If a poor or middle class person is killed, its a murder.
When its the rich CEO of a huge corporation, its an assassination.
Why is that? What's the difference?
It's a big club, and we normal people aren't in it.
This morning’s CEO assassination in NYC
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It's a big club, and we normal people aren't in it.
If a poor or middle class person is killed, its a murder.
When its the rich CEO of a huge corporation, its an assassination.
Why is that? What's the difference?
Semantics. Both are equally dead.
LVSteve
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What a stupid idea. This is the problem with healthcare being treated as an industry. Pretty soon some suit will look for efficiencies like he would in a toy factory turning out Hotwheels. Medicine takes as long as it takes, it simply doesn't fit in the same box as real industry.
Money and a slow news day. If yesterday was a day ending with 'y' in the US, 35-40 people were murdered. Without a media circus afterward.
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That is what I was thinking...
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Nevermind-I see that this has been discussed.
Remember....rich people get assassinated; po folks get killed
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Imagine insurance companies to stop treating hospital beds like tables in a busy restaurant
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Seems to me that the term Assassination is appropriate mainly to planned and purposeful killings of prominent or powerful public figures, not necessarily rich. For example, Gandhi.
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True, but there is a difference with a distinction, all be it subtle. The difference is motive and the position the victim occupies in society.
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When I first read the comment that he used a Welrod I was unaware there is a modern (sort-of) version of it. I think that's what the commentator was no doubt referring to, not an original WWII Welrod which seems even more improbable than the modern version.
This guy paid cash, and had phony ID's, and had an escape planned through Central Park. Hard to believe he would use such a traceable weapon. I think that's a wild goose chase. I suppose it could be a stolen one but how many of those are around?
This guy paid cash, and had phony ID's, and had an escape planned through Central Park. Hard to believe he would use such a traceable weapon. I think that's a wild goose chase. I suppose it could be a stolen one but how many of those are around?
Too bad there is not a Extreme Dislike Button for this post!!!!!!!!! Absolutely nothing positive comes out of a murder!
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The Norseman
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With that said above, I wonder how
long it takes for Copycats.
This definitely sets a really bad precedent
for any CEO or any other Corporate
Officer out there.
With that said above, I wonder how
long it takes for Copycats.
This definitely sets a really bad precedent
for any CEO or any other Corporate
Officer out there.
Apparently, there are many nut jobs on line calling for more of this. May GOD save us from the beasts who think like this.
Doug M.
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I can understand a person having a real heartburn about a medical insurance company. There are some ugly stories about many of them. It is foreseeable that the shooter lost a family member and (rightly or wrongly) blames UHC. That does not justify what was done.
Of course it depends upon the definition of "positive" and who is murdered.
While murdering the CEO was wrong and I'd never agree with the shooters actions. There's always a lesson to be learned, even from tragedy.
UHCs policies have negatively affected how many people? How many lives were lost on this CEOs watch?
He made millions and millions knowing others suffered directly because of him picking greed over morals. He put the quarter in the juke box and now gets to dance to his song.
I certainly haven't lost any sleep over it.
UHCs policies have negatively affected how many people? How many lives were lost on this CEOs watch?
He made millions and millions knowing others suffered directly because of him picking greed over morals. He put the quarter in the juke box and now gets to dance to his song.
I certainly haven't lost any sleep over it.
Some how this post makes me think of a sign on a scarecrow in the middle of a mine field!
The comments on social media and news media websites are downright sickening…so much Schadenfreude!
There was a time in this country when it was considered cowardly and dishonorable to shoot an unarmed man in the back…
The comments on social media and news media websites are downright sickening…so much Schadenfreude!
There was a time in this country when it was considered cowardly and dishonorable to shoot an unarmed man in the back…
Yes this exactly…….. If I were so incensed at being wronged by an insurance that I had to act out on it, I'd want him to see me and know me. And I would get way more satisfaction from laying an old fashioned *** whipping on him. This makes me think it was not "personal" for the shooter. Maybe he's part of a movement of some kind. The truth will come out eventually
Folks get whacked all the time, yet this one has lots of people talking about it for days.
I think this killing, while tragic, with all the mockingbird media attention, is a distraction from all the other news worthy things going on.
BTW I'm guessing the shooter doesn't care if others think he's cowardly or dishonorable because he shot the guy in the back. If he's a hitman, front or back, dead is dead.
I think this killing, while tragic, with all the mockingbird media attention, is a distraction from all the other news worthy things going on.
BTW I'm guessing the shooter doesn't care if others think he's cowardly or dishonorable because he shot the guy in the back. If he's a hitman, front or back, dead is dead.
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I would never condone murder and I do think that what happened was tragic and wrong.
But, OTOH, I hope the shooter gets away with it. Never to be found. It kinda sends a message to those who put money over lives. I hope it does make them nervous and has them looking over their shoulders for the rest of their days.
Actions have consequences. Bad actions have bad consequences. They need to learn this.
But, OTOH, I hope the shooter gets away with it. Never to be found. It kinda sends a message to those who put money over lives. I hope it does make them nervous and has them looking over their shoulders for the rest of their days.
Actions have consequences. Bad actions have bad consequences. They need to learn this.
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