Understanding the Age of Assassination

[mystery-ak]

April 28, 2025
Understanding the Age of Assassination
By Christopher Chantrill

Experts were shocked, shocked, by the assassination of healthcare executive Brian Thompson on December 4, 2024, for which a certain young white male Luigi Mangione is accused. But then the pollsters got busy and found that, on the Left, there was significant support for assassination. Zack Dulberg and Max Horder wrote all about it in City Journal.

    We found that nearly one-third of Americans surveyed -- and around half of those identifying as left-of-center -- believe that the murder of certain public figures is at least somewhat justified.

Put me down as one who is not surprised. Why? Because I am a student of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt and his Concept of the Political. Schmitt writes that

    The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be traced is the distinction between friend and enemy.

He continues:

    [The enemy] is just the other, the stranger, and it is sufficient to his nature that he is existentially different and foreign in a particularly intense way, so that in extreme cases conflicts with him are possible.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/understanding_the_age_of_assassination.html

[mountaineer]

I think a good part of the reason the left are so willing to kill people with whom they disagree - people who present no threat to them whatsoever - is that they don't put any value on human life. If they did, they wouldn't have made abortion their sacrament. They wouldn't be so eager to mutilate children or "euthanize" the handicapped and ill.

Having rejected the Judeo-Christian notion that human beings are precious, created by God in His image, as well as the teaching that we are to love our neighbors and even our enemies, it's easy to justify eliminating any person with a different opinion - or any person at all. Don't even need a reason.

Brian Thompson wasn't in Mangione's way. He'd never said or done anything to challenge or oppose Luigi at all. Mangione had no dealings with United Healthcare. Thompson was just a hapless, unwitting stand-in for those of us Mangione perceived to be unworthy of existence, and so he was executed. And the left applauds.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I think a good part of the reason the left are so willing to kill people with whom they disagree - people who present no threat to them whatsoever - is that they don't put any value on human life. If they did, they wouldn't have made abortion their sacrament. They wouldn't be so eager to mutilate children or "euthanize" the handicapped and ill.

Having rejected the Judeo-Christian notion that human beings are precious, created by God in His image, as well as the teaching that we are to love our neighbors and even our enemies, it's easy to justify eliminating any person with a different opinion - or any person at all. Don't even need a reason.

Brian Thompson wasn't in Mangione's way. He'd never said or done anything to challenge or oppose Luigi at all. Mangione had no dealings with United Healthcare. Thompson was just a hapless, unwitting stand-in for those of us Mangione perceived to be unworthy of existence, and so he was executed. And the left applauds.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Vigilantism occurs when the unwashed masses have lost faith and trust in government, courts, and other institutions necessary for a free and uncorrupt representative government.

[Fishrrman]

RINO posted (thoughtfully):
"Vigilantism occurs when the unwashed masses have lost faith and trust in government, courts, and other institutions necessary for a free and uncorrupt representative government."

Just wondering...
How many Briefers have read John Ross' tome, "Unintended Consequences" ???