Posted on 02/14/2013 7:59:29 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
The most disheartening event in the country this week wasn’t the State of the Union address, though that was certainly ugly enough.
And it wasn’t the finale of the Chris Dorner rampage, which was certainly horrific enough in its waste of human life.
From the standpoint of the picture it paints for us of America circa 2013, it’s the reaction to Dorner.
The reaction of the Left to Dorner is hideous enough. It’s personified by the vapid, disgusting and degenerate Marc Lamont Hill, who finds deep meaning – and excitement – in Dorner’s senseless mayhem and unhinged online ramblings…
If you look for more Dorner fanboys on the Left, you’ll find them. We’ll not belabor that; there isn’t much new there. As Andrew Klavan noted earlier this week, leftism is a philosophy of violence and it has been ever since Rousseau belched it forth from his spleen.
What’s worse, what’s worst, is that Dorner has his fanboys on the Right.
We now see people calling themselves members of the Tea Party who echo some of the same sentiments the Marc Lamont Hills of the world are bleating.
These sound a bit more sophisticated than the mind-numbingly stupid defense of Dorner as an anti-establishment superhero who satisfies an onanistic, Bill Ayers-esque fantasy about killing cops. But they’re just as ugly.
The “Tea Party” – and we use this description very guardedly – defenses of Los Angeles’ newest cop-killer are that by tracking him down, cornering him and ultimately (we think) bringing about his fiery demise at Big Bear Lake, law enforcement violated Dorner’s 4th Amendment and 6th Amendment rights.
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Once is too often, just like one child molestation, one rape, one traffic fatality. All are a sad fact of life that we all have to work at to curb. However, an entire profession shouldn't be smeared for the sins of a few. The officers involved in the shootings of the surfer and women should be dealt with judicially and held responsible criminally and financially.
You can have your personal feelings about the quality of police, but I have a lifetime of experience with them and I have my own opinions, go give the feel good lecture to some youngster.
Lecture? Are you always so dramatic?
LOL, whatever, just find someone else to tell your opinions to about law enforcement, I’m not interested.
But you had to respond. LOL!
Nor of any concern for the 40 or so bullets that went into innocent people's homes at the end of the street...
Just think of the tragedy had they seen Dorner walking down a sidewalk, or encountered him inside of a Mall...
Bhaaaaaa!!
Tell me what you would do if you were approaching a vehicle that you thought contained a known cop killer with automatic .50 cal weapons, and you had nothing but a handgun?
Verify that it was actually him first. The actions of the police officers in these incidents is inexcusable.
Yes. The best way to deal with reality is to learn it, and deal with it. Sometimes the police are truthful, sometimes they are not. They are certainly no better than average on that count, and given their position of power in the legal system, I would expect them to be less honest than people outside of the system.
Keep in mind that the system is "self policing," and is loath to admit error.
How do you do that? Wait for a .50 cal slug to the head?
And if you point out the more overt posts people insist that it isn’t what it says.
Depends on the meaning of Is and all that apparently.
Well drama queen, you do not kill everything in sight and then examine the bodies to see if the criminal was among those killed.
There wasn’t any reason to take out those vehicles and people going about their daily lives, it isn’t as though this was some freakish single case of a huge black man looking just like the bad guy, in the same exact pickup, in a shrinking net, and then attacking the cops in his own case of mistaken identity or fear reaction.
This is civilization, cops can’t just point out pick-up trucks, take out the occupants, and then go see who it was.
The U.S. is not a ‘freefire’ zone.
“There is nothing wrong with the populace pointing out the failings of law enforcement.”
No, there isn’t, but because mistakes were made does not mean that the cops have malicious intent. As for burning the house, if it is established that the police started that fire, then too bad. Dorner was not going to give up until he had killed more cops.
First, has it been determined how the fire started? If the police did start the fire, then maybe some did and some didn’t. No, it isn’t too much to expect everyone in government to be truthful, but that hardly justifies the kind of comments some people made about Dorner’s rights. He had every opportunity to give himself up and had no intention of doing so. He wanted to take as many police officers out as he could. Considering the circumstances, the police did a good job.
Yes, there were some people shot by accident, but I wonder how many people could do what police do - make split second decisions that could cost them their lives or the lives of others. It’s a stressful, difficult job, and most cops are in it to help people, not hurt them. If people don’t believe that is true, then that is their problem.
Dunno.
I think most of them are just disgusted with the LAPD.
There isn’t much to respect about incompetents who can’t tell a blue pick-up from gray one, and can’t tell Hispanic women from a black man.
Dorner himself was scum and deserved to die. But the LAPD carried out a murderous caricature of police work in trying to get him.
Cops are government, they are union people, they are corrupt politically, and the work tends to attract insecure individuals who want to be “cops”, the incompetence, corruption, and lack of mission completing strategies and a typical job security, protect the jobs and bureaucracy and the democrat political machine mentality, explains why nothing changes and internal progress and self corrections are practically unheard of.
This was just another widespread debacle that gave the public a glimpse into what most of us know, law enforcement is just another city job.
Exactly. Around here, the police academy teaches candidates to evaluate shoot / don't shoot scenarios with the process of "Ability, Opportunity, & Jeopardy" - a driver in a vehicle does not even meet the first criteria, until that driver demonstrates the intention to use the vehicle as a weapon. Certainly the officers involved in the unjustified shootings should be reevaluated for fitness for duty.
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