Watching the internet erupt in glee after the assassination of that corn-fed health insurance CEO in Midtown Manhattan really drove home how much anger and hatred there is towards the shitty corporate extraction culture that powers this country.
Hat tip to your (former colleague?) Mark Ames I Going Postal. I still remember the quote from survivor “Ralph was not a bad guy he just shot the wrong person” referring to the bad boss
Seemed like a professional hit. I read that the CEO and his wife are recently divorced or in the process of a divorce. They each live in separate mansions. She said that he'd been getting threats in the past week or two. If so, why hadn't they notified law enforcement or gotten him some better security? And I'm not sure I believe that law enforcement would tell the media if the shell casings they found had words like "deny" and "defend" inscribed on them so early in an investigation. He was also facing a potential criminal probe into insider trading. Too much about this doesn't add up the way it's being presented. Which leads me to believe that when all's said and done, his wife or partner in crime took out the hit in the hopes of cashing in or getting rid of him, but maybe I watch too much Dateline NBC.
I still think some of those sentiments on direct action (propaganda of the deed) could be watered down or peter out for a while if it does come out that it was a regular old fashioned murder-for-hire. Which itself begets the question of whether law enforcement may want to have that be the motive so everyone can "get back to business as usual."
Someone at NYPD has claimed that an uncommon $3,000 modern "clone" of a VERY rare WWII era assassin's silenced pistol was used? I don't think so. Nothing released about the event makes any sense to me (a gun guy since forever) but the schadenfreude is real enough.
"Police believe the shooter used a B&T Station Six, known in Great Britain as a Welrod pistol, according to police sources. The gun doesn't have a silencer but does have a long barrel that enables the 9 mm to fire a nearly silent shot. The gun requires manually cycling ammunition from the magazine.
The weapon is not easily attainable so investigators have been running down all recent purchases, according to police sources. NYPD detectives arrived Thursday at a gun shop in Connecticut that sold a weapon of the same type, sources said."
I didn't see the required "twisting" motion on open & close, also 3 fired cases PLUS 3 ejected but unfired rounds found? Not a Welrod bolt action clone, a malfunctioning semi auto failing to fully chamber rounds from firing impulse, successfully chambering from manual slide cycling, every other round was ejected while clearing the malfunctions from self loading. Cops (as usual) are not well informed.
Yeah I was just relaying I'd seen the same thing as you mentioned. That said, it's really hard to tell from the grainy still photos whether he really had a silencer/suppressor or not and there are pics of unspent rounds laying on the sidewalk which would have fit with the manually cycling angle. But it also fits better with yours.
Edit: On second watch I don't see enough in the NYC shooting vid or pics to rule out the twisting motion. I guess we'll find out eventually with all the LEA burn being done on finding this dude.
The response to the Assination remained me of a few years ago when orcs were attacking yachts and everyone started celebrating as if the orcs were doing it because of class consciousness. Much of it reeks of desperation
Every since Columbine I've wondered this. As a middle schooler I was terrified of school. Mark's 'Going Postal' book made me think about it more. Shooters always go after the "other" around them. Consumed with individualism or something. Rarely do they attack actual predators.
nypost readers overwhelmingly supportive of the hit.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/05/us-news/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompsons-assassin-may-have-left-message-on-bullets-used-in-murder-sources/
Hat tip to your (former colleague?) Mark Ames I Going Postal. I still remember the quote from survivor “Ralph was not a bad guy he just shot the wrong person” referring to the bad boss
Yeah I wanted to mention Mark's book! Forgot! https://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Columbine/dp/1932360824
Seemed like a professional hit. I read that the CEO and his wife are recently divorced or in the process of a divorce. They each live in separate mansions. She said that he'd been getting threats in the past week or two. If so, why hadn't they notified law enforcement or gotten him some better security? And I'm not sure I believe that law enforcement would tell the media if the shell casings they found had words like "deny" and "defend" inscribed on them so early in an investigation. He was also facing a potential criminal probe into insider trading. Too much about this doesn't add up the way it's being presented. Which leads me to believe that when all's said and done, his wife or partner in crime took out the hit in the hopes of cashing in or getting rid of him, but maybe I watch too much Dateline NBC.
Doesn't matter what the motives are. The hatred it surfaced is what begs the question.
Ah, yeah. For sure. I was picking up what you were putting down. It's a potential zeitgeist moment.
obviously everyone is rooting for a vengeance kill.
we'll find out soon enough I think. lots of people have guns in this country and know how to use them.
I still think some of those sentiments on direct action (propaganda of the deed) could be watered down or peter out for a while if it does come out that it was a regular old fashioned murder-for-hire. Which itself begets the question of whether law enforcement may want to have that be the motive so everyone can "get back to business as usual."
for sure people will go back to life in a few days. nothing will change. people angry but unmotivated and very scatterbrained.
Haha spoken wistfully if not regretfully. Totally with you, though.
Someone at NYPD has claimed that an uncommon $3,000 modern "clone" of a VERY rare WWII era assassin's silenced pistol was used? I don't think so. Nothing released about the event makes any sense to me (a gun guy since forever) but the schadenfreude is real enough.
https://youtu.be/ul-l0jEgkwA?si=FcG8l-hYwUo28KRy
lol
I read the same. But not an actual suppressor.
"Police believe the shooter used a B&T Station Six, known in Great Britain as a Welrod pistol, according to police sources. The gun doesn't have a silencer but does have a long barrel that enables the 9 mm to fire a nearly silent shot. The gun requires manually cycling ammunition from the magazine.
The weapon is not easily attainable so investigators have been running down all recent purchases, according to police sources. NYPD detectives arrived Thursday at a gun shop in Connecticut that sold a weapon of the same type, sources said."
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The video shows gunman racking slide by grabbing FORWARD part of it 2X which is not possible with this pistol (see video)
https://youtu.be/JKei5sySmB0?si=T9br5LnOx5_42FrC
I didn't see the required "twisting" motion on open & close, also 3 fired cases PLUS 3 ejected but unfired rounds found? Not a Welrod bolt action clone, a malfunctioning semi auto failing to fully chamber rounds from firing impulse, successfully chambering from manual slide cycling, every other round was ejected while clearing the malfunctions from self loading. Cops (as usual) are not well informed.
yeah gun used by the guy looks nothing like one in the vid. has no plunger in the back there
Yeah I was just relaying I'd seen the same thing as you mentioned. That said, it's really hard to tell from the grainy still photos whether he really had a silencer/suppressor or not and there are pics of unspent rounds laying on the sidewalk which would have fit with the manually cycling angle. But it also fits better with yours.
Edit: On second watch I don't see enough in the NYC shooting vid or pics to rule out the twisting motion. I guess we'll find out eventually with all the LEA burn being done on finding this dude.
The response to the Assination remained me of a few years ago when orcs were attacking yachts and everyone started celebrating as if the orcs were doing it because of class consciousness. Much of it reeks of desperation
Every since Columbine I've wondered this. As a middle schooler I was terrified of school. Mark's 'Going Postal' book made me think about it more. Shooters always go after the "other" around them. Consumed with individualism or something. Rarely do they attack actual predators.
I'll admit it. I hope they know how we felt working at Taco Bell on 29th. It was so dangerous