LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 — Charles Manson has issued a “press release” telling the American public he would like to “light fires in your cities” because he has not been shown mercy, compassion or pity at the Tate murder trial.

Manson said he was a product of what society had made him. He made no mention of the seven victims with whose killing he is charged.

The seven man, five woman jury went into a second week of deliberation today on verdicts in the seven-month trial of Manson and three young women codefendants. There was no indication when they would reach a decision on guilt or innocence.

One of Manson’s young followers, Brenda McCann, distributed to newsmen at the trial Thursday a typed statement reportedly sent out by Manson and headed: “Press Release.”

“Mr. and Mrs. America — you are wrong,” the statement said. “I am not the King-of-the-Jews nor am I a hippie cult leader. I am what you have made of me and mad dog devil killer fiend leper is a reflection of your society.

“I sit in your torture chambers as I have always sat in your torture chambers. You have showed me no mercy, compassion or pity and in my mind’s eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.”

Manson said the attorneys, including his own, were “education morons, intellectual midgets” and that Judge Charles H. Older was a politician who “hangs on the cross of public opinion afraid to make a positive decision.”