Hi, I'm Chris. I'm going to murder people to clear my name. By the way, Bill Cosby? Big fan.
Has anyone else read Chris Dorner's manifesto? It is an interesting piece demonstrating a disconnect from reality. On the one hand, Dorner highlights the corruption he claims to have witnessed while he was an LAPD officer and well as retribution he faced for exposing said abuse. Other the other hand, Dorner goes on to say that he will target LAPD officers and, if the allegations are true, he has already murdered 3 people, one of whom being the daughter of an LAPD member against whom Dorner held a grudge. Given the LAPD's reputation, I am inclined to believe the allegations Dorner makes, but I fail to see how that justifies murder.
But there is much more to the man and his manifesto.
Among other things, Dorner expresses his support for an assault weapons ban, announce his love, support and admiration for people ranging from Piers Morgan, Barack Obama, George H W Bush, George Carlin, Charlie Sheen and John Huntsman. (He loves Michelle Obama's new bangs, by the way) He lauds Ellen Degeneres and disagrees with California proposition 8, yet claims that;
"lesbian officers in supervising positions who go to work, day in day out, with the sole intent of attempting to prove your misandrist authority (not feminism) to degrade male officers. You are a high value target."
How one can tell what an officer's "sole intent" is merely by looking at them is anyone's guess.
Dorner goes on and on, agreeing and disagreeing with various positions and people (He hates Fareed Zakaria for some reason), he accepts that "what makes America great" is that people can freely disagree vis-à-vis the Chik-Fil-A/ Gay marriage controversy...and yet he seems incapable of actually having a rational dialog about his own issues. In his opening statement he poses the question; "what would you do to clear your name?" Answer;NOT MURDER PEOPLE.
If he wanted to shame the department (which isn't hard, by the way) he had literally dozens, if not hundreds, of media outlets available, not to mention many law firms who love this sort of thing. If he wanted to transform the system, he could have started a public advocacy/watch dog group. For Dorner however, these were not serious options and thus he began his campaign of violence. He condemns hypocrites, yet either ignores or is unaware of his own hypocrisy.
Amazingly, he has the gall to claim that he was "never a bully". While that may or may not have been true when he was a youth, I think killing an unarmed girl and her boyfriend qualifies as being even worse than being a bully. Bringing up decades-old school yard events, favorite comedians, likes and dislikes in his manifesto shows to me that this man is profoundly disturbed. I'm no psychologist but when discussing something of (literally) grave importance and then one goes off on completely unrelated and superfluous matters like a stolen watch in high school or the playing status of Tim Tebow, I think the person just might be crazy, particularly when they start murdering people.
And now I am in critical danger of being a rambler myself, so I will leave it there. Read the manifesto here.
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