by Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n
NRO’s\u00a0The Corner<\/em><\/p>\n Dorner Debacle<\/strong><\/p>\n It is hard to remember worse coverage of a catastrophe than what we are given about the ex-cop Christopher Dorner\u2019s murdering rampage. Some reprehensible pundits, ever so easily, fall into blaming LAPD and its \u201chistory of racism,\u201d in a sorta, kinda contextualizing of Dorner\u2019s brutal killing of innocents by the specter of Rodney King. But even a cursory reading of Dorner\u2019s Unabomber-like manifesto reveals, aside from jibberish, incoherence, and narcissism, racial stereotyping and anger directed against Latinos and Asians \u2014 cf. his first victims \u2014 as much as, or more than, against whites, and even a dose of anger about lesbian officers. Further disinterested reading would not lead to any suggestion that Dorner might have had legitimate grievances, but rather raises the question of how someone so unhinged was hired as a policeman in the first place.<\/p>\n As far as law enforcement in Southern California goes, it has so far not fared well. There have been both shoot-from-the-hip, trigger-happy violent encounters with innocents who hardly fit Dorner\u2019s description, and the inexplicable and loud decision by LAPD chief Charles Beck to reopen Dorner\u2019s file,\u00a0de facto<\/em>\u00a0legitimizing a murderer\u2019s horrific means to his selfish end. Posting a $1-million reward is understandable, but its vague conditions may have unforeseen Wild West consequences and bring a lot of freelancing bounty hunters out of the woodwork. This entire episode is proving to be not just about horrific violence and the tragic loss of innocent lives, but about some equally horrific strains within contemporary society in general and Southern California in particular.<\/p>\n A Blown-up Terrorist Is Not a Dead American Nazi in Uniform<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t think the example of Americans killed while fighting for Japan or Germany in World War II is an apt one in the discussions of whether we should worry about targeted drone attacks against American citizens, approved by unnamed administration officials. I think such a system is a bad idea for any administration.<\/p>\n The former cases were in declared wars against uniformed and almost always anonymous combatants, whose identities, not that it would have mattered much, as American citizens were usually known only later when they were killed or captured.<\/p>\n In contrast, we are talking about foreknowledge of killing known individual citizens, and not necessarily on a battlefield however loosely described. The better comparison would be Cold War\u2013era assassinations against believed individual traitors or suspected rogue American operators in service to the Soviet Union or its Communist allies \u2014 who were gunned down in solitary fashion with precise knowledge of who they were. I am sure we did such things even if on rare occasions, and if we want to repeat that\u00a0modus operandi<\/em>, we should at least be honest enough to cite those examples as successful and necessary case histories that can now guide us in the present.<\/p>\n \u00a92013 Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s\u00a0The Corner Dorner Debacle It is hard to remember worse coverage of a catastrophe than what we are given about the ex-cop Christopher Dorner\u2019s murdering rampage. Some reprehensible pundits, ever so easily, fall into blaming LAPD and its \u201chistory of racism,\u201d in a sorta, kinda contextualizing of Dorner\u2019s brutal killing of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[247,16],"tags":[1014,35,39,1042,93],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-a5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":857,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-tangled-web-of-race\/","url_meta":{"origin":625,"position":0},"title":"The Tangled Web of Race","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online A\u00a0number of commentators have openly sympathized with multi-murderer Christopher Dorner, who shot seven innocent people, killing four of them. 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