For information purposes, Luigi pled not guilty.
“They’re putting all of this effort and the death penalty behind one person who allegedly killed one CEO who is responsible and profiting off of the death of thousands upon thousands of sick people and bringing people into financial ruin as well as death,” said Tilly, a Mangione supporter wearing a lime green jacket and light green sunglasses. “They do not put this same effort behind, say, school shooters or people who shoot up concerts.”
“It shows that the state has more care for the uber-wealthy and the CEOs that are profiting off of people’s death and pain than they do for the people.”
When’s the last time a school shooter (that made it to trial, obviously), got slapped with terrorism charges, had the prosecution seek the death penalty, or get prevented from accessing their family/lawyers for extended periods?
I agree, there are few similarities between the two crimes. I would say shooting up a building full of innocent children, particularly when death is involved, is a significantly worse crime than killing a single man. Yet the sought punishments are wildly disproportionate in the opposite direction.
I’m amazed this had to be explained
Past 9 years has shown me to not take any information for granted.
I notice a shocking similarity with how they treat whistleblowers though.
When’s the last time a school shooting fit the required legal definition for terrorism? They’re completely different scenarios with different motives, you may as well be asking “When’s the last time the Hamburglar was charged with terrorism?”
To give a huge benefit of the doubt, we haven’t had fascism times for these school shooters.
If a shooter makes it to arrangement today, I would expect fascism to make an example out of them as well and slap terrorism charges.
The analogy, while clumsy, is still accurate: the rules for us do not apply to the rich and powerful.
For fuck sakes we have a convicted felon as president and at his sentencing the judge said, “Uh, woopsie! Guess the jury was wrong. Go about your life, dear rich citizen.”
but we have had a school shooting recently, Trump said “these things happen” about it.
that’s it. that’s what the fascists say about us dying. they ONLY care about the rich.
Are you sure they won’t just be offered a job at the whitehouse? All they’ve gotta do is say they love Trump and he’ll sign a pardon after all.