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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