Indeed, yet I can’t join in celebrating this as a good thing, even though I’m glad that Dorner is dead.
This time it was a cop-killing madman with a vendetta against law enforcement that makes it easy for some to justify just taking him out. But who is to say the next time the cops feel like WACO-ing someone it won’t be a law-abiding group of “bitter clingers” who happen to have more guns than the local sheriff thinks they should have? Or someone who refuses to leave their property that’s being taken by emminent domain, or a religious group that has defied local...oh, there we go with Waco again.
If the way we deal with lawbreakers is to burn them alive, then we might as well shred the Constitution and recycle it into toilet paper. It’s not about Dorner, it’s about the rule of law vs. state-run vigilantism.
Even you’ll have to agree that’s stretching it some.
How about we just ‘drone’ them. Kinda like that 16 yo overseas American whose only apparent ‘crime’ was that he happened to be the son of a ‘suspected’ terrorist(kinda like the depraved Dorner reason for killing his first 2 victims). Due process? Nah, the Prez, on a whim, can take out anyone, anywhere, at anytime. And the nation sits, watches, does nothing except reward such behavior with 4 more years. Dorner is just a symptom of a society whose legal/moral values are in decline, hence the number of citizens who were cheering Dorner on.....
That kind of high level thinking is in short supply around here.
Worth repeating: "If the way we deal with lawbreakers is to burn them alive, then we might as well shred the Constitution..."
It’s the new 21st century tactic for fomenting a prolonged standoff. You just unload all of the ammo you have on hand into the building in question, then you fire-bomb it to ensure that the job is complete. Pretty insidious tactic if you ask me. I have to admit that dorner was a total whackjob, but death by immolation is wrong on so many levels.