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Good vs Evil | Trial of the Century

by Joshua Abrams 04/28/2025

Luigi Mangione's trial for the killing of insurance titan Brian Thompson is not about excusing homicide. It is a stark alarm that the nation’s social contract is fracturing because its guardians prefer corporate profits to public safety. When regulators are gelded, when Congress tiptoes around its own power to restrain predatory industries, and when courts treat wealth as if it were an official rank, people learn that peaceful redress is a myth. They do not cheer bloodshed; they cheer the first sign that consequences can still fall on a protected class that has bankrupted and buried millions.

Luigi Mangione is no longer just an accused gunman; he is a lightning rod whose image ricochets from internet memes to pulpits and extremist chat rooms, embodying the rage of Americans who see corporate impunity as the deadlier crime. His upcoming trial is poised to test whether the justice system will acknowledge the trillion-dollar health-care abuses that many view as provocation or insist on labeling him a terrorist in isolation—an outcome that risks turning public anger into broader retaliation if the court declines to weigh the context millions deem exculpatory.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from Birmingham that an unjust law is no law at all, and history remembers that the state misbranded him as a communist to muzzle his movement. Today the same reflex labels Luigi a terrorist under New York’s broad statute that criminalizes attempts to influence policy through violence. The prosecution inflates this tragedy into a crime against the whole republic, as if a corporate chief executive deserves the standing of a public minister simply because capital crowns him. That move creates a two tier justice system where the executive suite enjoys government level shields while ordinary citizens are left to ration insulin and weigh bankruptcy against survival.

The larger crime remains unchecked. Private insurance firms deny care that would prevent forty five thousand deaths every year, yet Congress refuses to plug the regulatory gaps its own Commerce Clause authority empowers it to close. Agencies that do exist, from the SEC to the FTC to the DOJ, are starved of funding and shackled by lobbying that Congress pretends is speech rather than bribery. These choices are not accidents. They are legislative acts that sentence families to ruin while the perpetrators collect bonuses.

Luigi’s defense will argue extreme emotional disturbance, and any honest jury will see that his rage did not erupt in a vacuum. It was distilled by decades of governmental negligence that has weaponized poverty. Even if the verdict confirms guilt, the record will show that the terrorism enhancement is punitive excess that mocks the Eighth Amendment. The real intimidation campaign is the one aimed at citizens who dare question why their loved ones die queueing for treatment that boardroom spreadsheets deem unprofitable.

Across the country frustration is ripening into admiration for vigilantism. This is not a celebration of violence; it is a verdict on a system that refuses to police itself. If lawmakers will not impeach officials who trade the public welfare for donor checks, if FOIA requests and class actions are slow walked while lives are lost, then storms will gather beyond the courthouse. The public is finished waiting for polite reform. Peaceful protest remains preferable, but only if there is a credible path to change. Every indictment that targets desperation while excusing executive malpractice shortens the fuse.

America is not at the brink because one man pulled a trigger. It is at the brink because its stewards treat mass preventable death as acceptable collateral. Luigi’s act forces an unbearable question into the open: Who is the true terrorist, the desperate citizen who lashes out, or the state that lets corporations harvest human life for revenue? Until Congress answers with real oversight, until prosecutors aim their zeal at systemic offenders, the nation will keep breeding outlaws who believe, with tragic conviction, that only direct action can restore justice.

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New York is now weighing a taxpayer-funded hotline that rich executives can dial when they feel “unsafe,” a velvet-rope version of 911 floated within days of Brian Thompson’s death. The same state that pleads poverty when Harlem precincts ask for patrol cars has suddenly located instant millions to guarantee personal police access for the very people whose policies have already cost the public its health and savings.

(https://www.latintimes.com/new-york-considering-special-hotline-just-ceos-report-alleged-threats-their-safety-after-brian-569424)

The tear-stained tributes to Thompson portray him as a guardian of public wellness, yet UnitedHealthcare is fighting class actions that accuse it of using artificial intelligence to reject claims in seconds without a physician review. Courts have allowed those suits to proceed, documenting how an algorithm can overrule human doctors, forcing families to crowdfund surgeries while executives collect record compensation.

(https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/12/18/unitedhealth-ai-insurance-claims-healthcare)
(https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/class-action-lawsuit-against-unitedhealths-ai-claim-denials-advances)

The imbalance is starker in the case of Briana Boston, a single mother in Florida who blurted “You people are next” during a heated call after her own coverage was denied. She owned no weapon, yet the FBI and local police charged her with making a terroristic threat, hauling her to jail as an example to anyone who might raise a voice against the insurer.
(https://abc7.com/post/florida-woman-charged-threatening-health-insurance-company-delay-deny-depose/15650742/)

Police recovered shell casings lettered in permanent marker with three words—“deny,” “defend,” “depose.” Investigators confirmed the message, noting its echo of the industry playbook for crushing policy-holders who sue: delay the payout, deny the claim, defend the case, depose the patient.

(https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-delay-deny-defend-depose-ee73ceb19f361835c654f04a3b88c50c)
(https://abcnews.go.com/US/deny-defend-depose-ceo-shooting-shell-casings/story?id=116530063)
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/05/bullet-casings-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-shooting/76793218007/)

Those three verbs have already mutated into a modern “sic semper tyrannis”: an epitaph for profiteers carved not on marble but on brass. They indict an entire model of care where paperwork decides who lives and who dies, and they explain why so many Americans, though unwilling to praise murder, see Luigi’s gesture as a grim rebuttal to institutional violence.

Internal documents leaked to journalist Ken Klippenstein show UnitedHealthcare ordering employees to “stay silent” while it hired crisis-PR consultants and readied an eight-figure media blitz to smother sympathy for Luigi and steer the narrative back to “lone extremist.” That effort is nested inside an industry that spent more than $155 million on federal lobbying last year alone—well over $2 billion this century—to keep regulators toothless.

(https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/16/ken_klippenstein_luigi_mangione_manifesto_uhc)
(https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summary?id=F09)

Image-handlers have gone into bunker mode: UnitedHealth and CVS scrubbed C-suite photos from their websites, while PR firms coach insurers on “empathy statements” and advise beefing up executive security budgets in the tens of millions.

(https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/healthcare-industry-rethinks-risk-after-murder-unitedhealth-exec-2024-12-05/)
(https://www.prweek.com/article/1899069/health-insurers-remove-c-suite-pictures-websites-murder-unitedhealthcare-ceo)
(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-16/unitedhealth-group-unh-tries-to-repair-image-after-ceo-shooting)

And when that still wasn’t enough, an internal memo—first published on Klippenstein’s Substack—warned workers that speaking to reporters about claim denials “feeds extremist rhetoric,” a thinly veiled threat to anyone tempted to confirm that the real daily violence is procedural, not ballistic.

(https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/unitedhealthcare-tells-employees)

The pattern is unmistakable: vast sums for spin, security, and silence whenever public outrage threatens profit, but empty coffers when clinics beg for funds or patients plead for care. Deny. Defend. Depose. Thus always to tyrants.

What links these stories is a government that mobilizes overnight to shield capital while telling ordinary neighborhoods there is nothing left in the budget. The new hotline proves resources exist; they are simply reserved for the boardroom. The terrorism label proves zeal exists; it is simply aimed at citizens who object to being bled for profit. Every time officials bend the law to cosset wealth and criminalize desperation they broadcast a single message: equal protection is a myth. Until Congress closes the regulatory gaps it created—and until prosecutors aim their fury at systemic offenders instead of their victims—public faith will keep eroding, and the cycle of vigilante revenge will grow harder to break.

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