by Nikoli Weir
The iron heel of the financial oligarchy is coming down hard and fast on Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealth Executive Brian Thompson. Major news outlets, social media companies, and government officials all across the country have come out and declared that Mangione is guilty, despite the fact that his trial hasn’t even started. Platforms like Tiktok and Meta have acted hyper-vigilantly, scrubbing all coverage of Mangione that is not outright negative. Reddit, which loves to market itself as a bastion of free speech, has wiped Mangione’s personal account off the face of its website. What was he posting that was so horrible? Health and exercise advice.
The media wants you to believe that Mangione is two things; crazy and guilty. As he was being dragged into a Pennsylvania courthouse by police, he shouted that his arrest was “completely unjust” and “an insult to the intelligence of the American people.” It is difficult to imagine a clearer and more comprehensible statement, but the media has been breaking its back to frame this remark as evidence of Mangione’s supposed mental instability.
It’s clear that the Commissars of Capital have already decided amongst themselves that Mangione is guilty. The trial is a mere formality, undertaken in order to keep up the appearance of a free and democratic society. There is much that points to this, but the most damning piece of evidence is that the judge handling Mangione’s pre-trial hearings, Magistrate Judge Katherine H. Parker, is married to former healthcare executive Bret Parker; not only that, but she has hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in a variety of healthcare and pharmaceutical companies.
According to independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, “Parker also holds scattered interests in pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare companies like Abbott Laboratories, the owner of St. Jude Medical. Abbot has drawn criticism over the years for manufacturing tainted and toxic baby formula, fraudulently billing Medicaid for glucose monitors, and selling faulty deep brain stimulation devices.”
The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees a fair trial to all persons who have been charged with a crime. Do we really think that a judge like Katherine H. Parker, who has deep connections with the healthcare industry, is capable of being impartial and fair? It seems more than anything that the government wants a judge who will tow the line of the billionaire class and send Mangione to the execution chamber. If they are so worried about this case that they need a puppet judge to oversee the pre-trial hearings, what monster of a court magistrate will be overseeing his actual trial?
The entirety of the capitalist class is conspiring to execute Luigi Mangione. They are terrified of the outpouring of public support for a man who allegedly gunned down one of their own in broad daylight. They know that their rule will soon come to an end, and they know that the executioners of that rule will be the same people who have lived under their boot for decades and centuries. The capitalist class is trembling, and the people are for the first time in a long time aware of their trembling.
The rich rule by the decrees of their courts and the batons and guns of their police force. They rule at a distance and send others to do their dirty work for them. The people, when awakened to their potential for revolutionary power, have no use for such deception. Their court is the barricade; their decrees rip through the air like thunder and send the rich running for their lives. The people do not deliver justice to tyrants by banging a gavel and reading a verdict; they deliver justice to tyrants by casting them face first into the mud. The tyrants know this, and they know that their time is coming fast.
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