US President Donald Trump and other senior administration officials were evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on the night of Saturday, 25.04, after an armed man opened fire during the event in Washington.
The gunman was identified as 31-year-old teacher Cole Allen, who is currently in custody, while a federal agent was injured in the shooting.
The following are excerpts from Allen’s manifesto.
Why I did all this:
I am a citizen of the United States.
The decisions of the politicians who represent me have a direct impact on me as well.
And I am no longer willing to let a pedophile, rapist, and traitor stain my own hands with his crimes.
(To be completely honest, I had not tolerated it for a long time already, but this is the first real opportunity I have had to do something about it.)
Government officials (excluding Mr. Patel*): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest-ranking.
Secret Service: they are targets only if deemed necessary and should be neutralized—if possible—without being killed (that is, I hope they are wearing body armor, because a shotgun blast to the chest could tear them apart if they are not).
Hotel security: not targets (unless they shoot at me).
* FBI Director Kash Patel
Responses to possible objections:
Objection 1: As a good Christian, you should turn the other cheek.
Response: Turning the other cheek applies when you yourself are oppressed.
I am not the person who was raped in a detention camp*.
I am not the fisherman** who was executed without trial.
I am not a child killed in a bombing at a school***, nor a child starving****, nor a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration*****.
Turning the other cheek when someone else is being oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.
* Abuse case involving migrants at a detention center in Texas
** Attacks on boats in the Caribbean
*** Attack on a school in Iran
**** Likely referring to the famine in Gaza
***** Epstein case
P.S.: Seriously, now that I’m done with the sentimental stuff, what the hell is the Secret Service doing?
Sorry, I’m going to vent a little now and drop the formalities.
I expected security cameras around every corner, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, and metal detectors everywhere.
I walk in armed and nobody considers the possibility that I might be a threat.
Event security is all outside, focused on protesters and arrivals, because apparently nobody thought about what might happen if someone checked in a day earlier.
This level of incompetence is insane, and I sincerely hope it gets fixed by the time this country once again has truly competent leadership.
If anyone is wondering what it feels like to do something like this: it is awful.
I want to throw up, I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust is being betrayed like this; I feel rage when I think about everything this administration has done.
I really would not recommend it.
Stay in school, kids.
