Bernard Goldberg: When Even Murder Is Tolerated

Source:Bernard Goldberg with a left at militant-left "rockstar" Luigi Mangione.

"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thompson’s death on a midtown Manhattan street “was a killing that was intended to evoke terror. And we’ve seen that reaction.” —AP News Report

It didn’t take long, did it? Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed, and before police finished cordoning off the crime scene, social media was on fire, turning the alleged shooter into some kind of folk hero.

To more than a few Americans, Luigi Mangione, the man arrested and charged with killing Thompson, wasn’t a cold-blooded killer, but rather a righteous vigilante standing up to corporate greed. He’s even been dubbed the “hot assassin” because of a picture that revealed him shirtless showing off his abs.

Here’s the reality: a man was murdered — shot in the back on a New York City street. You’d think that, at the very least, we could all agree that that’s wrong — without adding … but there are times when even murder is understandable." 

From Bernard Goldberg

If you are let's say a Baby Boomer (someone born in the 1940s or 50s) like a Bernard Goldberg, or older than that, or you are just someone with a solid understanding of American history, but are younger than a Boomer, then you are familiar with the militant far-left in America. Groups like The Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army, Students For a Democratic Society, and others from the 1960s and 70s. 

These groups have always believed that progress is not enough and sometimes democracy is not enough to achieve their political objectives. And sometimes you need violence and undemocratic means to achieve their goals and you need to "take a strike at The Man", even if that means murdering people, to bring attention to the issues that these groups care about. 

That's what Luigi Mangione was doing when he murdered United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson a few weeks ago. He was "striking out against The Man" to bring the attention to what the far-left sees as problems with the American health care system. They hate the facts that our health care system is private and for-profit. 

So when a Luigi Mangione, or some other militant leftist comes along and does what this guy did and he also looks like he could be a Hollywood actor, or a boybander, they celebrate him as some type of a rockstar, doing what they only had the guts to do themselves. 

As my colleague Fred Schneider said last week: 

"But there's only 1 political faction in America that could possibly believe that killing a CEO of a health insurance company, simply because they are a health insurance CEO, and the killer thinks that person is part of the problem... if not a good idea, is perhaps justifiable homicide, or something. 

And there's only 1 political faction in America that would make a murderer of a CEO a pop culture, rockstar, or something, and celebrating this man online and on social media and trying to profit off him with all the videos and the merchandise. And that would be far-left in America, which are made of of some Democratic Socialists, but militant Socialists, the WOKE Left, who believe that progress is never enough. Because it's the system that's the problem itself, who believe that we'll never achieve a "just and fair society", until we take down the system. Or as they would put it: "The Man". 

To the WOKE Left in America, Luigi Mangione is a "totally awesome rockstar", who took a brig strike at "The Man". So they've been celebrating him, at least since he's been the news and they read his manifesto. But for the rest of the country, including people who also don't approve of our health care system, but who believe in the rule of law and who are pro-life in the real sense, (meaning people who believe in protecting innocent lives) Luigi Mangione is just another famous murderer in America. And unfortunately we've had too many famous murderers in America." 

From The New Democrat

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