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Showing Original Post only (View all)Don’t Mythologize Christopher Dorner [View all]
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/opinion/blow-dont-mythologize-christopher-dorner.html?_r=0Dont Mythologize Christopher Dorner
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: February 15, 2013 212 Comments
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But I do not see a need to explain why people particularly many on social media are mythologizing Dorner. Rooting for a suspected killer who makes threats against even more innocent people and their families is just horrendous. Its not exciting; its revolting.
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Still, too many people online have portrayed Dorners actions as righteous retribution. But nothing can change the fact that those actions are wrong.
Fighting for justice is noble. Spilling innocent blood is the ultimate act of cowardice. Dorner is not the right emblem for those wronged by the system.
This is not a game or a movie. This is about real people who lead real lives and their real families who dug real graves. Lets give everyone involved time to mourn. Lets have the respect to not honor the person believed to be responsible for the mourning.
According to KTLA in Los Angeles, Dorners mother issued a statement that read in part: It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we express our deepest sympathies and condolences to anyone that suffered losses or injuries resulting from Christophers actions. They said it continued: We do not condone Christophers actions.
Thats the right sentiment: condolences for the victims and condemnation of Dorners actions. Period.
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Oh Christ just because he doesn't jump through the verbal hoops you invent for him
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#6
by all accounts he was a good man, with good intentions who was wronged. He appealed an injustice
In Truth We Trust
Feb 2013
#16
by all accounts, he was an evil man who gunned down Monica Quan for the crime of being born
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#20
If you're going to quote someone, don't be selective about it to make it seem what it is not.
In Truth We Trust
Feb 2013
#34
You're the one who called him a good man with good intentions and wrote that he was
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#36
What part of "Killing innocents is wrong" dont you understand? Get off your pompous high horse and
In Truth We Trust
Feb 2013
#40
You clearly wrote that he was murders were the only way to prevent police abuses
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#41
You're sadly very pathetic. You keep choosing to ignore my statement about killing being wrong. Get
In Truth We Trust
Feb 2013
#45
Those quotation marks insinuate thats what I wrote. That too would be wrong of you.
In Truth We Trust
Feb 2013
#47
By all accounts,he was a BAD COP. A good cop would never do what Dorner did.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#33
He wasn't a cop when he chose to kill. His tenure as a cop was not one
In Truth We Trust
Feb 2013
#38
A cop is trained as a cop and never stops being a cop. Before, then, after.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#43
By all accounts? Is that why his girlfriend from his cop days, before he was fired,
MADem
Feb 2013
#44
Why should he mention those other victims? Because a suicidal terrorist pretended to use them as his
KittyWampus
Feb 2013
#18
You don't have to bring up the wrong-doing of the LAPD in discussion of Dorner.
KittyWampus
Feb 2013
#19
There is currently a story about an airplane passenger who slapped a toddler & called him nigger >>
KittyWampus
Feb 2013
#27
Thank you for posting this. Sums up my sentiments about this ghastly situation.
classof56
Feb 2013
#7
Because Adam Lanza didn't have Facebook fan clubs and wasn't on the run and hiding from cops.
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#29
No, DU just has more egregious and stupider trolls. Jesse James was a white supremacist murdering
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#22
Agreed. Who cares what his assessment was? Do we care what the Uni-Bomber's assessment was?
KittyWampus
Feb 2013
#21
I think what we are seeing is not really support for Dorner, but rather a reflection of the
firenewt
Feb 2013
#14
Oh, we couldn't 'convince' you that the Sandy Hook Truthers were asking illegitimate
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#32
Same reason there are shrines to Baruch Goldstein in the most extreme settlements in the West Bank.
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#53
Great, good. Now: Never forget LAPD's rampant racism, sexism, brutality, self-interest,
Fire Walk With Me
Feb 2013
#55
No, they're still lying and saying he was 'executed' and calling for admins
geek tragedy
Feb 2013
#64