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Black Rambo: Christopher Dorner's Bad Ass Song

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I've long accepted the premise of there being no guarantees of life being fair because if it were, Native Americans would have the legal right to run internet scams on any non-native American living in the continental U.S., and I'd know at least one person who knows someone whose great-great-grandmother once owned 40 acres and a mule.   Thus it is well understood that his loss of faith in a system of redress in no way constitutes a convincing rationale for Dormer to engage in a one-man black ops mission. However, there's little doubt that by taking the opportunity to analyze the unfiltered presentation of his side of the story, a clearer understanding of what motivated Dorner to wage what he called "asymmetrical warfare" against the LAPD would emerge.  

Dorner at one point asked readers: "What would you do to clear your name?" That brought forth something else I've mulled over in the past: What's more noble; to kill for a cause or to die for one?   Considering the epic conclusion to the nearly two week spotlight he placed on his cause, it seems that Dorner has managed to do both.  

Such is life, and death.  

But moving forward, anyone who deigns an attempt at reaching an ironclad judgment by way of analysis of the conflicting elements connected to the Dorner saga would be well advised to take heed of a point once made by the great Bill Russell:

"It is far better to understand," said Russell, "than to be understood."

 

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Anthony Barnes, of Boston, Massachusetts, is a left-handed leftist. "When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the (more...)
 

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