Luigi Mangione

Luigi Mangione

Terrorist or Seeker Of Justice?

So, Luigi Mangione isn’t a terrorist anymore.

At least not according to Judge Gregory Carro, who just tossed out two major terrorism-related murder charges.

Apparently, killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare wasn’t “terrorism” because Mangione didn’t technically try to coerce the government or terrify the general public. He just shot a corporate executive whose company profits through the suffering and death of the American people.

See, New York’s terrorism laws were written for guys with bombs in backpacks or manifestos about overthrowing the government, not for a guy who *allegedly* decided to turn his rage on the healthcare-industrial complex. And so, the court says, it doesn’t count.

Mangione isn’t walking free, yet.

He’s still staring down second-degree murder charges, weapons charges, and a federal case that could potentially slap him with the death penalty.

Uncle Sam loves nothing more than to prove a point by frying someone, and they’ll happily strap him to the chair if it keeps other would-be vigilantes from thinking CEOs are fair game.

But Mangione has become a folk hero.

Outside the courthouse, people showed up in green, chanting “Free Luigi” like it was Comic-Con. These aren’t anarchists throwing Molotovs; they’re regular Americans who are sick to death (sometimes literally) of watching their friends and family bankrupted or buried by the U.S. healthcare system.

When a guy shoots a CEO and some people respond by cosplaying Nintendo characters in solidarity, that is majorly telling about the rotting, rigged game U.S. citizens are trapped in.

The corporate press is horrified.

How dare anyone see Mangione as anything other than a monster?

They should ask themselves why people feel more sympathy for the accused murderer than for the billionaire whose company denied grandma’s lifesaving treatment.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Americans spend more on healthcare than any nation on Earth and still die younger, sicker, and poorer.

Just a possibility.

This case is now unfolding in the shadow of another political assassination, of course.

Charlie Kirk, gunned down just six days ago.

The establishment wants us to panic about “political violence,” but they don’t want to talk about the quiet political violence of medical debt, poverty wages, and a government bought wholesale by corporations and Israel.

UnitedHealthcare has been killing Americans for decades, slowly, methodically, with quarterly earnings calls.

Pretrial hearings kick off December 1. No trial date set yet.

Meanwhile, the feds are sharpening their knives for the death penalty. Because if there’s one thing America won’t tolerate, it’s someone turning the tables on the class that’s been killing us slowly while calling it “care.” The Feds will have to decide if making him a martyr would be worth it for their cause, because it could blow up in their faces.