Was racist manifesto written by Dylann Roof? - CNN Video | “The themes don’t indicate that this person is spending a lot of time to do research,” said O’Toole, who now directs the Forensic Science Program at George Mason University. “The depth and breadth is remarkably shallow... He’s trying to weave like a quilt of those themes that he went out in search of,” O’Toole said. “Which tells me that whoever the author is had preexisting opinions and ideas … and then you go to the Internet to get a little bit of this and a little bit of that to fuel what you already believe and already think.” - Purported Dylann Roof manifesto reviewed by FBI | World News Review » Police Check out New Lead on Escaped New York Prisoners 20/06/15 22:08 from ABC News
M.N.: I do not think that this "manifesto" is authentic. Stylistically it feels somewhat "wooden" and not very natural or genuine for the 21 y.o. from today's American South, it is idiomatically dull and colorless. In this sentence the two comas separating "alone" are used in accordance with the syntactic rule of Russian language: " I am not in the position to , alone, go into the ghetto and fight." Overall, it feels that it was written and translated (well) by the original Russian speakers. Most likely it was produced and placed on the web post factum, after the killings, with "typos" placed deliberately, to suggest that it was written in a hurry (which actually it might have been, but not likely by D.S. Roof). Photos might have been prepared in advance and kept in a stash. Name is suggestive and telling: "Dylann Storm Roof" might suggest: You, poet (Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas): "Storm the Roof" - do your