Fear in the C-Suite after UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down

[sarisataka]

Fear in the C-Suite after UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down


Corporations are scrambling to protect their senior executives as police warn of an elevated near-term threat against business leaders. Boards are reassessing security budgets. And CEOs are being told to delete their digital footprints.

The stunning killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan last week has shaken C-Suites across the country, forcing leaders to ask themselves uncomfortable questions about their own preparedness for a threat landscape that appears far more serious than many realized just a week ago.

Phones are ringing off the hook at top-dollar security firms to keep the captains of industry safe.

“Corporate America is nervous. People are on high-alert,” Keith Wojcieszek, global head of intelligence at Kroll, told CNN in a phone interview.

“Companies want to elevate their security posture. Healthcare is the target now but who’s next?” Wojcieszek said.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/business/ceo-shooting-unitedhealth-security/index.html

[Clouds Passing]

1. "I pity the fools" Mr T

[Attilatheblond]

2. Maybe if the corporate officers had any sense of moral obligation to the customers & workers who create wealth

instead of the arrogance and moral bankruptcy they operate with, the risk of being held to account by a vigilante would decrease.

[sakabatou]

6. They only bow to the big investors

They don't care about anyone else. That's the medical staff's problem.

[Ferryboat]

3. Reap what you sow

Society is fracturing, old rules, social norms and general courtesy are being tossed aside.

There will be more of this in the future. Especially when you take benefits away from those who earned them or had planned on retirement using them.

Big business raping the population in pursuit of higher profits? There's many unjust examples to choose from.

The most dangerous person is one who has lost everything and no longer has nothing to lose.

The C-Suits should be afraid.

[Wicked Blue]

4. They better watch out, they better not cry

they better not pout, I'm telling you why
Karma time is coming to town.

There is a growing anger toward the arrogant, shameless oligarchy, and it will only get stronger once the Orange Traitor and his wrecking crew take over.

[Raven123]

5. It's as is they never imagined themselves vulnerable to bullets

They clearly have been living in a different America. Welcome to reality.

[Coventina]

7. This makes my heart smile. n/t

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. Some of the comments I'm reading here just floor me.

[yagotme]

10. Crazy, isn't it?

On one hand, people are calling for the jailing of a man who was protecting others, and praising another man, who outright assassinated someone, all in the same timeframe. My brain can't work that way.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. I can remember a time when none of this shit would be allowed on DU.

Where, as a liberal/progressive site, are we headed to?

[yagotme]

12. Can't answer that one. My glass ball is broken... nt

[sarisataka]

13. Doublethink

In George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984, doublethink is the act of holding, simultaneously, two opposite, individually exclusive ideas or opinions and believing in both simultaneously and absolutely. Doublethink requires using logic against logic or suspending disbelief in the contradiction.

It is no longer just in fiction.

[yagotme]

14. Like I said, my brain doesn't work that way.

Gives me quite the headache...

[Blue_Roses]

16. I can understand this

It's like the ongoing fight of the id and ego...

[Ferryboat]

27. Society is breaking down,

the signs of rot are all around. It's just becoming more apparent.

[Skittles]

31. I agree

SICKENING

[BannonsLiver]

9. I'm so sorry they have to experience fear, and other unpleasant emotions.

It’s. Just. Not. Fair.

[riversedge]

15. Geez--will health insurance companies raise rates to protect their CEO's?

Instead they can use some of their enormous profits! But, that said, it is so wrong that
CEO's have to buy protections.

[hay rick]

22. Yes!

Raise premiums to provide 24-7 security for all the top execs. Another thing to spend money on other than health care. Move over advertising budget, executive bonus pool, share buybacks and dividends.

[Meowmee]

28. Yes most likely we are going to be burdened even more

That could be the least of what may happen when orange psycho takes over.

[AKwannabe]

17. Oh?

Darn

Tots and pears

[Autumn]

18. Perhaps they should have active shooter drills like our children do. That should save them.

[sarisataka]

20. I did ask the question

about a mass shooting at an insurance HQ
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219810474

relatively few answers.

[LeftInTX]

24. They have active shooter drills. There is a huge insurance company where I live.

The place is like a fortress. Insurance companies are constantly letting people go, so employees are always on edge. Lots of work grievances. I have an in-law that worked there for 20 years. When someone is let go, it's done via security.

[Autumn]

25. Then there is no need to worry about them being shot.

[LeftInTX]

26. Not at work. Only employees are allowed. It's basically like the military.

Has huge grounds surrounding it, so anyone trying to take a potshot would be out of luck.

They constantly worry about employee grievances, hence the tight security within the facility. The facility has always been a fortress from the outside.

[mercuryblues]

19. Maybe we need a CEO

In every school.

[meadowlander]

21. Ask your doctor about The Rule of Law.

"Gee Sally, my tummy feels awful since Brian was gunned down in the street."

"Well Bobby, you're in luck. All you need is a functioning judicial system that holds everyone to account and then people wouldn't feel like the only way to resolve their grievances against mass murderers was with extrajudicial violence."

"Wow, Sally. That sounds so simple! But can't I just beef up my own security and keep killing people?"

"Nope."

"Try the Rule of Law. Side effects include not working if it is only applied to the poor and middle classes."

[NJCher]

23. OK, that brings it home

You accomplished so much in so few words.

[Celerity]

29. thread winner

[GenThePerservering]

30. Stay afraid, you bastards. nt