Yesterday on his Facebook page, professional victimologist and societal agitator Rev. Jesse Jackson posted an open letter to Christopher Dorner, the fugitive murderer whose manifesto reads like a battle cry from Jackson's own website.
*Dear Christopher Dorner,
I understand your feelings of hurt and pain. I make this plea to you to stop spreading the pain, the hurt, and the fear. Please stop. Don’t take any more lives.
Christopher, your mother is distraught and deeply concerned for your safety. There are many good and credible people in Los Angeles who will help you. Danny J. Bakewell Sr. (The Los Angeles Sentinel’s Executive Publisher/CEO) ,Bishop Noel Jones, Bishop Kenneth Ulmer and Rev. Charles Singleton are all individuals I know personally. I promise that they will gladly receive you.
I don't have a problem with the clergy helping anyone in distress if they believe that they can bring a peaceful or calming resolution to the problem.
As I see it, the problem is that Dorner is armed and dangerous. If a negotiating team contacted him and a clergyman wanted to help talk him down and get him to reason for a moment so that he could turn himself in, this would be a good thing.
On the other hand, I believe Rev. Jackson is stoking this for his own name recognition. I doubt he can do anything, other than insert him name into the story and advance his agenda.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson