Interesting piece on that. He might not be “protected,” but he was definitely given special treatment. Most prisoners hate the ruling class even more than the average person for obvious reasons, and even average people are cheering him on.

You got to wait for the trial. Throughout history, but especially this year, we’ve seen many famous trials where the cops blatantly lied about evidence of course in press reports as they often do but also in court on the stand under oath. Just because you heard it doesn’t mean it’s true. Just because someone told you they have evidence of something, doesn’t mean they do.

There are many cases where someone killed the person who murdered their loved one, and they still got convicted of murder.

This case would be seen less like revenge killing, more vigilantism. AFAIK, Luigi didn’t have someone close to him that died due to denied insurance claims. This removed the emotional factor unlike if, say, a person killing the murderer of their child to avenge their child’s death. The averge person have less sympathy to vigilantes than, a person who is avenging the death of their loved ones. Also, the bureaucracy and paperwork behind insurance denials obfuscates who is really responsible. People easily understand stabbing, or shooting someone to death, but doesn’t really make the connection of people dying, with the insurance’s claim denials. There’s no blood, no violence, just a calm and “peaceful” pull on people’s life support. It doesn’t trigger the same emotional response as shooting someone in the middle of the street.

“When peaceful revolution become impossible, violent revolution becomes inevitable.” -President John F. Kennedy

If the system was fair, bealth insurance executives like Brian Thompson would have been indicted for his role in United Healthcare’s evil practices of arbitrarily denying claims, and would have been convicted and in prison already. There would be new laws passed to regulate health insurance companies.

But in our system, people like him get away with doing evil things, so vigilantism becomes inevitable.

So how do we move forward? I think the Luigi Mangione should face a fair, non-politicized trial, by a jury of his peers. The jury should be informed of their rights, including jury nullification, if they choose so (they currently do not get read that in their jury instructions). Hold the trial, let everyone present their arguments, let Luigi state why he did it (if he choses to speak), then let the jury decide his fate.

But moving forward, the health insurance companies have to be regulated, or we’re getting more vigilantes. Its inevitable.

Lawlessness is better than what we have, laws that serve a couple million at everyone else’s, hundreds of million’s expense with no legal recourse.

We get no say in economic policy or regulation, only the how or if to address some of the social issue symptoms of that economy through our legally bribed parties. Arguing over abortion’s legality instead of why productivity per worker has multiplied while the owner class now demands 2 breadwinners in most cases to survive, which is why most abortions happen, not enough to survive. But we don’t legislate the “free” to die in the streets alone market, so the argument becomes forced births or not. The argument should be to fundamentally change what our economy should be oriented to reward like teachers and nurses, and punish like insatiable, sociopathic, antisocial greed and vocations/investments that hurt society for individual profit. But both major parties are well bribed to say that’s evil socialism and tar and feather anyone who would dare say that to either of them.

Our system is already worse than lawlessness, our system is laws made by the wealthy (see ALEC) to extract the very lives from the poor for private profit, that the poor must simply suffer to remain lawful. It is effectively one way lawlessness from above. They can kill you with a dictate to their sycophants to deny more claims while sipping expensive bourbon on a beach, or by ignoring an expensive product safety issue, or by lowering inspection standards to save a buck and poisoning baby formula, and you and/or your baby can die quietly now that they have your money. That’s the law here and now.

Makes lawlessness seem pretty attractive given the current intransigent oligarchy killing us for profit legally…

It does seem they’ll try to use his case as a deterrent to anyone thinking about following in his footsteps. I think they will be harsh and he’ll be made into a martyr. The religious imagery of Saint Luigi may be apt and more than just a meme.

Karen Friedman Agnifilo is an absolute pro who worked in the system for 30 years, I think he’s in very capable hands and if its unduly stacked against in him, I gurantee she will be very vocal about that publicly and she has a massive platform inside and outside the courtroom since she’s an original player in the Meidas Touch Network which is fantastic.

There’s no other lawyer or person in general I would trust more than her for something life or death like this

You have a source for that connection with the judge?

They won’t need to. If the jury is not unanimous, they can keep trying the case. Infinitely.

In the US, a jury can choose to ignore the facts, and they can not be punished for it.