It’s clear that CEO-slayer Luigi Mangione made some mistakes. He should not have had evidence on his person, he should have left the country. If he was planning more justice, he still should have dumped everything, waited several months, and kitted back up.
I’ve seen it suggested in conspiracy circles (which to be fair is a circle we’re all in at this point) that he was a patsy, grabbed randomly out of a McDonald’s to face charges for this crime. The argument is that it’s unlikely he would have had evidence of the crime on him at time of arrest. I’m not convinced it’s impossible he would have done that. The idea a McDonald’s employee recognized his eyebrows seems much more questionable.
It seems unlikely he’s a patsy either way, but it’s possible the feds used extreme spying methods to find him and didn’t want to explain these methods to the public, so they planted the evidence on him and came up with the eyebrows story.
He has a very normal profile online, and was not screaming that he is a patsy while being escorted to jail.
He was instead screaming about the politics of the killing.
Luigi Mangione should’ve used this opportunity to demand a trial by combat.
I would’ve volunteered to be his champion, and defeat the whitest, plumpest neoliberal the feds has to offer. pic.twitter.com/TNDGhyELiW
— Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 (@zhao_dashuai) December 12, 2024
Frankly, I wouldn’t normally even address the conspiracy theory here, because it would be dumb, but the whole “recognized his eyebrows” thing was so silly it strikes me people have a reason to be suspicious.
It is not hard for the authorities to find an antisocial person with serious personal problems and no record of their online activity to pin crimes on. The first Trump shooter, Thomas Crooks, had basically no identity.
Conversely, Luigi’s profile, including his review of Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, all makes good sense.
Mostly, it just seems pointless to pick a handsome, fit, pro-social young gamer as a patsy. They would be creating a folk hero.
And he is a folk hero. I’m against murder and so on, but there is no one who can legitimately claim that Brian Thompson didn’t deserve it.
The government should regulate these companies, and a CEO has a fiduciary duty to make as much money as possible within the law.
But the reason that the law doesn’t prevent corporate abuse is that these companies bribe the government.
Along with engaging in the most aggressive claims denial of any health insurance company, United was also guilty of working with the government and Pfizer to score record profits during the virus hoax.
I have no sympathy here. People make decisions, then they deal with the consequences. You can’t engage in this kind of predatory behavior without risking someone putting a hole in the back of your head outside a hotel in New York at 6AM. At least, you can’t do that anymore.
Luigi should not go to prison. He should be let free, with no consequences for taking an action that virtually everyone in the country agrees with.
And there is a legal way for him to walk free.
From the robot (which is much better than Wikipedia now):
Jury nullification is a legal concept where a jury returns a “not guilty” verdict despite overwhelming evidence of a defendant’s guilt, because they believe the law itself is unjust, the punishment is too harsh, or the law should not apply in the particular case. This phenomenon occurs when a jury exercises its discretion to disregard the law and acquit a defendant, even if they acknowledge the defendant’s factual guilt.Jury nullification has its roots in colonial America, where juries used their power to acquit defendants as a form of protest against British laws they deemed unjust. This practice continued during the Prohibition era in the early 20th century, as juries frequently acquitted individuals charged with violating liquor laws, reflecting public sentiment against these laws.
There has never been a more obvious need for jury nullification than in the case of Luigi Mangione, and with both left and right supporting Luigi’s cause.
Any jury who convicts this man should be viewed as co-conspirators with insurance, pharma, and the sickening corrupt US government.
Aside from being hilarious true justice, jury nullification in this case would throw the government into total disarray, with the government making all kinds of demands and ultimately figuring out a way to abolish juries or outlaw nullification. Anything that jams the system is good, and sending a message to the government that if they won’t rein in the corruption, the public will, would really throw a wrench in the works.
Leftists are talking about jury nullification on Twitter, but the DA is going to demand that no one on the jury knows what it is. So it could be difficult to swing this. But we can hope. It’s more hopeful than anything else going on right now.
