Seems Luigi Mangione is a Michael Moore fan.
Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in chilly blood earlier this month. Mangione had a “manifesto” in his possession when police arrested him following a tip generated at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s restaurant.
The alleged killer raged in opposition to America’s well being care system, praising Moore for criticizing the for-profit system in his 2007 documentary “Sicko.”
Now, Moore is responding to a fan who could spend the remainder of his days behind bars.
The far-Left filmmaker refused to sentence those that rage in opposition to America’s well being care system in a prolonged Substack op-ed on the topic. He needs extra rage, extra anger and extra media protection of each.
He additionally danced across the one query he says he’s been repeatedly requested by numerous media shops for the reason that CEO’s loss of life.
“Do you condemn Thompson’s homicide?”
It’s the one factor lacking in Moore’s pro-universal well being care manifesto.
Moore flexed his pacifist beliefs early and infrequently. He urged there’s no want for violence, simply the eradication of our present well being care system for the model embraced in Canada, Cuba and elsewhere.
He additionally embraced the loss of life as a teachable second, an opportunity to make wholesale change within the nation. Doesn’t he understand what that would encourage?
Oppose President Elect Donald Trump’s border wall initiative? Kill the CEO of an organization getting ready to make stated wall a actuality.
That’s only one instance.
Moore is against violence. Allegedly. Did he rage in opposition to violent BLM protests within the wake of George Floyd’s loss of life? What about these making an attempt to harm, or worse, activist Riley Gaines for protesting trans girls invading girls’s sports activities?
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The chatty Moore definitely wasn’t vocal on both entrance, assuming he stated something in any respect in regards to the violence in query.
Why gained’t he condemn Thompson’s homicide?
Moore flirted with doing so however pumped the rhetorical brakes. Contemplate:
Hmmm. Do I condemn homicide? That’s an odd query. In Fahrenheit 9/11, I condemned the homicide of tons of of hundreds of harmless Iraqi folks and the mindless homicide of our personal American troopers by the hands of our American authorities.
On and on it goes.
What’s lacking?
“After all, I condemn the homicide of Brian Thompson.”
As an alternative, we get this:
In my 35 years as a filmmaker, have I stated or completed something that has implied I condone homicide?
The query issues as a result of some distinguished, far-Left figures both refuse to take action (Taylor Lorenz) or achieve this with an exaggerated “however…” prominently deployed.
Sure, I condemn homicide, and that’s why I condemn America’s damaged, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral well being care trade and I condemn each one of many CEOs who’re in command of it and I condemn each politician who takes their cash and retains this technique going as an alternative of tearing it up, ripping it aside, and throwing all of it away.
Does Moore condemn the loss of life of Thompson?
Sure, in fact I do.
Now, how onerous is that? So why wouldn’t he say it?