"It was difficult to... hate any of them"

Blazing Reader,

In a statement to BAM! News, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich — who is being held in prison as a political prisoner — said:

[Translated from French) I have not met a single accused person whom I would call “evil.” I have met many, really many pre-trial detainees who seem innocent to me, or who, above all, need therapeutic treatment — as even a prison doctor admitted. If we no longer needed a few prisons for a handful of sociopaths — for example, those responsible for the pandemic, wars, massacres like those in Gaza, and the corruption in the system — I would support abolishing prisons.

This echoes how, in my novel, Much Ado About Corona, I portrayed many characters who fully supported the COVID mandates (some violently), yet were never depicted as "evil." Will Dove, of the The Iron Will Report, summed it up nicely (when I was on his show in 2022), saying:

There are points in [Much Ado About Corona] that are quite light-hearted and fun, but there are also times that are very, very dark. And you do see that dark side of human nature. But the thing I really enjoyed about your writing is how three-dimensional the characters were. It was difficult to... hate any of them, really. Even Constable Corona, despite the horrible thing that he did (and we're not going to give that away, you have to read the book). As you developed that character, and as we learn his history, there's almost a sense of sympathy.

You can listen to my response to Will Dove's comment in this three-minute YouTube clip (also available on BitChute and Rumble) where we discuss Constable Justin "Corona" MacKenzie (the not-so-evil villain of the story).

John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.