Chuck Darwin“Luigi mentioned you in his manifesto. That people should listen to you. Will you come on our show, or talk to our reporter and tell them that you condemn murder!?”
It’s not often that my work gets a killer five-star review from an actual killer.
And thus, my phone has been ringing off the hook which is bad news because my phone doesn’t have a hook.
Emails are pouring in. Text messages. Requests from many in the media.
Hmmm. Do I condemn murder?
That’s an odd question.
In Fahrenheit 9/11, I condemned the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people and the senseless murder of our own American soldiers at the hands of our American government.
In Bowling for Columbine, I condemned the murder of 50,000 Americans every year at the hands of our gun industry and our politicians who do nothing to stop it.
In my 35 years as a filmmaker, have I said or done anything that has implied I condone murder?
As a teenager during the Vietnam War, I was required to register for the draft at the local draft board.
There was a box on the form asking me if I had a problem with killing Vietnamese people.
Actually, it just asked me to check the box if I was going to file for Conscientious Objector status
— meaning, if given the opportunity, would I swear that I would never kill a Vietnamese person.
I checked the box. Throughout my adult life, I have repeatedly stated that I’m a pacifist.
In fact, I have never struck another human in my life.
👉Here’s a sad statistic for you:
In the United States, we have a whopping 1.4 million people employed with the job of DENYING HEALTH CARE,
vs only 1 million doctors in the entire country!
That’s all you need to know about America.
We pay more people to deny care than to give it.
1 million doctors to give care, 1.4 million brutes in cubicles doing their best to stop doctors from giving that care.
If the purpose of “health care” is to keep people alive, then what is the purpose of DENYING PEOPLE HEALTH CARE?
Other than to kill them?
I definitely condemn that kind of murder.
And in fact, I already did.
In 2007, I made a film
– SICKO
– about America’s bloodthirsty, profit-driven and murderous health insurance system.
It was nominated for an Oscar.
It’s the second-largest grossing film of my career (after Fahrenheit 9/11).
And over the past 15 years, millions upon millions of people have watched it including, apparently, Luigi Mangione.
After the killing of the CEO of United HealthCare,
the largest of these billion dollar insurance companies,
there was an immediate OUTPOURING of anger toward the health insurance industry.
Some people have stepped forward to condemn this anger.
I am not one of them.
The anger is 1000% justified.
It is long overdue for the media to cover it.
It is not new.
It has been boiling.
And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up.
I want to pour gasoline on that anger.
Because this anger is not about the killing of a CEO.
If everyone who was angry was ready to kill the CEOs,
the CEOs would already be dead.
That is not what this reaction is about.
It is about the mass death and misery
— the physical pain, the mental abuse, the medical debt, the bankruptcies in the face of denied claims and denied care and bottomless deductibles on top of ballooning premiums
— that this “health care” industry has levied against the American people for decades.
With no one standing in their way! Just a government
— two broken parties
— enabling this INDUSTRY’s theft and, yes, murder
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
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Pedro ?!?!
Jeff :antifa:
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