Younger Generation Support for Luigi Mangione Reflects “A Strong Anti-Capitalist Trend on Campuses”
My appearance on Fox Business Network, covering Biden’s death row commutations, likely future pardons to protect his family and Trump persecutors, and youth support for the killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
I appeared this morning on Fox Business Network Mornings with Maria, with guest host Gerri Willis.
The topics included Joe Biden’s commutation of the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life in prison without possibility of parole. Three others – the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon Bombing, and the Tree of Life Synagogue (Pittsburgh) and Mother Emanuel AME Church (Charleston) massacres – remain on death row. We also discussed the 1499-person mass clemency and 39 pardons recently issued by Biden, the pardon of Biden’s son Hunter, and whether Biden will pardon other family members.
The last part of the interview turned to the Not Guilty plea entered by Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, and polling that showed strong support for Mangione among the younger generation (ages 18-29).
- Most voters (68%) think the actions of the killer against Thompson were unacceptable, while 17% found them acceptable, an Emerson College poll out this week found.
- Young voters were far more split: 41% found the killer’s actions acceptable, while 40% found them unacceptable, per the poll. About 24% found them “somewhat acceptable” and 17% “completely acceptable.” ….
- Even before Mangione was arrested, posters hailed him as a folk hero and posted jokes and memes celebrating the suspect and his purported cause, Axios’ Ivana Saric reported.
- TikTok, a top social media app for young people, was awash with comedy over the killing.
- Online storefronts also began selling merchandise, including sweatshirts, wine tumblers and hats emblazoned with words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” — industry parlance found on shell casings at the crime scene….
- 22% of Democrats found the killer’s actions acceptable, while 59% found them unacceptable. Among Republicans, 12% found the actions acceptable while 16% of independents said the same.
- Men (19%) found the killer’s actions slightly more acceptable than women (14%).
Here is the video, with a partial transcript below.
Partial Transcript (auto-generated, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity).
Willis (01:04):
…. Joining me now is Cornell University law professor and founder of EqualProtect.org. William Jacobson. William, what do you make of these commutations? I mean, it, it’s stunning to see what these individuals have done. Just awful. What do you say?
WAJ (01:23):
I think what’s stunning is how sweeping it is, that he’s not taking into consideration a particular case. He’s not taking into consideration whether somebody in prison has changed their life. The usual things that we look for when a commutation is done. None of that is true here. These are cold-blooded killers who’ve shown no remorse. They’re certainly not being, having their sentences commuted because they’ve found God and they’ve become religious in prison, anything like that.
This is a purely political move, and that’s what people need to understand. There is a wing of the Democratic Party, and not just the Democratic Party, but mostly the Democratic Party, which does not accept the death penalty under any circumstance. And if somebody does that for religious views, I I understand that, but this is purely political.
Willis (02:11):
Those weren’t the only commutations. President Biden also commuting the sentences of 1500 people and pardon 39. Earlier this month, it was the largest single day act of clemency in history. Biden has issued a total of more than 1600 commutations and 65 pardons. He’s still facing criticism, of course, for both sides of the aisle after pardoning his own son Hunter, a felony gun and tax charges. William, who do you think is next to receive a pardon? Maria believes the President’s brother James May be next. What do you say?
WAJ (02:45):
Well, I think that’s a logical thought, that he’s going to protect the family, protect the family business. I mean, Hunter wasn’t the only one. A lot of people have described him as the bag man for the family. And that may or may not be true, but I think the president’s brother, other family members, I think they’re all going to be protected because Joe Biden does not want them prosecuted for what could have amounted to payoffs to Joe Biden through a circuitous family route. So I think that that’s a good estimation.
I think you’re also going to see pardons of people who were involved in the investigations and prosecutions of Donald Trump. So I think that those prosecutors are going to get pardons, preemptive pardons. because Trump and others have announced that they’re going to be investigated, and they should be investigated as to whether they abused their power or not.
And I think you’re also going to see pardons for January 6th commission members. You’re going to see Liz Cheney, people like that, because what Joe Biden has been doing, and it’s really the team behind Joe Biden, is they have been using his pardon power as a sweeping political tool, both to get his son off the hook, but also I believe to protect his family and to protect his political legacy.
Willis (04:02):
I hope somebody starts reconsidering all of this. It just seems egregious to me that he uses it in any way he wants to and sets free these, these horrible criminals.
Let’s move on to the murder of this UnitedHealthcare, CEO. The suspect in that murder case, Luigi Mangione, pleading not guilty in a New York courtroom yesterday, Mangione is seen smiling in court after entering his plea. If convicted on the federal murder charges, he could face the death penalty. More than 30 protestors held up signs outside, and they’re chanting in support of the accused killer.
A new poll from Emerson College showing 41% of voters aged 18 to 29 call the killing of the UnitedHealthcare, CEO, Brian Thompson, acceptable. William, you teach law at Cornell. Why do you think so many younger folks out there are aligning with a murderer in this case?
WAJ (05:02):
I think what you’ve seen on campuses for multiple decades now is a demonization of our system, a presentation that our system is inherently corrupt, racially corrupt, and, that capitalism is bad. So there’s a strong anti-capitalist trend on campuses. It’s not the majority, but it’s enough that you do get some measure of the student body, of the younger generation, thinking that political crime is okay as long as it’s a bad person.
And so I think that’s what you’re seeing is a destruction of the values in the younger generation via the education system on the rule of law, of the notion that you just don’t get to kill people you don’t like. And so I think that’s a problem, I think, that this should be the reaction from the younger generation to this assassination, this premeditated assassination, which has resulted in a very rare first degree murder charge in New York State, because it’s an act, was an act considered an act of terrorism, which pushes it up from second degree murder to first degree murder. You’reseeing that reaction is something that is very frightening for our society, and I think you may see play out in other cases that people think it’s okay to kill somebody you disagree with or you think has a bad capitalist job.
Willis (06:26):
It’s just amazing. Jonathan, your thoughts?
Jonathan (06:28):
Yeah, I mean, you said something very profound. You talked about this sort of breakdown in scrupulous values that we have and that we’re seeing throughout our nation. And I wonder if you think, is that something that kind of prompted the red wave to happen? I mean this idea, this sense among families throughout our country that we need to get back to the scrupulous values that made our nation great in the first place. And one of them being not wanting to see someone die just because they work in a certain industry, whether it’s popular or unpopular, but this idea that the values we hold as a nation have been on trial for the last four years, and it’s time to return to what makes our nation great from a moral standpoint.
WAJ (07:14):
I think there’s no question there’s a pushback nationwide against the craziness of the campuses. And I work on a campus and, you know, Cornell’s not as bad as some, but campuses in general have some of the craziest ideas that you can imagine. Many of the campuses are run by incredibly radical faculty who have no accountability to anybody.
So yeah, I think there is a pushback. I saw think you saw that throughout the nation, and I think that one of the unique features of the most recent election was the blue collar workers, the working class, shifting over to the Republicans, which was not traditionally how it’s been. So I think there’s no question that society is looking at the campuses and saying, what is going on here? And I think that is part of the political pushback.
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Interesting that students decry capitalism while ensconced in the warm, comfortable confines of their college campuses that were made possible by…
You know the answer.
As to Thompson’s cold blooded murder, one would have expected him to be one of the Ivy League tribe, as many of these loudmouth Marxist cretins often are, but stickin’ it to the man lands different when the guy graduated from the University of Iowa.
May he rest in peace.
After the news of the past couple of weeks, New York has a bare knuckled reckoning awaiting.
To be clear: 90% error rate on AI rushed out the door to cut costs… not just in labor of reviewing a claim but also the cost NOT paying out claims. That is not capitalism, it’s a crime.
Allegedly. But even if so, who appointed Luigi Mangione judge, jury and executioner?
This is the same evil that allows students to support Haas despite their slaughter of 1,400 Jewish captives.
Capital is seed corn. It creates more products next year by reserving some of this year’s products for that purpose, rather than eating it all.
Don’t refer to the CEO as a capitalist. He wasn’t. He was doing the same crap that Boeing was doing that caused planes to fall out of the sky. It was criminal when Boeing did it, and it’s criminal when a health insurance company does it. He was a criminal and a gangster getting away with what he could. Any notion that this was guy was doing anything but racketeering and fraud is incorrect.
Where the hell was the insurance commissioners on all this anyway????? It shouldn’t take a lawsuit to correct it. I would assert Luigi’s anger was misdirected… there are safeguards in place to protect the insureds against what the CEO was doing… those safeguards were MIA.
Also… was the fraud all his own, or is he nothing more than a “capitalist” front man slash patsy, whose job it was to deliver the government “bad news” inherent in Obamacare, in return for a cushy paycheck? Is he administering ANY sort of a private “capitalist” program, or he just an exit sphincter for a federal product?
Guess who enabled health insurance companies to become what they are today?
Yes that’s right, the one and only Barry Hussein.
It’s not just college students doing the cheering. Insurance companies of all kinds are on the shit lists of many. Just waiting to hear about all the claims that will be denied in NC and TN.
I’ve got a huge problem with the insurance industry as it exists today. In may cases, you are required to law to purchase insurance in order to stay within the law in society. Car insurance and Obama care are and were two examples (when we had the individual mandate). Some states still require the purchase of health insurance or you’re forced to pay a penalty. So we have the state, requiring you by law to purchase this product from the private market that the state purports to regulate. And when it’s time to actually use that product? Insurance companies can tell you to fuck off. They routinely refuse to pay claims and the government does nothing to force compliance on their part.
I spent a decade pursuing a claim against a well known insurance company. Ten years before they were force to pay up, with interest. Luckily, no one died and it didn’t bankrupt me but this is something many people face every day. Most people just give up.
Every state has an elected official called the “Insurance Commissioner.”
This office wields a lot of power. One of their core functions is smack down wrongfully denied claims. You don’t need to lawyer up until AFTER you go through this office. They are the consumer advocate among other things. They exist for exactly what this CEO was doing.
They also go after consumers who commit insurance fraud as well.
Believe me- insurance companies have TEAMS of lawyers figuring out how to get out of paying for crap (I’m friends with some). That’s not what this outfit was doing. They were doing EXACTLY what Boeing was doing. Stupid, greed, callous and out of touch leadership. It was criminal.
and no- they can’t tell you to eff off. But it helps if you understand the contract you signed.
What they will do is figure out a way to not renew you.
These are not smart people, even if intelligent, because they are not able to see that they are privileged due to capitalism, which would not be the case otherwise. Short-sighted education that ignores real world consequences.
Spoiled brats, just as we were in the comforts of college. It is when you find out your degree in Intersectional Gender Studies or International Economic Systems have absolutely no job prospects unless a small college desperately needs a mentally ill black lesbian harridan that the bell tolls.
True. What you are leaving aside is why they are PO. Sure they made the choice of a worthless major. In some cases they chose worthwhile major but one not valuable enough to overcome the insane rise of tuition. Between 1980 and 2020 cost of attending College rose over 160%. Wages from those undergraduate degrees didn’t come close to matching that.
IMO, what we really have is a generational bifurcation in whether college pays off or not. Boomers absolutely. Less rewarding for Gen X but still positive. Millennials and younger? That’s where the costs don’t make sense for a great many. Who does benefit from College? The faculty, particularly SR tenured Faculty, largely Boomers with some Gen X. Then there’s the ever growing group of Univ administration who also get a cut.
The younger generations look around and they can’t support a family on one income as Boomers could. The impacts of off shoring, robotics hollowed out the middle class. If you are outside the credentialed class, govt sector or don’t have a trade certification there’s not a bunch of options that pay well enough to afford a down payment.
While none of those economic and social issues justify violence they do highlight the frustrations of Millennials and younger generations. They feel lied to. Told to go to college they graduated in tremendous debt with fewer job opportunities and less ability to enter the middle class than prior generations.
“TikTok, a top social media app for young people, was awash with comedy over the killing.”
An American corporation like Ebay or Etsy or Amazon being willing to sell junk celebrating a murderer is one thing. As American corporations they do have a very broad range of rights, and while they can be regulated such regulations need to be based in law.
It is entirely different for the CCP to be hosting our public square and promoting murderers to the next generation.
Forget Gen Z this is what Gen Alpha is seeing to. How many generations have to be lost?
Tik Tok is an evil we do not have to put up with, federal government has absolute power to dictate trade with foreign corporations, and this is a reminder of why Tik Tok is correctly being banned.
CCP is one of the great evils of the world and that includes CCP operations like Tik Tok.
Todays youth is not being taught to think for themselves. They are being indoctrinated. And in many cases, it is not “Think as I think”. It is “Think as I tell you to think”.
Over the last 50 or so years, the socio-communist left, within both the Corp. and Political arena have been what one could call “busy” removing Doctors, by double tap to the chest, and found in river. Seth Rich, Breitbart, Foster, the young man dating political members daughter, and on and on, with little coverage – The Hillary list, accurate or no, is noted as rather long. Ron Brown anyone? Anyway as an old Mil. & Civ. analyst Forensic, Historical the action on the Constitutional conservative side is rare, but not unknown.
The Obama ( communist ) medical system is corrupt, and this man was damaged. The X-Rays note back repair. With the Supreme Court bungling of the “Care” issue, and Republicans pretending to correct, with nada, no surprise in this assassination.
While Capitalist methodology is a way for all to thrive, principle must be involved, I repeat must. Morality must be in the structure of business. Currently, with the lack of either, this should be considered a warning to the previously atheistic lack of morality in the large Corporations and especially the Insurance Industry.
Really no matter the political media rhetoric, plainly lacking of value, ignores the implication, by linking to old verbiage. Whether left or right, this should be a “chilling” warning to the Corporate and Political Aristocracy- Why I note political, is that Business is governed by Congressional rules and etc.
This being the peoples house, what is common on the Atheistic and Humanist side of the process, and the actions on the Constitutionally conservative side are rare again, a warning to the Grifters that patience on the moral & ethical side is wearing quite thin.
If the illegal, immoral activities continue, and a hole wears in the knee, the
response will not be random – it will be retribution –
“The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is natural manure.”
Thomas Jefferson – November 1787
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