Assassinated in his bed by the US government.
Rest in power
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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Amen, that is definitely the RIP Hampton deserves. On the flip side Brian Thompson and the rest of the capitalist wall street military and prison industry profiteers who have bought our political system and own the media they deserve to Rot in piss along with the feds and pigs that extrajudicially murdered this king.
Contrary to popular belief, the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is far from the first time violence has been advocated as an answer to mass oppression of the people.
Who the fuck believes that?
Fred Hampton was a fucking legend. There's a reason the US Government was so terrified of him... And it had more to do with giving out free breakfast to black kids, than any kind of political violence.
Well, that, and the fact that he was a Marxist-Leninist organizing the working class and promoting solidarity with AES states internationally. People often "blunt" the real radical that was Fred Hampton, when he should be fully appreciated for just how amazing of a person he was.
I was just mentioning the breakfast program as shorthand for everything that Hampton and the BPP/Rainbow Coalition were doing.
The Fred Hampton case is one of the best examples to use when people (Americans in particular) are open to hearing about how bad the US is to even its own people because it shatters any illusions of justice and fairness, that there's some line that the US just won't cross. It's just so flagrant, and the fact that to this day there has never been any justice for Fred Hampton is further proof that this country is irredeemable.
What? Hampton was assassinated.
Hampton advocated using violence in defense of violence. He never advocated assassinations.
I'm not saying Thompson wasn't a killer, but they were very, very different.
He was a threat to the ruling class regardless and although he was non violent and only advocated using the threst of violence in self defense he was still murdered violently by the state, I see his murder as a state sponsored assassination.
Sure. Luigi is alive tho. And it looks like a jury is going to set him free.
Seems a little early to be making claims about what the jury will do
I don't disagree, the writing could definitely be better. But i think the general idea and the title have some merit. Fred hampton has become a symbol of power against corrupt authority and if mangione is truly the one culpable for the killing of Thompson then that act should be seen as a symbol for what happens when you manipulate the public for 50+ years, nullify the progress made by prior leftist movements using any and all means possible against your own citizens and remove true leftist policies from the mainstream while amplifying far right ideologies.