Delay, deny, defend
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Well this pretty much answers that:
Police are combing through surveillance video and examining clues the gunman may have left while fleeing the scene of the shooting.
The words “delay” and “depose” were found on a live round and a shell casing tied to the shooter who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday, law enforcement sources told CNN on Thursday.
ABC News earlier reported on three words found on the bullet casings.
Law enforcement sources told CNN “depose” was written on a shell casing from a round that was fired into the victim. “Delay” was written on a live round that was ejected when the shooter appeared to be clearing a jam.
Police are exploring whether the words found indicate a motive, pointing to a popular phrase in the insurance industry: “delay, deny, defend.”
I’m not surprised that there seems to be so much ambivalence about whether’s a bad thing for the CEO of a particularly rapacious medical insurance company to be murdered in an act of political violence, but — spoiler alert — stochastic terrorism seems unlikely to advance the political fortunes of Medicare For All.
On the other hand . . . I don’t think it’s exactly a coincidence that for a generation immediately after World War II we had a much healthier society in regard to questions of wealth distribution than we had either before or after. The Lords of Capital had the bejeezus scared out of them by communism and fascism, and as a result for a little while there they at least considered the possibility that maybe they shouldn’t try to grab everything that wasn’t nailed down, while crowbarring up the rest.
My favorite quote from an economist:
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession -as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life -will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semicriminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. All kinds of social customs and economic practices, affecting the distribution of wealth and of economic rewards and penalties, which we now maintain at all costs, however distasteful and unjust they may be in themselves, because they are tremendously useful in promoting the accumulation of capital, we shall then be free, at last, to discard.
Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” (1930)