I’m not going to pretend that I wasn’t delighted to find out that the CEO of United Health Care was assassinated.
I was thrilled. Giddy even to discover that a man who brought a company to the point of denying 30% of insurance claims costing untold thousands of people unnecessary distress and even their lives finally met his end at the hands of a dissatisfied customer.
The media is doing their best to present outrage.
Some in the Youtube comments section are also pretending to be indignant that this parasite was wiped from the earth.
It’s cute - pretending that it’s somehow more wrong to wack a dude whose actions directly or indirectly led to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Americans than it was for this man to preside over an industry that kills people by dragging its feet.
It’s somehow more violent to shoot someone than it is to sentence them to die of cancer?
I don’t get it.
What I do see is the collective shadow emerging.
Go to youtube.
Watch any video about this shooting, then read…
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