He communicates through a passenger pigeon but uses an electronic device that can decode a car alarm and a sophisticated weapon with laser sights. Give respect to where knowledge has come from and come to you from. It's not all about now in the present. It's about knowledge, period. Small surprise that it's hard to feel anything other than empathy for Ghost Dog, who's mythic depiction renders him in a near hallowed light.
People are complicated like that.
They're not just good or bad. Though Dog features violence, it never basks in it. Ultimately, these clips act as a sort of chorus, subverting the savagery by mocking it. Jarmusch's goal was to demonstrate the pervasiveness of violent images in our culture, a saturation that results in apathy. I think we are removed from its true repercussions too much.