Hey, Dan Taburski here.
and now my latest adventure, Dan Taburski's manifesto. This project is my attempt to take the
“manifesto back for mass shooters and nihilists, and return it to its rightful place with the artists”
and the warriors, the visionaries, the regular folks with just the right amount of crazy, who've got something to say and that guts to say it. I compare notes with radicals, secessionists, internet trolls out for a laugh, and punk singers screaming their guts out, all trying to turn their anger into the world that they want to see. And along the way, I write my own manifesto about manifestos. With the question that rises up pretty quickly,
just how cozy can we get with our rage before it takes on a life of its own. From audible originals and pleasing thanks productions, this six-part series explores the power and precariousness of the manifesto and asks, "Can we get inspired again?" And can we do it without a bullet? I'm about to play a clip from manifesto. You can listen to manifesto wherever you get your podcasts. Audible subscribers can binge all episodes
of manifesto ad-free right now. Start your audible subscription on the audible app or on Apple Podcasts. February 2013, Venice, California. It's my last few months in Los Angeles before I move back east.
“I remember late 30s, living by the beach, learning to surf the crumbly waves on my longboard.”
My skin smells like the ocean all the time. I feel amazing. I look amazing. I look amazing.
But I'm not taking you back in my time machine because of how good I look, which was varied. It's because of what happened next in Southern California. That cut through that dreamy scene and swapped it out with harsh reality. Police and everybody in California are investigating the double murder of a young couple in the parking lot of their apartment complex. Reports of a homicide in neighboring Orange County. 27-year-old Keith Lawrence and his fiance
28-year-old Monica Quan were found shot to death in Lawrence's car late Sunday night. Two young people, a couple recently engaged. The guy was a public safety officer at USC and she was an assistant basketball coach at a local university. Murdered. Well, part in their white Kia Optima. Investigators do not yet have a suspect description or a motive.
And immediately, the details of the crime begin to add up to something bigger than a one-time thing.
“Like, when their bodies are found by the police, the victim's necklace is still on her neck.”
Her new engagement ring is still firmly on her finger, which means this isn't a robbery. Also, investigators find evidence of 14 shots having been fired. It's a lot of bullets for just two people cornered in their car, but the number of neighbors who actually heard those 14 shots? Zero. So maybe there was a silence around the gun, which would mean the killer probably isn't new to this, that maybe they're a professional.
"Am I detectives have been working day and night since this tragedy?" The Irvine police chief takes to the podium to tell the people of Southern California that they are going to have to buckle up for a ride. Today, we have identified Christopher Dornner as a suspect in this double homicide. Because the suspect, Christopher Dornner is no ordinary suspect.
Dornner was an LAP officer through 2009, and a reserveist for the United States Navy. Dornner is a former LAPD cop, and he's still out there. And there's reason to believe that he's going to kill again, that maybe he already has. And we know this, because Christopher Dornner left something behind. A particular interest at this point in the investigation is a multi-page manifesto
in which the suspect has implicated himself in the slanks. And this manifesto on Facebook is 11 pages long. "Trace, this manifesto from this suspect who's targeting cops, it's stunning." "It is stunning, chef, and it's a--" "He's been very well trained, you know, LAPD's been the best trained officers in the country,
and I tell you, this manifesto, it scares a hell out of me." I'm Dan Taburski. From audible originals and please, and thanks, productions, this is manifesto. Episode one, two, America. Subjects, last resort.
I am in the market for a manifesto. I happen for a while now to be honest. The world is on fire. I'll spare you the details we've all got around faves. And I mean, really, what fresh words could be left to describe what fresh hell
were presented with day after day? But even more concerning for me, even more surprising, has been my own reaction to it,
How difficult it's been to get a handle on how angry it is all made me.
"I'm not an angry person, I'm a relatively happy guy, but I find myself
seathing underneath all the time.
“My patience has become strained, my temper too short, my ability to hear anyone has--"”
It happens that of all places a supermarket where the whole economic order is reduced down to cans on a shelf, where you can buy two of crap you don't need for the price of one.
"And in the disfeeding of discontent that I've had in shopping at supermarkets,
you know, for years and years before that, and being dissatisfied with the whole feeling of walking in there and having the choices that they're giving me, and the way that I just felt like
“like I was telling you that I don't want to do, but I kept on doing it."”
He goes to grab a shopping cart. Only it's one of those setups where you got to insert a coin to get the cart. And you only get the coin back if you return the shopping cart as if none of us can be trusted.
"You know, basically they asked me to sort of use the shopping cart, put the coin in and take
the coin back, and put it back to when it belonged, and then all of a sudden there was that one moment when I sat and he said, "Fuck it, I'm not going to do it anymore." "And I'm not going to stop all the people from doing it as well." So he takes a coin and he jams it into the slot so it won't come out.
“So now no one's playing the stupid shopping cart game, are they?”
"And it felt so cool that it felt like it felt like a moment of liberation." "That, that space right there, where emotion becomes action, when you're inspired to just do something already, that is the stuff of manifestos." Individuals, groups, entire swaths of society use it as the funnel to focus their erupting range. "Number 7, we want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people."
This is activist Bobby Seale, reading the Black Panther manifesto in 1968, they called it the 10-point program. "You're all black men, hell, and counting, date, federal, jails, and prisons to be relieved because they have not had a fire trial because they've been tried by all white juries, and that's just like being tried in Germany being a Jew." manifestos aren't just pretty poems, they are in a sense, a threat, a hard-packed snowball of
grievance and timing and nerve. And real impact, a sparking of real honest to God change, is the longest of long shots. But when it happens, when a manifesto catches fire, it can change our world. It can rewrite our future. But there's a hitch. Benjale episodes of Dan Tiberski's manifesto ad-free right now on audible. Start your audible subscription in the audible app or on apple podcasts.
