The search for Chris Dorner is still going on. It should be needless to say that the situation at this point in Los Angeles is very volatile. Members of the public have been killed accidently by LAPD, police officers lost family and colleague and still fear for the safety of their love ones. The public is afraid of being caught in the crossfire.
Chris Dorner Manifesto awakes the Specter of the 1992 LA Riots. Back then, looting, assault, arson and murder occurred, and estimates of property damages topped one billion dollars. The rioting stopped after soldiers from the California Army National Guard, along with U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton were called. In total, 53 people were killed and over two thousand people were injured. All this should be a reminder that cool heads must prevail. And that at this point, the solution most likely to preserve against further loss of lives would be for Chris Dorner to negotiate a peaceful surrender. It will always be time to find answers, to make LAPD accountable, to see that justice is done. A name can be cleared, dead people don’t come back. For everyday Chris decides to stay at large, he choose not justice and truth, he choose to pursue a personal agenda at the expense of the public safety. This might not be palatable to those who try to turn him into a hero, but those are the facts.
Early in Chris Dorner manhunt, there were calls to the collective to flood LAPD mailbox and take other actions against LAPD. Its website was defaced. While anybody can sport the mask of Anonymous, it is fair to ask that those who choose to do so exert judgement. A leaderless collective cannot tell you what to do, but it can ask you to think and act with consideration to the bigger picture. Those are perilous and challenging times for Anonymous. The collective has been a general source of aggravation for governments and corporations which would like nothing better than painting us as enemy in the eyes of the public. We have operations all over the world ranging from changing laws under which anons are charged as criminals, to making governments accountable to defending the most vulnerable. We need to choose and pick our battle wisely.
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