During one of his missions in the 2002 film adaptation* of The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne hesitates when it comes time to kill his target, seeing that the man’s son is there with him. This hesitation leads to him being shot and losing his memory.
Bourne had been the crowning jewel of the CIA’s black ops brainwashing/assassination program, Treadstone. With him slowly regaining his memory and the brainwashing wearing off, Bourne is no longer under his handler’s control and is now a major threat, both to them personally and to their beloved CIA, as he seeks to expose their criminality.
Throughout the trilogy they pursue him, sending other assassins and killing anyone who is close to Bourne (like his girlfriend), or anyone who can help him expose what they’re up to (like a journalist).
Unfortunately, the movie trilogy presents the CIA as having only a few bad apples at the top rather than being the fully corrupt fifth branch of the military it really is.
Today, in ex-LAPD cop Chris Dorner, we have a real life Jason Bourne running around the woods of southern California, vowing vengeance on those he sees as having wronged him. He’s currently accused of murdering three people and wounding two others.
Just as with Bourne, LAPD chief Charlie Beck said of Dorner, “He knows what he’s doing – we trained him.”
This is a very telling statement. What has he been trained to do by the LAPD? Kill people efficiently? Turn off his emotions while he does it?
It seems to reinforce Ron Paul’s misunderstood tweet the other day regarding the death of former Navy sniper Chris Kyle.
Chris Kyle's death seems to confirm that "he who lives by the sword dies by the sword." Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn't make sense—
Ron Paul (@RonPaul) February 04, 2013
Of course Dorner has no right to murder people because he feels wronged by the LAPD or sees them as corrupt. However, if Dorner’s accusations are true, then the systematic abuse, cover-ups, and termination of Dorner for trying to expose them will be the “sword” by which they perish.
It seems that their mistake was in not recognizing that either Dorner’s “brainwashing” had worn off or it had never taken in the first place. They no longer have control over him.
In the end, Jason Bourne exposes the CIA and gets away…but that’s just a movie.
I surmise that Dorner has already embarrassed the LAPD far too much, and will never see the inside of a court room. There’s already talk of sending armed drones to take him out.
We can only hope that if his accusations are true, they will force the law enforcement sycophants in the media to actually investigate and expose corruption, instead of ignoring it again as they have in the past.
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*I like the movies, but Robert Ludlum’s novels have a better and more intricate story.
Filed under: Authors I like, COPS, Media fail, Movies, What a curmudgeon hears Tagged: Chris Dorner, Chris Kyle, CIA, Jason Bourne, LAPD, military
