Corporations scramble to provide protection against threat of copycat killings following Brian Thompson’s murder
Summary
The NYPD warns US healthcare executives about an online hitlist following the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
The threat has led to increased security measures and concerns about copycat killings inspired by social media posts celebrating the murder.
The NYPD bulletin highlights the need for heightened protection due to the potential inspiration from the suspect's notebook and online reactions justifying the shooting.
I hope people take to generally withholding human decency from these executives.
This can be an addition to whatever other more invasive measures people might have planned.
Examples:
Instead of holding the door for one of them when you walk through, push the door back into their face and hold it there for a few seconds, Make eye contact like you're looking at an unruly teenager literally covered in shit. It's not illegal it's just rude and upsetting.
Don't put any condiments or napkins or anything like that into their to-go containers. If possible omit any packaging at all. Make them request each specific plastic fork and napkin, do your best to soil all of it.
If you recognize one of them in public, point and yell, "This person works for a death panel and helps ensure Americans die prematurely."
Don't refer to the most HMO CEOs or healthcare CEOs, just call them death panelists, or death panel CEO.
Of course I would never discourage violence against purveyors of human misery, but if you're too explicitly willing to fight back in the ongoing class war you will be de-platformed and treated as if you are an actual terrorist.
If, on the other hand, you wanted to say that Brian Thompson should have gone on living and been allowed to kill as many people as the law would let him then you're perfectly okay and standing on solid ground.
It’s nice to think they’re freaking out, but I feel like whatever extra precautions they take for themselves and their families will be passed onto us and result in even more expensive healthcare.
Does it really count as a "hit list" if it's just a list of publicly known healthcare executives? This isn't so much a case of a list of targets as it is just a list of people in an industry that literally everyone hates, and they're suddenly aware that they are mortal.