Thursday, December 12, 2024

The Reading List of Luigi Mangione, Suspect in Brian Thompson’s Killing

The Intercept

An account linked to Luigi Mangione, a suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, left a trail of book reviews online.

People stop to look at the reward poster with surveillance photos of a man suspected in the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson who was killed outside the the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY, December 4, 2024. A reward poster with surveillance photos of a man suspected in the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson who was killed outside the the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan seen on Dec. 4, 2024. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

"When the identity of the person who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was a mystery, Americans grafted their own ideas about the gunman onto the little information available. Now that a person of interest in the case has been arrested, that imagined character is bumping up against the identity and writings of a named suspect, who appears to have left an extensive trail of book reviews, including for an anti-technology manifesto written by the Unabomber and treatises on managing back pain.

"Along with a three-page, handwritten manifesto reportedly in the possession of Luigi Mangione upon his arrest, those online traces may offer insight into the motives of a man accused of a killing that touched a nerve for Americans exhausted with profit-hungry health care companies.

"Much of the online chatter has centered on the book written by Ted Kaczynski, the man known as the Unabomber, who conducted a nearly 20-year campaign of mail bombings designed to reverse society’s accelerating technological revolution." . . .

One has to suspect these are the same generation loudly cheering the Hamas slaughter of Israeli families that October 7th, leading to the current war, and those wearing masks while burning American cities over the death of a woman- abuser. TD

Britain has these as well:

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