Source: CounterPunch
by Jerry Long
“Maybe someday, I’ll run amok. … since I’ve been issuing print, radio and TV manifestos for decades my motives would be immediately fathomable to law enforcement. It would require a single man-hour for a Chief of Detectives to conclude that, like Luigi Mangione, I possessed ‘some ill will toward corporate America.’ Regarding anyone else’s public proclamations, I have no writing advice to offer apart from this … the key point about drafting a manifesto is to draft it. No one knows the precise moment when the edge will be above you. And the last thing any of us should want is to attempt a rampage and end up shot 347 times by the Panzer division of a city’s finest, only to leave behind a meandering rationale open to interpretation from your jerk neighbor across the street and bug-eyed Cable News criminologist Casey Jordan.” (12/18/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/18/notes-on-drafting-a-manifesto/