A Vigilante Dressed in Black (Not Batman)

Trigger warning if you don’t want to hear anymore delighting in the death of a scumbag healthcare millionaire. 

The coolest guy with the biggest balls in America took out an insurance boss on the street in NYC last week! Millions laughed and nobody cried. People hate to watch their loved ones suffer and die, when there is medical treatment purposefully made inaccessible for the sake of personal greed.  It’s a stark reminder that the systems we live under have real, tangible consequences that sometimes push people to the edge. Justice can be so rough. 

The few details that emerge about “the killer” are strange and hilarious, it seems like it could have been more of a witness-tampering corporate assassin than an aggrieved healthcare patient, but again there isn’t much information coming out at all. It was a motivated and careful act of vengeance for whatever purpose. Online the shooter has been nicknamed The Claims Adjuster and it’s been very affirming to read endless comments in support of what could possibly be autonomous direct action (the more I think about it, I doubt that though).

Delay, Defend, Depose written on 3 of the bullets? That is like performance art, and poetry. 

The killer escaped on an electric bike, and the news said he had travelled to NYC by bus. Maybe I have written about having a mild appreciation for the fictional vigilante Batman?! Well IRL I love everything I have heard about this black clad CEO killer so far. He brings us together, and reminds us that the people who intentionally immiserate us have necks that can be wrung. 

Please do not copy his actions!! There is a real possibility he has professional training and more governmental help than we know about.

When abusers die there is safety and peace of mind for their victims. If that sounds “callous” or uncaring, maybe you have a very soft and sheltered life (maybe you never had to fight with a health insurance company in the USA). Death is coming for us all, even our sweet children and beloved online followers! So, sorry to say, I don’t think it is especially sad that a rich man with a hateful job was killed.

The grim reaper will take us all before long. A few months ago my neighbor was murdered, by someone he knew well- and that was very sad! But for a health insurance boss, in this blog, there’s no weeping.