Thank you for this. You are (mostly) right.

No killing is right and nobody's death should be cheered. But why is this happening?

We don't cheer most killings. But many are cheering the death of this one man, a man who leaves a widow and two orphaned children.

There is an explanation. It's because this CEO was the head of a healthcare denial company—a company that makes profits from the suffering of innocent people. But it's the company, and not any individual, who need to be stopped.

But the murder of the CEO is cheered because the victims have no way to fix the problem. Voting? It doesn't work. People know it doesn't work.

Hey, in 2016, voters were lining up for a candidate who promised Medicare for All. To stop him, the Democrats united behind Biden, toppled Sanders...and we continue to suffer under horrible companies like United Healthcare.

So, voting doesn't work. Neither does protest. And violence, too, as applied in this current case, is also a moral and strategic failure.

Corporations will increase security for executives. Some PR campaign will be used to pretend that the industry is changing for the better. When attention goes elsewhere, as it will, the same outrages will continue unabated.

No, the only thing that works is nonviolent noncooperation. Brian Thompson didn't deny people healthcare. His underlings did, people who took orders from him. Those people were the people at the bottom, the people who do things, the people who were simply trying to earn a living.

But THEY need to stop. They need refuse to obey. They are the key. We need to defy leaders everywhere when what they demand is wrong. Soldiers should refuse to show up, refuse to fight. And workers in useless or evil industries should call in sick, should slow down work, should "make mistakes" and eventually just not return to work.

This is challenging. We will need to take care of these people, and take care of each other. But we share a common interest—to not be exploited, to not waste our lives serving brutal selfish elites, whether they are plutocrats, communist parties, corporations, or tinpot dictators.

Nonviolent noncooperation is the most successful force for progress in history. Gandhi used it. King used it. And many very successful movements you never heard about used it.

WE are planning to use it. YOU can join us. We are The Saners. Read about us at WeAreSaners.org and join us at WeAreSaners.org/join.