In a manifesto sent to the Chorus, a self-proclaimed activist group calling itself Private Citizens has claimed responsibility for burning down the Cinniapolis Performing Arts Theatre after last month’s Freedom Forever Rally. The group also claimed to be behind the break-in at the Murphy Waste Management trash processing center.

The Chorus received a neatly penned letter addressed to Cinniapolitans warning them of continued consequences for their appeasement of tyrannical government and business leaders. The group places the blame not on government or business leaders but those that vote or promote them into positions of power. However, two leaders found themselves in the crosshairs of the activists.

Chess Murphy and Mayor Gondola were singled out for tyrannical governing, unfair treatment of citizens, and abuses of power. But, no specific examples were included in their letter to the Chorus.

The Cinniapolis Chorus Investigative Team is actively researching the legitimacy of the manifesto, along with its origins. Details in the public’s best interest will be published as they are discovered. The letter is printed below, in full and unedited (bold emphasis added by the Chorus):

Dearest Cinniapolitans,
Your compliance with the dregs of Cinniapolis is coming to an end, by choice or by force. Your taste in leadership is poor. You vote in legacy candidates that are out of touch with reality. You promote unqualified business executives to positions of unchecked power.
From this day forward, your behavior needs to change or there will be severe consequences for you, and eventually, for us. Our first act pales in comparison to future events unless your behavior changes. Stand with us and adopt a new mindset, free of tradition, history, and nepotism. Look around you, how many of us answer to a Gondola or a Murphy? Their grip on Cinniapolis is coming to an end.
We are the activist group known as Private Citizens. Our goal is to demolish the current power structure ruining our city. We want to return absolute power to the citizens of Cinniapolis. The method of change will vary but we are choosing fury over logic to begin. We burned down the Cinni Theatre as a symbolic warning. We infiltrated Murphy’s trash campus to demonstrate we can go anywhere at anytime. Next, we will expose the wicked hypocrisy of Cinniapolis leaders.

Yours in Fellowship,
Private Citizens