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In reply to the discussion: You are not required to support Dorner, [View all]2naSalit
(102,902 posts)to him, the only way to get the attention of the masses. It is true that such drastic measures are pretty much what is demanded by our self aggrandizing collective. Would there have been any news stories about his issues or would there be any catalyst for change otherwise? This is his manner of gaining the attention of the distracted public about something that is not only an issue of major import to him... it is one for all of us that we seem quite willing to keep hidden under the table so we can't see it to address it. The focus on what he has done to get us to see the problems are horrendous but we the sheeple seem to demand that in order to pay enough attention to condemn him, and just maybe take a look under the covers to discover the dead horse's head in his bed while we're at it.
And just for balance, what makes those shooting victims whom he is alleged to have killed any more innocent than the innocent people we are killing every day in our illegal war(s) by whatever technical means? We are a society who is the bringer of death by improper rationale everywhere so...
I don't support or condone his methods but I am willing to take a look at what he is trying to direct us to before I start hurling condemnations about his alleged narcissism or whatever. Obviously this guy was pushed to the edge of reason and wants the people to see that it may be systemic in nature and that it happens to too many of us with unfettered regularity. That's what I am getting from all of this. He is already winning the battle by exposing the ineptitude of the LAPD by scaring them into shooting at anything randomly and settling up after the fact.
After all, the taxpayers paid to train him to be a killer both at LAPD and in the military. Perhaps he had a morality that wasn't favored by the killing machine that we call our national security network and he is pointing that out in kind. Just maybe.