The Gunman’s Manifesto
The Gunman’s Manifesto
Cole Allen sent a “manifesto” to members of his family minutes before he launched his attack at the Washington Hilton. You can read it here, it isn’t long. Allen’s brother received a copy and turned it over to his local police department. I have two observations about the document.
First, it is entirely predictable. Allen recited the Democratic Party’s indictment of President Trump and his administration. This is how he described Trump:
I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
Those characterizations are not only false but idiotic, and yet they are repeated every day by Democratic Party politicians and the Democrats’ official “news” outlets. Allen’s now-deleted social media accounts–he was on the radical BlueSky platform–were to the same effect. See the Free Beacon.
The assassination attempts by Thomas Crooks, Ryan Louth and, now, Cole Allen were the natural and inevitable consequence of the Democratic Party’s vicious propaganda war against Donald Trump. The Democrats have been trying to get Trump killed for a decade now, and one of these days they may succeed.
Crooks is dead and Louth was a little crazy, but Allen is alive and, it seems, completely sane. He is just a loyal Democrat. So he will have an opportunity to explain himself. I predict that he will be hailed as a hero by the majority of Democrats. If Luigi Mangione is seen as a heroic figure by many Democrats for murdering an essentially unknown businessman, we can only imagine how many will approve of Cole Allen.
That will make Allen’s criminal prosecution interesting. If he defends himself with a full-throated justification of his assassination attempt–in which, after all, no one was killed–it is not clear that he will be convicted by a District of Columbia jury. The jurors might carry him out of the courtroom on their shoulders at the conclusion of trial.
Second, Allen was contemptuous of the security he encountered on his journey across America, and especially at the Washington Hilton, where he checked in as a guest:
[W]hat the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.
Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.
What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.
No damn security.
Not in transport.
Not in the hotel.
Not in the event.
Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.
I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.
Like, this level of incompetence is insane….
I don’t know, Allen may have a point–although, to be fair, he did not succeed in getting into the ballroom where the event took place. The conclusions of the investigation, as to event security, will be interesting.
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