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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Murder in New York
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:59:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:43:28 -0800, Paul S Person wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:58:15 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
> <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:56:54 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/11/24 00:53, Charles Packer wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:12:46 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> When that story hit the news I looked forward to the naming of the
>>>> suspect. Ah, the allegorical aspects. A very English name murdered by
>>>> a very Italian one. Hasn't there been some kind of beef for a while
>>>> between the two most ancient institutions of Western civilization?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 	Now from what I hear Luigi had a beef because of a
>>> painful pre-existing back condition not because of the old opposition
>>> between Northern and Southern Europe.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>
>>At least some journalists have gone down an allegorical path with this
>>story, using the lives of the protagonists rather than vicissitudes of
>>health care. From the front page of the Washington Post: "As Mangione's
>>once-charmed life seemed to be crumbling, Brian Thompson's fortunes
>>appeared to be climbing."
> 
> Unacceptable as it was, at least this appears to be an ordinary crime,
> not an ideological one. For now, anyway.

Yeah, sometimes a crime is just a crime...until a journalist gets hold of 
it.