Your post is interesting and I appreciate your honesty but I respectfully, don’t understand. Please tell me what I’m missing. LM had a medical condition that worsened due to a surfing accident. He then chose to have surgery. After that, he was in so much pain he couldn’t work so he lived and surfed in Hawaii, went to California, travelled to Japan and then shot BT in the back. How is BT, the CEO of his insurance carrier, responsible for his back pain, the outcome of his surgery or his original medical condition?
IMO, anyone who is ‘happy’ about this murder (not implying you are)- or who inserts a laughing emoji in a post about BT’s funeral - is, at best misguided, or at worst, a fruit loop.
I am speaking, naturally, only for myself.
I was initially very mystified by this case. As a New Yorker I took it personally. I had my theories about who and why. Some of my theories were wrong and some were exactly right.
For me, the whodunnit was the biggest question. That’s been solved.
The motive is now clear because LM clarified it.
As I see it, much of this was self-inflicted wounds. He had back problems at a young age and that is a misery. But he CHOSE to go surfing and exacerbated his problem.
He had surgery….he was NOT DENIED the medical intervention to which he was entitled.
This was a gifted, privileged, popular, intelligent young man. World was his oyster and all of that.
I posted threads ago that in NYC he was bicycling, ran across the street, had a probably heavy backpack draped across his painful back, opted for lengthy bus rides, crisscrossed the country—-if he could do these things he was less crippled than others I know and less than the stories many of you have shared.
In my family we have twice had to deal with recalcitrant health insurance. My mom who has dementia and is wheel-chair bound we reluctantly had to place in a facility that costs nearly $10,000 a month and is not covered by Medicare. It’s eating up my dad’s savings and will eat up the rest of ours as time goes by.
I 100% grasp the inequity, the fear, the horror, the Byzantine rules and profit vs. care rendered by big health insurance and big pharmaceutical companies, too.
But what I see in the end is a self-designated revolutionary who was tilting at a windmill that didn’t actually cause him problems.
He was NOT someone who was turned down for surgery and whose family was therefore bankrupted.
I see a man who was the Big Man on Campus, who now felt diminished, who was frustrated by the pain he carried but whose own actions made it worse, and who decided it was time for a Blaze of Glory.
I don’t think he wanted to be caught, actually, but at minimum he could think of himself as having done an important thing that he alone had the “courage” and the “principles” to do.
As an American I certainly do hope for a more equitable health care system, but I can never condone murder, not by anyone, and certainly not by a self-aggrandizing, self-proclaimed one-man justice system.
I will be very interested when his trial begins, but as for now my interest wanes.
JMO and I’m sure not a popular one.
ETA: My curiosity now is mainly confined to how minutely planned the murder was, and yet the exit plan was so sloppy.
He left Panko-sized breadcrumbs behind. My guess is that the adrenaline rush was over once the murder was done.
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