Eve is here. Tom Neuburger makes a stunningly devastating argument for why America’s CEOs and other rulers are afforded only the highest security.
In keeping with Tom’s theme, the first time I saw a sniper on a rooftop (yes, multiple buildings) was in 1984 in a nice suburb of Mexico City where McKinsey had offices, I think it was the embassy district. Masu. It’s not so much fun to get rich if you have to live like that.
And I would like to add a little bit to his text: there are people who make themselves indispensable by actively supporting the indefensible. An example here is New York City Partnership Chairwoman Kathy, who we have criticized several times, including in the focus of a post like “Kathryn Wilde, the almost cartoonish 1% advocate” rears her head. It’s wild. A plan of attack to tax the wealthy to save New York City.
Written by Thomas Neuberger. Originally published on God’s Spies
The case of Luigi Mangione is putting people in a predicament.
We do not restrict media. The media will cover the CEO as soon as possible. Ken Klippenstein wrote of Brian Thompson, “This reporting is more like knighthood than journalism.”)
Our government also has its hands up the CEO’s butt. In a tweet that has been viewed nearly 2 million times, Luke Goldstein said of New York State’s response:
From the linked Politico article:
State officials are hoping to calm the nerves of New York City’s business elite after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shocked the corporate world.
Gov. Kathy Hochul will mediate a virtual meeting Tuesday with state law enforcement officials and representatives of about 175 companies to discuss sharing security resources.
How many people who refused claims did Mr. Hochul appease? She must have talked to some of them because there are a lot of them.
About “Shah”[ed] “Security Resources” has the following meanings:
[Kathy] wild [Partnership for New York City president and the business world’s contact person for this effort] Playbook said discussions will include state police as well as state Department of Homeland Security and counterterrorism officials to show how information can be shared with corporate security.
Homeland Security. A lone gunman murder case with no connection to terrorism. Apparently our country has its own federal police force, with its entire force at its disposal. I’m glad that the CEO level is so considerate.
It’s really a class war.
However, this work is not about the hypocrisy of the nation.
The question is how seriously the nation will take this man’s death.
protect the wealthy minority
An obvious fact: The United States was founded on class warfare. “Founded” means from the beginning. James Madison:
In England, if elections were open to all classes of people at this time, the property of landowners would not be secure. The Agricultural Land Law will come into effect soon. [The Senate] It must be structured to protect the minority of the wealthy from the majority.
“Luxury” is a wonderful word. This is a luxury:
Since then, the country has been in the throes of a war of classes (or “commands,” as Madison called them). Jeffersonian democracy was opposed to Federalist elitism. Over the next few decades, that franchise was gradually expanded, peacefully or not, and after the Civil War (which ensured that southern black gains would soon be reversed), the franchise was extended to the very wealthy. became a great ruling class.
But the wealthy have remained influential ever since, albeit with a brief hiatus caused by the national suffering of the Great Depression and its happy aftermath.
Even worse, their power is unlikely to be taken away. Money dominates our politics and laws, and this trend is increasing by the day. And the benefits of that control are truly luxurious.
Of course, CEOs should accept the protection and protection of the states that enable them and that they control. I highly recommend doing more of that. In fact, there should be armed guards everywhere.
I’m serious. I think that’s important.
Why I support billionaire protection
There are two reasons for insisting that the affairs of billionaires and their CEOs be ostentatiously and aggressively protected.
First, each American can decide for himself whether murder is wrong. However, this decision has its pitfalls.
If we support social murder, death at a distance carried out by corporate greed, then we must also be comfortable with retribution. If you justify one kind of murder, you justify both. If you believe that all murder is wrong, then you should strongly oppose state-sanctioned death, including those that profit from death.
You cannot support the killing of corporations or oppose their deadly responses. I myself am against all kinds of murder. Therefore, I want our nation’s billionaires and their dangerous corporate consiglieri to be heavily guarded. It is visibly, brazenly, and overly ambitiously guarded.
why? As for the second reason.
I want people to see and know who their ruler is without anyone having to argue or explain it to them. To know by seeing and feeling. Know it down to the marrow of your bones.
Because of class consciousness, people. Or truth in advertising.
