Listen Now: Dan Taberski’s Manifesto
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What is Dan Taberski’s mission with the Manifesto series?
Hey, Dan Taberski here. You might know me from podcasts like Hysterical or Missing Richard Simmons, and now my latest adventure, Dan Taberski's Manifesto. This project is my attempt to take the Manifesto back from 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 the 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. But 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 Please and 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.
Why does Taberski claim we need to 'take the manifesto back' from violent actors?
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'm in my 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 looked, which was very good. It's because of what happened next in Southern California that cut through that dreamy scene and swapped it out with harsh reality.
Police in Irvine, 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 fiancee, 28-year-old Monica Kwan, 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 while parked 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. That'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 silencer on the gun, which would mean the killer probably isn't new to this, that maybe they're a professional.
My 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 Dorner as a suspect in this double homicide.
Because the suspect, Christopher Dorner, is no ordinary suspect.
Dorner was an LAPD officer through 2009 and a reservist for the United States Navy.
Dorner 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 Dorner 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 slayings.
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, Shep, and it says... He's been very well trained. You know, LAPD, some of the best trained officers in the country. And I tell you, this manifesto, it scares the hell out of me.
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