The Hit on “Big Paul”

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Do you remember “Big Paul” Castellano? He was the head – the Don – of the Gambino crime family in New York City a long time ago. He has shot dead in the street by soldiers working for Sammy “the Bull” Gravano, who was working for John Gotti – who became the “Dapper” Don once “Big Paul” was out of the picture.

I was reminded of this incident by the incident that took place recently in New York City. The head of the United Health Care mafia, Brian Thompson, was “hit” in the streets, just like Big Paul was all those years ago.

Such hits are not be condoned. But United Health Care is a mafia. That isn’t an insult. It’s a statement of fact. All the insurance “families” are mafias. They extort money from people using coercion – did you think Obamacare was voluntary? – and the Captains and Consiglieries and most of all the Dons have become very, very wealthy.

Very little “care” issues from these “providers,” as they like to style themselves. They are in the business of collecting – not paying. Insurance is one of the most profitable rackets going, precisely because it is a racket. Many people are spending as much or even more for “coverage” than they are on rent. And when they try to use the “coverage” they’ve been paying for, their claims are regularly denied. Often, they must fight tooth-and-nail to get medical bills paid and many end up broken and bankrupt.

This appears to have been the motivation for the “hit” on “Big Brian” Thompson of United Health Care.

There are apt to be more such “hits,” too. Violence begets violence – even when it is legalized violence. Especially when it s legalized, for that makes it particularly odious. “Big Paul” was considered a mobster because he was one. “Big Brian” was considered a CEO – even though he was also a mobster, of the legalized sort.

But how did we arrive at this point? Part of it has to do with the transformation of insurance into a racket – one backed by the government. This business of being coerced into buying insurance – whether of the health or car insurance variety – is a dirty business. It enables the mafias to extort rather than sell – an important distinction. Selling is based on persuasion while extortion is based on threats of repercussions; i.e., of punishment, as for not paying. People are also made to pay more – the italics for the obvious reason – precisely because they are made to pay at all.

Because it follows. If you can be forced to pay a penny then the person – or organization – that can make you pay it will of course make you pay more. Because what would restrain them from doing so?

That is why it is essential to fight against being made to pay even a cent – for anything – because once that happens, you’ll inevitably be paying more.

Because you have to.

But there is another reason why insurance has become a racket. It is that insurance is no longer that.

Insurance, that is.

It is ridiculous to use the word “insurance” to describe the use of what isn’t the latter to pay for almost literally everything – from routine check-ups to bee stings.

That is not insurance.

It is a con.

People are led to believe that by being coerced into buying “insurance,” their every little-thing will be “covered.” Implying they’re not paying for it.

But they end up paying through the nose for it. Far more than they would have if they paid for such things a la carte and only used insurance to cover the big things.

That is what insurance is.

Or – rather – was.

Believe it or not – and if you’re under 30 today you probbaly have no memory of how it was – there was a time when people did not use insurance to “cover” bee stings and other routine doctoring costs . They paid out of pocket – and they paid less, because people understood they’d be paying out of their pocket. They did not believe the cost of every-little-thing cost the nothing  – because they were “covered.” And doctors priced their services reasonably – because they were obliged to. Also because they were not obliged to pay for a whole staff of desk fraus to handle “insurance” paperwork.

It was once typical for a doctor to have a nurse/receptionist to welcome patients and accept payment, which was usually check or cash. This one nurse did not require the practice to generate several hundred thousand dollars annually just to make payroll for a back office full of paperwork-processing fraus.

Note that vets still commonly operate on this business model, too. You pay for the shots and so on out of pocket. And for that reason, routine vet stuff is usually affordable. As in $80 for a checkup vs. whatever it would cost to “cover” it, if you paid for it with a pet insurance policy.

To bring things full circle: The hatred for the insurance mafia is legitimate – but some of the fault lies with us. Those of us, at any rate, who believe there can ever be such a thing as a free lunch.

Whether it is “covered” or isn’t.

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  1. Insurance is, plainly put, the biggest wealth siphoning machine in existence. All of it – auto, home, and health – hovers over us economically in every way. Tommy Jefferson back in the day said Banks would be our undoing. While they have played their role, I think insurance is now eclipsing banking. It preys on all of us. Those who stormed the Bastille in the 1700s committed sins too, but oppression and pillaging can lead to that. Sometimes it’s necessary. Somebody had to do it. Interestingly, both Big Paul and Big Brian were gunned down in December in midtown Manhattan, brazenly. I saw the same similarities as Eric.

  2. Also, you’s guys, need to opt outta da shotz, fer da dogs & catz, too. It helps to cut da Vaxx bastards off at the knee$$$. Maybe, do the same for your kidz, too? Doug has the inside skinny. here:

    ‘THIS IS WHAT I FOUND and they do not want you to know!!!’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTB4d2N_JFc

    Dogs & cats, children & men, & women, too. Our overlords, with the help of the priests in white robes with stethoscopes, are injecting….

    Oh boy, by now, either ya know, or ya are willfully blind.

    Lord help, the willfully blind.

  3. Wowzer, you all better watch what ya say, da sheriff, he’ll come put you away, if ya use the wrong string of words like, deny, or defend, & all that. Sticks & stones, my ass, all the wimps, pussy’s & scaredy-cats say, “Lock up All the Moms” yeah, that’s what makes ‘merica great:

    ‘Woman Who Quoted Luigi Mangione in Threat to Health Insurer Faces 15-Years Behind Bars’

    https://rumble.com/v5ysm8n-woman-who-quoted-luigi-mangione-in-threat-to-health-insurer-faces-15-years-.html

    …What kinda country do you wanna live in?
    One that’s afraid of everything?
    Our overlords would be happy at that.
    Fast on our way.

    • I wonder, anonymous1, what happens when it goes the opposite way?

      “What happens when billions of slaves [embrace their] masters….. and ”

      …What a horse race we’re in, eh?

      (I’m gonna hafta watch that vid later, seems like a good ‘un.)

  7. The ‘health care’ mafia and their various fellow travelers is a subject Karl Denninger has written about very extensively for years.

    This racket functions the way it does solely because the politicians have consistently refused to enforce existing laws, which would put an immediate stop to the extortionary practices.

    Consequently we have hospitals getting paid for literally killing people with the Fauci-endorsed ‘COVID treatment protocol’ (ventilators, remdesivir etc). Or charging widely different prices for the same service.

    This is an industry that is in the business of literally making people sick, because there is no money to be made from a healthy population.

    Note that the Orange Man promised before his first presidential term that he would put a stop to all of this. That promise disappeared from his website pretty much within minutes of his victory being confirmed.

    As things stand, the mafia owns so many politicians, including all the federal regulatory agencies, that any change can only happen if a sizeable number of the paying public revolts – highly unlikely – or until the system collapses.

    Which it is on track to do in the not too distant future.

    • ‘politicians have consistently refused to enforce existing laws’ — John Bayley

      Specifically, laws against collusive price fixing, price discrimination, and lack of price transparency.

      Why do they get away with this? Because about half of all health-related expenditures are gov-financed.

      When Big Gov does it, it’s not illegal. /sarc It’s public policy. And it’s corrupt to the core.

  8. Hi Eric, et al,

    The coercive nature of all government interventions into the free market cannot be over-stressed. Health insurance is one of the four legs of the whole scam which includes also, the medical system, the food system and big pharma. They all feed and reinforce each other. Our food supply has become so toxic that we may never recover. Making people sick through toxic diet provides a steady revenue stream for both the allopathic medical system and for big pharma…..currently big pharma is trying to get Ozempic approved for young children…..make them sick through toxic food, and poison them with expensive, ineffective drugs and keep them on it for the short duration of their lives…this is the model. And the insurance mafia sits back and takes in the shekels from the rubes. Or anyway, that’s how I see it.

    • Hi Giuseppe,

      I agree with everything you wrote. We know the whole cycle is a scam. The only way to not get caught in its web is to not participate in it. If we took health insurance away from every American tomorrow what would happen? After much crying in the streets that millions will die we would learn to eat better, exercise more, and pay better attention to our health. Why? We would have no choice.

      All of a sudden people would read the labels on the food that they buy, they would walk a little more and for a little big longer, they would seek to find alternative herbs, spices, and plants to actually cure their maladies. This way worked for thousands of years before the influx of drug dealing doctors working hand in hand with a legalized drug cartel became standard in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

      We would all be healthier for it. When one can’t afford to run to the doctor or hospital you learn to take better care of yourself. Every sniffle or sore throat isn’t worth the money that one would have to pay.

      • Hi RG, et al,
        Precisely. I am of an age where I remember sanity in the fields of medicine, food and when insurance was not such a big deal. When I was young in the fifties, a fat person was unusual, food was real and people were actually encouraged, sometimes violently, to take responsibility for their actions. I watched this change, only slightly aware, with the movement to feeding grains to cattle, focus on consuming cheap but toxic seed oils, going to a “low fat diet” and so forth. The other trend which luckily I escaped was drugging children to make them more compliant. The advent of feeding kids Ritalin was a truly evil trend. I was one of those “rambunctious” children the perfect target for Ritalin but I was born too soon. My point is, for many people these arguments are history, for me they are lived experience. I hope for the sake of future generations that we can turn this around, even if only in little, sane pockets of free people….

        • Ditto all of that, Giuseppe!

          I am certain I would have been “ADD’d” – and fed Ritalin – had I been born 20 years later than I was, by which time boys who squirmed when bored and objected to stupid/arbitrary rules enforced by Fraus were considered abnormal. There were almost no fat kids when I was a kid – and the kind of morbid obesity one sees routinely today was seen almost never.

        • Hi Giuseppe,

          Your experience isn’t too different from my own and I was young in the 1980s. 😁

          We were outside all of the time. Nobody went to the doctor and allergies were unheard of. The most noticeable cutoff was around 1997 with the uptick in diagnosing of autism, ADD, and ADHD. There was a drastic increase in allergies and immune diseases around 2010 and it has gotten worse annually.

          In my family all of my nieces and nephews younger than 12 all have some type of allergy, stomach alignment, etc. Nobody is supposed to ask why. We are deemed crazy if we link these illnesses with vaccines or food chemicals. This is why I have zero respect for the medical field. They refuse to question how come each generation of children are sicker and sicker. All they know is they need another prescription for whatever new symptom has appeared. They cure nothing, but just hide the side effects.

  9. How come there is no manhunt for Bibi?

    What in the world is going on here?

    UnitedHealthGroup financials are at any finance site.

    528 USD per share today, 8.40 USD dividend per share, a PE of 34, the share price at 170 USD would be a PE of 10, normal.

    It pays to deny claims, an excellent business plan until it is not an excellent business plan. Probably pays three times more than it should, for them, not you.

    It can be deadly.

    Convicted on charges of supply and demand
    He was unloading the American Dream
    Caught in the middle of a bigger plan
    It was a South American scheme
    He is no smuggler
    He is a fisherman
    And all of his debts are owed to the sea
    Some call it justice
    It just ain’t right
    It’s not live and let live and let be     – Guy Clark, Supply and Demand

    • One of the few upshots of having lost some hearing is I use closed captions on teeeveee. Was watching 80’s rock videos –“sprits in the material world” by the Police and these lyrics seem appropriate today:

      Our so-called leaders speak
      With words they try to jail you
      They subjugate the meek
      But it’s the rhetoric of failure

      • Brilliant song by a brilliant group in their prime.

        Poets, priests and politicians
        Have words to thank for their positions
        Words that scream for your submission
        And no one’s jamming their transmission

        ‘Cause when their eloquence escapes you
        Their logic ties you up and rapes you

        The Police….

  10. I read an article a few days ago, Eric, which made me think of you and your past articles. That is, many home owner’s insurances in North Carolina are refusing to cover their home losses, and are finding creative ways to squirrel out of paying a dime to many of them. It makes me wonder how many thousands of dollars these now-homeless people spent on home owner’s insurance over the years, only to get stabbed in the back when they need that insurance the most?

    • They didn’t know the magic mantra:

      ‘It was wind-driven rain that done it, guvnor, not the f-word [*cough* ‘flooding’ *cough*].

  11. The west has reached the point where everything seems to be a scam on top of a swindle on top of a hustle. The latest in the world of banking is the “capital regulation” around “climate risk”…. or course we’re all expected to take this seriously and discuss it with a straight face in the industry… but at some point it becomes quite tedious, and hard to take seriously… Im sure insurance is similar. In the end stuff like this happens… I do wonder when people will wake up and realise most of this really comes from the politicians and bureaucrats who ofcourse are there to “take care of us”

  12. Spot on comparison of the NYC mob to the insurance racket. Here’s an except of Big Paul Castellano’s wiki page:

    “Castellano identified more as a businessman than a criminal, taking over non-legitimate businesses and converting them to legitimate enterprises. However, his businesses, and those of his sons, still benefitted from their mob ties. In his early years, Castellano used his butcher’s training to launch Dial Poultry, a poultry distribution business that once supplied 300 butchers in New York City. Castellano used intimidation tactics to force his customers. . . to buy Dial’s products.”

    Have you ever gotten a DMV intimidation letter when don’t pay your compulsory car insurance premium?

    • Oh man, and the news report of the Castellano hit is f-ing great. If I didn’t remember this actually happening back in the day, I would swear the video was a fictional Hollywood production. “He died on an empty stomach. . .”

      All of the characters look like they came from central casting: The dead bodies on the street, the shots of Sparks Steak House on 46th, the cop explaining what happened with his strong NY accent, the Castellano family members identifying the body on AT THE SCENE and then hiding from the camera, the flashback video of a month earlier when Big Paul said “no comment.” to questions about his indictment, and then the TV reported talking to the camera while the dead bodies are being taken away.

      It’s so good. I’ve watched it about 5 times and still can’t get enough.

  14. “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” Mencken

    Possibly Thompson was at this point as are many more. His killing could be the ice breaker of many more killings only it won’t be limited to “insurance” companies.

    To call “insurance” companies Mafias is a complement to the “insurance” industry,,, an insult to Mafias.

  16. Imagine if every time you got an oil change on your car you had to file an insurance claim, not knowing what the end price for you as the consumer will be – and then you get an itemized bill stating the garage billed your insurance $12,000 for the oil change, but then your out-of-pocket expense is $90. Eric is correct; we don’t have health insurance, really, in the U.S.

  17. When I grew up, it was referred to as ‘medical’ insurance. Now it’s health insurance which has nothing to do with health. Hell, most doctors treat symptoms with FDA approved prescriptions manufactured by mega corporations that donate megabucks to the Con-gress that permits the FDA to engage in the graft/extortion. Ah the fiat money-go-round. Dot gov represents the definition of ‘organized crime’.

  19. Civilization is a thin veneer. It works best with a dose of Christianity, with doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, and with forgiving the transgressions of others. It works best with Christianity, because other, more tribal religions do not command forgiveness, they prescribe vengeance and holding of grudges, and they condone slavery.

    Before the modern era there was a concept of usury, which goes far beyond charging interest. Charging of interest may or may not be usury, but overcharging is, and all of them come down to the commandment to not steal, and to not worship Mammon above god.

    When those simple concepts are forgotten, civilization goes away, to be replaced with rank barbarism, with forgiving neither debts nor transgressions. You are here.

    • The interest rate doesn’t determine usury. The loan structure does. A standard credit card that charges 0.00001% interest is usury. There is no moral obligation to pay back a usurious loan.

      From https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/simple-usury-test/

      In order to determine if a proposed contract is usurious, we need to ask the following:

      1) Is profitable interest charged on the loan?
      2) Has the borrower posted collateral providing security on the loan? (Note: a corporation or partnership counts as collateral).
      3) Is the lender’s recourse for recovery of principal and interest, in a case of default, limited to the named collateral and only the named collateral?

      If all three of these are true, it is not usury. If (1) is true and either (2) or (3) are false, it is usury.

      • My understanding is that usury is not limited to lending/charging interest. It is a subtle and complex subject which includes many other types of sharp dealing, such as likely software EULAs which take something and give nothing.

    • ‘Before the modern era there was a concept of usury’ — Ernie

      A trillion-dollar annual interest tab on $36 trillion in debt — is that a lot?

      Janet Yellen “Sorry” After Presiding Over $15 Trillion Increase In US Debt

      “I am concerned about fiscal sustainability and I am sorry that we haven’t made more progress …”

      Sorry, my ass. How many billions did you loot from the Treasury today for your co-religionists Zelensky and Netanyahu? And you expect us to pay interest forevermore, on money that was stolen from us, and from which we received no benefit?

      Treasonous yenta begone.

      • Yes. You nailed it. Which is why I cannot get too excited by the national debt- it cannot ever be repaid and must be repudiated, including a debt jubilee. Otherwise the system of debt serfdom/slavery will be with us forever.

        What can be done about those who spent irresponsibly? Not a thing, they did so because the system lent them the credit to do it- so forgive and move forward.

        However, there is an awful lot of treason which should be punished by bills of attainder and a single generation of corruption of blood. The ill gotten gains should be reclaimed from the crooks who sold our society and country out to foreign interests. Biden, Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, Soros, Gates, we’re looking at you.

  20. Poking the bear:

    ‘Ukrainian forces fired a barrage of six US-made ATACMS missiles at a military airfield near the southern Russian city of Taganrog on Wednesday, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said, vowing retaliation for the attack.’ — RT

    Worthless Joe’s priorities this morning:

    1. Call Hunter at the detox center.
    2. Have a good bowel movement and a diaper change.
    3. Start WW III.

    US-f*ckin’-A: not a serious country anymore.

    • And as usual Mr. Putin tells US/NATO if you don’t stop you’re really gonna get it……… someday.

      So far they have let Syria go. Along with it Iran is squirming in the breeze. The US President Elect big whopper is TELLING Putin to cease hostilities. Russia has lost a lot of respect since it gave up Syria.

  22. The rot runs deep in the medical industry.
    It is not only the “insurance” (or “coverage”) racketeers, but the underlying medical facilities, which are the hosts for the racket.

    Case in point:
    If you live in Southern California, I strongly suggest you avoid this facility:
    https://www.primesurgicalcenters.com/newport-beach
    because they engage in deceptive, bait and switch pricing.

    I recently had hernia surgery there, and was billed 2.5 times the amount I was quoted upfront (which amount would, in most industries, e.g. auto repair, be referred to as a “good faith estimate” of charges, any significant deviation from which would incur severe legal penalties).

    I paid the bastards off, but I guarantee I will never set foot in their facility again, and I will relate my actual experience to anyone who wants to know. Had I not been able to reach an agreement with these criminals by telephone, there is a good chance I would have made a one way trip from Riverside County to Newport Beach.

    • Want another example?
      Try Hospital Corporation of America, now known as HCA Healthcare. They paid a $2,000,000,000 (yes, that is US$ 2 billion) fine to FedGov for defrauding Medicare. The CEO, Rick Scott, resigned, but not without a $300,000,000 severance bonus. Rick Scott, of course, went on to become Governor of Florida, whereas he really ought to be doing life in Leavenworth.

      Lesson: when you own your very own U.S. Senator, many things become possible.
      In this case the senator’s name is William Frist.

      My own experience with HCA occurred at their outlet in Riverside, CA
      https://riversidecommunityhospital.com
      in 2014.

      The bill in 2014 for 18 hours in the facility, which involved neither serious injury nor surgery, was in excess of $100,000. State Farm, my auto insurer, paid policy limit of $100,000 medical expenses, leaving me to pay the difference. The charge just to roll me through the door, unconscious, was $34,000. I expect it would be double that today, what with inflation and all.

      I was charged for five (5) CT scans @ ~ $10,000 apiece, the “justification for all of which was fraudulent. As in “chest pain,” when I was fully conscious and stated I was in no pain, was not bleeding, nor had any broken bones.

      To add insult to financial injury, the “radiologist” who “interpreted” the fraudulent CT scans waited three months before sending me a bill for services, which was marked three months (90 days) in arrears. I paid the bill promptly upon first receipt, but the faceless billing entity, whom I never saw, tattled me out to the credit reporting agencies, and I had a “90 day late” on my credit record for seven years.

      How do you like them apples?

      Personally, I do not. I now wear a medallion around my neck, which instructs anyone who reads it *NOT* to transport me to a hospital in case I am ever incapacitated. Better to die in the gutter, and save the hospital charges.

    • After my son was born I got in my bill, a fee for services for using the nursery. I called hospital billing and told them we did not use the nursery. He said “Don’t worry about it, insurance is paying for it anyway.”

  23. A lot of companies around Austin now offer pet insurance as a benefit to the Soy Boys to take care of their “little buddies'” geriatric care. As a result, vet bills are through the roof in the area.

    I ended up dropping nearly a grand at the vet when a rescue kitten came home from the shelter sneezing. At first, we thought it was minor but the sinus issues were the result of a raging mite infection which the shelter conveniently overlooked.

    If we did not have the cash, the only humane option would have been to return the kitten to the shelter.

  24. ‘They paid out of pocket – and they paid less.’ — eric

    Just received a large post card in the mail from a walk-in, self-pay primary care clinic that offers office visits for $59. Transparent pricing — what a concept! Whereas the entire medical cartel engages in gross price discrimination, with mark-ups as high as 20 times if you don’t get the insider price.

    This clinic’s pitch:

    CDL exams … $79
    Phentermine … $19/mo
    ED meds … $9/mo
    Semaglutide … $265/mo
    Ear wax removal
    Basic meds onsite

    So if you know what you want, you can go there and just get it on the spot without all the mystification and unpredictability and multiple actors. Next best thing to purchasing meds online from overseas with no scrip at all.

    US ‘health care’ [sic] features useless intermediaries called Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) who serve as middlemen between pharmacies, drug manufacturers, wholesalers, and health ‘insurance’ [sic] companies. This entire corrupt, grifting cartel should be burnt to the ground, and its executives imprisoned for fraud, conspiracy and price fixing.

  25. Agree that the cost of insurance is so high because it is overused and that comes with its own costs.

    Out of pocket payments combined with a seldom used major medical/hospital policy would keep common medical costs down. With the savings from premiums, it would be very affordable to visit the doctor when necessary.

    There has also been a shift to specialties. Everything has to be delt with by a specialist. Was this always the case? Have we become that much more sick with rare and hard to diagnose diseases?

    If you pay attention to your state regulators, every conceivable condition is covered by law, whether you need it or not. Why does an older couple need fertility treatment or a single guy need maternity care?

    • Well, part of it is that it’s hard to find a good GP because all of the best med students go on to become specialists because there’s more money in it.

      Also now PAs and NPs have taken over more of general practice because they’re cheaper so the insurance companies like it. Just try to find an actual MD (or DO) anymore, especially on short notice.

      My experience with NPs etc. has been decidedly more mixed. Some of them are OK. Some are, in my opinion, downright not very good.

  26. The media instantly and reflexively tried to paint the shooter as a southern Trump supporter.

    Turns out the suspect kid, Luigi Mangione, is a spoiled rich leftist from Baltimore. He graduated from a high dollar all-boys school and high dollar ivy league University of Pennsylvania. This is according to articles I’ve read in the Daily Mail.

    Guessing he’s also on some kind of psychotropic drug. Wouldn’t it be ironic if UHC and its cabal pushed such drugs on young people…

  27. Come on, people, get real.

    She has a nice ass and before too long, her womb will quiver while she is willing to be copulated.

    That’s life!

    It’s Thompson, not Thomson.

  29. Healthcare is one of many “industries” that have shockingly increased in size over the pat few decades to replace actual industries/manufacturing that have been offshored.

    Look around the Rust Belt and see who the largest employers were 50 years ago compared to today.
    Where healthy people once operated machines and built products, now they’re fatties operating jumbo MRI machines to inspect more fatties.
    Most metros largest employers are health systems tied to some large local university/medical school.

    Only in a bizarrely run society, which has chosen to financialize EVERYTHING (including the human body) and where only numbers on paper infinitely going up is a measure of success, can that happen.

  30. I bet that very few people felt sorry for Big Paul Castellano. Similarly, you will find people all over the place that condemn the killing of the CEO, but few people seem to be offering sympathy.

    Tom Woods even wrote — I think it was yesterday; “Should we be killing CEOs?”

    Of course not, duh. We shouldn’t be killing anyone. But just like this article points out, when people are forced into accepting the violence of people like this CEO and his entire organization, eventually this kind of thing happens.

    A similar discussion comes up around elections every two years. We shouldn’t be thinking about evil fucks getting whacked over literal mass murder, oppression, combined with obscene wealth at our expense. No, no. That would be wrong.

    But, there it is again. We’re not voting our way out of this shit. Eventually “the people” will take up the “politics by other means”.

    • I think so, XM –

      It saddens me, because I am (or like to think I am) a civilized man and as such I do not like violence. But violence begets violence. It is understandable when there is no viable alternative.

      • Sometimes violence works, karma also comes into play and you get what you deserve.
        The socialist healthcare system here in commie kanada is “free” as if, the hypochondriacs here have everything backed for months if not years as they race to emerg for a blister or cold sore.
        I always get cheered up when I read about Nick Ceauseseus plight. Trial and punishment carried out on the same day.Dictator no more.

    • [Of course not, duh. We shouldn’t be killing anyone. ] XM

      Sometimes it is the only solution,,, governments use it all the time!
      600,000 in Ukeville,,,
      50,000 in Gaza,,, ??????? in what was Syria, now greater Israhell.
      Millions worldwide… Covid Vax.

    • Unfortunately, almost all of the people cheering the murder of this CEO are not advocating a libertarian solution to the problem of insurance infiltration of our medical system. Instead, they advocate a complete government takeover of medicine via the establishment of a “single payer” system, in which the government pays for everything. These people actually believe that, after the government takes over the medical field, they will receive all of the medical care that they want, free of charge, and they will never be denied. They really ought to take a look at the Canadian single payer system, in which people are put on months long waiting lists for procedures that they could receive with no wait if they paid out of pocket. It’s getting to where the favorite free medical procedure of the Canadian medical system is free euthanasia.

      • “They really ought to take a look at the Canadian single payer system, in which people are put on months long waiting lists for procedures that they could receive with no wait if they paid out of pocket.”

        Or, even more so, look at the British NHS.

        They make you wait for treatment, then you lie in your own excrement for days, and then they kill you.

        The only reliable thing about the NHS is that it’s going to consume ever more government funding, for at best no improvement whatsoever.

        Yet again it is obvious that free shit is not free, but it most definitely is still shit.

        But hey, anytime now we will finally discover ‘true communism’ that actually works as advertised.

        • “They really ought to take a look at the Canadian single payer system, in which people are put on months long waiting lists for procedures

          Put on waiting lists for YEARS….you will die first….but ….they will offer you MAID…..

          Impossible to get a family doctor…

          NOTE a lot of medical staff were fired for not getting injected….

          The only treatments they offer are… poisonous drugs and injections….which are not free….so where is the free…..

      • I dunno, Martin. You might be mistaken? Perhaps, consider the words of this title to a blog entry, ‘The first pebbles have shaken loose and are clattering down ahead of the landslide’.

        Seems like, you’re taking a gigantic leap here: “almost all of the people cheering the murder of this CEO are not advocating a libertarian solution to the problem of insurance infiltration of our medical system. Instead, they advocate a complete government takeover of medicine via the establishment of a “single payer” system”.

        Either, or?

        I think, not. …Who knows? …Round & round, it goes.

        …And, the beat goes on.

        ‘SONNY & CHER “The Beat Goes On”‘

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwB8ph7VAXw

        • Hi Helot,

          Decent people abhor the initiation of violence. But these mafias do exactly that, in a way that is especially galling because it’s not a person, per se, that’s on your back but an institution. Thompson was just the head of one. All of these institutions are sowing the wind – and the people who are the minions of these institutions should not be surprised when they reap the whirlwind.

  31. The coercive nature of this mafia is why the incessant ads for same insult the intelligence of a five year old.

    State Farm cancelled me in 1976 because of a few speeding tix, no claims. The bastards kept the six month premium I’d just paid. To this day my brother, who still pays them extortion, has a line on his renewal that I’m not allowed to drive his cars. And they wonder how such a nice man as Brian could be shot down in the streets like a dog.

    The leftist rantings of the shooter aside, you can only push people so far before they snap. When you realize you can’t escape the Matrix and resistance is futile things start to explode. Remember “When people have nothing left to lose, and they’ve lost everything, they lose it.” — Gerald Celente.

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