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Interesting parallels between Thompson, the victim and Magioni, the alleged perpetrator. Both graduated from high school at the top of their class and valedictorian. Both excelled at university. One came from a privileged background and the other a humble one but each from a stable family. It appears what brought them together on a sidewalk in NewYork was what one did for a living and how it affected the other, in ways that still need to be determined.

I am thinking anyone who has ever had a dispute with their healthcare provider will also be excluded at the request of the prosecution.

I don’t think it can be shown that this was a random act. It was clearly targeted. There are certainly many random cold blooded murders in New York City, particularly on the subways. But this ain’t one of them.

The OJ Simpson trial showed that police animus towards Blacks would be seen by a jury as justification for letting off the murderer. In this case it will have to be seen if the public animus towards the health insurance industry will produce the same result. Time will tell. Of course a not guilty verdict would seem to say that it is open season on health insurance executives, an unacceptable outcome to the establishment. In that event one could contemplate that the only solution would be for the government to dispose of them and bring in public health care for all.

Yes and conservative affiliations at that.

He has an Aussie accent.

I once got fucked by a dancer in a back cubicle at Campus in Montreal. That was in the good old days when women weren’t allowed in.

I think the trial will be very interesting. His family will likely hire the best team of lawyers. And the public may kick in big time with fundraising. The health insurance industry may find itself on trial as well. At least in the court of public opinion. And New York will be an interesting venue for all of this to take place. A New York jury just acquited an ex-marine who choked a man to death on the subway.

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I imagine that lowly paid worker will receive the reward money. He certainly deserves it.

Another Patty Hearst case.

That looks like fake pic.

I don’t intend to take this thread off topic and certainly not intended to be political but did y’all see pictures of RFKJr the other day shirt less and on a trapeze like contraption with another much younger man doing acrobatics? Just an astounding physique for a 60 something yo man. The guy does some serious gym routines.

It wasn’t on RM for long. Maybe a few days. Maybe someone married him.

That goes against my own personal experience and that of my entire family and friends and acquaintances. While I read about instances of failures in the system, overall Canadians are attached to our system of public ally funded health care and want to improve it, not dispose of it. In the US, only Bernie Sanders has advocated a system such as ours at the highest level of government.

As the NYT is reporting, the killing of the nation’s largest health insurance provider’s chief executive is provoking an avalanche of hatred expressed about the business. It is inevitable that the individual who is the face of the industry would be the focus of the hatred. Hate speech directed to an individual is to be condemned but when the individual is tied to a hated institution then it becomes problematic to ban the speech. An institution that is widely hated by the general public needs to be held accountable. It is the role of government to address the situation because public health is a government responsibility.

Millions of people are saying what the health insurance companies are doing is wrong as well.

Murder is murder but assassinations are a different thing. If the motive was political, then this was an assassination.

This case has brought out many stories of people in the United States waiting months to get insurance company approvals for their needed surgeries only to be turned down. There was a young man interviewed in Florida who injured his nose last year in a sporting accident and he is still waiting to have his nose fixed properly. His insurance would only cover a partial fix.

I don’t think it’s realistic to think they aren’t going to find him. His face is known. It’s only a matter of time. Reminds me of the Versace murder in 1997. I just looked it up and he was 50 as well. Sort of a weird coincidence.

The US system is also a form of rationing, based on ability to pay. The under or uninsured are left to fend for themselves.

Someone wrote that this harkens back to Bonnie and Clyde who became folk hero’s shooting up banks and killing people during the Great Depression. A movie may come from this.

Yeah, I always thought of it as a sort of anthem for the gays. Even if you didn’t understand too much French. You understood the sentiment.

It was reported today that 27 percent of Fortune 500 companies spend on security to protect their CEOs. Meta spends $23 million on security for Mark Zuckerberg. More are expected to up their security measures now in the light of this murder.

I find it remarkable that if this was a planned and targeted killing, that it was carried out at a very early time in the morning outside the hotel where this conference was occurring , a hotel with 2000 rooms and where apparently the victim was staying. The gunman was standing around outside but how did he know the victim would emerge at that hour to take a stroll? How fortuitous is that? Of course flukes like that have happened before. Archduke Ferdinand was in a car that deviated from its planned route in Sarajevo and into the path of a gunman standing on a side street who thought he had missed his chance of shooting the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.