The Adjuster's "Manifesto"
A note to the Feds.
Without comment, but encouraging yours and with the promise to appreciate and reply, here is the “manifesto” (just a note really) of Luigi Mangione:
“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”
My heart breaks for his family and the family of the murdered man. It's too bad he couldn't engineer a solution that did not ruin his life and all the lives he hurt. But his point is loud and clear. He isn't wrong to bring attention to the disgusting way our healthcare is a market, industry for profit. They have free range with our tax dollars and are villains and murderers themselves directly and legally killing people by denial of critical care. To earn $40B+ profit margin off of sick people is heinous. The US regulatory body, the FDA is pathetic.
Those of us who champion the cause of justice and fight for what we believe are constructive changes in our societal organization lose the struggle by resorting to violence. This was understood by Martin Luther King, Jr., who knowingly put himself at risk for the greater good. This young man chose to murder one other person, a cowardly act that left a family devastated. The law (just law) provides the appropriate remedy for this act.