They hit the streets nowadays quicker than Chevys rolling off the assembly line. We produce them, arm them, then send them on their way to wreck mayhem and inflict the maximum amount of shock, pain, and terror. NBC News is reporting the latest model is named Christopher Jordan Dorner. He is a large African-American man, which is a bit of a change, since most of these guys are skinny little Caucasian dudes. He also used to be a cop and was a Lt. in the Navy Reserve.
There are other major differences. Mr. Dorner is no run amok in a theater sort of guy. He has a plan and has put it online for everyone to see. He has, as they say, taken names and come to kick ass. He feels, quite deeply, he has been wronged by the Los Angeles Police Department. He is now on the hunt for not only those who he says cost him his career and ruined his name, but their families as well. Not to mention any other cops who might cross his path. His first victims were Monica Quan and her fiance' Keith Lawrence. They were gunned down in an apartment complex parking lot after the Super Bowl. Ms.Quan was the daughter of retired LAPD captain Randy Quan. He had been Dorner's representative at the police review that caused him to be kicked off the force.
In Dorner's rambling manifesto he writes, "I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own. I'm terminating yours. Look your wives/husbands and surviving children directly in the face and tell them the truth as to why your children are dead."
Since then two police officers have been wounded and one killed. Law enforcement personnel in southern California are on the razor's edge. When a vehicle that simply looked like Dorner's was coming down a street with its lights off early the other morning they opened fire immediately. Two females who were delivering news papers were wounded and hospitalized.
Brother Dorner has written that he believes Asian, Hispanic, and lesbian officers are "high value targets." He feels the same way about African-American police supervisors who belittle white subordinates.
He was kicked off the force in 2008 because he accused another officer of brutality. It is an accusation that a board of review decided was false.
This is going to end violently, it almost always does. Dorner leaves this message to America, among all the others. "Self preservation is no longer important to me. I do not fear death as I died long ago on 1-2-09." Police say he has amassed a large arsenal of weapons including assault rifles. While in the navy he was awarded a ribbon for rifle marksmanship and a medal for pistol expertise.
The suspect is still at large and presumably remains just as highly motivated as he was when this latest horror story began.
In the mean time I suppose we can take some comfort in that we aren't the only cracked pots in the kitchen cabinets. In Paupa New Guinea 20 year old Kepari Leniata was accused of sorcery by the family of a six year old boy who died in a hospital on Tuesday. Apparently they take charges of witchcraft pretty seriously down there. Ms. Leniata was set upon by a crowd and as hundreds watched and took cell phone photos, she was stripped naked, bound, tortured with a hot iron rod, and finally doused with gasoline and set on fire. NBC is reporting that local police are having trouble finding witnesses who will identify the perpetrators. The authorities might want to take a look at some of those cell phones. After all, we are a high tech species and what goes online stays online.
Back here in the states once again, North Carolina State basketball player Tyler Lewis' grandmother died last week. It has been reported that he was very close to her. This week his team played at Duke. When he went to the free throw line the other night the Dukies, proving once again they should be the most loathed gang of crackers on the face of the planet, began chanting, "How's your Grandma." Duke likes to think of itself as the Harvard of the south. Evidence is mounting that it more closely resembles the asshole of the NCAA.
And there we have it. Another week is in the books. As Zippy The Pin Head used to ask, "Are we having fun yet?"
No, I didn't think so.
Over and out.
2-8-13
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