable truth.
Certainly, our rulers, including those in the Realm of New Zealand, are complicit in the most horrific crimes against humanity, right up to the crime of genocide. We must concentrate on calling them to account politically, and postpone for the moment at least any thought of bringing them to criminal trial, while dismissing entirely the notion of extra-judicial execution.
The problem with this reasoning will become apparent when left wing activists and political commentators are shot in the back by Nazi assassins. So while my sympathy is reserved for the victims of capitalist corporations rather than their CEOs, I cannot approve of Mangione’s actions. If it comes to civil war in the US, or in New Zealand, as it well may, we should be very clear on the rules of engagement for tangata motu. These were laid down by Henare Taratoa in 1863 and they remain valid today. Only those bearing arms and directly engaged in violence should be met with violence.
“…..the real elites, not the culture elites promoting woke dogma who distract you, ….are terrified” MB
Watch the following YouTube video of Jamie Peck, the organiser who set up a legal defense fundraiser for Luigi Mangione. Jamie Peck had previously been interviewed on CNN.
At the time of this video interview, Peck’s fundraiser for Mangione’s defence had raised $209,000, US.
Jamie Peck on the wide class unity, Starting @3:11 minutes
“….No, I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire life.
Certainly not since the beginning of my political life.
I really can’t think of anything else in recent memory that has united
working class people across lines of political difference.
I mean, we’ve had comments on the on the fundraiser from Democrats, from Republicans, even one person who says they’re an NYPD officer commenting anonymously, because they’re afraid for their job.
My friend whose whole family is Republicans showed it to her mom, uh that the clip of me on CNN, and her mom said she thought it was awesome.
She’s showing me comments from, you know, kind of right-wing country boys, all just so excited that somebody has finally done something to challenge the power of these predatory health insurance companies….”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWtOLZR5Kqc
We are well past the point in our societies where the peasants would have marched with pitchforks and burnt the CEOs castles and stuck their heads on pikes.
It is only the ruling classes overwhelming dominance and the advance of technology that has created the distance and deception to avoid this happening.
Celebrating Mangione is legit, while feeling sorry for the CEO who was only doing what someone else would do is also legit.
It’s a warning shot. Time for a system change.
Capitalism is competition is the jungle is barbarism.
Cooperation is civilisation.
Let’s start.
(or else)
Keep the peasants dumb, distracted, discouraged, and disarmed. Bread & circuses, and definitely no pitchforks. That’s the rules and we’ll have no agitators rocking the boat either.
The alternative relies on a functioning education system to know the difference between dogshit and boot polish. That’s a big ask in an economy ravaged by 40 years of free market economics where only money guarantees knowledge.
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